The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-05
News Record,

Haying has already commenced in some
places around Sacramento.
New slate quarrles are to be opened in
Monson, Mass, only two miles from Abbot
station.
George w. De Haven, who was reported
fatally stabbed at Ogdensburgh, is rapidly
recovering.
through the canal bridge at Lee, thursday
night, and was drowned.
A committee to collect money for the
sufferers by the recent earthquake in New
Granada has been formed in Springfield,
Mass.
Lightning killed three people in different
houses in the northern portion of Della
ware on Tuesday night last, and the rain
did considerable damage.
AT Washington, Thomas b. Florence is
not expected to live the next twenty-four
hours. He has been confined to his house
for year with dry modification.
oohh van iiaSsct was puIleu Ill grave
which he was digging for somebody else at
Calvary cemetery, by the caving in of the
earth, Thursday, and was dead when taken
out.
The safe of George Ii. Raymond at
Saccaroppa was broken into Friday night !;
but small amount of money was secured
tho fhiavac au;IantI,,
SIGNALS.
The trial of Gen. William G. Marks for
passing counterfeit money which had come
into his possession while detectvein New
York, has resulted in conviction, but a mo-
ton has been made for arrest of Judgment.
A noted English disciple of Izaak Wal
ton. W. Senior, the cred Spinner" of the
Gentlemans Magazine and special of the
London Daily Neaos, is coming this side
the ocean to write book on "The rod in
America"
Illinois has got new breed of potato.
bug, different from the one that is troubl-
ing other parts of the country. It is a
small insect, OF slate color, not over half
an inch long, and such numbers come at
night as to blacken the fences. Farmers
are fighting them with sulphur and lime,
with some success.
A despatch from st. Johns, N. b. states
that a fire at Indantown, Saturday morn
ing, destroyed three buildings occupied as
stores on the ground floor. All the goods
were saved. Two other buildings were
damaged. Loss 100000. William Collins
who left his house TO go to the fire, was
found short time afterward dead In the
street.
The postal money order system has
proved one of the most successful expert
ments ever attempted in the postof1ice de-
partment, and it is being constantly ex-
tended. A Washington dispatch announces
the establishment of three hundred more
order offices, which will make grand total
in the country of over three thousand five
hundred.
Tho license law went into effect at Bos-
ton, Thursday, and if Mayor Cobb says
what he means, is to be vigorously en-
forced, and every unlicensed establish
lnent VIII DC closed up, ana the IL
censes of all persons caught selling impure
liquors will be revoked. Just 100 licenses
have been taken out, and the city treasury
ia in thereby $500
The assembly committee to investigate
the causes of the increase of crime are let
ting good deal of light in upon the awful
practices of the police. Victor Branson,
who formerly had liquor saloon in the
Goth precinct, relates his experience fwith
police captain Mccullough, who kept levy |
ing contributions from him under threats |
10 'pull" his house, and who badgered |
him SO hard that he was finally forced to |
give up the business.
Dealers in New York city are much ex.
,rcised over the decline in the cheese trade.
The sales have been falling off for long
line, and great alarm has been felt among
producers whose profits and sales have been
10 cut down as nearly to ruin many of the
most prominent firms. 1t is claimed that
he only salvation of the cheese industry is
o abandon the manufacture of every
luality except full cream cheese.