The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-29
News Record,

Manager Precott of the Hoosac Tunnel
line intends to have passenger train run
through the tunnel by July 4th.
The Peruvian government has ordered
the coinage at the United States mint of
1000, 900 of two-cent pieces and 100000
of one-cent pieces.
A general reunion and encampment of
all Connecticut soldiers, sailors and ma
rines who served during the late war is to
be held at Hartford on the Goth, 2lst and
ED of July.
The Carlists recently caught a man,
bathed him in petroleum, applied the light
ed match to him, and danced by the light
thereof. They had no personal grudge
against him.
The state assessors of New York make
make the total assessments of real and per-
sonal property for 1874, 1896, $50, 1902,
against SO, l69. 1907, 1878 in 1878, showing an
increase of $197 ,472, 429, or 0 1900 per
| cent.
| Six horses bought in Boston for Senator
Jones of Nevada, including the celebrated
trotters Sweetbrer and Lady Otis, for
which $15, 900 was paid, two saddle horses
| and pair of carriage horses, were shipped
| to him Saturday.
In Minnesota the boys go grasshoppering
at the rate of sixty cents the ton, and on
an average manure the soil with $4,000
tons of the insects per day. They count
| upon breaking up the state treasury or the
| hoppers, one of the two.
The American rifle team in Dublin made
wonderful score at practice on Saturday,
being $50 counts in possible 1880. A
Dublin dispatch says that this is the finest
score ever made. The Irish team were also
practicing but did not do as well.
The antiquaries of Mount Carroll, ILL.,. +,
are Interested in the recent discovery of an
aboriginal camping ground in a romantic
valley among the bluffs near the town. Old
tireplaces, flint clippings, arrow heads, fine
| specimens of ancient pottery and other
relics of the mound builders have been un-
| earthed.
Another large quantity of rock fell in
the Hoosac tunnel the other day, just after
hand car had passed the spot, and just
before train was to reach it, but the lat
ter managed to stop in time to save seri-
Gus accident. Another ''pebble," weighing
80 tons, which has been threatening for
some time to fall, has been blasted down.
Mr.. Joseph McWnnie, of Whitesboro,
Oneido county, has curious memento of
the oldcn times, In the shape of powder
horn, tawny with age, and bearing this in
scription with scroll samuel Iei.
This horn made at Fort Edward, May We
10th, 1903:
A powder with my brother ball,
Most hero-llke doth conquer all"
The fate of the children of William VIII
liams, of Prospect, Oneida county, who
were missed from their homes on Sunday
evening, excited great interest throughout
the county. On Thursday morning Coro-
ner Hunt of Utica was notified that one OF
the bodies had been found and was re-
quested to go to Prospect to hold an in
quest. The other body was afterwards
found below Prospect falls.
The ice works of Macon, Ga, are on the
banks of the Ocmulgee, the waters of
which are so muddy that The fish cannot
see to bite. The water IS passed through
surface condensers, and nicely moulded in
forms of clear and very handsome ice.
These machines have a capacity OF making
%, 900 pounds day, and they are used in
many southern cities, producing ice for the
small sum of $6.40 per ton
The Cheshire county almshouse at West