The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-23
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. D-;~-- - Taik tr mouse, Boston, Qin-
ing rooms have Decn IeuuCCu Az 10 10 per
cent.
North Conway, Me-, boasted Friday, a
snow-drift three feet deep, in the middle
of a highway.
Jonah Titus, the oldest member of the
Rhode Island bar, died, Sunday in Prov
idence, aged 80.
The average wages of men tcschers in
Connecticut is about $40 month, and OF
women teachers only $37.
The working mems fve-cent savings
bank of Hartford, chartered IN 1872, has
suspended for want Of patronage.
Ex-Gov. Straw's house at Manchester
was robbed OF all the eilver-warc in il,
Friday night, and the loss j, heavy.
The legislature has granted the wish of
the New Haven city fathers that they may
spend $4,000 in Fourth of July blowout.
The famous Daniel Webster place at
Marshfed, including mansion house, 120
acres Of land, ETC., is to be sold at auction,
June 1.
Monday, which has heretofore been an
of-day with Boston marl1etmen, has come
to be remarkable market day, on account
OF the heavy supply brought in by the fast
fruit trains from the South
Attorney General Train thinks that the
jury's recommendation to mercy in the
Jesse Pomeroy case ought not to have any
weight with the governor the supreme
court has not yet given its opinion.
logged at New Castle, Del, Saturday, get
ting from 10 to 30 lsshes each. Two
white and one colored man were publicly
exposed in the pillory for an hour.
The number of people who have rented
cottages at Newport for the coming season
ia 100 greater than it was last year at this
time, and but fifty cottages remain unrent-
ed and they with the probability of being
taken up before the middle of July.
Memorial day was celebrated with mark
ed fervor in Raleigh, N. c., this year, over
5000 persons taking part in decorating the
graves of the confederate dead The fed
eral troops stationed at Raleigh assisted in
strewing flowers over the graves.
AT the Louisville (Ky.) races, Saturday,
the first race, two miles, for $4,000, was
won by Creedmoor, time 3.44S the second
race for $500, two and half miles, by
Ten Brock, time 435a; and the third
race. mile heats, by Kilburn, time 1.444
and 1,4st.
Willard W. Trask, formerly in the en-
ploy of Henry J. Chapman and James
| Kempten OF Nashua, as peddler, and well
known IN southern New Hampshire, was
killed at Franklin, Tenn, last week, by q
man named Gray, from whom Trask had
stolen horse. Trask's wife was divorced
from him in 1870, the "bill of particulars
stating that he was indicted at Kcene in
1869 for the theft of horse, and sent to
the state prison for year.
At the Washington races Saturday, the
first contest, mile dash, was won by
Egypt, time LAT ; the second race, n dash
of two miles, by Leader, time 34S and
the third race, of one and one-halt miles,
by Cariboo, time 2.47t. The fourth race,
a halfmile match between King Bee and
Libbie L., and the fifth race, handicap of
two miles over eight hurdles, resulted in
dead heats, the latter between Bell Mon
day and Stanford. and so stand, all bets
being declared off.
Gen. Burnside had narrow escape from
the gas explosion in the capitol, Friday, as
1t was getting slight scorching of his face
and hands. These gas explosions in the