The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
DASHES HERE AND THERE.

Hon. J. w. Stewart of Middlehury,
Hon j Gregory Smith and Hon " c Smith
of st. Adams, and Hon Daniel Roberts of
Burlington, were in town yesterday.
Major A Ross, the wel-known foreman
of Washington engine company, also be-
longs to the Rutland fur company He
was out on a fox hunt the other day and
shot the contents of his double-barellcd
gun at the animal but failed to hit and Mr..
fox run off as glibly as if nothing had hap
pencd. In accordance with a time houorcd
custom of the company, that when one of
their number has such good fortune as did
the major, to present him token that its
members recognize his superior sl7W. Yes
terday he was duly presented with an en-
blematic club, that he might lay it away
among his treasures as a token of his Prov
ess and skill. We congratulate the ma or.
Hon Charles Dewey, vice-presdent of
the National Life Insurance Company of
Montpelier, was in town yesterday also
E. B. Sherman, Esq, of Chicago, both of
whom gave THE GLOBE editorial rooms a
call
Rev. f. r. Atwill, of Burlington, will
preach at the Lenten services in Trinity
Church, Rutland, on Friday evening next.
We would cali especial attention to the
advertisement of the sale of cattle by Henry
Hayward, Esq, which takes place on Sat
urday next Those desiring to purchase
cows of most excellent quality will do well
to attend.
The st. Louis Globe says that Hon Fred
erck Billings, of Woodstock, has pur-
chased $4,000 worth of railroad lands in
Southwestern Missouri.
The contract Tor supplying the marble
tile for the immense new post-oflice build
ing of New York city, which is also to
contain the United States court-rooms has
been awarded to the Burlington Manufac-
turing Company. The order calls for A.
900 tile of Brandon white marble and Isle
la Motto black. The order is high evidence
of the superiority of the tile purchased by
the Burlington marble mill.
The number of machines manufactured
daily by the Wood Moving Machine Com
pany, of Hoosic Falls, IS as follows: &c
reapers, 90 attachments, 35 sweep-rakes,
40 mowers, 90 drop platforms, and still
they can't get enough built to fill orders.
The annual meeting of the Editors AS
ISOLATION of New York will be held June
II and 19 at Lockport. Charles f. Smith,
of the Albany Journal, will deliver the
address, and David Gray, OF the Buffalo
Courier, the poem.
Lake Champlan is clear of ice as far as
Benson Landing.
An almost unanimous vote was passed
at the town meeting in Morristown in
structing the selectmen not to appoint OIL
furnish u liquor agent backed by petition
from .175 ladies in Morristown to thai
effect.
Shaw, the Masonic impostor, whom TIT
GLOBE exposed recently, is still on his tray
els. The Hudson Register says " Thu
Masonic fraternity Of this city are eau
toned against a dead beat, a Mason not il
good standing, who says he is on his way
from Shreveport, La, to Boston, lie il
rather slender of stature, light complexion
sandy hair and red moustache. He ha
attempted to impose upon Masons in Ulste
county, at Goshen and Newburgh. TIL
fraternity are ON the qui cire for him"
In another column will be found al
obituary notice of John A. Pooler, writer
by his pastor, Rev. Edward Conoyer, o
Wallingford. 1t failed to reach THE GLoB
on Monday evening as was intended by it
author. Mr.. Pooler's funeral was large
attended yesterday afternoon by the cit
zens of Wallngford and adjoining towns
Will the person who sent an anonymou
communication TO TIE GLOBE, few day
since, on blackmaling" send his name
Communications without the name of tn
writer cannot be published.