The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-04
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Gov. Dingley, of Maine, has designated
Thursday, November 90, as Thanksgiving
lay.
David Creel, II juror IN the remarkable
rial of Aaron Burr is patient in II Gin
cinnat hospital.
Cremation is progressing A coffin fac
tory in Hudson, Mich, has been burned.
Loss, $4,000. 10 ..-.
A ticket was taken the other day on the
Maine Central railroad which was issued
fifteen years ago.
The steamship Faraday has succeeded in
graphing and buoying the direct United
States cable. .....,.g 4...
Sam Cary didn't keep his appointment in
New York city, Monday evening. A dis.
patch was received from him stating that
his voice has given ont and he has ''retired
from the field"
The depot Mt Danbury, Conn, WAS bro
ken into Monday night, and the baggage
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Scott.Siddons cut open
and rifled of clothing and valuable jewelry
and family keepsakes, medals, etc.
The tragedy of election day was at Ded-
ham, Mass, where John Watkins, being
| quite i'll, WAS taken TO the polls IN a car
rage. On arriving home, he fell dead
| from the over excitement, and daughter
is SO much affected that she is not expected
| to recover.
A leading democratic congressman writes
from Washington that Kerr's election to
the speakership is as certain as anything in
he future can be. Sunset Cox is still
hopeful, bu. says it lies between him and
Kerr. Somehow all the rest of them seem
I think il lies between them and Kerr.
lt's curious also gratifying.
A Bible. said to be the smallest ever
made, has just been sent to the London
Standard from the Oxford University
Press. 1t is beautifully printed, and when
bound in limp morocco leather weighs but
little more than three ounces. 1t is on
Tough India paper, of extreme thnness,
and is Al inches long, p wide, and half an
inch thick.
Six busts of the finest white marble, rep
resenting the first six Roman emperors,
have been placed in the Louvre recently
They were discovered in Africa, and al
though many centuries old, they are as
perfect as if chiseled yesterday. The mod
cling of the faces is said to be very fine
the profile OF the Augustus especially so.
The members of the Palmetto guard OF
Charleston, $. c., have determined to cele
brate the centennial of the battle of For,
Moultrie, fought on June 29, l776, by
erecting monument at an expense OF
$l2 900. The design which will probably
he adopted is bronze soldier in the uni
form of the ID South Carolina regiment
which garrisoDed the fort.
The indefatigable George Chorpenninl
is once more about to press his claim fol
the payment of over four hundred thou
sand dollars, which he asserts the govern
ment owes him for mail service in thu
west. His attorney, Judge Casey, filed {
petition in the court of claims, SETTING
forth the facts of the case. The attorpe,
general has filed an answer, and the cas-,
will be one of the first to come to trial af
ter the Resembling of the court, which
occurs on the Goth inst.
During the gale and snow storm Sunda,
a sad accident, by which about II person
lost their lives, occurred at st. Famlie
Isle of Orleans. The unfortunate psopl,
were principally residents OF the island
returning from the market in the steame
Montmorenci and were being landed from
the steamer in scow which by some un
accountable means capsized and all OF
board, with one exception, drowned durinl
the prevalence of the same gale. Johr
Campbell, chief officer of the steame
Canadian and laborer disappeared. Boil
are supposed to be drowned.
The trial is proceeding in Rome, Italy
of Giuseppe Luciani, Michele Armete
Luigi Morelli, Cornelio Fanna, Pho Frezz,
and Salvatore Scarpetti, charged will
being concerned in the murder of Rafael
Souzogno, editor and joint proprietor o
the ultra democratic journal, La Capitale
The assassination created great sensation
at the time, and was by some attributed Il
the clerical party. This excitement has b,
no means died out, as may be seen in TIL
fact that the postoffice sequestrates al
foreign newspapers containing trial pro
ceedlngs. The trial has apparently de
velOped the fact that the murder was com
mitted by Frezza, though the evidence !
believed to be insufficient to convict Luci
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