The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-15
They are trying to revive the Good Ten

They are trying to revive the Good TEN
plars in Irasburgh.
The Lyndon Union tells of six persons
being baptized by immersion in the stream
at Paddocks Village (St Johnsbury), &c
hole being cut through the leo for the pur
pose"
Hardwick still maintains its reputation
for litigation. The printed docket for the
December court contains 81 cases in which
its citizens are interested, and a number OF
new cases will be entered this term.
The next meeting of the Vermont state
teachers association will be held at St
Johnsbury, Jan. 81 and 90. Edward Con
ant, superintendent of public instruction
is president of the association, and will
open the exercises with an address.
The latest effort of the western railroads
to abolish the free ticket custom, like all
previous attempts, has proved abortive.
The Illinois Central refused TO join IN the
movement any way.
Rev. Mr.. Walbridgc has been called to
take charge of the interests of the Univer-
salist church in Stowe.
We are now approaching the shortest
day in the year-the 2lst of December ;
that is, the day when there is the least in
terval between sun-risng and sun-setling.
We have already reached the shortest after
noon-on the 9Th of December. But the
shortest forenoon will not be reached until
January 1st. Or, in other words, the sun
began to set the earliest, by the clock, on
the 9Th inst, and will rise the latest on the
1st of January.
The president of the national association
of amateur base ball players has appointed
Wednesday, Dec. 1G, at p. M, at the
Astor House in New York city, for the an
nual convention. Clubs from all parts of
the United States and Canada will be rep
resented.
Certain peddlers are going about the coun-
try and leaving their goods for day or
two for examination. One of them has APP
peared in Troy, and despite the objections
of the lady OF the house where he called,
insisted upon leaving some table cloths,
which lie claimed were "genuine English
linen" 1t SO happened that the lady's hus-
band is one of the best amateur micro
scopists in that section, and he spent q lit
tie leisure time in examining "the genuine
English linen fabric under a powerful mi
croscope. He found about one eighth of
the fibres to be linen, and the rest were
cotton. The fibres were in many cases not
woven at all, having been merely sized or
glued down The application of water
caused the speedy separation OF the threads
and left the table cloth in dilapidated con-
dition. Our citizens may depend upon it,
in all cases, that resident store keepers of
good reputation sell much better class OF
goods and at much more reasonable prices
than any that irresponsible peddlers can
afford to offer.
An exchange sententously remarks that
it is a curious fact that while business of
every kind is depress ed, and the wages of
labor are being considerably reduced, the
prices of billiards, and boiled chestnuts,
and peanuts, and theatre tickets, and horse
hire, and sings, and cocktails, and sleeve
buttons, and other nccessaries of life, re-
main unchanged.
The season thus far is one of the most
remarkable on record for its mildness, md
is special blessing ~ the poor. EAoopt-
ing coal. about everything has fallen in
price, immensely, compared with 1859.
With winter time full upon us, we have
had no winter weather at all, and the poor,
therefore, have good reason to rejoice.
A Troy gentleman who has watched the
weather forty years says that when the
first snow is followed by rain, such is the
case with every snow storm of the winter.
This he claims is not theory, but Is knowl-
edge gained by actual observation by him
self for the last forty years, and by his
father for thirty years previous.