The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-26
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DASHES HERE AND THERE.

The sun sets tonight at GA rises to-
morrow morning at $40.
A special meeting of Otter Creek En-
campment, No. Z, will be held this Tues
day. evening, at q o'clock.
The Grand Encampment of the State of
Vermont, l. o. o. F., assemblies this MORN
ing at 10 o'clock, at Odd Fellows Hall,
Globe block.
The directors of the Vermont State Agri-
cultural Society meet at the Bardwell
House this evening.
The sisters of Vermont will open their
school on Monday, September LIST, for the
fall and spring term. Those wishing to
send their children as boarders will do well
to call and secure their places For par
ticulars call or send for circulars, at their
residence or West street
II. II. Dyer, Charles Woodhouse, and T.
d. Manlcy are special committee to re-
ceive the Odd Fellows who may be in at
to-day and tomorrow.
Gen. VIM. Y. w. Ripley returned home
yesterday noon from few weeks trip to
the West, looking in good health.
A burglary was committed in Ludlow,
early Thursday evening. of which THE
GLOBE promptly furnished full particulars.
Forty-cight hours after our publication, it
attracted the attention of enterprising jour
nalists, and note was made of it. Their
readers must "bc pleased to learn
Rev. NJ. NJ Colburn, of st. Joseph,
Michigan, formerly teacher in Burr and
Burton Seminary, also for several years
Principal of the old Washington County
Grammar School at Montpelier, Is paying
a brief visit to the State. He is most cor
daily greeted by his old pupils whenever
he meets them.
Gen. Z. Fercw, of New York, with his
wife and party of three, and Gen. Ran
ney and wife, of st. Louis, were at the
Bates House yesterday.
Determined for once, not to be behind in
giving the news, our enterprising contem-
porary announced, yesterday morning,
that the Baxter National Bank would take
possession of their new quarters during the
day 1t is needless to say that they didn't
and do not expect to move for some days
yet.
THE GLOBE is under obligations to the
Hon. c. w. Willard for the ''Annual Re
port of the Secretary of State on the Com
mercial Relations between the United
States and Foreign Nations"
A fair and festival of the Catholic church
at Fairhaven, takes place at an early day.
Attention is called to an excursion to
Saratoga in the advertising columns.
Mr. George Cox has erected good barn
upon the spot where his residence and
buildings were burned short time since.
b. f Bingham, of Brattleboro, the
well-known prcceptor and member of the
State Board of Education, with his wife,
and the Hon. Paris Fletcher and daughter
of Bridport We're among the arrivals at the
Bardwell House last evening.
The Vermont Central railroad furnishes
several of the conductors and engineers
with first class watches These watches
cost $50 each, and are charged to those
who hold them.
The apple crop is almost failure
throughout the State this year, and this
standard and necessary fruit, as well as
cider, will command high price. Pears
and plums, however, have done very well
de, Ier in Burlington, tells the Fire.
prses he h as increased his sales 81 900 pei
month this hummer, solely by advertising
Some think it Doesn't pay to advertise but
this man estimates the profit of it at 800
per cent.
In the sharp thund,T storm about ter
o'clock Friday afternoon at Burlington
the lightning struck vene liable locust tree
at the foot of Rev. j. X. Co oversees lou Oh
Sheburn street, setting it on IRE and burn
ing the inside out leaving nothi. 'g Dut I'M
shell standing,
The Delaware and Hudson canal com
pany have concluded to stop the pr sen
system of excursions. 1t seems that socNe
ties charter cars for $40 each to go to Sara
toga, and sell tickets at $3.50 The en-
ployes of the road counted ON the last ex-
cursion 15Opersons in one car, and to make
the thing worse children and women were
hanging on to the platform and steps in
such manner that an accident to the train
would have resulted in fearful sacrifice OF
life. Of course the company are response
BILE for personal injuries occurring on these
trains as we'll as on the regular tarins. The
company will furnish special trains at any
time and reduce the price of tickets, bu
they will insist that no more tickets shall b.
sold than the cars have seating room for.