The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-24
In General.

New Hampshire has 1880 men liable to
military duty. The militia number 1895
men in two regiments and three detached
companies, and within the year they have
been consolidated into one brigade.
A law suit of considerable interest to &C.
cret societies has been begun at Bridgeport,
Conn, where an odd fellow sues four
brother members for $4,000 each, for
charging him in lodge meeting with misap.
propriating funds of the lodge, a commit
| tee of investigation having since acquitted
him.
AT the recent shoot by the Sharps rifle
company at Bridgeport, Frank Moulton,
the mutual friend, made speech in which
he denied being any longer a denizen Of
| the city of churches, and thanked God that
he did not need to come there with certi-
ficate of good conduct from any denomina-
ton whatever.
The high school graduation at Newport,
| Thursday, was notable in the fact that q
colored girl, Josephine A. Sllone, took the
gold medal for highest scholarship and gave
the valedlctory, her average in every study
being within fraction of the maximum
mark. The case is the more remarkable as
the girl has supported herself, her mother
being cook, and has taken the last two
years studies in one year. She is going tc
college.
Professor Swing states that the Chicago
churches are mortgaged for million and 6
half Of dollars, as follows: The Presby
terrain churches, 1886, 1908; Congregational
S214, l15 Methodist Episcopal, $3.50, 1888
Baptist, $l33, 099; Lutheran, $10S, 200
Protestant Episcopal, $126, $50; Universal
lat, $165, 400; Unitarian, $40, 900; Hebrew
$66 900; Catholic, $1,000; Young Mems
Christian Association, $37, 1000; Moouy's
$25, 200; and others, $4,000.
The occasional stupidity of laws is wei
illustrated in the experience of the Ohit
state penitentiary at Columbus. The di
rectors of the penitentiary have just me
with signal failure in their efforts TO con
tract for the work of 400 able bodied con
victs. Only fifteen out of 400 were taken
and they were contracted for because tn
: contractor needed them on work now unde
: way. Two others bid for, and wer,
awarded the labor of eighty-three minor
and cripples and prisoners having less thai
one year to serve, making in all ninety
eight men, all let to the contractors TO
, forty-eight cents per day each. The Law
, provides that no bid for prison labor shal
be accepted that is below eighty cents pc
day. The prison authorities last winte
notified the legislature of the decline in Ia
7 Dor and the increase in prisoners, but n
, action was taken allowing the board of d
rectors discretion in the matter. The Law
has completely defeated the letting of tn
prison labor this year on account of tn
: price of labor falling below the minimum
: legal standard. Some of the director
talked of letting labor at any price tht
could be obtained, but after considering Ii
matter further that idea was abandoned
: AS many OF the unemployed men as ca
@ be worked to advantage are laboring on IL
new cell building, and when that is con
:, pleted from 800 to 900 idle men will be Q
Il hand. The idle men are marched out {
i their cells each morning to chapel, whel
t they sit upon hard benches and fight fiji
a all day.