The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-16
DASHES HERE AND THERE.

A meeting Of temperance women will be
held in the vestry of the Baptist church this
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
An extra train will leave Manchester, to-
day, on the Harlem Extension railroad at
m, arriving in Rutland in season for
the Theodore Thomas concert, returning
after the close of the entertainment.
John II. Buck, Esq, formerly of North
field, graduate of the University of Yer
mont, in the class of 1850, was on Tuesday
elected mayor OF Ioclport, n. y, on the
democratic ticket Mr.. Buck is leading
lawyer of Lockport, and is son-in-law of
Paris Fletcher, Esq, of Bridport.
Mr.. John 3. Murphy is agent for Rut-
land for the "Liie of Charles Sumner" no.
ticed IN another column.
The Cheshire railroad bridge over Cold
river, at Walpole, a new covered one, 14S
feet long. was burned on Tuesday after
noon
Gold touched the highest point it has
reached for many months on Tuesday
S114.
The price of seats in the Pullman draw
ing room and sleeping cars has recently
been increased % per cent.
One hundred and fifty-sX carloads of
lumber were shipped from Burlington, by
the Central Vermont road, last week. The
spring lumber trade is opening brisk.
The April term of the Franklin county
court commenced its session on Tuesday,
Judge Royce presiding.
Proceedings of Troy conference of the
Methodist church on the second page.
The collector of Whitehall, out of an as
sessment of ,333 1902 GO, returns only $3.50
uncollected.
Ludlow has appropriated 500 for its
centennial celebration, which takes place
on the 18th Of June. Barre appropriated
81 800 for the same purpose and on the
same day.
The above paragraph, which is going the
rounds of the Vermont press, refers to
towns in Massachusetts.
"Don't you mean to marry again, my
dear sir 2" said a buXom widow to her
neighbor mo, my dear widow" said the
old crusty "Td rather lose all the ribs
I've got, than take another
A Chicago editor has been making chem
cal experiments on paragraphs cut from
st. Louis papers he discovers that they arc
possessed of a soporifc power equal to ten
drops of laudanum per line.
An interesting New York letter on
fourth page.
Under the head of walks About Town
the Chattanooga Times man naively admit:
that pontoons are necessary TO his getting
across the streets at some points tina
large catfish and swapping turtles are caugh
in the principal thoroughfares, and that thu
dry goods shops are full Of frogs.
An old lady hearing some one readin!
about congressman-at-large rushed to thu
kitchen door, shouting, "Sarah Jane, Saral
Jane don't you leave the clothes out al
night mind, tell you for there's con
gresham at large"
Somebody haslfgured ii all ont and say
there are twelve hundred different shade
of colors of kid gloves. But most of tn
hands that 90 into them are either of tw
colors-hesh color or dirt color principal
ly the latter.
The new city of Keene, N. H., electc
democratic mayor on Tuesday, and chos
majority of democrats for aldermen
councillors and selcctmen.
A pleasing foreign letter will he foun
on the first page.
1t is not actionable in Connecticut TO ca
one an I" old ballot box suffer" If it !
true, and publication of the words may
Unsuitable. But the court does not sta
how old the suffer must be in order to ju
tify, nor how many stuifings would const
tute him an habitual or common suffer.
So far as the votes for initiation are co
cerned, the democrats in Congress are as f
in the mud as the republicans are in Il
miro.
When an official puts his foot down on
measure, he is very properly said to v-toe
1t is wonder scarf pins don't get S
sick-they often ride on the bosom Of su