The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-11
News Record.

The ship Princeton, bound from New
York to Liverpool, returned Friday night
leaky.
The amount of bullion withdrawn from
the bank of England on balance, Saturday,
was Els 900
1t has been shown that the losses from
fire in this country are six times as great as
those of Europe.
The taxes levied in New York last year
averaged twenty-five dollars for every man,
woman and child.
The chief justice and Mrs. Waite are
spending a few days in Boston as the
guests Of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bissell
Ex-Gov. Fenton of New York prints n
letter in which be gives his reasons for
supporting the republican ticket in that
stale.
The mortuary record of the board of
health at Washington for the week shows
the white mortality fifteen per thousand
and the colored mortality forty seven per
thousand.
Samuel Wilson of Derry, N. H., while
riding through Pelham, Saturday after
noon, was thrown against tree by the
running away OF his horse, breaking one of
his legs.
At Buffalo, NJ y. Captain Burke of the
barque Michigan shot John Wright sail
or, Saturday evening" while the latter was
mol h M a ~ at tanl In nj inht
is dying.
They start with twenty-six professors in
the theologl cal, law, medical and academi-
cal faculties of Vanderbilt university, at
Nashville, and students are coming in rap
idly.
Early Friday morning the house of Har-
ry Dexter, at Auburn, Me-, was nearly des-
troyed by fire, and the adjoining house of
w. III. Conant was badly scorched. Loss
about $4,000; partially insured.
William Marden, Jr., well known in
theatrical circles, died in Boston on Fri
| day OF softening of the brain, caused by
blow upon the head with base ball re-
ceived year ago. He was forty-onc years
old and married.
Mr.. Benjamin F. Wheelwrght, an old
New York banker, died Thursday, aged
seventy-two. He was Tor many years pres
| ident of the Greenwich bank, and one of
| the founders of the old GreenW ich savings
| institution.
| Mr.. Alfred Penn, in old and respected
| citizen of New Orleans, and for many
years president of the Union bank of that
city, died at Salem, Va, Thursday. He
was the father of Lieutenant Governor ID.
b. Penn.
| Hon. Gordon Trumbull, who died at
Hartford, Conn, Tuesday, was the father
of Hammond TrumbulI, the philologist !;
Henry Clay Trumbul, Sunday. school
worker; and Gordon Trumbul,, the noted
| fish painter
The report that Colonel Forney is to re-
turn home TO take part in the Pennsylvania
campaign is authoritatively denied. He
will probably remain abroad engaged in
work for the centennial exhibition until
next year.
! Admiral WELLESLEY, of the British navy,
was Hospitality entertained by the Provi-
dence authorities Friday. He visited the
schools, Browns university and other
places of interest, and returned 10 New
port, r.. l., in the evening.
A tight rope performer, while exhibiting
in the streets of Indianapolis a few days
ago, let his balance pole fall from consid-
enable hight. 1t passed through the roof
of horse car, causing good deal Of fright
among the spectators and brief suspen-
sion of the entertainment. Fortunately the
car was empty and no one was hurt.
In illustration of the small margin of
profit made by even the successful mills, it
is said that the Pepperell corporation at
Biddeford made about mill yard on its
productions of cotton goods the past year
The LacOnia, managed by the same parties,
lost one mill per yard in the same time.
The largest trunk ever seen by the rail-
road men at the Mansfield depot passed
through there the other evening. 1t was
four feet long, four feet two inches hi,h,
and three feet wide. 1t belonged to a
| drummer, and had to be shipped on
fiat car tor want OF room.
A Pottsvllle, Pa, special says there were
incendiary fires on three successive nights
at colleries located in widely separated sec
tions of the coal region, which have aroused
public apprehensions of the existence OF a
new and dangerous course of action on the
part of secret band of desperadoes,