The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-02
LOCAL MENTION.

The village trustees meet this evening ut
1880 o'clock.
A picnic party from Rutland visited
Sutherland Falls Saturday.
Mrs. Eliza Barney De Mott sang at the
Baptist church last evening.
Street Commissioner Patch expended
$794.OS in the month of July.
Killington lodge No. go, I. o. o. F.,
meets this evening at o'clock.
Fire on the crate was comfortable Sat
urday evening and Sunday mornlng.
The police question, it is understood
will agitate the board of village trustees to-
night.
MIR. A. p. Childs, of the Bennington
Gazette, with his wife, was in town Satur-
day.
Rev. Geo. L. Walker, D. d., preached
in the Congregational church, Pittsford,
yesterday.
Mr.. Coombs, night telegraph operator at
Burlington, was IN town Saturday, on
visit to his brother operators here.
Our townsman, Col. Geo. A. Merrill,
has resigned his position of superintendent
of the Passumpsic railroad, to take effect
Sept. LIST.
Attention is called to the advertisement
In another column under the head of want
ed. Anyone DESTROYS of engaging in bust
ness of the kind will do we'll to commune
cate with the advertiser.
The Sutherland Falls marble company
are at present running one large air con-
oenser to supply motive power for their
machinery, but finding it insufficient for all
their work, are to put in another this fall.
The machine is success.
Johnny Walker, barber, was up before
Justice Porter Saturday morning for intox-
ication. He was fined five dollars and cost,
but he thought his liquor came from Bos-
ton. and the justice thought otherwise, SO
he still "languishes in prison walls"
The article entitled "Beer against Rum"
on the second page of to-day's issue, pos
sesses interest as taking view of the H.
quor question, urged quite strongly by sew
eral scientific gentlemen-among them our
citizen DR.. Goldsmith, as the result of his
observations in Europe.
It will be seen from the advertisement of
Messrs. Harris s. Clark that they have in
troduced into their business new feature
installment payments. 1t will possess in |
terest to mechanics, laborers and others |
who wish to build but are lacking the |
means to pay at once.
Col. Redfeld Proctor leaves to-day with |
a son of Hon. Isaac f. Redfield and Mon |
lake Megantic, in Canada. Lake Megantic |
is north of the state of Maine, in wilder |
ness where, as yet, moose are more plenti-
full than tourists.
The circle around the sun yesterday was
was a most remarkable phenomenon. 1t
was first seen about half.past eleven, and
continued till after one, having all the
colors of the rainbow, yet surprising the
IuOnI UEluldut Vi tucbC III bpiCuuoi, anu
having seven distinct circles reflected from
1t in different parts of the heavens.
The Rutland rail- Dad company, by their
solicitors, Prout, Simons s. Walker of Rut-
lane, on Saturday filed bill in chancery re-
turnable at the September term of Franklin |
county court, in which they pray for re-
covery of their road and leased roads from
the Central Vermont The bill, with ac-
companying documents, covers over seven |
ty printed pages.
We publish On the first page of to-day's
GLOBE paper on improvements in Ag |
riculture," prepared by our townsman, j.
Grafton Griggs. This paper was written
for the meeting of the Board of Agricrl-
ture at Clarendon last winter, but, on ac-
count of the impossible state of the roads
at that time, Mr.. Grggs was prevented
from reading it.