The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-24
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The late Horace Binney of Philadelphia
left personal property valued at $52O,12s
Mr.. O'Connor's friends have been trying
not to let him find out about Tweed's es-
cape, but an indiscreet visitor mentioned II
on Sunday contrary to expectation, how
ever, he was not excited by the news.
The report that ex-senator Nye was re-
covering his health and mental faculties |
proves, unhapply, to have been incorrect, |
He was removed from the asylum after his |
recovery was pronounced hopeless.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse, who
was hanged in Salem, Mass, in 1902, on
complaint of being witch, have formed
an association for the purpose of erecting
monument to her memory.
The Ashburnham railroad report their
total earnings as $3.50, against STOP,
last year, of which $2,07O was from pas
sengers, against $1,762, last year, and &c.
$50 from freight, against S6,151 the OPP
Grating expenses were $5,065, and the in
come above these $40, to $500, last
year.
The Maryland court of appeals decides
that G. j. M. Gwinn, the democratic can
ddate for attorney general, is entitled to
his commission as against his contestant,
8. T. Wallis, the reform candidate, and
that the governor has no authority under
his present power to examine into the
alleged frauds.
The Dominion legislature hestated,
Tuesday night, in view of the thousands in
the country unable to get work, to pass an
appropriation of $4,000 for immigration,
but statement that the policy of the gov
eminent would be to encourage immlgra-
ton of agricultural laborers and domestic
servants only, satisfied the doubters, and
the appropriation passed.
When the case of George Smith, man
of respectable appearance, arrested for
snatchng an umbrella from lady on the
street, was called in court, Wednesday, he
admitted it and said that he did it for the
express purpose of being arrested and
"sent up" to save himself from starvation,
his petition to be sent to Backwells island
having previously been denied by several
magistrates.
The Boston,. Clinton and Ftchburg rail-
road report their assets as 81 ,558, 1877 the
total earnings for the year were $1,O0S,-
1866, of which $500, ALB was from the pas
senger department, and $597, TAG from the
freight the operating expenses were $71S,-
315, and the income above these, S401, 203.
Seyen persons were killed and five wound
ed, through no fault of the company.
Whenever railroad stock has turn of
chills and ague, the Wall street doctors,
after feeling its pulse ,and looking very
gravely at the crooked-up returns of earn
ings, and winking, come to the conclusion
that Jay Gould is the matter with it. Chi
cago and Northwestern is the last to come
down with this "malarial influence"
William Aston Hayne, son of Hayne,
Webster's antagonist, sits in the California
legislature for Santa Barbara and Ventura.
He is fifty-four years old and describes
himself as ga democrat of the old school. y
Mr.. Hayne sat in the Legislature of South
Carolina just before the passage of the act
of secession, and went to California in
1867.
A letter from Providence, gives the
first complete and intelligent account We,
published of the recent failures in that city
The trouble at the bottom of it all is that
the Turkish government dosn't come down
with the cash as it agreed to, and the in
teresting question now is whether its fail
ure to live up to its bargain is to be tenn
porary or permanent.
1t is now understood that the death OF
Eli Sherman, treasurer of Marion, Conn.
month ago, was the result of arsenic
which he took himself He had used the
funds of the town in his private business
and was unable to restore them. There
was general confidence in his integrity, and
it is believed that he did not mean to de
fraud, but got involved by bad ventures
The deficit is about $4,000, and will be
covered by his assets.
Jackson Frailey of Martinsville, Pa, {
famous hunter, known throughout the
state as the deer Slayer" and the "Nim
rod of the Concwago," who, when only II
years old. had killed bear and six deer
!, and, during his life, over 1000 deer, 20(
bears, 90 catamounts, 3 panthers, besides
numberless wolves and foxes, met hi
!, match, last week, on Welsh mountain, il
huge catamount, which he shot but only
| tuC uduu-tO-uhuu etIuSRlt
, which ensued resulted III the fatal wound
ing of the hunter and the beast, both be
, ing subsequently found lying but LITTLE
ways apart.
1t isn't settled yet who this "dynamit'
fiend" was. Brooklyn repudiates him, de
claring that no man of the name of Viii
liam X. Thompson ever lived there, anC
the latest dispatches say that the fellow
name was Alexander, one account repre-
senting him as New Yorker of good fam
lily, and the other as an Englshman. Hi
assertion that he had affected large insur
ances on goods which were TO be shipped
from Southampton proves unfounded, ant
there really seems good reason to believ'
that, whoever he was, he was crazy;
theory which for the sake of human natur,
, the world will be very glad to accept.