The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-22
Brief Chronicle.
Clara Louise Kellogg IS 33.

Clara Louise Kellogg IS 80.
The plague is increasing in Asiatc Tur-
key.
Peach prospects-short crop and high
prices.
Mrs. Fay of Albion, N. Y, is 1O7 years
OF age.
The Spanish war estimates amount to
$40, 900, 900 reals.
General Babcock's cry now is to ''silence
that dreadful Bell"
Providence folks now get their gas for
50 25 thousand feet.
The Hartford gas light company has re-
duced the price of gas from SO 10 s2.75.
Fifteen pilgrims were drowned at Poi
tiers, France, Thursday, in the river Wen
ne.
The Tribune thinks the senate will de-
eide that it has jurisdiction in the Belknap
case.
Now the British government is debating
about the surrender Of Gray the New York
fOrger.
The San Francisco Bullttin looks upon
Babcock as "the evil genius of The admin
istratop."
The name of Robert Lincoln, son OF
President Lincoln, is mentioned in Illinois
for secretary of state.
Edward f. Parker, esq, has been chosen
Decoration Day orator by John G. Foster
Post at Nashua, n. IL.
The comptroller of the currency has au-
thorized the bank of the state of New
York to resume business.
The body of man was discovered buri-
ed in the mud ut Hunters Point, IL. Tues
day. Murder is suspected.
The Massachusetts, legislature declines to
legalize by special act James Partons mar
| riage with his step-daughter.
Ex-Secretary Belknap's wife engaged
cottage at New London for the summer q
short time before the bribery exposure.
The Watertown Times thinks the Secu-
| rity bank OF that city will not be able to
pay creditors more than twenty cents on
| the dollar.
The Ohio senate has passed bill prov-
| ding for holding congressional elections in
| that state hereafter in November instead
of October.
Rev. T.. s. Fitz, congregational minister
Of Southampton, Mass, has been deposed
by a council His tendencies were not
ministerial.
1t is announced that the Ballou manufac-
turing company, a large corporation whose
mills are at Woonsocket, Il. l., has made
an assignment.
The labor convention at Pittsburgh de-
nounces the Burlingame treaty with China
and believes in protective tariff and the
eight hour law.
Prof. Bartlett, of Chicago, regards Mr..
Beecher as "probably viewed by every
second man he meets, whether rightly tor
wrongly, as lost to purity, honor and
TRUTH"
| London refuses to name one of her
streets after Washington, but who cares ?
America has sixty towns, $50 parks, 200
streets and 100 hotels and saloons named
after him.
The Hartford C0urant quite pointedly
reminds the president that he ought not
longer to permit Babcock to remain mt the
head of an important department in the
District of Columbia.
Nashoonau Encampment, |. O. o. f.,
of Nashua, N. H., will celebrate the ami
verssry of the Order IN the United States
on the Goth inst, by street parade in the
afternoon and ball in the evening.
Latham Cornell, the pioneer stove manu-
facturer of Troy, died Monday morning,
aged 95 years. His property is variously
estimated at from $500, 900 to 81 100000
Mr.. Cornell was the great uncle of Ezra
Cornell, founder of Cornell university.
! Newburypcrt doesn't appreciate the re-
duction of gas to 80 90 a thousand feet,
when almost barrel of kerosene can be
bought for that money. Most everybody
Is shutting off, and the general testimony
is that better light is obtained from oil at
ons-third the price of gas.