The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-12
Chr Rutlana daily Gluhe.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1874.
81. Adams correspondence.

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Miss Annie d. Keith having resigned her
position in ST. Lukes choir, Miss Halle
F. Royce has consented to take her place
as leading soprano. for the present. Miss
Royce has u rich, sweet, powerful voice
and will be valuable acquisition to the
choir.
Mrs. +. Stewart Strlnahan, being absent
in New York where she expects to remain
several months, Miss Mary Clark has been
engaged as contralto in the choir Of the
First Congregational church.
'rhos Lavender of the Weldon, has
opened laundry
The Franklin county medical society
will hold its next annual meeting at Con-
grcss hall, sheldon. this Tuesday morning
The 1dcertisey has instituted an agricul-
tural department under the management OF
Mr.. o. 5 Bliss. The companys bindery
is in full operation and doing some first
class work.
We hear of an old man by the name of
Edward Smith. who came to wretchcd
death in this town on Wednesday evening
last lie lived in state OF squalid pow
erty in an upper room Of the Burton build
ing on Lassell street. and from strong feel
ings of PRIDE he shielded his circumstances
from outside view. He was taken sick
few days since of lung fever, and lay upon
dirty straw mattress in his lonely room
for fevcral days without any care or atten-
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neighbOr. when medical and other assist
ance were summoned. but he was then too
far gone to be saved. He was buried by
the overseer of the poor.
THE IIQrOR CRUSADE.
A committee Of eight ladies' visited all
the saloons on Lake street last Tuesday
afternoon, and failing to persuade any of
the propretors to give up their business,
caused as we understand complaint to
be made against one McEnnery, who was
hauled up and fined $50 and costs
4 vigorous prosecution is in progress
against ]. J. Barnard for selling liquor
contrary to law.
At one of the saloons here few weeks
since, man who was known to b, intern
perate was refused liquor His wife,
learning the fact, went to the saloon il. her
husbands absence and representing to the
proprietor that her husband was sick, pre-
vailed upon him to sell her 4 half pint Of
| whisky for medicinal use. She then went
/ and complained of him. had him arrested
/ and, on her evidence. fined for selling rum.
In her testimony she said she lied to the
man ion IN I.,,.r~-" - obtaining the liquor
and causing the prosecution.
THE WEATHER
continues cold, wet, cloudy and dis
couraging. Parties came in sleighs from
Montgomery to the railway station at
East Berkshire, on the 2d of May.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Academy hall has been in almost nightly
rcquisitiou for the past week and the pub
lie generally have been well repaid fol
climbing its steep, narrow stairs and sit
ting on its hard, unfecling benches.
First came the Wallace SISTERS for two
evenings and they made decided hit
drawing Il good house the first night and ,
tuU one the second The sisters were unan
imously voted charming, p'quaHte. fresh il
their young imprinted beauty accomplish,
and more than very graceful. Fortescu'
is certainly Il remarkably gifted male i'm
personator, and DAILY, comedian worth,
,>c, Ioa.1u Tho
good and the company as whole. certain
~ far above the average in burlesque an,
comedy representation. They have gainet
assurance of generous welcome whcl
they shall visit us again
Next came an unmitigalei humbug i
the prcstidigitation and gift show line, call
ing himself professor De La Rue" an
all who went to see him (the number wa
very small we are happy to say indee
yUe-d it. our friend Gen Corkscrew wa
beguled into attending, and further pei
suaded by the Establishments of the pre-
icssor to invest in half dozen extra ticket
for the gift distribution. He drew n
elegant silver butter dish, elaborated
chased. The general subsequently mcltc
up this piece OF plate and converted it int
sinkers for his fishing line, and On trial, Il
indignantly assured us, the sinkers instca
of performing their proper office. tloate
gaily on the top of the water. This WI
too much for the generals endurance an
he hunted all over town for Mr. De La Ru
with Il dishearening bull dog and
healthy looking club, but fortunately fC
that gentleman's anatomy he had taken Il
precaution to leave town.
+ Then came Benedict Il Clarlie's mil
= strels. who had good house and gay
u good satisfaction. They are somewhi
d above the average of travelling mnstr
shows.
They were followed ON the next evenir
by the inimitabe Barnabee. with Ii
= patchwork of song and story. and NJ
Joseph Heine, the blind yiolinist. Barn
bee is favorite here, and gave even mo-
than usual satisfaction this time, Dramai
caly he has grown, "a thing he couldr
very well do in stature, and his recitation
gave evidence of more careful study al
marked Improvement OF his special
songs we need not speak, Tor their fan
: and his, in them are wide. In his depal
meDtS OF nulnOl Ht II NncNttlIcNl. l
wears the belt, and he kept his audience
high. good humor throughout the ente
tanment Mr.. Heine has an eXqulsi
touch on the violin and his rendcrings a
GO faithfully artistic and tngcd with Il
pathos of his infirmity they charm !
listeners Barnabee will make you laugl
lIene will stir the pathetic melodies
your heart INTO sympathy with the mel
dies which spring up under his loving
ds welded bow, and YOU come away aft
your evening with them gladder and bett
than YOU were. Shall any one say that
is not worth while to go?
Last, but not least, the grand concert
Halls orchestra and Miss Graziella Rid
way. The hall was not as well filed as
should have been, but the unusual numl
aud frequency of entertainments late
may plead excuse The orchestra is fl
one. and in some things strkingly exc