The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-07
News Items.

Hon. Lyman Tremain sailed for Europe
Saturday.
Rumor prevails of the approaching mar
riage of Miss Florence Tilton and A. l..
Martin, the witness who figured as fire..
quent visitor at Titon's.
A st. Louis bootblack, at the home of
the friendless, who had for q year main
tained the role of deaf mute against all
tests, talked fast enough when he got
drunk, the other day.
Thirty new members were added to Ply
mouth church on Sunday, fourteen by let
ter and sixteen by baptism. Among the
attendants upon the services were juryman
Hull and John Swintod, the communist
The army worm is making great havoc
in Clark county, o., acres upon acres of
advanced crops being entirely destroyed by
the pest. Whole fields of roe are consumed
in few hours. Where the pest came from
seems to be mystery.
Washington did not celebrate Monday.
The departments were closed, and every
body who could go, went out of town. The
city ordinance against fire-crackers was not
enforced. and the boys monopolizcd the
glories of the day.
Lincoln Payne of Newburg, Ind, per-
sists in getting on the cars while the train
is in motion. The second amputation of
the same leg, run over on two different &C.
casions, is the result, and there is stump
enough left, he says, for another trial.
Philip Zeigler, a lager beer dealer in Bos-
ton, while sitting in his parlor Sunday af-
ternoon, chatting with several friends,
suddenly exclaimed, "Well, good-by, ALL"
and shot himself in the head, dying in
stantly. No cause is assigned for the act
Prof. Janney reiterates his declaration in
a dispatch to the Indian bureau, that SO
far he has not found gold enough in the
Black Hills to warrant any extended
mining operations. He finds about one
and half cents to painful of earth.
Willis Russell, prominent witness
against the Owen county (Ky,) kuklux,
and at times a special bailif of the state
and deputy United States marshal, was as
sassinatcd, Friday night, by some unknown
person, who fired load of buck shot at
him throujh window.
A beautiful Missouri girl gave an aged
Sunday school superintendent, and twice a
wldower, paroxysmal kiss, and then sued
him for breach of promise. The defendant
DR.. Elijah Mclean, one of the wcalthiest
and best-known gentlemen in the etate, was
much taken back at the unexpected kiss
and lawsuit, and the jury found him inno-
cent.
During thunderstorm at Columbus,
o., Sunday, man named Alexander Nc
Mullen was struck by lightning, the bolt
passing from the back of his head around
his body and down his right leg, stunning
and burning him seriously, but not fatally
for wonder. The house in which he
was at the time was badly shattered,
though, as was also Hoge church.
Captain Lindell and his mate, John
Dean of the bark Union, lost on Puget
sound, May Z, have been arrested at San
Francisco, at tho instances of the insur-
ance companies. for willfully wrecking
the vessel. The mate has confessed,
charging the captain with approaching
him with II plan to destroy the vessel,
which was deliberately carried out. The
captain denies the charge. The Union
was worth about $4,000 and insured for
$4,000.
The receipts in the Gloucester fish mar
kct, last week, aggregated ,245, 900 pounds
of Goldfish, 242, 900 pounds of halibut and
4,GG5 barrels of mackerel, the latter show
ing an improvement over previous weeks.
Most of the southern mackerel fleet have
returned home after an Improbable sea-
son, and much smaller number of vessels
than usual are fitting out for the northern
fisheries.