The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-09
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL MENTION.
Gold 114s.
Fem is refltting his store.
The Water pipes on West street are being
repaired.
Several articles are crowded out of to-
days GLOBE.
Remember the spelling match at the
Town Hall this evening
The sugar snow yesterday was light to
match the sugar season.
An interesting article on Vermont marble
will be found on the first page.
There were two peripatetic fish vendors
on Center street, yesterday afternoon.
John Engrem had handsome pair of
beef cattle on the street yesterday for sale.
A staging was erected around the Bard
well yesterday, preparatory TO beginning the
repairs.
H. r. Dyer is to remove his plumbing
store to Center street, where he will oc-
cupy two large rooms in Morse's block.
Henry w. Kingsley, clothing merchant,
and.H. E. Adams, jeweler, are to occupy
II. r. Dyer's old stand on Merchants Row.
The programme of Mr.. Mietzke's con-
cert has been changed and the entire choir
of the Congregational church is to take
part.
The Sunday milk train has again been
Other changes in the running of the trains
on the road will soon be made.
The work on the Center street ruins goes
on briskly. There were six or eight boys
cleaning and piling brick, and several men
with wheelbarrows removing the rubbish.
Morse's squirrel is undoubtedly the
champion gymnast of the town. He
amused a crowd for fifteen minutes yester-
day, by his attempts to reach finger held
at the top of his wheel.
We are pleased to note the fact that
friends, in town, of Ex-Lieutenant Cover
nor Leonard Sergeant, have received intel
ligence that he is recovering from his re-
cent severe illness of pneumonia.
Spaulding has received Ha'pers Weekly,
Frank Leslie and the Metropolitan for this
ton of Gov. Tilden "going for" the canal
rats, and Harper has two illustrated poems
on the title page.
Gen. II. Henry Baxter of Rutland, Hon.
II. w. Park and Gen. j. Mccullough OF
North Bennington are among the directors
recently elected of the Panama railroad.
r. w. Park has been elected president of
the company.
The manv old pupils and friends Of the
venerable Rev. Joseph d. Wickham, d. ID.
of Manchester, will be pleased to learn that
he is strong and hale almost as of yore,
although he completed his seventy-eighth
birthday on Sunday last. Venerable
n0nlen.
The Manchester journal says: The gen
tleman who lost package on the train be-
tween Dorset and Rutland the other day
had his grief partially assuaged on learning
that it was accidentally taken by his sister
in her haste to "go walk with another
fellow at the Wallingford station.
The best thing in spelling matches is
from st. Louis. At a church sociable there
April LIST, they had spelling match for a
Websters Unabridged. The contest was
severe, and the victor, gentleman, walked
proudly up for his prize. He received 1t
elegantly bound, but on trying to open it,
he found it was of wood
Mr.. William Powers, of liquor raid fame,
gave a social hop at the "swamp hotel' in
Nebraska last evening. The Bates and
Berwick houses were well represented.
The music was the best the Mendon band
could furnish. The table was spread with
all the delicacies and luxurics of the sea.
son. The festival was closed by ''mine
host Powers singing song entitled "The
Fair Banks of Kilkenny
The Rutland correspondent of the Man
chester Journal thus truthfully speaks o
the smallpox scare
'Business, which has been extremel.
dull, is picking up again, and our mer
chants are looking for prosperous trade
The smallpox scare was the last drop il
our cup of bitterness, but that is happil.
over, and our friends outside need no
hesitate about coming to us and bringing
well filled purse with them"
Gov. Peck will be accompanied to tn
Concord centennial on the 10th of April b,
his military staff, composed of Gen. Jane
s. Peck of Montpelier, Gen. L. G. Kingsle
of Rutland, Gen. j. Ii. Lucea of Vel
gennes, Judge Advocate General ID. Da
p. Webster of Putney, Surgeon General
VIM. P. Dillingham;, military secretary; an
Jonathan M. Hoyt, New Haven Co
William Brlnsmaid, Burlington Co
Henry G. Tenant, Bethel Col. Henry {
Hastings, aid-de-camps.
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