The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-21

A telegraph line from New Haven to
Bristol is in contemplation.
The population of st. Johnsbury village
is 4,310. In 1874, there were "a births and
SO deaths.
Gov. Peck has appointed II. McWain a
justice of the peace for Plymouth, vice A.
N. Earl resigned.
Geo. Baldwin and J. w. Bliss of Brad
ford have bought and shipped this season
over 100, 900 pounds of wool.
The individual deposits in the Vergennes
national bank on the 31st of December,
amounted to $35, SS2.16
The 104 convicts in the state prison at
Windsor roll up the days work quite fast
enough for the wishes of the contractors.
The next meeting of the Addison County
Sabbath school convention will be held at
Cornwall, Wednesday, Jan. 27th.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the
Vermont State Teachers association is in
session at st. Johnsbury.
A festival for the benefit of Rev. r. II
Archibald, pastor of the Baptist church,
will be held at West Cornwall on Thursday
evening
The village of East Concord, in Essex
county, has grown nearly one-half in the
past year and there is prospect for it to
gain third more in the year to come.
Joseph Buckwheat of Winooski was ar
rested on the 18th, and fined for ntoxica-
ton. The st. Adams Messenger says it is
time that Buckwheat was thrashed.
j. II. Searles of Troy, Orleans county,
has commenced the manufacture of veneer
ing. This is new enterprise in this part
of the country, being the only veneer mill
in the state, of this kind.
The ice is now formed clear across the
lake. A man skated from Willsboro, N.
Y, to Burlington, Tuesday, and said that
the ice was not less than five inches thick
in any place he met.
II. Clay Gleason, youngest son of Col.
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polluted mail route agent on the night train
that is soon to be put on the road between
st. Adams and Boston.
AS John II. Morse, his wife, mother-in-
law, boy, and driver were crossing the lake,
in a sleigh, near Ticonderoga, a few days
since, the ice gave way, and only for the
oF lob II Iop
been drowned. A satchel containing So, 100
worth Of diamonds and jewels was lost,
but was subsequently recovered.
We have received the January number of
the Locomotive Engineers Journal, pub
llshed by the brotherhood, which contains
well written article entitled "a defense
of baggage masters" written by 'Mark"
Greene, the popular baggage master of the
Central Vermont railroad at st. Adams.
Mrs. Edna Chaffee Noble, of Chester,
VT, is commended by a critic as one of
of the finest eocutionists before the public,
and who possesses rch voice, fair face
and q lovely character. The article says
that wherever announced, she is greeted by
large audiences-which Is saying a good
deal for these hard times.
Mr.. Z. p. Chapman of the firm of Chap
man Brothers, of Middlebury, has retired
from the business, and last Thursday night
he started for California with the intention
of going into business there. Charley
NIL Ia ,,x,a In IN T1J 10 rtlpnh oe
any of the numerous eXiles she has sent Out
IN the last ten years
Middlebury has lecture course in which
the most capable gentlemen of the town
are invited to deliver lectures. Several oil
the clergymen of the place have taken part
This week on Friday evening, the Catholic
priest, Rev. p. Cunningham delivers tho
lecture, his subject being "Lyric Poetry
and Thomas Moore" The reverend gen
tleman will not talk to empty benches OIL
unappreciative listeners.
Some of the astronomers who made oh.
seryations of the recent transit of Venus,
have completed their computations suiIici-
emily, to inform us that the earth is ap-
preaching the sun at the rate of 10000
miles year. The distance from this planet
to the sun has been reduced over 6,O00, OOC
miles in 105 years, and it will take /, 44C
years to overcome the entire distance. This
is certainly warm prospect for the peo'
pie of the 34th century
Daniel Posnett, an industrious Irishman
IN Fayston, Vt, has received tidings from