The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-18
RUTLAND AND VICINITY.

The sun sets tonight at 1904 and rises
tomorrow morning at 4.22.
Renting of pews at the Congregational
church this Wednesday evening from Q to
o'clock
Rutland Lodge of Good Templars meet
this Wednesday evening at 7.3O o'clock.
Keep cool. All our druggists have ex-
cellent soda fountains. Don't perspire.
Business was dull in town yesterday.
Darkened streets are beginning to be ap-
preciated by our citizens. Those who re-
tard the wheels of government perhaps en-
joyit
Mr. Stinson who has kept restaurant
and eating house in Quinn's block on Mer-
chants Row, closed up yesterday and his
effects taken in charge by tfie official au-
thorities.
George Griswold has erected lamp
post and put therein street light in front
of his residence on Forest street, as has
also Cornelius Moulton on Franklin street.
They keep them lit every night.
Hon. Prosper Merrill and Hon. Chas p.
Marsh are in town stopping at the Bard
we'll House.
Report of Congregational Convention on
second page.
The Woodstock Post of last week gets
off the following Misery loves CON-
pany, and it is rather pleasant to know
that Rutland a. well as Woodstock has
some "hoodlums who object to street
lights and other distinguishing marks of
civilization. They are having series of
village meetings and pretty much every
tax payer and quite every white man seems
to be in favor of the necessary tax, but the
other kind out-vote EN- and darkness and
disgust prevail"
Mr.. F. F. Majune of Burlington, had
his pocket picked of his purse containing
1877 in money and SO in notes, while at the
circus ticket office in Rutland on Saturday.
A story for children on the first page.
Miss Minnie Schofeld, daughter of Lew
is Schofield of Pittsford, was married in
that place at the Congregational church
yesterday morning, the bridegroom being a
legal gentleman from the city of Boston,
whose name we did not learn. The cere-
mony was witnessed by large number of
friends and was attended with much eclat.
The wrestling match of John Mcmahon
of Rutland, and Perry Higley of Bridge
port, Ct, for 200 and the championship
of the United States, at Worcester, is
''off," because the authorities refuse to
grant license.
We clip from the Burlington Daily
Gazette of June 10, the following personal
of our friend Russell r. Dorr, of Iowa with
our congr atulations;-ED.
Russell r. Dorr was admitted on Thurs
day to practice at the bar in the courts OF
this State. Mr.. Dorr is a young man of
rare cultivation and attainments, who has
been resident among us about two years
and is highly esteemed for his many good
qualities. He is in business, but has
studied in his leisure hours and passed q
thorough examination. He does not in
prepared himself for such an emergency
should the future determine him upon that
course.
1t was one of Coleridge's most pregnant
sayings that ''every time science bears in
itself the germ of cognate profession, and
the more trades are elevated into profess
sions the better.
Egbert Phelps, brother of E. ]. Phelps
ESQ.,, of Burlington, a lawyer of Solicit
Illinois, read funny original poem at the
gathering of the Union College Alumni
Association at Chicago.
Counterfeit fifty cent notes arc in circu
lation. The counterfeit can be detected by
holding the notes to the light, when ONE
can see there is no silk fibre in the paper
but it is stimulated by irregular scratche
on the plate, which gives the surface i'm
preston. The red treasury seal is als'
printed in ink, which will rub and blu
over the paper if aperson dampens hi
finger and passes it over it.
The gentlemen who was cured of hi
desire for tobacco by being thrown from
carriage is rivalled by that of gentle
man who was cured of the habit of chew
ing by being vaccinated.
Barnums ''living skeleton is eclipsed il
New York. The Commercial says ether
Is Maine-Law man up town so thin tina
he can keep cool any time in the shadow o
lamp post"
Northern and Eastern Vermont have beer
visited with refreshing showers the pas
week to the great joy of the farmers.
T. N. Derby of Ogdensburgh, well know
here as the travelling agent of the Mich
igan Central and Great Western Railway
has sent Bishop Convy, of the Catholi
church, Albany, N. Y, the largest an
best looking muscalouge that ever swan |