The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-31
News by Mail and Telegraph.

The gaslight companies of Albany have
made another reduction of twenty-five
cents per 1000 feet in the price of gas,
making fifty cents of reduction since the
LIST of December. The second reduction
takes effect from the first Of March.
The centennial committee have invited
p. s. Gilmore to conduct the musical ex-
ercses on the 4th of July, and he has ac-
cepted. They have also engaged himself
and his full band to give grand concerts
for 30 days following the opening day.
At tho charter election at Saratoga, on
Tuesday, the republicans won by a sweep
ing victory, electing as president of the
village Stephen Ii. Richards by 430 major
ity, and two out of three trustees. The
last president of the village was democrat.
Uncle Daniel Drew's son-in-law, Rev.
Mr.. Clapp, with charming worldly min
dedness, drew his wife's fortune out of the
old gentlemans hands, some years ago,
and invested it where the moth and rust Of
Wall street would not corrupt or diminish
it. Now Mrs. Clapp is worth her million.
John Cottrel of Melrosc township, Clark
county, Ill.,, drove his little step-sons,
aged and 10, out into the cold, night or
two ago, and forbade them to return The
little fellows started for their uncle's in
Crawford county, and, when 10 miles on
their way, the youngest succumbed to ex-
posture and died. The oldest was rescued
| by farmers and cured for The feeling is
so high against Cottrel that he has been
jailed to prevent lyrchng.
The New York papers have extended
obituary notices of the famous stallion,
Hambletonian, which died at Chester, N.
Y, last Sunday, at the age of nearly 81
years. His skin is to be stuffed and set ur
in Central Park to show the points of Q
typical American stock horse. Hambleto
mans chief claim to distinction IS that he
was the sire OF about 1900 horses, among
them some of the fastest horses known tc
| the American turf.
Mrs. Van Colt is preaching in Troy, ant
Trojans are willing to hear religion from
the lips of lady, as will be seen by thu
following from the Troy Wing: 1t is est
mated that from 1900 to 1900 people
were turned away from the State stree
Methodist church Wednesday night, VIII,
were unable to gain admittance to heal
Mis-. Van Colt. The services OF six police
men were required to preserve order in thu
vicinity of the church. A number o.
ladies tainted in the crowd before the door
were open at the commencement OF tn,
service A mink boa aud two muffs wert
lost by ladies endeavoring TO get into thu
building.
Mr.. Larkin G. Mead may hcnceforth en-
joy unembarrassed credit for the nationa
Lincoln monument at Springfield, III. The
accusation of the marble-w workers Passaglis
and Bordo. which we're backed by thu
epistolary Healy, fell fiat, last fail, in III,
trial of the last named individual, and now
the suit of Tomasso Gaglardi who claimed
to have designed the architectural portion
of the monument, has been decided il
Florence in favor of the defendant. Mean
time, Mr.. Mead is in New York, anC
Gagliardi, after singing challenge at Mr.
Mead through the press of that city ha
| gone to California, or Australia, or some
where else in that direction.