The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-18
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A total failure of the sponge crop on the
Florida coast is reported.
The Arkansas house of representatives
has passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
the centennial.
The great four mile heat race for purse
of $50, 900, gold, at San Francisco, has been
put off till Thanksgiving day.
A. V. w. Van Vechtcr of New York
city has offered another prize at Williams
college, of $40, to be given to the best ex-
tempore speaker in the four classes.
Luciani, Frezza, Arma l. Farina and
Morelli, who were on trial, charged with
completely in the murder of Raffaele Sou
zogno, editor of La Captale, have been con-
victed and sentenced to penal servitude for
life.
The new corn is beginning to come for
ward to Chicago freely, and IN quality and
quantity exceeds anticipations. Wheat is
arriving In Omaha at the rate of 210 cars
per dav. Wheat is arriving in Minneapolis
at the rate of 95 cars per day, and all to be
forwarded to Chicago.
For the past three months the labor
leagues of the District of Columbia have
been making preparations for grand
demonstration in honor of the assembling
of the Forty-fourth congress, but it has
been determined to make the celebration
general, aud 30 all the citizens will be invl-
ted to participate.
Now there is story that the Mormons
are meditating emigration to the holy land
and mean to set up new Zion on the soil
sacred to the old one. 1t certainly is grow
ing more and more uncomfortable for the
believers in Utah they must break, or
emigrate somewhere, before long.
Rev. Fulton has broken out again, this
time with a wild plan for the expulsion
from the church of all the members op-
posed to him, on the ground that they have
conspired against him. As 1t would re-
quire an arrangement of some $50 members
the proving of charges against them, and a
two-thirds vote in favor of expelling. Full
ton stands poor chance of succeeding.
Three colored and two white prisoners
confined in the western penitentiary at
Pittsburg, Pa, broke out in open mutiny,
Tuesday afternoon, and with hatchets and
iron bars attacked Charles Weaver, the
contractor, under whose supervision they
were working. Weaver, who was I'M
armed, was driven into corner and badly
beaten, and would undoubtedly have been
killed but for the opportune arrival of the
deputy warden, who conf onted the prs-
oners with revolver and forced them to
relinquish their victim. The five convicts
were then ironed and placed in dungeons.
Col. Joyce was incarcerated in the Mis-
souri, penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mon
day, in pursuance of the sentence of the
district court on Saturday. He still main
tains the mock heroic attitude, which he
struck at the earliest stage of the prosecu-
ton, to relieve the sOmber melancholy of
the situation, but occasionally INDUCES in
facetious observations, and remarked when
invested with the regulation uniform that
stripes are now fashionable, whether
of taste.
There seems to be complete revolution
going on in the Christian Union office.
Oliver johnson, the office editor for some
years, retires on the first of January at the
expiration of his engagement, and Mr..
George &. Merriam, son of Deacon Mer-
riam of Boston, who has been Mr.. Beech
er's chief assistant editor, has also re-
signed his connection with the paper.
These are serious losses, but Mr.. Beecher
expects to do more editorial work here
after, and Mr.. Henry M. Cleveland has be-
come the active publisher.
The Chinese have been attempting to
launch their first iron-clad. She Is a small
vessel OF only 1876 tons measurement, 104
feet length ON load line, and 20 feet inches
extreme breadth. Her armor is II inches
thick amldships, taperlng to II inches at