The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-26
Srief Chroniolen.

A race Of sculptoIs-The Chip.awsy In
dams.
Destructive prairie fires are raging in Ne
brsska and Dakota.
-Four Mormon colonies have been estab-
lished in New Mexico.
Gen. John l. Swift delivers the memorial
day address at Clinton, Mass.
The supply of seeds for distribution at
the agricultural department is exhausted.
Col. Carroll Dwight will deliver the me-
moral day address before the Cambridge
posts.
The 500 striking compostors in New
York have drawn over $50. 900 from the
"Union."
A statue of the late George d. Prentice
will be unveiled in Louisville, KY, on the
Sth of May.
The amount of silver exchanged for cur
rency at the sub-treasury in Boston on
Saturday was S11,S45.
The historic puzzle, the mystery of the
Man in the Iron Mask, is to be unveiled by
August Rese, German.
A guupowder explosion occurred at
Heath, in Wales, Saturday. Thirteen
bodies We already been recovered.
Hou Richard II. Dana, jr., of Boston,
will deliver the annual address before the
Yale law school at the next commence
ment.
When the Blaine, Morton and Conkling
triangular fight is over, the nomination OF
Bristow will follow with rush. Gin.
Cont.
On Good Friday some young rascal put
| ink in the receptacles for holy water IN the
cathedral at Montreal, with the most start
| ling effect
Gov. Hendricks must have written that
| Indiana platform himself. 1t 10 the most
perfect embodiment of straddle on record
Tribune.
The percentage of the school population
| in regular attendance is In Boston, SO I;
in New York, "a; in Chicago, Gl and in
st. Louis, 81.
Mrs. Eleopore Wayles Randolph Cool
idge, wife OF Joseph Coolidge, and grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, died in Bos-
ton on Friday,
Professor Northrop of Yale college is to
| deliver an address at the centennial cele-
bration which is to be held in Danbury,
Conn. on the Fourth of July.
Reports from various points In Iowa, in
| Nebraska aud southern Dakota represent
destructive prairie fires as raging during
the past two days, involving great loss of
property.
Governor Rice Of Massachusetts, has
over-ruled the decision OF subordinate mill
tia officers. and granted permission to the
| Boston light Infantry to leave the state and
parade at Charleston, S. Q.
Seventeen persons implicated in the
murder 1f Mr. Marg0ry, of the English ex-
ppdi,on in China, viii be executed at
Dhsmo, Burmlh on the oh of May, in
the presence of the British escort.
Nell Mowgy and J. p. Smith rode fifty
mic mustang faco ct Bay District track,
! California, near San Francisco, on Saiur-
! day. 1lv foun"r won In Two holrs and
eight minutes. nowrF viii ride q lC0-milc
rice Al the centennial.
The foot race tot $4,000 aud Champion
ship of AOsrica, between &. Crandad Of
| Providence mod a. j Horton of New Jar-
sey, took place 81 s cransento ON Sunday,
distance l35 Yards. Crandali won by q
foot in twelve seconds.
While FIVE persons were descending a
coal shaft at Browns station. on the Col
uuibia branch Of the 81. Lnuis. Kansas
| City aud Northern railroad on Friday last,
the rope broke and all fell to the bottom,
over 100 feet. Two men and boy were
killed aud the other two were fatally in
| jured.