The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-27
DASHES HERE AND THERE.

DASHES uEkE AMI HEkE.
Information received last evening states
that Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock,
who has been lying severely i'll for several
days, is improving.
The annual meeting of the Rutland rail.
road company takes place at the presidents
office this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
l.. W. Rcdington speaks at Wallngford
this evening, and the people of that village
should assemble in large numbers to listen
to his interesting and instructive lecture.
The New York papers announce Z" Judge
Marcus p. Norton" of Troy at the Metro
poitan and Hon. Thomas McDanels, of
Bennington, at the Aston House.
Remember the oyster supper and festival
at the Town Hall, Clarendon South Flats,
on Wednesday evening, Jan. 23th, 1874.
Music by the Rutland quadrllc bend.
Tickets 50; everybody always has a
good time at their festivals.
There will be a sewing meeting of men,
bers of the Rutland Missionary Association
this Tuesday afternoon at . o'clock, with
Mrs. Rufus Frost, No. 12 Grove street.
The next and last lecture of the Young
Mems Christian Association course of lee
lures will be delivered at the Opera House,
on the evening of February 18th, by Wal
lace Bruce, on "Thc Landmarks of Scott. :"
The Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers
February 3D.
railroad has declared as usual semi-an-
nual dividend of three per cent, payable
Philip G. Gleed, of Morrisville, de-
livers the next lecture in the course at
Winooski on Thursday evening next
Citizens should be chary of a man going
the rounds calling at private houses intro
ducing himself as distant relative of the
family or long absent friend, and begging
gifts or loans of money. He is doubtless a
regular dead beat and imposition.
The cold begins to strengthen as the days
begin to lengthen.
Ticondcroga boasts of having the best
Union Free School in Essex county, n. Y.
There are still six or seven cases of small
pox in Plattsburgh though the spread of
the disease appears to be pretty effectually
stopped.
Senator Edmunds introduced bill into
the United States Senate last week. chang
ing the name of the steamer Cakes Ames
to Champlain.
The Burlington Free Press says most of
the towns in the state are requiring gene
raj vaccination to prevent the appearance of
the small pox. No order of that character
has been issued IN Rutland.
ID ii Kurdish, manager Of the Benning-
ton Pulp Works, has lately been stricken
down with another paralytic stroke, and
1t is feared that he will not recover from
this one.
The frame work of the steeplc to the
was successfully placed in its proper posi-
ton last Friday and Saturday.
The New London Northern rail
road company, of which our townsman
Col. George A. Merrill is superintendent,
are making improvements to the extent of
100000 at East London, on which the
lessees of the road, Gov. Smith and Mr..
Cheney of the Central Vermont, will pay
ten per cent. The improvements include a
round house tor twenty engines, now in
process of construction, a machine shop,
and dock 1925 feet long.
John McAlahon, the champion wrestler,
with Homer Lane are playing weeks en-
gagement at the Olympic theatre, New
York.
Hon. Henry Lane OF Cornwall, was in
town yesterday.
An exchange says Vermont is bowed
down with shame and humiliation under
the discovery of the fact that she is the
mother of eighteen Congressmen-t Sen
ators and thirteen Representatives. She
deserves tender sympathy in her afllicton.
Hon John L. Mason, of Richmond, was
at the Bardwell House yesterday
Messrs. George b. Warren, John b,
Pierson, John A, Manning and George
p. Ogden, of Troy, were at the Bates
House yesterday.
A masquerade party, we understand is
to be given at the residence of prominent
citizen of Rutland, on Thursday evening
next.
In the account of the masquerade ball al
Ludlow, on the first page, the initials f. S.
o., one of the Zouaves, should read f. S,
A.
On the fourth page will be found the pa
per of DR.. c. f. Cole, of Potsdam, N. Y,
on "Farmers Complaints" read at the re
cent meeting of the Daryman's Associa
ton, as reported for the st. Adams Mes
senger, by Col. Albert Clark. The Messen
gers report of the association are the fulles
and most accurate of any taken.
Notice 10 the Bar.
Mamhers of the Rar will nlease send M