The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-18
NJ. tibnn. Correspondence.
Masquerade PARTY.
ST. ALBANs, VI. Dec

ST. ALnANs, VI, Dec. rs.
The ".\rbor Vitae Club, chief social or
ganizaton in st. Adams, is. we understand,
10 give grand masqucra lc party nest Fri
day evening at the elegant mansion Of Mr..
+. Stewart Siranahan, which will I've most
generously and Hospitality thrown open for
the occasion. The club numbers some sixty
or seventy Of the first young ladc. and gem
tlemen in town and as nearly, if not quite
all the members will appear in full mas
queradc costumes, many of which will be
of tho most ologont and elaborate, we
predict an occasion of rare social interest,
and scene OF fantastic beauty which will
be like "diamond edition" Of Venetian
carnival.
GoUGH'5 LECTURE.
The lecture of John b. Cough on Tenn
pcrancc,' last Thursday evening, was very
largely attended and was generally pro-
nounccd one of the very finest efforts Of
that remarkable orator. 1t aboundcd in
imagery, apt illustrations, gracefully drawn,
and passages full Of an cloqucncc peculiar
to the speaker The pcroration brought
down the house in thunderous applause,
natural homage TO that wonderful word
power Of the speaker, which his effective
and magnetic oratory makes telling almost
beyond compare. Mr. James Rcdpath, Of
the Boston Lyceum Bureau, was in town
with Mr.. Cough, having joined him ut
Montreal.
Mr.. Coughs advocacy of temperance
was most admirably seconded by the moth
er of temperance, nature, for on coming
out of the hail. the audience found itself
entrusted to the tender mercics of half
inch layer OF ice on the sidewalks, frozen,
as usual, slippery side up. II such state
of things isn't calculated to make man
deeply and profoundly grateful for having
attended temperance lecture rather than
any other entertainment. then we must
have mistaken the drift of some statements
we heard made as we wendell our humble
way homcward, hanging on to the fence
hi'' SN'i'iitH NllNNlAl h1blii'N ~ We III
on the street crossings ahead of Us where
the blessings of fences arc denied.
We learn that the rumor forwarded last
week, relutivc to u copartnership about 10
be entered into by Hon. IT, :. Royce was
incorrect. We thought or informant
knew and so we trusted him. We wont
trust anybody any more. But if any bank
or individual wants to trust us, We will
file applications in the order in which they
are received.
THE STRIKE.
The rolling mill yet remains idle in con-
sequence of a strike, In connection with
its stoppagc there has been some striking
between the newspapers also but we
havn't heard Of any alarming effects. which
considering that the blows mo discharged
in exactly parallel directions with plenty of
neutral territory between, is not very sur
prisng after all.
Sufficient snow has fallen to make the
very best of sleighing and our streets are
filled from morning till night with any and
all sorts of vehicles on runners and of ped
cstrians bent on purchases for the coming
holidays Nearly all our merchants pre-
sent fuller and choicer lines of goods than
usual for the holiday trade, which we I'M
stand they are disposing of at low rates and
rapidly. We have been around to all the
stores and left hints and instructions calcu-
lated to aid and assist any parties who may
call in quest of suitable and acceptable
christmas presents for us. We scarcely
need say that we wait the result with great
anxiety and in hopeful spirit-not on ac-
count of any personal or selfish considera-
tons of course, -but--hang it what
is the reason ?-oh because it will indi-
cate the iapidity with which all our friends