The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-10
sum mary OF Events.

The cold weather has driven the musk
rats in some of the eastern towns, in Mass
achusetts, TO the barns of the farmers for
shelter. Two men at South Dartmouth
have killed five Oh their premises.
While Catholic funeral procession was
was going from Woodbury. to Waterbury,
Conn, last Sunday, the horse attached to
the hearse ran away. The driver, Mr..
Camp, was considerably injured, and the
coffin was pitched out of the hearse.
The Young Mems Christian associations
of the United States and Canada were cor
daily invited, last June, to hold their
twentieth international convention in Rich
mond, Va, and will do so May &c. 1t is
the first time since 1860 that this conven-
ton has been invited TO meet in the south.
The other day an old fellow from Della
ware, going west on Michigan Central
train, stepped off the coach when it reach
ed Ypsilanti, and, slipping on the icy plat
form, went flat down and broke leg.
Everybody sympathized with him in his
misfortune, but he waived his hand and
replied, "It's all right--no one to blame
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do some tall dustlng around and sitting up
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James Dougall, boatman and lumber
man in Wisconsin, while saving the trunk
of an oak tree into lengths for slaves, was
attacked by panther, that sprang upon
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being temporarily absent-but his strength
seized the panther by the throat, and
though fearfully torn by the animals
claws, he crushed it down in the snow,
and broke its back, and choked it TO death.
He was go badly hurt that he had to be
carried home, but his wounds were not
dangerous.
a very nice kind of a surprise party was
recently held in Upper st. Clair, Pa. The
good people of the village made an unex-
pected descent upon the forge of one G. b.
Scott, a blacksmith, who has piled his vo-
cation to their satisfaction for twenty-five
years, and presented him with new an
vii and his wife with purse full Of money.
The anvil was placed in position at once,
and Scott turned out two new horseshoes
in five and half minutes. Mrs. Scott inn
provscd an entertainment of substantial
order, and some pleasant speeches were
made across the table.
About two miles north of Watervale, in
Pompey, says the Syracuse Courier, reside
two people, Mr.. David Williams and wife.
They are each ninety-two years old, there
being only sixteen days difference in their
ages. They have been married seventy
two years, and have lived in Pompey
eighty-one years, having come to the town
through the wilderness by marked trees.
Their eldest son, seventy years old, and
born in Pompey, takes care of his aged
parents upon the old homestead, us they
peacefully and cheerfully pass down the
declivlty of life.
The Palestine exploration society, which
has Its Office at No. 10 East Ninth street
New York, is doing a good work for bib
lical science in its efforts to survey and ex
plore the interesting regions east of tho
Jordan. The third statement of the soci
ETY. has just been issued. The Pisgah OF
Moses seems to have been identified anc
the flora of Moab has received careful at
tention. This society, of which Rev. Ros
well ID. Hitchcock, d. D., is president, ant
Rev. Howard Crosby, ID. D., secretary, il
about to send out a new expedition to thi
region, under command of Colonel j. C.
Lane, with Rev. Selah Merrill as archpol
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