The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-10
Gleanings.

The Massachusetts Press association will
make their annual summer trip to Phladel-
phia. 1t is probable that detour will be
made through portion OF the most pic
turesque region OF New York and Pennsyl-
vania on the way thither.
The Belfast Age says: ga gentleman In
this city, who is an admirer of fancy poultry,
has been trying an experiment in Matching
eggs. He placed q number in n niche of a
chimney, where it was warm, leaving them
there during the day, and at night placed
them in small box, carefully surrounding
them with cotton, and took the box to bed
with him. lie repeated the operation sew.
eral days, and over half of them have
hatched out and the chickens are doing well
and will make 'liv' of it,"
Several thousand dollars worth OF silks
were saved by little terrier dog, III store
on Eighth avenue, in New York, few
nights since Some burglars had cut a
hole through the rear wall and entered the
store, when the faithful little sentinel who
had been chained to q stool outside the
counter, near the silks, gave loud bark
his woke clerk who was sleeping on the
floor above, and, coming down, he dscov-
cred what was going on, and gave the
alarm. A carriage was found in the street
near by containing a kit of burglars tools.
The experience of Rev. DIR. +. ID. Avery
in the recent flood was exciting enough.
The water came upon him while he was
riding, near North Coventry, and upset his
team. lie chung to some bushes and cut
the traces, so as to free the horse from the
carriage, after which both he and the horse
were swept down stream. The horse swan
out, but Mr.. Avery was in the water an
hour and half, most of the time clnging
to whatever he could lay his hands on. He
was rescued with great difficulty, and had
to be doctored a good deal before he recov-
cred from the shock.
Kansas is beginning to experience war
of races on the school question. The last
legislature amended the act relating to pub
| lie schools by striking out the word white
thus virtually abolishng the colored schools
and making the public schools free to all
irrespective OF color. The conflict has
| opened in Leavenworth, where the super
| intendent of public schools has refused to
| admit colored child to school where all
| the scholars are whites, and he has been
sustained by the school board. 1t is feared
| that the trouble will cause the suspension
of several schools in the city, and that the
new law will greatly impair the efficiency
of the school system in the state.
The Lewiston Journal gives the statistics
of the manufacturing establishments of
Lewiston for 1875, from which it appears
that though the year was dull one, the
production foots up nearly as large as ever
before. There are now S,544 hands en-
ployed in the mills, the number of females
being twenty-five per cent. in excess OF
the males. The Lewiston Bleacbery has
finished in 1876 10000 miles of yard-wide
I goods, more than enough to throw girdle
around the earth. Two and half millions
of dollars have been distributed in Lewis
ton, chiefly to working men and women.
The securing of the control OF tho water
of the lakes will double the power OF
Lewiston, and insure an immense and
rapid growth to the city.