The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-08
Occasional Notes.


Portraits of Lincoln and Charles Sumner
are to be placed in the South Carolina state
house.
Olive Harper says the American govern
ment is the only one behindhand on the
centennial.
The Baltimore papers intimate that oys-
tiers are very scarce along the eastern shore
and growing more So
journalism is on the rampage in Misss.
sippi it seems. Not less than thirty new
papers have been started since January 1st,
says the Holly Springs Mississippan.
Thomas McNula Of Santa Barbara, Cal.
has cluster Of barley stalks, over 400 in
number, and more than five feet long, all
of which sprouted from single seed.
Col Breckenridge, brother of ex-Vice
President breckenridge, is to deliver an
| address at the unvali1g of monument to
the confederate dead at Bowling Green,
Kentucky.
The Chicago Posi- notes the comical fact
thst lawyer who was to have presided at
temperance meeting was kept busy else
where preparing his defence of some whisky
dealers.
One day last week the Louisville Courier
Journal nod duplicate pages, and the noxt
day the editor promised it should not occur
again, statement in which the stereo-
typer's widow sadly comedies.
Those broad brmnled greasers on the Rio
Grande seem to want attending to. "Give
me 500 men and III take every Mexican
place on the river" said an American con-
onel once, and that's about what could be
done.
Jefferson Davis Will sail for Europe on
the lst of May. He will pass some six or
eight months in London and on the contin-
ept to promote the establishment of di-
rect trade with the cities of tho Mississippi
valley.
Mark Twain, in Humorous speech at
the Press club of New York, on Thursday
night, apclogized for not saying anything
funny, because fun was marketable" and
he did not care to use 1t "when it would do
no good"
Stewards immense marble building on
4,h avenue, New YORK long in an unfnish-
ed state, is TO be Immediately completed
and devoted exclusively to the puspose fol-
which it was originally desgned,a working
woman's hotel.
Mayor p. Il. Barnum of Bridgeport, is
distinguishing himself by frightening the
gamblers rad Illegal liquor sellers. His
maxim is: 1t is an unwise policy to elect
men to office whose chief study is how TO
not do their duty.
One of the most desperate and hardened
Williams in The western and southern states,
one l., II. Smith, alias Tuic, alias Bow
man, has been arrested ia Cincinnati for
the murder Of an officer. He has done
time in several states for felonies.
Egh! hundred and eighty Chinese ar
rived by the Oceanic at San Francisco one
day last week. They were Immediately
taken charge of by the agents Of the six
companies and conveyed to the Globe no.
tel and other Chinese caravansaries.
A Paris letter says that Mr.. A. T. Stew
art, being very much pleased with Meis
sonier's great picture entitled '1S07,"
which he has recently bought, asked the
artist for his picture, and that MeIssonier
sent him portrait of himself painted by
himself.
Mr.. and Mrs. Siokles lately gave grand
dinner party at their hotel in Paris, at
which were present several eminent people
and officials of the city. Gen. Sickles and
family sail for the United States in Nav
for the purpose of visiting the centennial
exhibition.
A gentleman from the rural districts at
tended Wades opera house, San Francisco,
recently, and for the first time in his life,
witnessed the ballet. But he did not seem
to appreciate it., as he was heard to saw.
I" Why did they hist up that curtain be.
fore them gals got their clothes on?"
During the past winter there has been
legislation in California on libels, and the
senate has passed a law which requires the
libeler to come into court and prove his
statements, or publish full rctraclion.
There is general willingness among the
press OF the state to accept this measure.
There are couple of women revivalists
travelling in Texas. One breaches and the
other exhibits magic lantern. The lady
preacher is shrewder than some male clef-
gymen who could be named. A lantern or
something else to give iight--to their utter
ances would keep more people awake.
The Reading Eagle says that Philadcl-
phia firm is sending Autographed letters to
village girls inviting them to leave home
quietly and accept position in the centen-
NAL. The meaning of this villainOus invi-
tatlon will be apparent to people of the
world.
1t costs something to be broker in Cali
fornia. The price of seats in the San
Francisco stock board, which last year was
SEQ, 900 cash, has rapidly increased, until
last week $3.50, 900 was offered for one In
vain. The whole number of seats In the
board 10 but 100