The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-08

RUTLAND AND VICINITY,

hO iAhND AMI VlNlNllIs
Sun sets to night at 1888; rises to-mor-
row morning 4;37.
Special meeting of Post Roberts, No. IA,
of the Grand Army of the Republic, at
Odd Fellows Hall, this )Tuesday) evening
at 8 o'clock.
Comrades of G. A. II. remember the
meeting to night.
Mr.. T. S. Southwick has traded his lot
on High street with Mr.. Theodore South
ard for house and lot on Terrell street
Mr.. Southwick paying $500 in exchange.
Report of the examining committee of
Castleton Seminary on the first page.
The races at Bethel on second page.
The report of the Legislative Investigat-
ing Committee into the affairs of the Yer
mont Insane Asylum, will be found on the
fourth page.
The closing exercises of the school of the
Convent of Notre Dame, will take place
this Tuesday evening at 7:30, at the French
Catholic church on Lincoln Avenue. This
school has an excellent reputation and the
anniversary exercises will be of an interest
ing character. Admission 25 cents.
There are now being cut and lettered at
the Oliver marble and granite works in this
village, three marble tablets of extraordi-
nary design and excellence of finish, which
are to be placed side by side in Greenwood
cemetery. They are to commemorate the
memory of the Lockitt family, in Brook
Ign, and the cost of each is 81 ,075. A
large amount of ornamental work is ex-
pended upon them the whole to be sur
mounted by a beautiful imitation boquet of
flowers wrought in marble. The center
one is of Gothic style, twelve feet in height.
The others are of more modern design,
eleven feet. When set up these stones will
not be eXcelled in design or workmanship
in all that world-famous cemetery of the
dead.
Yesterday afternoon John Constantine,
carter, while sitting on his wagon on
Merchants Row, fell suddenly to the
ground, his head and face coming in con-
tact with stone, inflicting severe wound
on his face, rendering him insensible. He
was carried into the shade and by the use
of restoratives he was revived and the
wound dressed by DR.. Hanrahan The
effects of the heat is said to have been the
cause of his fall.
lao I,nC Int I mn Shnr
idan was in the procession at Burlington
on the Fourth. How was the General
looking?
Haying is being prosecuted with great
dispatch in this section.
There was notable absence of the cit
liens of the State Capital from the Inaugural
ton of the Ethan Allen statue at Burling.
ton.
The report of the survey of the Mont
peler & Rutland railroad, c. T. Sabin
engineer, which will be found ON the firs
page, will interest our citizens.
Col. Nj. S. Colburn of Manchester, ant
]. c. Dunn and ladies, were guests o.
Lieutenant Governor Taft at Burlington
on the 4th of July.
We learn that Mr.. A. III, Danforth wa
thrown from sulky last evening, but wa
not seriously injured.
The forest worm has appeared at West
field, Vt, and is stripping the trees.
The new and direct railroad route iron
Newport to Montreal via the Missisquo
and Clyde Rivers Railroad, and its con
Meeting lines will be opened to-day,
Rev w. II. II. Murray's excursion part,
have their headquarters at Martins in tn
Adirondacs.
There were five cases of sun stroke in tn
first regiment at Burlington on Friday.
The morning train from Bellows Fall
yesterday morning, brought two frst-clas
broad guagc locomotives built at the Man
chester, N. H., Locomotive Works, for tn
Wilmington, Columbia & Arlington raj
road, North Carolina. They were fnel
built and showed the excellent skill of tn
Manchester Locomotive Works.
Business was not lively in town yestel
day.
The weather was delightfully."- plcasar
yesterday.
Rev. DIR. Kitchell, President of Middle
bury College and President Angel @
Michigan University, formerly of BurlinG
ton,swerc guests at the Arlington House
Saratoga, on Saturday last.
Avery Brown of Brandon, one of TIL
veterans of 1879, who took part in the celt
bration of tho Fourth, was the guest G
Daniel Murray, at Burlington.
James w. Miner, Deputy United State
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, O
Saturday morning, stocked the Winoosl
river with 10000 shad from the hatchir
house at Hadley Falls, Mass