The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-20
From New York.

rive OF the striking employees OF tno
New jersey Central were sentenced to i'm
prisonment and fifty dollars fine, at New
ark, yesterday, for contempt of court.
The Sun says Turner, member of the
custom house commission, pronounces
Hayes q fraud, and refuses to concur in
jays report.
The New Orleans rifle team has arrived,
and are the guests Of the American team.
The shipwrights and spar-makers of the
Brooklyn navy yard, struck yesterday on
account of a reduction of fifty cents day,
and because they have to work ten instead
of eight hours.
A daughter Of Israel Bloom, the coun-
terfeiter, in the court yesterday, begged to
be held in her fathers stead, as she could
better bear imprisonment.
The father of Franz Gross, aged six
years, sues the German orphan asylum, Of
Brooklyn, for $4,000 damages, for not
preventing the boy, while at the institution,
from catching a contagious eye disease,
which blinded him. He charges that all
the children used the same towel, thus
spreading the disease.
Harding, who shot his housekeeper Agnes
Woods and then suicided, was seeking di-
vorce from his wife for alleged unfaithful-
ness. The scandal of the suit drove away
friends and spoiled business. Being great
ly embarrassed after the last payment Of
alimony, he vert wild and shot his house
keeper, imagining her his wife.
The White Star steamship Brittanic made
q recent trip from Liverpool in days, II
hours and 81 minutes, the fastest time on
record. The methodist bishop Marvin, who
is concluding 10 months trip around the
world, was aboard.
The indignant fishermen at Amagansett
q. L. wrecked dwelling Of four brothers
named Potter, who caught moss-bunkers on
Long Island coast by millions, by exploding
dynsmite in shoals of fish.
The fourth and sixth avenue horse rail
road companies will tomorrow reduce the
pay of conductors and drivers from 50. %
to o. 90. No likelihood of strike.
1t 10 asserted here that agents incite dis.
turbances to prevent resumption of mining
30 as to benefit the Schuylkill district.
The Sun notes marked improvement IL
shipping business during the past ten days
The grain freil ht advanced 10 pence on tn,
18th with prospect of increase of Amer
ican now aggregating more than ever be
fore.
The superintendent of the New Yorl
cooking school offers to furnish free Il
workingmen whose wages do not exceet
$1.5O per day 10000 copies of pamphle
instructing how to produce hearty meal
for families of six at cost of fifteeu cent
per meal.
The Sun suys the case involving the It'll
of the state of Kansas to 100000 acres o
land was decided by the interior depart
ment In favor OF the state.
The Herald says Prof Hall Of the Unite
States naval observatory has discovered
new satellite of the planet Mars.
The Times says the Sitting Bull commits
sion leaves Chicago August 81.
Oliver Fisk has applied for reappoinl
ment as marshal of the southern district o
New York, reiterating old charges againi
present Marshal Paine.
The Herald's Wilkesbarre special says @
13 alleged rioters arrested, all but thre
were discharged because arrested withor
warrants.
At Plymouth state troops pickets wei
shot at by night and farmers complain Q
daily robberies by gangs of reckless fori
gers. Trouble Is reported at Wanini an
troops will 60 there. The removal of mi
itsry from this section at present would /
a calamity.
The Worlds Cincinnati special state
serious split has occurred in the OH
: workingmen's party. The dissatisfactio
In the northern and central parts is wit
the nominees Of the recent convention b.
cause they are not workingmen and becau
of the communistic ylatform. The disa
fected persons called new convention
) Columbus for September IS, and reque
} the present candidates to withdraw. II
latter refuse and will open the campain IL
0 mediately.