The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-12
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The Tweed trial goes over to Monday. on
account of one of the jurors having been
burned out in the big fire.
A debtor who paid small percentage of
his liabilities at Boston, 30 years ago. set.
tied the balance with interest, Wednesday.
A big business at Freetown is the collec-
ton of witch hazel, which is sent to Bos-
ton by the ton to have its medicinal prop
critics extracted.
The association of Boston banks for the
suppression Of counterfeiting has secured
past year, and GA in the past twenty-five
years.
Although the boy found at Tffln, o.,
didn't prove to be Charlie Ross, it is some
consolation to know that his identity is
now fixed beyond doubt as Charlie
Schenck of Cincinnati, who has been miss
ing for some time, and that one mothers
heart is thus made glad.
Two more of the Molly Maguires,"
Charles McAllistcr and Patrick Murphy,
have been arrested near Mahanoy city, for
the double murder, in September last, of
Thomas Sanger and William Uren, the for
mer mining boss and the latter a miner,
at Heaton's colliery.
Wi-ne-ma, the modern Pocahontas, who
saved the life of Indian Commissioner
Meacham when Gen. Candy was assassi-
mated by the Modocs in 1873, has some
no Iv,ffnI IN Na,u Nprk nd
to get back to the lava beds again, and
Wendell Phillips gave lecture in her
honor at Cooper union, Thursday evening.
The engineer of train of cars approach
ing Alfred, Me-, on Wednesday saw
Newfoundland dog on the track, and tried
to scare him Off, but as the dog didn't
move, he stopped the train, and soon
found that Just round curve close by was
an oxteam stuck on the track, which
would have been smashed if it hadn't been
for the dog.
The old plan of swndling farmers by
getting their notes on bogus machine agen-
cies has duped some fifteen parties in BerlS-
shire county. and W. p. Bennett is one
Of them. A $400 note he had given for
moving lIlhCulut hGtuCy WAS eOlu 10 IlltH-
field parties for $780, who now attach bis
horses tor the whole amount. +. A. Tower
of Lanesboro is out $3.50 by the same fell
low.
One of the brethren in religious meet
ing at Newport, r. l., the other evening,
in discoursing on wickedness in high places
declared that the administration had stolen
and squandered one-hslf Of the public
property, to which another brother replied:
II was glad to hear the remarks of the
brother who just sat down, and bless the
Lord for the republican administration, for
If it had been democratic administration
in power, they would have stolen the
whole nothing would have been left.
A Hartford man is a most remarkable
somnambulist, if the story he tells is true.
He found himself on Wednesday morning,
at Hayden's station, 10 miles from his
home, and said he. hadn't the slightest re-
collection of making the journey thther.
The last moment when he was conscious
was about II o'clock, when he lighted ci-
gar and went to the front door. He had
evidently walked all the way on the rail-
road, and the wonder is that he wasn't
killed, for he met three trains of cars. He
says his brother made similar trip about
fortnight ago. and that he had sometimes
walked about the house in his sleep. The
whole story has somewhat fishy odor.