The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-16

Seven years is the time counted for the
construction of the tunnel between Eng
land and France
According TO statistics published in the
Levant Herald, more than one-thild of the
population Of some of the districts of Asia
Minor visited by the famine have persisted.
There was recently sold in Tipperary,
Ireland, the lease of twenty-one acres of
land, without houses of any sort on if.
The lease has fifty years to run, the yearly
rent is S16O, and the lease sold for pre-.
MUM.
The grand jury in their indictment of
George w. Pendleton for the murder of
Mrs. Bingham, used the word "suffoca.
tion" as means of murder, for the first
time in the commonwealth of Massachu-
sets. The Indictment will be Immediately
certified to the supreme court.
Three stone collins have been discovered
in field near Dundee. In one of them
was found skeleton in good state of
preservation the body appeared to have
been doubled up, and the limbs were care
fully wound round with cord. There was
nothing in the second coffin. The third was
six feet and half in length, and contained
skeleton very much decayed. Two urns
were also found, one being beautifully
wrought in clay.
The gendarmerie of Nalenciennes have
just arrested Dutchman whose profession
is, to say the least of it, extraordinary He
is dealer in all sorts of instruments en-
ployed by burglars and thieves. When ar
rested, he had in his possession large
stock of pamphlets giving the fullest direc-
tons as to the best plan for waylaying peo-
pie on the high roads, and also how to kill
them without any noise in case of resist
ance.
The Great harrington paper says 4
mill pond in West Stockbrldge abounds
with goldfish, which, we understand, were
introduced into it in a singular way. A
fish dealer had quantity of fresh fish sent
him from New York, and in the bottom of
the barrel were three or four goldfish Be-
ing very tenacious of life, they revived on
being put into water, and were placed in
the pond, where they have multiplied in
great numbers.
The York county, Me-, deputies seized a
keg of whisky from an expressman in Saco
Saturday, under the new law allowing the
seizure of liquors in transit, and the Judge
held the eXpresssman liable, as he was aid
ing the Boston firm to effect sale of IL
quOr in that state and ordered him to pay
fine of $50 and costs he appealed Mr.
Peyser does quite an express business, and
says he desires to test the new law.
The Suez canal stock was recently placed
upon the books of the London stock ex-
change. At the same time it was stated in
financial quarters that the receipts of the
work for 1878 reached nearly 81 ZOO, 900,
while its running expenses for the same
period amounted to f225, goo. The diyi-
dend declared and paid during that year
was three and three-quarters per cent, The
cost of the canal was S95,O00,0O OF
this the Egyptian government paid $751;
900, 900. This leaves the capital of the
company SG4 100000.
The Bulletin Francois, states that the di-
rectors of the channel bridge company
have just ordered the construction of an
arch 1000 metres in length, for the purpose
of proving the feasibility of the scheme of
M. Boulet, engineer at Rourges, of throw
ing bridge across the Straits of Dover A
model of this bridge, consisting of road
| for vehicles and Tor foot passengers, will
probably be erected in the Bots de Boulogne
o. Champ de Mars at II hight of fifteen
metres above the ground. The directors
maintain that, whereas the tunnel would
take eight years and cost at least 25 ,0O0,-
000f., the bridge could be erected in few
months at an expense of only 600,000f