The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-16
News Items.

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The Louisiana congressional committee
has returned to Washington.
MIR. Beecher thinks any system of re.
lglon is better than no religion.
The mercury again dropped below thirty
in New Hampshire and Vermont Friday
night.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
seriously objects to an increased tax on
whisky.
The report of the Wisconsin railway |
commissioners recommends the repeal OF |
the Potter railway bill.
This time the royal visitor, no less per-
sonagc that the Emperor of Brazil, is to |
visit the United States. His visit will &C.
cur sometime during the next summer
The Pacific Mail steamship company
threaten TO prosecute all who accepted |
brides to secure the subsidy for the com
pany unless they dsgorge at once their ILL
gotten aims.
One of the shafts at the Newburyport
silver mines is said to have struck bottom
a granite ledge instead of an ore bed being
discovered. The blasting and boring will
90 on, however.
A train which left Bangor for Dover, N.
miles, is blocked by ice near Sebec and can
move neither way. Trains and crews have
gone to its aid.
A young farmer Of Raymond, n. H.,
has been making 1t hot for woodchucks in
that vicinity having caught fifty during
the season, some of them old settlers and
of enormous dimensions.
Water is quoted and carted at Grafton,
| nt I'M,
asks $500 for the privilege of drawing
water from never-faiing well. The land
on which 1t is situated has previously been
offered for 5000.
Canada has trig little debt which grows
well. Her interest account is now 50, 1884,
900. and her expenditures last year were
S23. 3 lG. 900. or more than third as much
as ours swas before the war, against Sl7,-
100000 in 1872.
John Comstock, who discovered the IA
nous gold mine that bears his name, blew
his brains out at Bozernan, Montana, in
the fall of 1870, being led to the rash act by
reason of dissipation and want He dis.
posed of the lode for a mule, shotgun
and a bottle of whisky.
From various portions of New England
come reports of loud noises by the crack
ing of frozen ground. and it is thought re-
cent reports of an earthquake in Connect
cut have this origin. In Plymouth such a
sound was mistaken tor a gun from ves-
sci in distress.
OF the assets of the Maine savings banks
81 Ola, 652.60 is represented by various
railroad, state and municipal bonds and
railroad and other stocks, upon which,
during the year, neither interest nor divi-
dend has been declared. Some of these Sc
, curities are of prospective value, but many
are doubtless of little worth.
, A dispatch from Huntington, West Nir-
ginia. says that during a civil suit in the
court Saturday while c. Donnella, ono of
the witnesses, was testifying, Dr. Butler,
: one of the parties to the suit, called him a
, liar, when Donnela struck Butler and was
instantly stabbed in the bowels by the lat
, ter. Butler is under arrest
A singular electrical phenomenon oc-
Cured at Mr.. j. n. Roses house in Calior-
MIA during a recent wind storm. A ball OF
fire danced over the stove, buzzing like 6
, small gaivanic battery. The pots aud ket
ties on the stove were so heavily chargc(
:. that in taking hold OF touching any part {
stunning shock was experienced. The bal
!, minutes, and cooking had to be suspended
for an hour.
. Prince Gortschakoff has replied TO Eng
lands refusal to participate in the intcrna
, tional code conference at st. Peter sburg
F He says the way will always be open Il
" England to give in her adherence to the re
@ solutions which may be adopted by the con
4 ference, whether she joins it or not Thu
e moderate tone of the reply Is attributed t.
n the mediation of the German ambassador a
y st. Peteisburgh.
: According to a Brooklyn correspondent
d 1'ilton has been severely lcctured by hi
IS senior counsel, Mr.. Beach, for prOddin:
IS tvarts with grammatical corrections Mr.
v Beach pointed ont that the wound he in
n flicted was small and unnecessary. al
# though it made the savage old barriste
G smart. 1t thus was to the promptings o
|. the press that the alteration in Tiltons con
d duct was due, rather than to his own per
h cepton of the injury he was doing hi
C cause.
IL Early last Tuesday morning, Jane
u Kiernan, a milk peddler, while driving mt
}, Bridgeport, Ct, saw young lady standn
q against fence, and crying. lie stoppe
q his horse, and upon going to her foun
is that she was badly frozen. She was pre-
!. ceeding to a relatives on the Easton turr
SC pike, but had become so stiff with cold a
'e to be unable to move had she not bee
IL discovered by Mr.. Herman, she would III
e doubleday have frozen to death.
A man by the name of Rhodes, fror
N Portland, Me-, has for the past season bee
" the occupant of house at Sturgeon Creel
L. in Kittery. Last fall he set eel pots. frol
y which the cells were taken and placed
jr cars constructed for that purpose, an
st during the late cold weather over two tor
lc were shipped to Boston, for which he n
y ceived an average of fifteen cents a pount
II One day recently he took from his sein'
is at one haul, over barrel of smelts.
nj A young man who had been brought u
us among Shakers, moved into Tariffvil
Is Conn, q year ago, bought an acre OF liant
aud, though working eleven hours per ola
of in factory two miles from his tract, l
ey abOred at odd hours in clearing the lar
SC and building a small house. His only a
IL sistant was young woman. who helped
&c the carpenter work as well as orderir
C. supplies Last week the house was con
IL pleted, the man and woman were marrle
Fir and have begun housekeeping. The
lis ought to be happy in their self-made HON
RI The African chefs have way of the
r. own of expressing their qualification
q; seeing foreign visitors. A letter from CO
ed Long, an American in the employ of Il
nc Khedive of Egypt, recounts his receptit
IL recently, by native African king, wi
1T manifested his joy by beheading 30 of i
'rs subjects, and subsequently decapitating
'se more Col Longs letter also reiterales
Dr. former statement that he visited Lake vi
ITO toiia Nyanza, believed to be the newly di
OF covered head-waters of the Nile, and me
as tions his defeat of 400 hostile natives wi
NV attacked him.
" Not long since German was riding alor
~, SAMSON street in Sacramento, when
i'e heard q pistOl-shot behind him. heard q
'Ic whizzing of ball near him, and felt h
~ hat shaken. lie turned and saw
nc man with revolver IN his hand, and ia
OF ing off his hat found fresh bullet-hole
re it, Odd you shoot at me :" asked the &c
VI man ..Ypsn renlicd the other part