The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-11
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M. M. Pomeroy's debts amount to about
$150,OO0, and his assets consist of wearing
apparel.
A tramp who knocked down Mrs Sher.
man at her door in Greenvllle, N. j.,
Wednesday, was SO badly torn by the house
mastif that he was hardly able to escape.
Mr.. Carlyle declined to attend the exer-
cses of unwilling the statue to Cromwell at
Manchester, recently, because he was ''too
old and weak in health for such an enter
prise"
Jim Nye has been released from the in
sane asylum and his friends have hopes of
his complete recovery. May the hopes be
well founded. Bedlem is not the proper
place for such men.
Saratoga is terribly frightened over a
rumor that small pox exists to consider
able extent in the place. During the past
ten days over 1900 children and 1000
grown persons have been vaccinated.
Bergh has won his hog case. The ques-
ton involved was whether certain New
York hog slaughterers should be permitted
to hoist the porkers by the leg before their
throat was cut, and the court says "No."
Henry A. Mann, the alleged defaulting
county treasurer of Saratoga county,, N.
| Y, was arrested yesterday ar Balston sba.
Notes to the amount OF $11S,000, issued
and signed by Mann, without authority,
have been found.
A Swiss named Hibberd, living in Phila-
delpha, threw cup of tea at his wife
Maria while she was drunk in bed, We'd
nesday night, and with such sure aim and
| effect that she has not spoken since, and
won't in this world-unless her spirit ma.
terializes.
Mrs. Helen F. Darrell, woman promi-
nent in charitable work in New Haven,
Conn.,, fell dead at Music hall Wednesday
afternoon while engaged with others for a
reception to be given by the United Work
ers. The cad event has caused great sor-
row in the community.
Sheriff Conner, of New York city, was
told Thursday that Governor Tilden had
determined to suspend him, inasmuch as
Tweed had not been recaptured within the
time that the governor had said he was
| willing to wait. No official notice of such
action has been received. The sheriff says
thatff he should be suspended, he would
resign at once.
Here is a specimen of tramp vindictive-
ness The Poughkeepsie Ne,os of Tuesday
says that on Monday evening last tramp
called at the residence of Charles W. Brew
ster, esq.,, at Brewster's, Putnam county,
and asked for lodging, which was refused.
The tramp said to Mr.. Brewster, "you will
want a new house over your head pretty
soon" The next night Mr.. b.. residence,
together with its contents, was DESTROYED
by fire. Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
The hog raisers of Lawrenceburg, O.,
and vicinity, have at last discovered the
cause of the terrible fatality among their
porkers for the past two years, and find
that the supposed epidemic was nothing
more or less than the wholesale poisoning
of the hogs with corrosive sublimate, BY
agents of one Eblerman, proprietor of a
big fertilizing factory who purchased the
carcasses, rendering them and putting
them on the market He has been arrest
ed and an investigation will be made.
The strict rules which have regulated
the running of freight trains on the West
ern division of the Central railroad lately,
have been relaxed, and now the locomo-
tives are gwen only twenty-four cars to
draw, and tor the purpose of making up
lost time are permitted to run at the rate
of twenty miles per hour. The change ne
cessitates the use of every locomotive of
the company. The ''yards" at Buffalo,
Rochester and Syracuse are filled with
loaded cars, and the freighting business of
the road is simply immense. Under the
new rule there is less breaking of rolling
stock, fewer trains 'stalled" and less grum-
bling of employees.
The trial of Piper, the sexton OF the
Warren avenue Baptist church, Boston, for
the murder of Mabel Young, is exciting
great interest in that city. The district at
torney, in his opening, said that the prose.
cution had proof that after the crime, Piper
came down from the tower to the last stair
case, opened window, and, bareheaded.
jumped out, ran along and entered the
church by side door that he washed his
bloody hands and poured the water from
pitcher into tub, and that there was blood
on the window where he jumped out and
on the knob of the door he entered. The
weakness of the prosecution is said TO be
that they advance no theory for the motive
of the crime.
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