The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-18
Gleanings and Gossip.

lney are DpJltNg Ill lIOuuOn lllul tnc
prince of Wales will be assassinated in
India.
A man in Dusseldorf, Prussia. lately
murdered his wife and daughter because
they rdiculed his red hair.
Gen. 10 Johnston. the ex-confederate,
has accepted the Georgia agency of the
Home insurance company of New York.
ThiHeen hundred letters were sent to the
Poughkeepsie IN. W post-oilice from
Vassar college, Monday morning.
Rev. Thomas X. Beecher of Elmira, N.
Y, has had his salary increased to $500.
and has opened his new church with
thanksgiving.
Two-story railroad coaches Is the latest
Swiss idea. Twelve cars are now making
for branch line service which weigh 10 tons
and have GO seats each.
Some western bank burglars recently re-
boy in through narrow window to open
the doors for them from the inside.
A project has been started for erecting a
memorial to Daniel OConnell Mt his birth
place, in CARMEN, Ireland, the money to be
raised by penny subscriptions.
AT Duluth, the other day, floating is
land set sail from its anchorage, and, I'M
PEELED by strong wind and current, moved
straight to and through the canal out into
Lake Superior.
A Paris policeman who has got thor
oughly tired of the worry over children
found in the streets, proposes that all child
rem too young to talk shall have the address
of their parents sewed on their clothes.
Speaking of big families, Kentucky
paper mentions Rev. James Quisenberry
of Clark county, in that state, who hac
two sets Of children, 12 in each, and eacl
of the "a children had from 12 to 10 Off
spring.
1t is gravely proposed in the Texas con
stitutional convention to adopt an ordin
ance forbidding judges, prosecuting attor
neys and jurors from exercising their du
ties when under the influence of intoxicat-
ing liquor.
Anne Brewster, the correspondent, haC
narrow escape from death during a re-
cent Alpine excursion. Her foot slipped
on shelf of rock, and below her lay 6
glacier and death, when she was luckily
caught Just in time by one of the guides.
One of the most interesting personagei
in the procession which will take place a
Lucknow when the prince of Wales il
there will be the identical state elephant
that carried the marquis of Hastings, wher
he visited Lucknow as governor-general, {
century ago. 30
London has an association for the cree
ton of drinking fountains. They have pu
up over 300 in the metropolis, at which
some 300, 900 persons drink during the year
The association have TO pay as high a
$3.50 a year for one trough, and over $l5,
600 is spent annually for repairs.
The mysterious stopping of train OF
the Savannah and Charleston railroad, tn
other day, without an order from the prop
or quarter, was found to have originated
with monkey in the baggage car, which
after becoming loose, began swinging OF
the bell-rOpe. .-fcc~ -
For many years it has been known tina
very ancient stone wall or foundation o
an old temple was to be found at Brandy
wine Springs, Miss 1t is composed of reg
ular blocks of cut native sandstone.
recent visitor says the wall is full % fec
broad at the top and can be traced for 20
rods.
A Detroit man, anxious to protect him
self from the visits of travelling agents an
patent-right men, has put fire insuranc
plate over the door of his house, "A SEWN
machine in the window, patent washin
machine on the porch, patent hat-rac
extension in the hall and II lightning 70
on the roof.
A deaf and dumb man entered the hous
of a Texan farmer TO stay all night, anC
not making himself understood, he put h
hand in his pocket for bis slate, on whic
to write his request. The farmer, thinkiu
lie was drawing come weapon on him, fire
at him, and Inflicted wound which ma
prove fatal.
An Ohio paper, after accusing the edit
of n rival sheet of fighting cocs on Sunda
afternoon and ''attending church on Sun
day morning, under the pretcnse of chri
tianity,' laments the prevalence of ''unge
tlemanly warfare" IN the public press, IN
declares that 1t ''destests this style of co..
tempuble personal vituperation."
While journeying by the London al
Northwestern railway from Liverpool
London on September, II, a young Amer
can woman named Wyatt, aged II, youl
birth to child in the tram. The moth
and the infant both died soon afterwar,
and the verdict of the coroner's jury W
that death had been accelerated by Sc
sickness and travelling.
htf. W llSut, iCtt'i az bhipiiSSu
Dublin, noticing some irregular conduct
the part of young girl in his congregatio
stepped down and tapped her on the shoul
err, ordering her to leave. Next day
was summoned before the petty sessio
on complaint of the girl for assault, the a
sault being the tapping, and the divine W
muleted half a crown and costs.
The fourth centennial anniversary of II
battle of Morat, in which Charles the 30
lost his life, is to be celebrated on the 2:
of June, 1876, by the Swiss, the Alsatian
and the Snabians. A procession is TO r
vive the costumes and arms of the perio
displaying on the field of battle itself Il
banners of the towns, districts, abbeys ar
corporations WHICH took part in the engag
ment
An ocean lowering bird of great spil
and intelligence has been found in Icean
which flies at the marvellous rate of II
miles an hour, and is able to find its hon
over sea and land 1t is hoped that by ne
year, if the training Of these birds co
tinues successfully, an ocean mail can
o.kobI;sboJ haftuaap Amari0a and Enron