The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-27
Latest News bv Mail.

The library of 1000 volumes belonging
to the Newton, Mass. athen@um has been
offered as gift TO the town.
The Ave children of Alexander FL erbe
of Marion, s. c., were burned to death in
the destruction of his house by fire, few
days ago.
The value of the birds and fowls on ex-
hibtion at the Portland, Maine, poultry
show is estimated at 100000, the pigeon
being worth $4,000.
A lot of postage stamps, worth $3.50, de-
signed for the postofllce at Amherst, Mass,
were lost In the Boston postoflice year
ago, and Postmaster Burt paid for them,
but they were found IN some old rubbish
the other day.
The Boston weather man has IL that the
mean temperature of December was above
the average by only half degree, being
brought down by two very cold days, the
first of the month, and severe weather, the
18th.
The railroad commissioners of Maine
recommend that railroads give their en-
ploycs an interest in the profits, thinking
that it would not only make them work
better, but diminish the liability of acct
dents.
1t was currently reported that the stock
book of the Seneca stone company had been
destroyed to prevent the investigation into
the Freedmen's savings bank from devel-
oping the names and interest which promi-
nent administration officials have had in
this rotten concern.
A fellow calling himself NJ. II. Beckett,
attempted, Tuesday, to defraud the First
national bank at Norwich, Ct, $4,000 by a
forged draft purporting to be drawn by the
First national bank of Hudson, N. Y, on
the Central national of New York city.
The forgery was discovered, but the man
escaped.
Abraham Jackson, the swindling Boston
lawyer, has been forced to surrender little
of his plumber, the equity court having or
dered that piece of land belonging to
Elizabeth p. Girard, client of his, held in
his name, be returned to her, the assignees
in bankruptcy to give up their claim.
A national map, fourteen by twenty feet
in size, is being prepared for exhibition at
Philadelphia. 1t will exhibit the system
and extent of the public land surveys, mil
tary and Indian reservations, lateral limits
of land grant railroads, the explorations of
the war and interior departments, mines,
post routes, lines of telegraph and canals.
The celebration of the centennial of the
evacuation of Boston by the British, March
II, will Include salutes, morning, noon and
night, decoration of the Notifications on
the Neck, where were situated the gates
opened to admit the American navy, as
well as other historical points, and at night
the illumination of Dorchester heights,
Bunker Hill monument and state house
dome. The city government has appro-
prlated $4,000 to pay the bills
The Cinnamon at SIMPSONS shoe fac
tory celebrated their New-year's day
Thursday, with fire-crackers, games and
feasting. Tables we're spread with fruits,
flowers and sweetmeats from China, of
some of which they invited their visitors
to partake. At one of their games, kind
of odd or even, a large amount of money
was displayed, but Charley Sing, the in
terpreter, explained that it was entirely
harmless, the money being common pro-
perty and divided equally at the close of
the game. In their playing, as in every
thing else, their behavior is like that of
large children.