The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-02-12
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Hon. Walter G. Ddnton left yesterday fol
New York to take testimony in cases to b.
heard at the March term of the RUTLAND
county court.
George II. Owen left yesterday for New
York to act as commissioner in taking the
testimony in the case of the estate oil
George G. Hathaway against life insur
ance company, in which Hathaway held q
policy and who refuse to pay because OF
his committing suicide.
The Mendelssohn Society are to give 9
concert in LUDLOW on Tuesday evening
next The programme will consist OF
several of the best choruses performed by
the class, with solos and part songs by O
number of the we'll known amateur must.
clans of Rutland who are members of this
organization.
Il. 3. Holcomb, passenger conductor on
the Rensselaer, & Saratoga railroad was
suspended few days since. Mr.. H. AYERS
that he has done nothing to warrant such
action on the part of the company, and also
the grounds upon which they suspended
him. The order for the suspension came
from headquarters. The Whitehall Chroni.
Gle gives as the reason for the suspension
that Mr.. Holcomb "passed" George Knight
an old employo of the road
Hon. Pitt w. Hyde of Castleton and
Gen. Geo j. Stannard of Burlington are
registered at the Bates House.
Capt. Eden j. Hartshorn, formerly of
Rutland, is a member of the Iowa legsla-
,urc and has been assigned positions upon
the following committees Judiciary,
Constitutional Amendment, Agricultural
College and Judicial Districts.
The Louisville Oourier-Jou,nal says ::
Mr.. Fairbanks, the scale-maker, has pre-
sented to the rustic town of St. Johnsbury,
VT, painting for which he paid $50 900.
1t we were naked bcggar with nine small
children and the smallpox and felt that we
lived in vain without a ten dollar plug-hat,
Mr.. Fairbanks is the man we would go to
to get it.
Barnet is proud of young person named
Nelson who has four times spelled down
three school districts.
Master Harry Engels, one of Vermont's
most promising musicians, is dangerously
i'll of fever and it is feared that even if
he RECEIVERS, he will lose his voice.
A young trot,ing horse owned in Bran
don was recently sold for the handsome
sum of fifteen hundred dollars.
No opposition is to be made at the com
Ing city election in Burlington, to the re-
election of President NJ. II. Buckham and
Charles j. Alger for school commissioners
from their wards. Both gentlemen have
taken deep interest in the city schools,
and are valuable members OF the present
board.
The inquest on the remains Of James
Cranston, of Cohoes, who was killed near
Fort Ann on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga
railroad last Saturday will be held this
evening
The Troy conference of the Methodist
church will meet at Schenectady during
the first week in Aprn.
Town meeting two weeks from next
Tuesday.
Thistle tea and a poultce of thistle leaves
are said to be good for neuralgia.
An exchange says that Gen Banks in his
coming lecture, "Will it Endure?" predicts
that within the lives of his hearers will be
men worth S5OO,OOO,0OO.
The Delaware & Hudson Canal company
has erected an ice house in the yard wesI
Of the Rensselaer, & Saratoga depot at Sara
toga. Its capacity is about $50 tons, and
the CONCEALED fluid is being supplied from
Loughberry lake. 1t is placed in cakes on
cars at the lake, and thus transported tc
tho new house. The ice will be used on
the trains running in and out of Saratoga
during the season of 1874.
Mine host Collins of the Bomosccn House
At Castleton gives ball on the evening Of
tie 2ith inst The committee of invitation
comprise many of the leading lights of the
ballroom throughout the county.
Hen Asa r Camp and Charles +. Doug
las ofStowe, are to remove to Minneapolis
Mimi, next Spring.
Hora,e Kingsley, Of East Clarendon
writes to the New York Tribune, that h
has read every copy of their weekly issu
from the Start, about SO years.
In Bostta on Tuesday Rutland ralroa,
scrip No. 8 sid at 81.
Prof L o Emerson, Mrs Carter, Mr.
Spring, and Mr. a,d Mrs j p Cobb TAX
part in the annual Convention of the Sara
toga Musical Association at Saratoga, Fc
II, IS, 10 and 20.
The "Arundel Pebble Spectacle" for tn
sale of which Bailey & Parmcnt,rs are ,h
agents for this vicinity, ''is the best thin
yet and don't you forget it.
The scarlet fever is prevalent In man
sections, and it behooves all that the II,
most caution should be exercised in kecr
Ing houses well aired, cellars clear from d,
caying vegetables. and sink drains we
trapped and in perfect order.
Saturday next will be st. Valentine
day.
1t has been announced that the first NEE
ing Of the Saratoga Racing Association f
1874 will commence on or about the 25t
of July, and the second meeting on {
about the 10th day of August, running q
ternate days from the first date above uni
about the 22d of August.