The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-13
state. County and Vicinity.

Al the annual meeting oil the ftStry olS
Luke's parish, NJ. Wentworth and Geo. l..
Fletcher elected wardcns, they with the
following elected vcstlymcn j. L.
Morse, f. G: IIadley, J. Piper, c. Webb
and W. =. ltoyt. A. ID. Fletcher. Treas
urer; delegates to convention, Geo. H.
Flotchcrand G. Webb. On the evening of the
9th inst. slips were rented to the amount of
six hundred and eight dollars, with about
n"eJhigl eiths. npmbfrXc,ti be geptcdt ,
proprietor, n. q. johnson, taken the name
Of Central Hotel, Free carriages to and
from all trains. The travelling public will
find everything for their comfort at the
Central Hotel,
A new grocery and W. /. goods store is in
preparation tor filling by Frank Atwood in
Central Hotel building adjoining the post
Office rooms.
We miss the cheerful couAtcnancc of our
friend A. A. Deming, and many are the
wishes that he had remained with us. All
wish him success, and we know he is fully
qualified with the pen and figures to do
justice in accounts or in ornamental pen
manship, doing it correctly, with eloqucnce
and beauty.
The new post-oflice at the depot, with
Master Eugene Leonard as assistant, is
quietly doing the duties and pleasing all
patrons.
Business men here are hoping net that
Congress will repeal the odious banl,runt
law, and that President Grant will prick
with veto the initiation bubble, and that
Senator Morrill, will come forward with
his policy for n return to specie basis
The funeral of Mr.. b. b. Sergeant was
attended on Wednesday last. A. b. Finn
Iars r.ptIr pf ,l.n a.,
ating, OF which church she was n beloved
member G.
MlDDLEBUEY
There were admitted into the Methodist
church 10 persons on Sunday, the 9Th inst
and Is more were received on probation.
The annual meeting of the Sunday school
society was held in the yestry OF the
Methodist church on fast day, and the fol-
lowing named persons were elected as
officers for the year ensuing: Oliver p.
Mead, supt., and W. G. Langwerthy,
assistant.
Sunday closed the conference year with
the Methodist church, which will finish
the year OF Mr.. Meekcr with his people.
Mr. Mcekcr has been very aborious pas
tor and his labOrs have been crowned with
good measure of success in winning souls
to Christ, In addition TO his regular pas
toral labor, he was engaged all last fail in
looking to the repairs OF the yestry of the
church, which was done in a manner that
shows him TO be man Of taste and skill
as wen as intellect. lie will, Qf course, be
returned to Middlebury again, as lie has
given entire satisfaction to The society
with which he has laborcd
The junior class in college held their
"a nxl, -, L..
Wednesday evening last. The house was
well-tilled, and the exercises were credit.
able to those who took part in the enter
tainment Mrs Oliver was especially
pleasing. The ''I,ams" published by the
other classes were quite numcrously scat
tered through the audience and afforded a |
good deal of amusement.
There are some good hits in these papers.
but the personal slang such as fool" |
idiot, mule" 'hog," ''big nose" 'red |
or black hair long legs or short ones"
and TO mix IN obscene illusions and coarse |
and Dlasphemous language is not becom-
ing nor proper. A good joke is pleasant
thing and is healthy exercise for the
young thought, testing the sharpness and |
ingenuity of the mind but when persons
have nothing to write about but natural
personal deficiencies or surplusage-such
as Dig nose or wide mouth 1t Is no joke at
all, and assumes kind of "dishwstcr con- |
sistency."
Thursday, Friday and Saturday the
ground was covered with snow six or eight
inches deep, but is damp and don't pro-
pose to stay long. Old Jack Frost is
packing up his goods to go north. and we
shall feel good to know that he has left us
for six or eight months. His presence in
these parts is becoming nuisance.
We learn from the Minneapolis Dqily
Tribune that Edward j. Davenport, Esq,
son of Jason Davenport of Mlddiebury,
was recently admitted to the bar in Mime.
apolis, Minnesota, to practice in all the
courts in that state. Mr.. Davenport soon
after graduating at Middlebury college in
1871, went West and procured situation
rs deputy clerk of the district and common
pleas courts, where he has contin-
ied studying law and discharging the
iuties Of clerk until he has passed
very. satisfactory examination, and Is
low rendy for "ofilcial business" as attor.