The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-11
By Mail and Telegraph.

bod5to kdbh oit Siul on lSSt LlGll,
% to 90 feet in circumference and 225
years old, under which G. Washington and
staff once halted. Its photograph is to be
sent to the centennial.
Two passenger and two sleeping cars
were thrown from the track near Atkinson,
Ind, Wednesday, injuring Ii. Crawford,
ID. w. Depervai and L. Brown of Chicago
seriously and ten others slightly.
The Congregational society of Waling-
ford, Conn, have failed to select pastor
out of over 60 candidates that have preach
ed for them on trial, during the past two
years. They'd better "toss up" for one,
now,
1t is said that John Dolan, the Noe mur-
derer at New York, is John Dowley, Of
Dalton, Mass, who was arrested last sum-
mer for assault, and escaped from the dis
trict court room while waiting an examna-
ton.
The Central Pacific railroad has been
blocked by snow between Emigrant gap
and Blue canon for 81 hours, but is row
clear. The snow drifted in some places
near the summit to the depth of one hun
dred feet.
Isaac Cheney is to have charge of the
fishing at Lake Pleasant, in the town of
| Montague, Mass, who lease the lake from
| the state. The waters are so well stocked
with bass that considerable income is an-
ticipated
The trunks belonging to the Baroness
Won Rupprecht haye been returned to her
at West Stockbridge, Mass, by the young
baron's father. MIR. Cone also received
from the same party present of very fine
and costly sporting gun.
The Pennsylvania supreme court decides
that the:Mount Moriah cemetery associa.
ton of Philadelphia cannot keep out the
body of Henry Jones, the negro, who died
last fall, owning a lot in it, but he has thus
| far been refused burial there by the white
managers.
The freshet in the Hudson is receding
The river is nearly free of ice to POUCH
keepsie, and navigation is reopened. There
is heavy freshet in the Delaware river
and the water is still rising, but the lum
bermen are in high feather, and millions
Of feet of will be floated to market SHOULD
the weather continue mild.
District Attorney Dyer has filed in the
United States circuit court at st. Louii
counter affldavits to those filed by the de
Tense ON the motion for new trial in thu
Mckee case. The principal affidavit /!
that of Hugh T.. Summers of Pike county
in which he says the statement made b,
Watson Foster in relation to his (Sum
mer's) conversations regarding the McKe,
trial and guilt of Mckee are wholly falls,
and unfounded.
The warm weather of the past few day,
has brought the disgusting and destructlv,
potato-bug to the surface in New Jersey b,
the million. In one instance, in digginl
out an old post-hole, the soil seemed to b,
alive with these pests, and in another cas-,
they are known to have directed the
movements by instinct toward potato Gel
lars or other localities diffusing SAVIOR o
their favorite tuber
1t has just come conspicuously to ligh
in Boston that the action of the city gov
eminent by which the license commission
ers were appointed was taken before tn,
legislative act authorizing 1t went int
force, and 1t is consequently claimed tina
all the work of the commissioners is illegal
This is q pretty important point, consider
ing the magnitude of the liquor interest
If this ground is sustained by the courts
of course the unlicensed fellows will b,
just as good as the licensed ones, and til,
liquor law will have been pretty broat
farce in Boston.
Creditors breathe freer about the N. G
Munson matter. Mr.. Bassett, of Nortl
Adams, has telegraphed the bank that tn
protested checks will soon be cashed il
Boston, and a leading creditor has returne,