The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-20
News and Miscellaneous Items.

The Aston library has 165,954 volumes,
10 309 having been added In 1876. During
the year 143 545 books were delivered TO
1883 readers, against 1856, O65 books and
AZ SOC readers In 1875.
The first of the coming series Of "Hayes"
townships IL born. 1t is In Glare county,
Mich, and the legislature christened 1t on
learning that every man In the town voted
for Hayes aud signed the petition for that
name.
The locomotives on the New York Gen.
trail railroad are being numbered, and
with single exception the number of each
engine on the entire road will undergo
change. Engine ITO will retain It's present
number.
Secretary Of State Evarts was retained
in the Vanderbilt will case before his
name was mentioned 10 connection with
the cabinet. His retainer was $50, 900,
and TO earn this vast sum required Of him
only journey from Washington 10 New
York and an attendance Of an hour In
court.
Two men In Baltimore bet 81 900 on the
result of the presidential election, and be-
ing unable to agree which had won, the
case was taken into court, where the dis
iict attorney, under q law of the state,
took posse ssion of the stakes and turned
the money over to the city treasury.
The department of agriculture reports
that the corn crop of this year will reach
about l ,295 900, 900 bushels. Illinois beads
the list of states with $50. 900, 900 bushels.
Next IN rank are Iowa (155, 900 000) Ohio,
| Indiana, Missouri and Kansas. The price
of corn is highest In Massachusetts COS
cen,s) and lowest in Kansas (23 cens)
The wheat crop of this year will reach
nearly ESQ, 900, 900 bushels.
Tho largest exports in domestic cottone
for any year prior to 1875 were made dur.
ing the financial year 10000, when they
amounted to little less S11, 900, 00O. In
1876, including the Canada trade, they
we're more than $l1, 900, 900. This money
value, of course, represents quantity oil
goods fifteen or twenty rer cent. larger
than the same value in $4,000.
Lake City, Colorado, IN the San Juar
silver mining region, is one of the growing
places of the far west. In the summer Of
1876 it consisted of thirteen log cabins. A
recent census shows that it has now abou
fifteen hundred inhabitants and three hun
dred and fifty buildings, while town 10
has brought as much az $1,000 II boast
of ten asssyers, two banks, two brickyard
two breweries, two cigar factories, fou
inns, fourteen dry goods shops and fifteei
lawyers.
Ex-Governor Horatio Sey mour, the Utict
Herald says, fluds amusement in conflninI
himself, as far as possible, in his CORE
spondence to words Of one OF two syllables
He recfm nends this as profitable and en-
tertaipiug practice to young vri ers, an,
FAYE that in .earching for short words th,
students will learn many new things abou
common words and their mtaniog. Ii
also says that he has learr cd n G eat dea
from the simple forms of 81 en- used h
his Iniian friends of The Oueida and On
ondaga tribes, and prnists their Sly lie as
model of simplicity and expreseivenees.
New York, as the state where the nuts
ance has been most prominent and danger
Gus, is the first to take steps toward sup
pressing and curing tie tramp" The bill
has been introduced into the legislator
which provides Tor the Establishment of
board of seven managers in each judicia
district, who are to hire suitable ground
and buildings, in which all Migrants are t
he confin d and compelled to work. TIL
distinction IL made between the criminal
who are confined in prisons, and between
the helpless poor, who are aided in work
houses, and the ahle-b died vaRrsn,s Idle
uess, which gets its support ty mendicancy
is to be treated as a crime, aud people VIII
are habitual burdens upon the communit
n are 10 be made In anrr0-s .harnsslvaa