The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-31
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Rcluciuper tnc annual scnOOl meeting AT
the Town Hall this evening.
Letters received at Burlington from SEN
ator Edmunds on Saturday evening stated
that he should leave Key West for Wash
ington in few days. He reports his health
as almost completely restored.
Hon. John w. Stewart of Mddlebury,
left for Washington, yesterday.
Every citizen should be present and take
part in the school meeting.
George W. Bentley, of New London,
has been appointed superintendent of the
New London Northern railroad, in place
of COL George A. Merrill, resigned, who
takes the superlntendency of the Passump
sic railroad.
No more important interest in our com
munity than the public school, therefore
let every individual who is voter be
present at the Town Hall tonight
Our townsmnn, E. Foster Cook, leaves
town to-day to take charge of the Croker
House at New London, Conn. Mr.. Cook
has an envinblc reputation rs landlord
having established the Bardwcll House
and for a series of years been its success
full manager He was afterwards associa-
ted with II. II. Howe as manager of the
American Hotel at Burlington. We of
Vermont know that Mr.. Cook and his csti-
mable wife know how to successfully run
hotel, and can most cordially commend
them to the New London people, and trust
that they may be cordially welcomed in
their new home. and to the social circles of
its people
No citizen, parents especially, should
fail to read the admirable report of Rev.
DR.. Harris, in another column, on the
graded schools.
The verdict in court yesterday against
the town of Rutland for the condition of
West street cemetery, will be treated by
our citizens ms harbinger, ut least, that
the cemetery will no longer remain dis
grace to our civilization, and that the bur
ial place of some of Vermont's most honor
ed citizens is not TO he tramping place of
the cattle running at large, This result, so
earnestly urged and to whose labors
the public, are indebted, is q tribute TO the
memory of the late Ira Fisher. Humble
citizen as he was, his regard for the resting
place of the dead was an honorable trait,
and would that he had lived to see the
browning Of his efforts but he rests in the
soil he would have sacredly guarded
We regret to learn of the serious illness,
at his home in Shelburn, of Hon. William
Harmon, United States Consul at ST. Johns
Province of Quebec.
An application has been made by several
of our leading business men for the estab-
lshment of Council of the Soyereigns of
Industry in Rutland.
There were ten baptlsms IN St. Stephens
church, BIiddlebury on Sunday, making
seventeen the present month.
Twenty cent fractional currency notes
are being printed
The Troy Times says; 1.-The report of
the resignation Of leading officers Of the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga road is confirmed.
Additional designations, it Is said, will fol-
low in few days"
A train on the New York Central rail
road ran over train on the Delaware and
Hudson canal companys road on Green
Island Friday afternoon. The latter train
passed under the railroad bridge just as the
former passed over it. This it is said does
not occur oftener than once year.
A Danbury liquor dealer offers a chrome
to all who get eight" exclusively in hi
saloon.
The Travellers Insurance Company o.
Hartford, Conn, is doing large business
in insuring persons against accident TIT
Company haye been paying benefits to it
policy-holders at the rate of over 500 pc
day for the past 10 years. 1t also issue
regular life policies on favorable terms
Burnham & Temple are agents for Rut
land,
Rev. W. IL. II. Murray has asked 70
further time to prepare communication L
the church in relation to the settlement o
an associate pastor, aud will probably no
start on his vacation until May.
Orville Grant Gen. Grants brother
looks so much like him that when he wa
in Boston last week rumor got about tina
the President was in town.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale's society q
Boston had dance, the other evening, an
as he was unable 10 be present, he console
the party by sending little poem whic
appeared on the back of the programme o
the dances.
THE GLOBE is under obligation to Hol
Norton p. Chapman Of the District of Co
umbla for "The relations of the District c
Columbia to the General Goyernment-Tl
duty of the Nation towards its Capitol
A speech delivered in the House of Repr
sentatives, Feb. 28th, 1874.
THE GLOBE was in error on Monde
morning in announcing that the house {
Benjamin Valiquette was searched fC
liquor by the officials on Saturday
In the list OF costumes worn at the Bra
tleboro masquerade on Friday evening, {
account of which appeared in THE GLol
of yesterday, the names of two were ON
ted. These were Mrs A. II Hines wi
appeared as Polish lady, in a styli
dress, and Miss Aggie Cole as pretty lit
Bo-Peep.
MAsoNIo,-A special conclave of X
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