The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-20
Vermont News.

lows rails CeleDrateu tnelr BOiueh WeuuiuB
on Wednesday.
According to the Boston Journals record
of fires during the month of October, losses
by fire In Vermont amount to only $4,000.
Last Tuesday, Billings the noted stage
driver got stuck Ia a five feet snow drift,
comming over Barnard Hill and delayed an
hour
Young Cole, who married Miss Chap
man of Woodstock, the granddaughter of
Elias Dixie, was killed in gambling den in
Cincinnati last week.
Mary Moss, 14-year old girl, has eloped
from North Troy with one Cheney, mar
ried man. She escaped from the village
dressed in boys clothes.
Rumor has II that some of the violators
of the liquor law in Royalton are to be
brought to the grindstone and their noses
ground next December.
The new Catholic church at Lyndonville
was dedicated last Sunday Three car
loads of people came up from st. Johns
bury, and the house was filled to overflow
ing.
Last Saturday week, Mr.. Foster, the no.
tel keeper at Morrisville. presented several
shootists with hen, to be shot at 100 rods.
The grand total was 145 shots, and the hen
still lives.
The important question, whether the
state courts have jurisdiction Of cases where
a national bank is party, came up at
Montpelier, Tuesday, the court holding
that they had, but the matter will be car.
ried up to the supreme court.
East Charlotte lyceum Is running at full
blast question for discussion Friday even
ing, Nov. Goth. Resolved that life insur-
ance is a humbug. That question will un-
doubtedly be settled, SO that agents will
have no more work to do in Charlotte, says
the Burlington Clipper.
Owing to severe illness MIR. John G.
SAKE, who was to deliver the concluding
lecture of the first series of lectures under
the auspices of the senior class of Dart
mouth college, will be unab. to fill his en-
gagement, and an all, substitute will be
provided.
Reuben Getchell, of st. Johnsbury, had
an educated dog which knew how to kill
sheep. He gave an exposition of his meth
cd in the flock Of John Bacon ID, and i'm
mediatcly afterwards the flock inventoried
two short Soon after he got into the cold
lead business, and that ruined him.
Jersey cattle breeders of Pomfret have
recently made quite large sales of young
cattle to 90 to the northern and western
parts of the state; G. Miller and son have
sold their three year old prize bull Gen.
Benin, I'd, to William Powers, breeder
of thorough bred Jersey stock in Leicester.
Mr.. Oscar +. Barron rendered to the
University crew of rs of Dartmouth, and
to the officers of the boating association a
complimentary reception and dinner, to
take place in White River Junction, VT, at
the Junction hotel of which he is proprie-
tor, on Thursday evening. Mr.. Barron
thus shows his lively interest in Dart
mouth and her crew.
The Curlew made flying trip to West
port, Port Henry, and finally nearly to
Crown Point, on Wednesday, and secured
the canal boat Cedar Point, destined for
Vergennes, and loaded with iron and
moulding sand. The cold was intense, the
wind blew gale, and all on board, passen-
gers and officials, will not soon forget the
special trip of the Curlew on the nth.
Miss Eta s. Adams of Pomfret, who
has for several years been teaching in Cam
bridge, Mass, has accepted an engagement
as teacher in the Royal normal institution
for. the blind, London, England and
sailed from New York on the 9th inst.
Miss Adams has once before been offered
the same place and declined, but it was
now renewed with such inducements that
she consented to accept.
H. M. Beebe, of Weston, has shepherd
dog and cosset lamb which have formed
quite an attachment, they were missing on
the TIN inst, and were seen going on to
Markham's mountain, when next heard of,
a week after, they were at Mr.. Thompson's
near Ludlow line. Mr.. II. says that they
came there the same day they left home a
distance of nearly six miles.
The Oldest person IN Fletcher is Mrs.
Nancy Riggs, who was ninety years old
last September. She has some infirmlties,
but is remarkably well for person of her
years reads, sings, walks and talks and
hears readily. Her memory is most Won
derful. She can repeat a great deal of
scripture, and many hymns and songs
learned in her youth.
Mrs. Chester Carpenter of Derby died
suddenly last Thursday morning She had
been ailing for some weeks, but had not
been considered dangerously i'll. Her hus-
band slept in an adjoining room and as he
arose in the morning he thought she was
sleeping quietly and went to the barn to do
his chores. On returning and finding her
in the same position he went to her and
found that life had departed.
p. III. Curlev. who is under arrest at
Montpelier, charged with completely in the
Barre bank robbery, does not think much
of the rose-colored descriptions of him that
are floating through the papers. He says
that he was a substitute broker at Troy,
N. Y, during the war. was not in the city
when his hotel burned, never hired Miles
to rob for him, and isn't worth cent, hav.
ing sold his furniture to employ counsel
He thinks these stories are gotten up to
prejudice his case in Vermont, in the inter
est of George White.
Curleys wife and little girl are coming
here to visit him early in December, an(
will stay till after New Years. They hay,
engaged rooms at the Central house. Cur
ley is very much pleased. The New Yorl
San had Sensational account, last week
of Curley's life, in which it credited hin
with being worth two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and being the very prime,
of burglars. 1t is believed that Miles
friends are at the bottom of these ridiculou
stories, in which to give people the ide'
that he was Curley's tool. which Is "tOt