The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
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The Washington real estate pool is to be
investigated.
The latest reports from Turkey is that
the sultan will not accept the reforms urged
by the great powers.
Spain has seen At to tell foreign powers
all absut her troubles in the Antilles, and
make few more promises.
DR.. Ordronaux, state commissioner in
lunacy, has declared John Scannel, the
murderer of Joseph Donohue, who was
sent to the Utica insane asylum, to be sane.
In the suit of the Warmser Brothers. of
New York, against the Bank of California,
Judge SAWYER rendered a decision sustain
ing the bank on all points, and depving the
motion to enioin the sale of delinquent
stock.
A Massachusetts cooperative enterprise
has for an aim the occupation of Spartan
burg, 5. c., by thrifty folks from the over
crowded manufacturing towns of New En-
gland. The plan provides for cotton and
lumber mills, and recruits are numerous.
A dispatch from South Norwalk, Conn,
reports the destruction by fire Monday
morning. of the magnificent residence of
James II. Ingersoll, of Tammany ring
fame. The loss is estimated at 100000
insurance $50 900, distributed in 33 COM
panies. The fire is supposed to be lncen-
diary.
The senate of Louisiana has passed the
apportionment bill, and will begin regular
business Wednesday. No bill could be
passed until the apportionment bill was dis
posed of. The bill as passed ieaves the
apportionment almost as at present. If
was recommended by Joint committee of
both houses.
Senator Tom Anderson OF louisiana
Goodwin, at Washington, 81. Landry
Parish, saying that ex-senator Colonel w.
j. Offutt of that parish, had been assassin
ated. No further particulars were given.
| Colonel Offutt was elected democratic
senator in 1868, and was in New Orleans
as a member of the democratic convention
| a few weeks ago
The jackson (Tenn.) Wig and Tribune
of the 22d says Doc. Mangum, noted
guerrilla on the federal side during the war,
was assassnated while at work in his field,
about twelve miles above Savannah, on the
Tennessee river. Mangum was desper-
ate and determined man, and performed
numerous acts of daring apd cruelty. Two
masked men rode mp TO the fence near
where he was ploughing, both being armed
with shot guns. and literally riddled him
with balls. They then placed his corpse on
a horse and carried it away.
Last September twelve year old son of
Francis Gowdy, of Sci,ico, Enfield county,
Conn, disappeared, and at the same time
800 was taken from the house. 1t was
supposed at the time that hired man had
induced the boy to take the money and had
enticed him away Mr.. Gowdy has made
diligent search for his lost son and his alb
| ductor. 1t is reported that the body of the
boy was found Monday in Powder Hollow,
| Enfield, with the throat cut. 1t is believed
that the man murdered the boy for the
money taken from his fathers premises.
There has been suspicion that the same
man murdered Moses Dickinson of Am
herst, Mass, in November last.
A Mr.. Frank has introduced bill in the
Maine legislature to abolish capital punish
ment. 1t provides that the penalty for
murder shall be imprisonment for life, and
that any prisoner under sentence for muir
der may make application to Judge of
the supreme court for rehesring OF his
case, accompanied with statement of the
ground on which it is made, which must
be new evidence also statement of the
nature of the evidence. The court may
order rehearing of the case, citing at the
same time the state attorney. If on full
hearing, the evidence is conclusive to es-
tablish the innocence of the accused, OF
that he is guilty of lesser degree of crime,
the tact will be reported to the governor
with the recommendation of the court, and
the governor shall pardon or commute as
recommended.