The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23


freshing GOODNESS of an east wind, last spn
mer ? Before four weeks are gone W
may be in a similar strait this year
SUNDAY LIBRARY.
The opening of the public library o
Sunday has not yet to appearance, shaker
the foundation stones of our Puritan city
There has not been, as far as can be aacer
tanned, any sensible decrease of attendnc
upon church service. The hundreds o
people who visit the library upon a Sunda,
seem disposed TO be quiet and orderly.
is said that every Sabbath, among thos
who go thither, is negro, who spends hi
time in studying Blackstone, being oblige,
to work during week days. l think that
very large majority of religious peoile
here are strongly in favor OF the plan OF
giving to such as desireit, as good Pace
of resort. though some old-time iogies ave
aa.li,, .ssisycd ana shocked at such leKinr
down of the bars but as the Rey. M
Wright of Berkeley street cllprcl. in ,t'tei
in recent discourse, having sellentd {
this very thing, that wien you M dgwr
the bars it depended altogether onNvnethel
the cattle were out of the pasture or with
in. If good church-going people would be
tempted to leave church and resort to IN,
library perhaps 'twerc better to keep th,
bars up. But there might he question
about that even. Certainly the experiment
was worth trying. 1t had been tried il
Cincinnati for more than year, and thosC
who were the most strenuous in their oppo
sition at first would now be equally oppos
ed to "A return to the old regime
Shades of the Puritans whose ashes re-
pose under these gray old stones in the
shadow of Park street spire, and in the
Gods acre enclosed in the Common what
would you think of your descendants could
you come forth from your mouldy nooks up
on one of these pleasant Sabbath mornings:
We can fancy you lifting your shaAowy,
sanity hands in holy horror, then tiirning
to flee like Lot from the wickedness OF
this modern Sodom. H
Are we drifting slowly but surely to
wards continental Sabbath? God forbid
do not think, notwithstanding the fear:
of some, that the opening of the library is
a step in that direction.
THE COMMON.
There are men, and they are not few
though | am sorry to confess, in this mol
ern Athens, whose devotion to the Molocl
of business, would not allow them even tC
spare the dear old Common who on every
occasion, lift their voices for piece here
a corner there, and even to broach the idej
of a street through the very midst Of these
hallowed acres
THEATRICAL.
The New Magdalcn which has beel run
ming as serial in Harper's Magazine
dramatzed by the author, Wilkio collins,
especially for Carlott Lelercq, IL about 10 De
put on the stage at the -Glnhe Thei,.i% Mis-
Leclcrq as Mercy Merrick.
THE BAZAAR.
The Bazaar of the Nations crosses ON Fri
day of this week. The gross receipts thu,
far, have been on an average, from twenty.
five hundred to three thousand dollars per
day.
Quite little stir was created recently by
an event which tool; place in the eminent
dry goods establishment Of jordan Marsh
& Co. A lady standing at one of the counter
was adLessed by well looking woman, who
no1ttly asked her to hold her bahc. (an in
FAINT of two or three months) wAile she
should go to another part of the store to
make purchase. The obliging lady com
piled, taking the small piece of humanity
in charge, together with a well filed satch-
el. Two hours she waited but With no
prospect of being relieved of her charge (;
of an officer was called. The satthel was
opened and found to contain an clgacnt
wardrobe for the child together with forty
dollars in money and note beseecling the
lady to take the infant under her charge
and promising abundant support. Con-
cerning the denouement your cqncspon-
dent has not been Informed. ZIB.