The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-26
GLOBE WEDNESDAY MORNING. 26 1875
News Notes.

j. r.. Simms, of Fort Plain, has bible
PAS years old.
Troy contributed $3,0sl.O1 for the Ne.
braska sufferers
Uric Carulh, editor of the Vineand In.
dependent, who was shot by c. X. lands,
announces his withdrawal from the field of
journalism.
OLeary, the pedestrian, accomplished
the feat of aking 500 miles in six days,
at Chicago. He was three hours ahead of
time and In excellent condition.
Miss Rucker, the bride.elect of General
Sheridan, Is nineteen, pretty and jolly.
The two have been acquainted for several
years, and mutual friends consider the
match "eminently suitable
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has given the in
ter-collegiate literary association $500 for
two prizes of $500 and 5000 to the under
graduates who show the greatest prof.
cheney in Greek.
William +. Phillips, the white manager
of the Tennessee jubilee singers, abscond-
ed, Saturday, leaving the minslrels desti-
tute, and with five weeks salary due. They
were doing good business at Omaha.
Brigham Young has been sick for the
last two weeks and unable to receive Wis
itors. The Mormon temple at st. George
is nearly completed and over 600 persons
are employed uron 1t.
Paul Smith, Of Adirondack fame, has
bought the FouQuettc House, Plaitsburg.
The reputation Of Fouquette's hotel is uni
versally recognized by the travelling public
as first class, and Paul Smith is Just the
man TO sustain it.
The state fish commissioners of Connec-
ticut report that 1,359,000 young salmon
have been introduced into the Connecticut
river during the past year, and state that a
like number will be put in, this year, prob
ably during the present month.
The state tax in New York for all pur-
poses this year will be but six mills on a
dollar Last year it was seven and quar-
ter. The difference came principally by
striking out appropriations for new work
and extraordinary repairs on the canals.
The work which is authorized TN the ca.
nails is to lie paid out of the canal rev.
enues.
A new hotel containing - GA Al d
cottages, situated near Roe+,- : Idle, on
Lake Georges 10 I've open lhs year. 1t is
at the terminus of the Lake George rail-
road from Ticonderoga, over witch the
drawing room cars viii run direct from
Troy, Albany and Saratoga.
A Connecticut man and woman, who
were clipping together, were arrested by
the local constable, at Sutton, Friday, and
the man was taken to The lookup at Mill
bury. In the night he broke out, went
over TO the constable's house, took the
woman thence and departed, leaving the
lookup with the door shattered and the
floor torn up, and the constable nconsola-
BILE.
The most prominent candidates for the
bishopric of the Episcopal church in Iowa
are the Rev. DR.. Rubston and the Rev. DR..
Currie Of Philadelphia, the Rev. Mr.. Aus
tin, rector of st. Johns church, Bishor
Lees Of Rochester and the Rev. DR..
ochenck of Brooklyn. Thirty-fve votes
Will elect on the clerical side, and probably
twenty-six will decide for he laymen.
Colonel A. NJ Eastman, originator OF
the direct United States cable between Rye
Beach and the coast of Ireland, has re-
ceiyed information that the completion Of
the line may be expected at any hour. The
cable is laid from Rye Beach to the easter.
y bank OF Newfoundland, 1000 miles, the
buoy at the end being 300 miles from land
in fifty fathoms of water. At last advices
the other end of the cable was laid within
twenty miles Of the buoy, but could not be
completed owing to the immense fields of
ice. The Faraday is at Sydney taking
coal and waiting for the ice fields to cleai
away. Not more than half days work
remains to do.
The Rev. DR.. Henry J. Ripley, one OF
the oldest and best known clergymen OF
the Baptist denomination in New England
died at Newton Centre, recently, at the adj
yanced age Of seventy-scyen years. Fol
more than twenty-four years DR.. Ripley
was an honored professor in the faculty OF
Newton theological institution, to which
body he was admitted six years after being
graduated from Harvard, in the class OF
1919. DIR. Ripley, besides attaining much
| eminence as an instructor, was the author
OF several commentaries on portions OF the
New Testament,a valuable work on Sacred
Rhetoric, and several pamphlets. For the
past fifteen years DR.. Ripley had not en-.
gagged in active pastoral or scholastic labor
he was much esteemed by a large number