The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-23
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Of this act, his heirs shall be paid the same
bounty that he himself would be entitled
to receive were be living.
SEC. a. That IN computing and ascer-
tanning the bounty to be paid under the
provisions of this act, there shall be deduct
ed thereirom any and all bounties already
paid by the United States to said nine
months volunteers or their heirs.
SEQ. 5. That all bouniies payable to
the heirs of deceased soldiers under the
provisions of this act shall be paid to the
following persons, and in the following or
der, and TO no other person, to wit first,
10 the widow OF the deceased soldier, if
there be one secondly, if there be no
widow, to the children of such deceased
soldier, share and share alike; thirdly, if
such soldier left neither a widow nor child
or children, then, and in that case. such
bounty shall be paid to the following per-
sons, provided they lc residents of the
United States, to wit: first, 10 his father, or
If he shall not be living, or has abandoned
the support of his family. then to the
mother Of such soldier and if there be
neither father nor mother as aforesaid, then
SAID bounty shall be paid to the brothers
and sisters of the deceased soldier, residents
as aforesaid.
BANKRUPTCY.
Many who have awaited themselves of
the United States bankrupt law, with in-
tentions to defraud their creditors, are
finding compromises more and more diff
cult. Merchants are taking stand upon
principle, and where conceament or dis
honesty appears, combine to have cases
probed to the bottom, and it can but have
a Wholesome effect. AT a creditors meet
ing last week a debtor after showing "a
statement of his affairs offered 90 cents on
the dollar providing that he could get his
brother to help him. After several ques-
tions creditor remarked. II prefer for
mine to decline ~ per cent ard spend as
much more in costs rather than be party
to all unjust compromise = another credl-
tor proposed 80 per cent. or fight"
When the debtor, now overcome with re-
morse and fear, sobbed out, 'it have to
pay so per cent. shan't have us much
capital as | had when moved out there
three years ago" Honest failures are
readily arranged by intelligent creditors.
but fraudulent onCs should he punished
and made examples of. As Boston mer-
chant remarked Yesterday. 81 am going to
probe and broil every failure my firm has a
debt in where there is an appearance of
fraud or conceament, regardless of The
dividend. "-B0St0n journal.
| A HORRIBLE DEATH.
AS horrible death. probably, as it is
grange, KY, Saturday night. The victim
was John Finnegan an engineer on the
Short line railroad. He was on freight
train; the axle broke, precipitating the en-
| CINE and cars down a slight embankment,
and Finnegan was by some means caught
fast by the machinery and held so that his
companions could not affect his release,
while two streams Of boiling hot water
poured upon his face and body from
broken boiler. After the most horrible
agony he became unconscious and soon
died. his tongue almost dropping off from
the effects OF the hot water which had
forced itself into his mouth.
| RIGHT OF STUDENTS TO VOTE.
The February number of the Western
Jurist publishes the opinion of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, in contested election
case of the right of students and others to
vote. Section is MS follows: Students
attending college from distant parts of the
state and from other states, paying no taxes
on their property, and taking no part in the
affairs of the town, and with no intention
to remain in town after their college course
| is completed, are not voters; but on the
ether hand, those who are entirely Tree
from paternai control, and regarding the
town as their home, having no other TO re-
tire to in case Of sickness Or domestic af-
Fiction, are entitled to vote. 1t is pro hac
rice the home of such student in the sense
OF the statute.
THE MAINE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The New York Independent remarks
that Maine, like several other States (Ver-
mont not included), has not escaped an
noyance with its college land-scrip. The
sum realized from the sale of the 100000
was S115, 524,S0. A committee of the leg
islature is now investigating the transact
ZION. The Independent adds "The real
blunder, doubtless, WAS in the refusing TO
give the lands TO one Of the existing cell
leges, and in deciding upon an irdependenv
institution, which has been a constant tax
upon the state for its maints nance.
A Maine correspondent of tie Boston
Journal says;
One Of The loudest calls made upon the
treasury is by the State College of Agricul-
ture, which since its eX stence has drawn
from tho State some $3.50, 900. The coll
lege receives annually from the interest on
its endowment fund IS 600, has splendid
farm of 3lS acres, Is wei. stocked with
- 900 worth of animals, and yet keeps in
debt all the time Every year its friends
come here and bang away az the treasury
for an appropriation, and their call is gen.
orally responded 10. This year they want
some $24 ,000 but the Senate has refused
to make any such appropriation, cutting
the amount down TO IS 600, with the I'M
Outstanding that it shall 90 for the pay
ment of the outstanding liabilities of the
college, and If there is anything left the
balance toward the pay Of the Professors.
pIscoUSTISG THE TRADE DOLLAR.
The San Francisco BULLETIN says: The
longer equal to the supply of the mins here
and at Carson, and the result is an over
abundance of that coin in circulation. This
coin is now subjected TO a discount OF from
four 10 five per cenium; and lhi, discount
ing is carried on in almost every branch of
business. Even conductors on the street
cars now refuse to take them for their face,
and subject them TO a discount OF ten per-
centum. Other silver coins circulate in
small quantities for their face value. There
| ~ no reason why huN sucn uteNlnctlou suOuiu
Fxst. Tue trade dollar is AS much of a
legal tender for sums not exceeding FIVE
dollars as any other silver CON.
CALIFORNIA DIAMONDS
The story comes from San Francisco
hat two fellows while prospecting for
quicksilver on farm 80 miles south of that
city, a few days since, discovered what is
claimed to be diamonds in the rough, and
gathered two or three hundred specimens
from the size OF a small pea TO dubIe the
size of a castor bean, for the smallest OF
which San Francisco jeweler has uffered
$25. But even San Francisco takes the
story with good allowance of salt; re-
memberipg the costly Sailing experience
of the Arizona diamond mine, n few year,
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