The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-14
General News Summary.

A sudden drausht Of hot air passed
through colt, Aeld and each OF chard 10
~es ern Texas few days ago, feorchiug
aud killing every green thing II touched for
4 space one funded and forty yards vide
and four hundrt d yards long.
A "cloudburst" between Cheyenne ard
D.adwood, In the Black Hills country,
June 90, filled the bed of creek, In which
no waet has q wed for Six ytais, to the
depth OF Il ( cen feet, and there was del
uge of hsilstones nearly as large az hens
eggs.
A singular result of emancipation In
Russia, is that the number If wolves is in
creasing, since the serfs have become un-
wiling to act as driver In the wolf hunt,
which used 10 be the great national pas
time. M less than 1911 persons lost thti
lives by the wolves i'll 1876, and the loss 10
domestic animals is estimated at Sl2 $780,
900 yearly.
During q recent terrific thunder storm
near Walton. N. Y railroad train was
struck hy lightning. The lightning was 30
intense and constant that the train SEEMED
to be developed 10 sheet IL electrical Dire.
A fearful crash came, and instantly tue en-
yine was in a volume of electricity balls
~ Are enclrchd the driving wheels as they
revolved. Nrariy every person IN the
train experience a severe shock. A large
tee near the track was shattered.
This extraordinary story is told Of a
Newton county (Ga) negro. He raised
tour sacks of guano, weighing two hun
drt d pounds to each sack, ut once, lifting
one IN each hand, one In his teeth and one
on his back. AT another time ne csignt a
steer by the fore l. & AID horn and broke it.
neck by THROWING H. over his head. He
then cut up the Cal cass, shouldered half o!
it, aud oatran several persoLs iu race.
A native Australian who had been sen.
fenced to Imprisonment in the peuitentisry
a. GreeloDg was being taken there by rai.
road, and as the train euter,d Iunne
shIieked out in an alarming manner, aud
laid hold of The cOnstsble who nan him n
| charge. On coming MO tle SUI ght agar
| ne said that he thought thai he was b inl
TAX ou' of the world into the place o
punishment which the missionaries talke,
| about.
A new Joss house has ,st been compile,
| gu III WhFtiD plhCti Dan hucfCI L
WAS construc' ed from mott orr ia house q
ill-tsme, and 10 principally intended f.
Chinese female dew tees VINO drop IN I,
say their prayers at IN early hour in tn
nor: log All night bumernus gang L
h-sthen keep up y drumming, betting u
gonRs. and snme igh's firing of crackers
which has the ,fe,t /" K ep the white rel
denis of the neignbOrhond In state G
blasphemous wakefuln' IS.
o. Ju e % curious sho yer of sand an
mud, coming from the s,uth, fell IN Rome
which seems 10 be regarded due to san
brought 10 dus, orm from he great del
ert in Africa being fixed with Il pollen {
some veget' BILE and held Ia solution by II
cloud which car led IL. An artist says III,
, yell Nv spots I'll about twentieth Of q
iuch in diam, ter, were made ON the pap,
IN which he was sketching, and also
though The colr varies from yellow
wnre-tbe drops Il the dimensions fe i a
about the neighhorhood ~ Rome. Tt
ck I'D which brought il, though giving o
little or no rain. turned The sun at 4 p. q
u t. the semblano. of "a pale moon
D | grtenish MT" Similar pheuomena we
+ no ~ ubl m 'siaken for a rain of blood
The Il INA IS, and tgsrded as prodigies or
inous Of coming ,vl.