The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-26
Brief Chronicle.

ABOUT q million pounds OF beet were
shipped to England from New York Satur-
day.
Charles NJ. Sterling, the youngstown
murderer, was hanged Saturdays at Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Colonel Bob Ii yersoll has been invited
to serve Gs oratar at Arlington cemetery on
Decoration day.
The headquarters of the national colr Ill
OF Sovereigns OF industry are TO be trans
ferred from Worcester to Boston.
Twins were born at Wales, Mass, lsat
week, the father OF which a year ago was a
widower of 60, and the mother a maiden of
so summers.
During the month oil March last 100
ships passed through he Sue2 canal. The
receipts OF the company amounted to
5000, 900 francs.
A serious outbreak of cholera in Akyab,
Further India, has taken place, and twenty
five per cent. of the small European popu-
lation died in thirty hours.
Bishop Clark Of Rhode Island preached
in Westminster abbey last Sunday. He is
said to be the first American bishop invited
to oficiatc in the abbey.
Owing to the prevailing drought in the
interior of Morocco, grain has risen thirty
per cent. During last year 40 vessels
loaded grain at Morocco ports for England.
Rats have devoured the whole wheat
| crop of Pitcairn's island. The British ship
Garlloch recently supplied the inhabitants
with o few lecessarics, including some
-four.
Field Marshall Sir John Fitzgerald of
the British army died recently at the age of
ninety-one. He was an ensign at seven,
captain at eight, and brevet major at sew
enteen.
The sale of the st. Louis Times, which
was advertised to take place Saturday, was
withdrawn at the last moment, satisfactory
arrangements having been made with the
parties in interest.
The foot race at Lowell Saturday for
800, was won by r. Ii. Nichols of Ma
lone, N. y, who went over the course
alone, Henry Boyle of Lowell, his compel
itor, failing to appear.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has made q
10 per cent. reduction in the wages of all
its employees. General strikes of engi.
neers, laborers and miners of the company,
it is feared, will take place May /.
The emperor of Brazil is the great Paris.
| ihn llDn just hOh LILO lihhhhCto, LIS ~
dustrious sight seeing, bis avoidance O.
ostentation or display, bis magnificen'
physique, are all topics of the hour.
Thomas p. Somerville, of safe burglary
notoriety, and Gotleib Engle have been in
dicted at Trenton, N. j., on a charge o
conspiracy TO defraud the government o
$3.50. 600 by utilizing Cancelled bonds.
The population of Algarb, in Morocco
is in a state of insurrection. They deman,
that the sultan should remove the chic
governor and lieutenant governor, who ar
accused of levying unauthorized taxes.
Nov 9Th Gnldsmith Maid and, Rsrps. wil
nve, to harness, for the citizens purse
SO, OOO-$2, 900 for the winner and an sd
dltional $1,000 If Occident's time, 2:l6q. /
beaten.
At a mass meeting of the people of tn,
Black hills, at Deadwood, d. T., Saturday
a memorial to congress was adopted, urg
ing the formation of a new territory, en-
bracing the Black hills region, to be calle(
Lincoln.
The cost of buryIng the dead who wer,
burned to death in the Brooklyn theatr,
was about $4,000, which the city ha
paid. An examination of the bills makel
it pretty plain that 30 per cent vent to po
lltlCdl lceCuCS.
At the close Of 1877 the public debt OF
Spain stood at nearly G470, 900, 900. TIL,
manufacturing industries of the country
are comparatively Insignificant, it's natura
resources almost undeveloped and its popu.
lation little more than 16, 900, 900.
Two wood-choppers' cabins near White.
haven, Pa, we're washed down the mount.
ain side by b. flood on Monday night, ant
six men were drowned. Their names werf
Thomss Burns, Edward Petty, William
Bvoglns, George Tracy, james Mcguire ant
Nicholas Brown.
The Boston, Barre and Gardner railroad
viii probably run so as to make a through
train from Montreal, connecting with Tie
train on the Providence and Worcester
road in Worcester which connects With The
new line of New York boats to be put Oh in
Providence May l.
MIR. w. Aronsberg, a Manchester, Eng.
land, optician and philsrthropist, is supply.
ing the aged inmates of British warehouses,
hospitals, infrmaries, jails, asylums, etc,
with spectacles free of cost. Some three
years ago MIR. Aronsberg disposed of 90.
600 spectacles in this manner.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on the
body of James Kingan. found dead near
the railroad track in New Brunswick, is
''death by the hand of unknown persons. {"
Had the verdict been suicide the authorities
of New Brunswick could have claimed the
money and securities found on his person.
Henry Ward Beecher, in Plymouth
church Sunday, discoursed on Goods uni.
versal sympathy for His creatures" He
said that many men are so weak that they
could not resist temptation, and temptation
always came in their weaker moments.
God recognized as we never could, the sys.
TEN of physical law under which men were
created. Mr.. Beecher said the charges
made against him were his reasons for In
Producing unusual topics in the pulpit, and
concluded by saying, "Let no those who
introduced metaphysics into the pulpit
throw stones"
The great gold mine of Los Cristales at
Cauquenes, in Chill, which has been lost
for forty years, has been found by three
Englishmen. 1t was abandoned at a time
when the Chilians were shooting each
other and trying to overturn the govern
ment. 1t was then filed up with water
and an avalanche slid into and over II, and
confounded all the geogrsphers tor forty
years in regard to its whereabouts. Now
that 1t has been found. it will be worked
again by English capital.
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