The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-18
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A very severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Chemo, Me-, about midnight, Satur-
day night.
Heavy snow storms in the south of
France have necessitated the postponement
of elections.
Three hotels were burned at Old Orchard
Beach early Saturday morning incendia-
rism is suspected.
The strike of the New York ship caulk-
ers has ended in their defeat. They accept
the reduction to $3.50 per day.
Another extra centenarian gone-John
Barnes, who died at Lenoir, N. c., last
week, at the reported age of IL.
There was partial resumption Of work,
Monday, in the Pennsylvania coal mines,
which suspended operations month ago.
Up to Saturday night Cincinnati had
slaughtered $50, $50 hogs, this season,
against 423, 2S2 for the same period, a year
ago.
Somebody thought they saw Tweed on
Broadway Saturday evening. The scnti-
ment is as strong and general as ever that
he has not been two blocks away from the
house where he and the sherifT's officers
parted.
Gen. Robert f. Lee's birthday is to be
celebrated on the 10Th inst. by public
meeting in Richmond, Va -, at which Gov.
Kemper will preside, and Capt. j. Hamp-
den Chamberlain of Norfolk will deliver
an GRAFTON.
The southern overland express was robbed
by American highwaymen on the night of
the 18th inst, between the Rio Mimbres
and Rio Grande. The robbers got 81 DOC
IN bullion, and large amount of green.
backs from the passengers.
Father James McGill, the deposed Catho
lie priest, serving term of ninety days r
the Hudson county, N. j., penitentiary fol
vagrancy and intoxication, refuses to worl
or to conform to the prison rules, and hai
been placed in dark cell, with n diet o
| bread and wo'~-
VI The SIN has it that Gen. Fitz John Por
ter is to be appointed superintendent Of
police, with the salary raised to $4,000
In which case, the aldermanic opposition
to his nomination for commissioner of pub
lie works would seem to be one of those
misfortunes termed "a blessing in dis
guise.
Eliza Benson of Lebanon, Pa, has JUS
got verdict of 1850 against the Phila
delphia and Reading railroad for having
taken her beyond the station she was tick
eted for in March last, whereby she became
permanently disabled by exposure to the
inclement weather The company hay,
moved for a new trial.
Judge Woods of the United States cir
cult court at Mobile, Ala, has signed {
decree vacatng the office of Stanton anC
LOOMS as trustees and receivers of the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad, and re-
quiring them TO turn over their accounts
February /, to the new trustees, DAVID A.
| Wells of Connecticut, and Robert III
Smith and w. d. Dunn OF Alabama.
The American ship Caravan, Captain
Waefelder, which left Liverpool, Friday
afternoon, for New York, had proceeded
but few miles down the river, when the
crew shipped just before the departure OF
the ship and all drunk, being ordered to
duty, became insubordinate, and threaten
ed to kill the captain and officers. He sig
I called to the river police, who promptly
boarded the Caravan and took two of the
rng-leaders into custody. The rest Of the
crew were left drunk about the deck. One
was very severely injured during the riot.
The secretary of war, at the request of
| Senator Boutwell's committee on civil SER
vice reform, has proposed plan for trans
ferring the Indian bureau to the war de-
partment. The plan consists in transfer
| ring the entire Indian service to that de-
partment, the retention of the commission
er of Indian affairs as the subordinate of
the secretary of war; the abolition of all
civil officers connected with the Indian
service, and the employment of military
officers to perform the duties of the incum-
bents of the latter office.
The disposition of the body of Henry
Jones, the Philadelphia negro whom the
Mount Moriah cemetery company refused
burial, has not yet been decided, but the
company has resolved to have no more
trouble of the sort by adopting an amend
ment to its bylaws prohibiting the transfer
or sale OF any lot to any colored person
whatever, or the burial of any colored per-
son within the limits of the cemetery.
Which illustrates the superiority of north
erners over soulherners in the matter of
prejudices.