The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-27
In General.

Hop plckers are now very busy 10 CEN
trail New York. The weather is splendid,
and the crop one of the finest and largest
ever raised. The hop region covers tract
OF country from Schoharie and Delaware
counties on the east TO Oneida and Madison
on the west.
The bell belonging to the First Congre-
gational society of TorrlngtoD, Ct, has be-
come cracked and useless. 1t was cast at
Hartford in 1907, and has been in use
eighty years. One hundred silver dollars,
furnished by the society, were melted into
the metal of which 1t was made.
1t was flfty.three years ago Friday that
General Lafayette made his entrance into
Boston. Col. Samuel D. Harris was chief
marshal and his two aids were Ignatius
Sargent and Peter G. Brooks, jr. The two
latter gentlemen are among the venerable
citizens of the city.
Some notion Of the extent to which col.
ored sugars have been imported into this
country during the past few years may be
obtained from the fact that while in 1870
the amount of raw sugars entered at the
port of New York was rs, 100000 less than
during 1875, the amount of refined eugare
exported was $4,000 000 pounds greater.
To produce this 55 900 900 pounds of re.
fined sugars, from rs 100000 to "a 900 00C
pounds of natural raw sugar would be
needed.
A woodman ia Austin, New, has named
his team of eight oxen after leading citi.
zens Of the place. Every day he is heard
shouting to them like this, except that be
also uses profanity "Gee, there, John
Lyons; whoa, DR.. Sheridan, you blamed
lazy beast haw, there, Col. Price, or I'll
break every bone in your lazy body git
up, Jack Squires!" Then he whacks the
minister with the butt of the whip, and
throws a stone at the bank president.
1t is estimated that over one thousand
men we're engaged last winter in killing
buffalo for their hides in Tom Green couu-
ty. Texas, alone, and that at least 90. OOC
buffalo hides have been brought into San
Angelo during that time. 1t is also believed
that 100 900 buffalo hides were ship
ped during the winter and spring from Fort
Griffin. Two hundred thousand is prob
ably an underestimate of the buffalo des-
troyed annually in Texas, only for their
hides. The flesh of these animals, which
is superior to beef, and which is thus left
to rot or to feed the wolves and buzzards,
could it have been availed of, would have
furnished an ample supply of food to the
starving poor of cur cities during the past
winter.
One of Morrissey's Saratoga letter adver.
tisOments says
The pastor OF large and influential
church in staid New England went over 10
''the park" the other day to see 1.-THE trot
no, the grounds-but saw "the trot." A
member of the parish was there, and meet
ing him, asked, show 10 this ?" He STAN
mered grew pale, and pleaded not to be
exposed. The friend promised the pastor
no exposure (by name) provided he would
go with him to Johns brick palace" and
''see the sights" Oh, no, he couldn't do
that. "Then I'll expose you," says the
friend. he went. He looked upon the
enchanting scene-the gorgeoug furnish
ings in which the rooms were clothed
went down into his pocket until it reached
the pocket book-then the friend, taking
the excited man by the shoulder and the
hand, led him away, lest he should commit
an act for which he would always be sorry.
Mrs. Julia L. Reyes, daughter of Caro-
line Lee Hentz, died on August 10. in CAL
houn county, Fla, at the age of 80 She
had written little, being engrossed with the
cares of large family, but some of her
poems, as '"The Dream of Locust DELL"
have been widely copied. Her husband, in
letter to friend written on the day of
her death, says:
She might have lived few days longer,
but could not get her to take any food ex-
cept cream. talked with her about dying;
she said she had no fear of the hereafter
no dread, only of the pain of dying. She
begged me to give her chloroform when
the time came and let her die easy. When
found her strangling l tried to get her to
take some stimulant, but she would not.
She begged me to give her the chloroforin.
To give it was afraid, to withhold it was
to sec her slowly strange. When fouT
che would take nothiDg-she begged to let
her die and to let her die easy-I gave her
the bottle of chloroform, She breathed q
little of it, put few drops on a handker-
chief, then passed her hand caressingly over
my beard, gasped few times, and-a great
shadow was over the house.