The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-18
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The upper Hudson is closed again, and
no more boats are likely TO get north this
season.
The trial of Lapage, accused of murder
ing Miss Langmaid, commences in Concord
January IA.
Commodore Vanderbilt has just made an
additional donation of 100000 to the
Vanderbilt university, IN Tennessee, which
makes $500, 900 in all.
Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown, s. T.
D., of Cohoes, N, y, was consecrated
bishop of Fond-Du-Lac, Wis, in St. Johns
church at Cohoes, Wednesday.
Assistant Pastor Halliday, who owns a
farm out on Long Island, has had bad luck
with his hogs, the cholera having got
among them and carried off 10 of the is.
Walter Langmaid, brother of Miss Josie
Langmaid, the victim of the Pembroke
tragedy, in October, died Thursday morn
ing Of typhoid fever at his fathers resi-
dence in Pembroke.
1.-THE Rev. Justin ID. Fulton, d. d. us
organizing his friends into new Baptist
church at Brooklyn. Anything so that
we can have peace, and can keep him out
of the midnight dispatches.
1t has just been discovered that the late
Daniel Blaisdell, treasurer of Dartmouth
college from 1888 until his death, few
months since, embezZled the funds of the
| institution to the amount OF some $50 600.
Mr.. O'Conor's physician says he can't
see what keeps him alive, and he isn't
going to venture any more opinions upon
| the case, which, however it may end, must
| go into history as one of the most remark
able on record.
Mrs. Tiltons brother, Joseph II. Rich
ards, formerly publisher of the Indepen-
dent and Nation, is going to start new
monthly about the size and shape of the
Nation, to be called the american Age,
with the bible and school questions for
prominent features.
The superintendents of the New England
insane asylums met at Worcester, Wednes-
day, and formed the 'New England psyche
logical society,"" the object of which is to
interchange views on questions connected
with their occupation. DR.. Pliny Earle of
the asylum at Northampton is president.
The Boston authorities have made ar.
rangements to give unemployed laborers,
who are citizens and have families to SUD.
port, work in the pavement department al
| 81 q day. Latterly applications to the
number of so day have been made 10 the
| overseers of the poor for aid, and this plan
promises to afford the readlest relief.
Gen. Babcock, Wednesday, requested the
dissolution of the military court appointed
to investigate his alleged connection with
the whisky ring, feeling that he IS likely
soon to get all the trial he desires at st.
Louis. The request was granted and the
proper order at once issued from the white
house.
The Delaware & Hudson canal company
have just been making surveys OF their
lands in Lackawaxen, Pike county, Pa.
and not little excitement is occasioned,
as persons living In that vicinity find that
property they supposed to be theirs ID
within the limits of the cOmpany's lines.
The lands in question are very valuable.
There are 1000 Soverelgns of Industry in
Connecticut, in 25 councils, 16 of which
have paid in capital aggregating $4,000.
1t is claimed that their cooperative store
system reduces the price OF necessaries of
life 10 per cent. and their secretary and
treasury reports read at Hartford, Tuesday,
show the order to be in good working con-
diton.