The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-02
DASHES HERE AND THERE.

DASHES HERE AND THERE.
w. s. Andrews, the humorous lecturer,
delivers the next lecture in the course, at
Manchester, on Monday evening.
Wilkie Collins, the distinguished novel
list, has just completed romance founded
on the famous trial, conviction and almost
miraculous escape of the Boorn Brothers,
at Manchester. The book will be publish
ed next week by Sheppard & Gill of Bos-
ton.
Norman w. Bingham, formerly Of Yer
mont, was the special agent of thc,reasnry
department, who made the seizure at Bns-
ton on Saturday. of the books of Jordan.
Marsh e Co., for alleged frauds on the
revenue.
On Monday Officer White of Burlington
seized about two hundred barrels of Fort
Edward ale, stored in the cellar of G.. n.
Mead, who is agent for the sale of the ale
in that region. Sheriff Drew also seized
six quarter casks of beer of one Joseph
Bacon.
AS the morning train cast ON the lately
opened Wells River and Montpelier Rail
road was passing through Groton recently,
the engineer saw Il man near the track
frantcaly waving his hat and shouting
something inaudblc. AS it was upon
down grade the engineer could not stop for
little time, and upon running back to
learn the cause of the detention, the man
cody handed letter to the conductor with
the reasonable request that lac should email
that down to Wells River as he was very
particular it should go that day"
The Burlington Free Press says; Paul
Gulmette, aged Is years, who las been
up before the city court for larceny of two
pairs OF gloves from n Allen, was SEN
fenced by Judge Tyler to the Reform
school for the remainder of his minority
He was taken there by Officer Falcy Mon
day, but he expects to scratch his way
home in a few weeks.
Governor Converse has declined to inter
ferc with the sentence of j. f. Flanagan.
now confined at Montpelier, for selling
liquor.
The First National Bank OF Montpelier
and the Montpelier National Bank have
each declared dividend of five per cent.
The melancholy days have come,
The saddest OF the year
When yc savage Herad man
Goes Off upon his ear.
Charles Wilson, grand chief engineer of
the brotherhood of locomotive engineers.
who has taken such noble stand against
the strike of the engineers in Pennsylvania,
and some parts of the west, is native of
Montpelier, Il son at the late John Wilson.
A young gentleman in Burlington whose
tastes are more utilitarian than aesthetic,
sent his lady pair of shoes as a Christmas
present, He has already taken them back
three times and now they are size too
large.
Rev. Z. VI. Haynes, of Rutland, will oc-
cupy the pulpit of the Baptist church,
Whitehall, on Sunday next.
The dangerous practice of coasling in |
our public streets should he stopped. Not
only are teams frightened by dashlng
coaster, but serious results to pedestrians,
and those INDUCING in this dangerous pas
time, are liable to occur
Rev. J. J. Mcdonnell, pastor of the
church of "Our Lady of Angels, (Catho-
lic), Whitehall, was presented by his par
ishioncrs, on Christmas day, with purse
containing $3.50 in grecnbacks.
To some one of the editorial corps Of the
Rutland Xe,ald,we must give the credit of
knowing more about the servant girls, and
'sich." of Burlington and St Adams, than
the citizens of these towns themselves, or
else conclude he is "A ''fabricator' of SENSE
less sensational items. Democrat.
At Burlington, about 10 o'clock on Mon
day morning woman living in the third
story of a building corner of King and
Water streets, Burlington, put some steak
on the Goals for broil and left her room
for few minutes, locking the door. In
the meanwhile the meat blazed up, and the
smoke poured out Of the windows, causing
thc hSiSho'io W ~ DiNhh INV
the room, where, when the smoke cleared |
away, they found not a conilagration, but
a ruined beef steak. An alarm was given |
and the firemen were Immensely disgust |
ed when they learned the cause of the com
motion.
The Merchants national bank Of Bur-
lington have made their usual semi-annual |
dividend of i've per cent payable on and
after January I'd, 1874. This is the ABB
dividend made by this bank since its origi- |
nal establishment as a state bank in the
year 1850
VIM. NJ. Day & Co., Of Mddlebury have
sold out their newspaper business to Addin
& Co., who will hereafter furnish that com
munity with the oaily papers.
Masonic Election.
The annual meeting of Centre Lodge, No
"a, held on Thursday evening, Henry H.
Lp,itl, Ego La OH Il