The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-01
RUTLAND AND VICINITY.

The Sun sets tonight at $40; rises to
morrow morning at 425.
Company a." First Regt, V. V. NJ,
Capt. L. 7. Whitcomb, will meet for drill
this CTuesday) evening, at 1870, p. M, at
the Town Hall.
Washington Engine Company No. 9
voted on Saturday evening to attend the
Fourth of July celebration at Ludlow on
Friday next.
Strawberries Notwithstanding the scar
city of Strawberries this year, the Ladies of
the Methodist Church. have secured one
hundred quarts of fine ones for their fest-
val on Wednesday night. Nice fresh
cream has also been secured.
The committee consisting of Hon. IIar-
mon Garfield of Arlington, Joseph Joslin,
Esq. of Poultney, and n p. Simons, Esq,
of Rutland, appointed by the Rutland
County court on the question OF laying a
bridge across Lake Bomoscen to the resi-
dencc of Lyman johnson, Esq, of Castle
ton, meet here to-day to render their final
decision.
The streets of Rutland are yet unlit not
withstandine a tax has been voted for the
purpose Of Lighting them.
To-day is the anniversary of the battle
Of Gettysburgh in 1868, of which many a
Vermont soldier has vivid recollection.
j. w. Hobart of st. Adams, general
freight agent of the Central Vermont rail
road, was in town yesterday.
The two persons dressed like ladies'
who on Sunday last while visiting West
street cemetery, exhibited such want of
the finer feelings of humanity as to rudely
desecrate ncwly-made grave by robbing
it of choice flowers, placed there by loving
friends the evening previous, are cautioned
against a repetition of such acts, as it will
lead to making public their names.
The Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad are
watchful of their patrons, having appointed
an additional detective to travel on their
trains.
The GLOBE thanks Mr. Stephen Clemens
for handsome boquet.
A short ''area of rain" visited Rutland
on Monday morning
1t has been crcdibly ascertaincd that a
fire cracker was the cause of the fire that
destroyed Louis Browns house and barn at
Burlington. Prosecuting officers should
attend to all violations of the law in regard
to the sale or use of these mischievous mis-
siles Rutland has had serious experience
with them in past years.
Charles Towns new hotel at Bellows
Fall approaches completion and will be
opened to the public next month.
The "IIaymakers" will be presented in
costume by fifty young ladies and gentle
men at Brattleboro, on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week.
The Yale College Museum received an
other acquisition last week in the form of
the body of one of Barnum's sea-lions, who
died on the trip from Rutland to st. AL
bans.
A vein of lumber has been discovered in
the slate formation in the western part of
this county, which is considered by those
familiar with the ore, not inferior to the
celebrated Turkish lumber produced from
the mines of Cyprus.
Money is abundant and cheap in New
York.
The yield of oats and rye will rule above
the average in Vermont.
A gentleman and his wife arrived at
West Rutland on Monday, who had driven
all the way from Omaha. They had fine
team, which did not seem at all fatigued by
their long journey, and the carriage in
which they rode was apparently none the
worse for the trip.
The Postmaster General has issued an or
der directing all postal cards which can
not he delivered to the person addressed t.
be returned to the writer without charge.
The plan of paying off laborers and
workman on Mondays in Rutland COM
menced two weeks ago, has succeeded
well.
Lippincotts Magazine for July, has an
article entitled "With the American Am
bulance corp at Paris" which is full of
stirring adventures The magazine is foi
sale at Spauldlng q Cos.
The New York 7riJuae truly says, "It
is a pity that the area Of rain cannot be ex
tended or else more evenly distributed"
Eccentricity in San Francsco-A man
walks the street with stick of candy pro
truding from his mouth. In our streets
when Il stick of candy approaches that or
gan, il is lost to sight.
The Strawberry crop has been hastenc(
to premature ripcness by want of mois
nutriment, and those offered in the marke
are both smaller and more expensive THAI
usual. II