The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-24
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Samuel Williams of Warwick, Rhode
Island, who has Just died at the age of "a,
was an invalid till he was 30. He was Of
the same family as William Williams, the
signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The womens centennial committee are
going to try to raise 100000 to erect pa
Wilton, covering about an acre of ground,
for the display of women's work alone.
The Brazilian government has engaged
Prof. Charles +. Hartt of Cornell univer-
| sity, who has spent several months in Bra
! I'll, to take charge of systematic geologi-
cal survey Of the empire.
A curious suicide was that of William
| Waldnann, an old German OF Summit, N.
| Y. who shot himself the other day, because
having been divorced, he wished to marry
again, but the laws of the church TO which
he belonged forbade it.
A new private Arctic expedition to ex-
plore King Williams land and parts of the
Northwest passage, in search of further re-
mains of Sir JohH Franklin's expedition,
will leave England Immediately in the
| steamship Panora, commanded by Capt
Allen Young, who was with McClintock in
| the Fox.
A Kent county (Md) cat has INDICATED
the heroism of her race by vanquishing an
eagle. The bird picked pussy up in his
claws, the other day, ard flew skyward,
but the cat got firm clasp in the eagles
breast with her claws, and, finally, after a
| fierce struggle, the bird settled down over
| a neighboring bog. On reaching the wa
ter, the cat relaxed her hold and swan
ashore, while the eagle shot upward, evil
| IDENTIFY glad to be rid of so ugly a Gus
toner.
| A negress living in Talbot county, Ca,
recently gave birth to four creatures that
make the county the champion in the mon
strosity line. One of them had two per-
fectly formed human heads and body like
that of dog the body of another was
shaped like that of chicken and was COW
cred with literal pin-feathers, while its
head was that of a perfect pig. The other
two had each four perfectly formed legs
and arms. None of them showed any signs
of life after birth.
The ancient city of C@tobriga, in Por-
tugal, submerged by the sea, with all its
inhabitants, in the fifth century of our era,
is to be disentombed. The sea has within
some years receded, and left the buildings
covered with sand, but free from its irrup-
tons. The city was first PhGnician, then
Carthaginian, then Roman and excavation
is expected to reveal remains contemporary
with Dido. A Frenchman, NJ Bin, has
purchased the 1900 acres, and is gong 10
work directly.
A beautiful and intelligent young lady
of Richmond, Va, invited her intimate
friends to her wedding, some time since,
but, the guests having assembled and every
thing being in readiness, the bridegroom
failed to appear, and the company had to
dispense, of course very indignant at the
young man. The lady became raving
maniac, and it now appears that the man
was never engaged to her, but her arrange
ments for her marriage was the first symp-
toms of her insanity.
Five and half acres of land in Chicago,
between Cottage-grove avenue and the
lake and bounded on the south by 3lst
street, have been bought by C. W. Ring
don, one Of the sellers being +. Gordon
Dexter of Boston, and upon which is to be
built the largest number of dwellings ever
erected in Chicago at one time by one
builder. The plot is to be laid out in the
| streets and let's, and 40 marble-front res
licences and 10 stores will go up immediate
ly. The houses will be done in October,
and two of them have already been sold.
While the counsel for the prosecution in
murder case was making powerful ar
gument against the accused at Sacramento,
CAL, few days ago, the mother of the
prisoner sprang from her seat and exclaim-
| ed: "Oh, Mr.. Jones oh, Mr.. Jones don't
talk that way For Gods sake have mercy
| on my poor boy my poor boy For Gods
sake, be merciful y and fell back in a swoon
and was carried out. The pleader requested
that she be not allowed to return to the
court room, it was so extremely painful for
him to perform his duty when she was
there.
DIR. Pentack of Oakland, CAL, who had
long been known as a very eccentric ply
stefan, was recently called upon to attend
a sick girl, with whom, it afterward proved,
he was desperately in love, and he began
| to bleed her. Before the friends knew it,
he had taken two quarts of blood from her,
and he was soon found in his house boiling the
blood and mixing chemicals with it. He
was by this known 20 be hopelessly insane,
and his delusion was that he could make
a fac-simile of the girl. He is now in an
asylum, where he talks of nothing but max
ing fac Smiles of human beings from their
blood.
Avoids Palanjee Mardirosian is the name
of a native of Asiatic Turkey, whose his
tory is that Of heroic effort to obtain an
education under the greatest obstacles, but
whose life was cut short before his work
was complete, he having recently died, a
member of the junior class of Hamilton
college. Hew as converted to Christianity
about twelve years ago, and then travelled
to the Mediterranean coast on foot, where
he earned enough money to get passage
to this country. He knew hardly word
of English when he reached New York, but
he finally fitted himself for college. intend
ing to become missionary in his native
land. He took high rank at college, in
spite of his defective English. His death
was caused BY hard study, together with
the fatigue of recent visit to his old
home.
The champion thing in the obituary res
olution line is the following on the death
of Penningtonville (Pa.) man. which was
ordered printed in the county paper -
Whereas, 1t has pleased Almighty God,
in his all-wise Providence, to remove by
death from our midst Brother Lewis A.
Clarkson, a trustee, n steward and super
intendent of Zion A. M Il. church and
Sunday school, in the 44th year of his age.
On Sunday afternoon, May 0, 1876, after
he had closed the school and started for
home, John Miller ran out of his house
with a double barreled gun in his hand,
crossed the graveyard, and when Brother
Clarkson was about so yards from the
church, he (Miller) shot Carkson in the
legs, from the effects of which he fell to
sleep in Christ, May ~, about halfpast 0
o'clock. And, in whose demise we greatly
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