The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-31
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Mrs. Cornelia Bush has been elected state
librarian of Kentucky.
Sixteen thousand napkin rings was re-
cent order to the Meriden Britannia CON-
pany.
The Putnam fire insurance company of |
Hartford, Conn, has voted to discontinue
business.
The Leonard silk company at Warehouse
Point, Conn, are running on three-quar-
tiers time.
The trustees of the Kentucky state asy-
lum for the blind are charged with robbing
the state of $4,000 year.
Joseph b. Grinnell, formerly member Of
Congress, has been appointed receiver of
the Central railroad of Iowa.
There has been run on the Hartford,
Conn, dime savings bank, by which S42,-
900 was taken out. The scare was perfect
ly groundless.
preach more in an hour than he could prac-
tice in year, and folks believe it now If
they didn't before.
They talk about buttcrnut tree, at East
Hampton, Mass, just cut down, which
contained Is squirrels, bushel of nuts,
and five large snakes.
A committee of Louisville (Ky.) citizens
are to call a mass-convention OF people of
the south and west to consider the wants
of those parts of the country.
The number of matriculated students at
the Leipzig University lacks only score
or 80 of 5000. Among them are CD Amer
leans. AT the Berlin university there are
GO Americans.
The railroad commissioner Of Rhode
Island is engaged in crusade against grade
crossings, and an order has been introduced
into the legislature providing that no more
J shall be built.
The Lonsdale strikers, who have voted
to return to work on Monday, have lost
three weeks pay. With large number it
was serious question whether they were
to starve or not.
The unemployed of Schenectady, N Y,
have appealed en- masse to the city council
for work, representing that unless the city
finds them employment speedily it will be
"steal or starve" with large numbers of
them.
A secret meeting of tho members of the
Wisconsin legislature opposed to the re-
peal of the Potter railroad law was held al
Madison, Thursday evening. and it is re.
ported that a sufficient number were pres
ent to defeat the bill to repeal the law.
A hundred and sixly-two men and 1913
women, over 90 years of aga died in New
Hampshire in the six years ending with
1875, and, of this number. eight men and
eight women were over 100. The oldest
was 106, one was over, and another lacked
but one day of 1916.
The assessors in town of Cheshire
county, New Hampshire. when asked for
information regarding their appraisal OF
real estate for taxation recently replied
that thew -.sgreed. .nnt.to tel .Jsatu they
real estate, 20 they can alter their figures,
if necessary"
1t is stated that the famous and long
sought for Planchas La Plata mine in Ari.
iona, which Spanish history says yielded
pure silver in such huge pieces. 200 years
ago, that the crown confiscated 1t for its
own use, has been found by man named
Crutz, about 90 miles southeast OF Tuscon,
near the Sonora line.
The saddest individual case of loss by
Winslow's torgeries is that of man who
recently loaned the plausible swindler SEQ.
900, VIII CHI was about all the money he
hal i'll the world, on what purported to be
good security, but now turns out worthless
and is now left almost penniless, with a
large family to support.
Joseph Bork, the defaultiny city treasu.
rer of Buffalo, NY, finds his assets $4O0,.
900 in excess of his liabilities, while those
of the firm of Lyon, Bork & Co., of which
he is member, are only $75, 900 short, SO
he Will pay up, turning his real estate
stealings over to trustees to hold for the
benefit of the city, and realize on ii when il
can be advantageously sold, and in turn he
will rot be prosecuted.
The entries to the Springfield poultry
show cover almost every known variety OF
fowl, the last being from Connecticut
man who will send trio OF Batavia black
games, about the only specimens in the
country. AS a side-dish to the poultry,
there will be some Matching tanks from
Col. Thompson's trout farm. in which the
careful observer will be able to see the
troutlings separating from the spawn.
Whtefield, the great evangelist, has been
dead hundred years, but 1t Is with difii.
Guilty he has been kept in the crypt where
his body has been laid, in the old church
at Newourrport, Conn. Parts of his skele.
ton and chips from his tomb have been car.
RED away by relic hunters, and the sexton
has orders 10 watch every visitor. Some.
body once stole one Of his aims, but after
being taken across the Atlantic, 1t was re.
turned with letter of pentence from the
thief. The box in which it was sent is
now kept in the coffin.