The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-17
LOCAL MENTION.

The annual meeting of the Machlnists
and Blacksmiths' Union No. l of Vermont
will be held this Thursday evening at
Odd Fellows hall, Globe block.
The Ladies' Temperance Union Will meet
in the parlors of the Congregational church
on Thursday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Rutland Grange of the Patrons Of Hus-
bandry will meet at Odd Fellows hall,
Globe block on Friday afternoon next, at
one o'clock, for the election of officers.
A half-a-dozen young convicts, clad in
prison stripes, were the center of attrac-
ton at the depot, last night, on the arrival
of the train from the north. They were
on their way from Dannemora to New
York
Some twenty Of Rutlands most disting-
uished sportsmen start this morning for a
grand fox hunt over the mountain, and
their return will undoubtedly give new
impetus to the business of the "Rutland
Fur Company"
Mr.. NJ A. Bourne is mentioned rs the
probable successor of L. G. White as ST.
perintendent of the Harlem Extension rail-
road.
The Troy Press states that Frank G.
White has accepted the position of super
intendent of the Panama railroad, at a
salary of five thousand year in gold, with
all expenses paid and perquisltes, which
will amount to five thousand more. The
Press adds. "Hc will give the Spanish mig
gers that are employed on the Panama
railroad the liveliest stirring up they ever
had. They will find what it is to have a
live Yankee over them"
DIR. George Dulton, formerly of Rutland,
is delivering course of ten lectures on
Sanitary Science" at Springfield, Mass.
Tradesmen should scrutinze $40 bills on
the Syracuse national bank, as countcrfeits
are afloat.
Spauding & Co. have the Springfield
daily Republican on sale.
Hill & Son, the enterprising merchants
of Wallingford, have a new advertisement
in our columns this morning. Mr.. G. f.
Hill is now III New York purchasing /;
stock to meet the demands of their rapidly
increasing trade and TO supply holiday pur
chasers.
We hear it rumored that the men belong
ilg to the fire department working in the
railroad shops, who were absent at the firt
on Grove street Tuesday afternoon, foun(
the time deducted from the roll. Is thi
quite right? All the property of the towr
is equally exposed, and should not all bcal
the burdens of protection equally?
The distance to Montreal from Troy is
go miles via Rutland, and from Spring.
field, Mass, 2SG miles. An addition OF
nine miles is saved via the New York ant
Canada railroad, which makes an actua
difference of twenty nine miles shorter thar
by any other route.
Watch your fire apparatus of all kinds
and be sure it is all night safe and sur
for any emergency.
If it shall prove true, that not only ar
the abductors of Charley Ross discovers
in death, but that at the same moment, b,
train of circumstances wholly discon
nccted, the boy himself is found, the extra
ordinary coincidence will find few paral
les out of fiction.
Mr.. Park has offered Mr.. Green Coma
the position of roadmaster on the Panam
railroad at a large salary.
The rough attack of the weather o
Monday night and Tuesday appears to hav
been sort Of an episode. already ncarl
ended and subsiding into winter serenit
and brtlliancY not to be cOmpalned Of.