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

Peter Dolan, a smallpox patient, died at
the Burlington hospital Friday night.
There is some movement beng made to
get the stock taken in q new bank at st.
.Johnsbury.
A severe water famine prevails in Wood
stock. Cisterns are empty, wells dry, and
the streams extremely low.
The Fairbanks scale company is execut-
ing large order for scales just received
direct from Russia.
One hundred volumes have recently been
added to the public library at West Con-
cord, Essex county, and are now ready for
use
A. ID. Bragg of Fayston, found his well
frozen over on Tuesday and Wednesday
mornings last. The ice was one fourth of
an inch thick, and the well is twenty-one
feet deep. 1t isn't very near the volcano.
1t is thought that the monument over the
grave of Gen. II. T.. Lee will be inaugural
ed on the 18th of October-the anniver-
u. D
by ex-President Davis.
Washington Chamberln, an old and
much esteemed citizen of Bethel, went to
bed in excellent health last Thursday night,
and was found dead in his bed in the
morning. He died apparently without n
struggle.
Perhaps there is not at present time a
village or even a city in Vermont, that
employs as many persons or invests as
much in the manufacturing business as
Winooski. Its wooden mill alone employs
over five hundred and twenty operatives.
In all nearly nine hundred people find en-
ployment throughout the year, and receive
collectively, about $4,000.
Alfred Cotton, of Irasburg, had some
trouble with his wife, last Tuesday, and
Mr. z. +. Jameson was called in as peace
maker, when Cotton drew revolver and
shot Jameson, hitting him back of his ear.
The wound is not considered dangerous.
Mr.. Jameson has been q member of the
State Board of Agriculture, and is a pro-
minent citizen and worthy man.
The magnitude of the canals of New
York is very little understood. The Troy
Times says the structures on all the canals
are 565 locks, 1890 lock-gates, $50 lock-
houses, 96 uqueducts, 800 bridges, 440
culverts, 100 waste weirs, G5 dams and "a
workshops while if both banks of the
canals were stretched out in continuous
line they would be 200 miles longer than
Pacific railroad from Omaha to San Fran
cisco.
The st. Adams Adgertiser will be issued
on and after February LIST as an evening
instead of a morning paper, and it will be
reduced in size from our present sheet OF
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TO be issued as morning paper of the SAINT
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A travelling agent for Mark Twaini
Innocents Abroad and several othe
works was in Quechee, short time ago
At n certain house where he called he wa'
waited upon by an Irish girl in the service
of the family. After he had departed thu
mistress entered and asked what the gent
leman's business had been. "An' sur
marin, it was something about the darln
little pair NV innocent twanes Owins) tina
he was afther spanking about, and | jus
tould him to git out Nv this wild his brats
for didn't know that yer had enough ~
yer own ?" was Biddy's reply Woolstoc.
Standard.