The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-25
Brief Chronicle.

Albany appropriates $500 for Decoration
day.
Snow two feet deep in the Adirondack
forests.
A thousand hostlles have surrendered to
Gen. Crock.
Grasshopper eggs are a failure at Fort
Scott, Kansas.
A Kansas lady has had three husbands,
two pairs of twins and the ague.
Ex-President Johnson's relatives are to
place a monument over his grave.
Oakley Hall is not spoken of as being
particularly depressed in appearance.
We are glad to hear that times are lively
at Jerusalem and lots of new blocks going
up.
A big loggerhead turtle, weighing $50
pounds, was caught in Florida on a trout
hook.
Three-fourths of the applications for
postmasterships come from unsettled
clergymen.
A steamship load of emigrants for Aus
tralia sailed from New York Monday, and
a thousand more are ready to go.
Kate Claxton has been offered 800 a
| night and her expenses, to star through the
country as ''The daughter Of the flames"
AT the southern ice factories beautiful
| wreaths OF flowers are aItistically frozen
into the center of blocks of ice of any de-
sired size.
Six mail agents have been taken from
| the Boston d Albany railroad by the post
Office department and put on the Hoosac
tunnel line.
Rost d,, IL AJo;na oov,o, an tbo och tLo
| governor wisely thinking the ball grounds
dition by that time.
y Texas eheep rainer says there are
about 2,000, 900 head of sheep on the bor-
ders Of the Rio Grande, the finest sheep
raising country in the world.
The New York liquor and lager beer
dealers protective association has ap-
| pointed 3 COMMITTEES to proceed to Albany
to urge required legislation on the liquor
law.
Fred. Archer, the crack lightweight
jocky Of England, who lest year rode 65G
races, winning 207, received for his services
at q moderate estimate Gncluding Lord
Roseberry's present of 81, 000) $43, 900, to
say nothing Of his probable winnings.
A report from Fort A. Lincoln, dated
April 6, says The ferciest snow storm
that Dakota Territory ever experienced
ended yesterday morning. 1t began Satur-
day last and never once ceased its fury
during six days. The thermometer fell to
thirty degrees below zero and remained
there throughout the storm. The snow ID
about six feet deep on the level.
There is a quiet old bachelor in New
York city named Peter Goelet, who is esti-
mated to be worth $40, 900, 900. Being
very fond of milk, he keeps a COW in a fine
pasture near his residence, in the heart OF
the city, which, including interest on the
value of the pasture, costs him about 3d.
900 a year-the milk somewhere in the i'm
mediate vicinity of SO a gallon. This,
they say, is his only extravaganza.
A. j. Taintor of Lee, Mass, has the old.
est clock in that section. 1t was owned
by Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, who was or
dained pastor of the Congregational church
in New Milford in l748 and resided there
until 1900. During the revolutionary war,
1t is said that the want of lead to make
bullets out of wac SO great that clock
weights were generally employed for thai
purpose ; but as this clock belonged to O
minister it's weights were spared, though
in some way they became lost and iron
weights are now used. II is made Of brass
and keeps first-rate time.