The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-22

Tammany society Friday night. M
Moses T. .Ioslyn. truck owner at Port
land, Me-. has absconded, leaving wife
and family and $4,000 liabilities.
Forty-five expelled Sisters Of Charity
from Coima and Gaudalaja lara, Mexico. ar
rived at san Francisco Friday
TIE ground at Manchester, n. H., and
in the vicinity is frozen toa depth of five
to eight feet. Hundreds of tenements and
stores aie without water, the city water
works pipes being frozen solid In many
places. The fire department Ia constantly
engaged in keeping hydrsn,s open.
A break in the Saratoga railroad com.
bination is reported, and one of the leading
trunk lines il receiving Chicago freights
from fifteen 10 twenty cents per cwt 70
Chicago,
1t is reported from Washington that the
latest proposition from the managers of
the Pacific road to the government will be
accepted by Congress.
Tho creditors of Jessup IL Co., the
Broadway cothiers, who suspended on
Thursday, had meeting Friday at which
committee was appointed to examine the
books of the concern, and report what
course it will be most advisable to take.
Mr.. Jessup says thal the meeting was
characterized by harmony and good feeling,
and that in all probability an extension will
be granted, which will enable the firm to
retrieve their lost standing.
Fog. rain and sleet prevailed 10 New
York Friday night, and continued Satur-
day morning. The streets are in horribly
slippery condition, and arc covered with
soft ice and sleet.
Francis Denneso. French Canadian,
aged seventy years. was instantly killed in
North Kingston, X. l., Friday, by The up-
setting of bis OK cart.
The railroads leading east from Chicago
have reduced the rates of freight on
dressed hogs as follows: TO New York,
Albany, Boston and Baltimore, ten cents
to Philadelphia seven cents. and to Buffalo
five cents.
The standing committee of the diocese
of Illinois, through Chancellor Judd, has
issued pamphlet in answer to the protest
issued by the opponents of Dr. DeKoven.
They allege in their reply that the election
was perfectly fair, and that il was conduct
ed according to the canOns. They make
the point that it cannot be known, since
the voting was by ballot, whether the
chancellor voted for or against the candi-
date, and quote canonical law to disprove
the allegations of the dissenting members
of the convention.
Augustus Wagner is under arrest in New
York for stealing bonds of the Northern
railroad, of the official value of $4,000,
but of market value of only $4,000.
The ice still continues formidable in Hell
Gate and beyond into the sound, but Fri
1axv nd Cot, ,,.f, ,n,,. 4
have dissolving effect upon 1t. John w. :
Seaman, keeper Of the Sands Point light,
reports that on Wednesday. the nth, no
craft of any description passed the point, a
circumstance which has not happened
within the last eight years.
Although the rivers on Long Island, on
Saturday. were not much impeded, the hay
was considerably obstructed by ice and
navigation is found to be quite difficult,
especially as all the buoys, with the excep-
ton Of the middle buoy, have been dis.
placed by the ice. From the Highlands
clear field of ice extended TO the southwark
as far as the eye could reach. while from
Sandy Hook 20 above the Narrows it was
very troublesome. Sailing craft were ut
terly powerless.
The receiver of The Union bank of Jer
sey City announces the payment of fifty
per cent. to all creditors, and that in a few
days depositors will be paid In full.
In the supreme court of New York
suit involving the liability of railroad com
panics for the robbery Of passengers com.
mttcd on their trains, was on Friday de-
cided against the New York and New Hav.
en- company in favor of Sydney Weeks of
Bangor, Me-, who was robbed of $4,000
in bonds at the Twenty-seventh street de-
pot in New York city. Judgment was
given for the full amount with interest.
In the West Virginia legislature at
Charleston, Friday, the bill passed both
houses providing for an immediate settle
ment of the disputed boundary line be.
tween Maryland and West Virginia, and
consequently prevent bloodshed and strife,
which are said by the preamble to be prob
able otherwise. The line is about thirty
seven miles long, reaching from Point
Fairfax Stone directly north to the Penn
sylvana line. The controversy involves
about forty square miles which is mostly
In Old Maryland. Gov. Jacobs is instruct
ed to proceed forthwith to resist the en-.
croachmenls hy citizens and officers of
Maryland. The bill removing the capitol
to Wheeling Is now law by limitation.
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