The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-15
Che 8ntland daily Glohe
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1875.


vermont NEWS.
At the Windsor prison they are busy al
work laying the foundation for new shop
within the yard for the accommodation OF
the increased number Of convicts now in
confinement.
On Friday night last the store of Mrs.
Lucinda Sayles of Huntington was entered
and tweniy-six dollars In cash stolen. The
robber partook of refreshments during his
short stay.
One Dell died in Morrisville, on the 9Th,
at the advanced age of one hundred and
one years and four months. He had served
in the French army under the great Napo-
leon.
r. b. Spaulding, the popular landlord of
the Junction House, Essex junction, is
soon to retire from that position. His sue
cessor is A. II. Pike of West Randolph,
formerly of the Stevens House, Wihooski
In school, at johnson, recently, Nor
man ODER, one of the pupils, INDUCED in
ihN phctihiN VI pulling NOld wa
ter down little boys back The teacher,
John Hall, attempted slight correction,
and, being violently attacked by ODER,
brought him to terms by breaking his nose
and sending three of his front teeth down
his epigastrium.
The subject of the soldiers reunion to be
held in Montpelier next summer came up
before the Grand Army of the Republic at
its meeting Saturday evening. The fol-
lowing committee of arrangements were
appointed p. p. Pltkin, ]. O. Livingston,
r. ]. Coffey, J. NJ Poland and James s.
Peck. The committee were instructed to
report in three weeks.
On his return from the west last week,
Hon. George Idle of Lyndon, parted with
S16G.50 on a sleeping car between Column
bus and Pittsburgh. He went to bed with
his pants under his head and the money in
his pocket. He got UP in the morning the
posscssor of about four dollars in scrip
which was left in his vest pocket. The
money IN his pants had evaporated. He
had gold watch in his vest also which
was left it its place.
Judge Royce, in answer to bill of COM
plant of number of legal voters in the
Milton graded school district, has issued
an injunction enjoining the collector to de-
sist from collecting any tax voted at a
meeting held on the Goth day of February
last. Also enjoining the trustees and
building committee from assessing any tax,
or borrowing any money, or making any
contract for pledging the credit of the dis
trict tor the purchase of land for school
house, and using the funds of said district
for any such purpose, by or under the au-
thority of any vote or pretended vote pass
ed at said meeting, until the further order
OF said court.
The Valcour Community, says the Bur-
lington Free Press may be considered as
not only defunct, but decomposed Will
COX, the main promoter OF the scheme, has
been put in jai! by Shipman, and writes
from his quarters long screed, in which
he denounces Shipman as confidence
man and double-dealer, charges him
with cruelty to his daughters and to little
six year old orphan boy, and hints at
darker charges, of which he has informal
ton, and which he may disclose in future
speaks of foreclosures and attachments Pill
ing in thick and fast on the property; and
though he himself keeps up stout heart
within his prison walls, and processes to
believe that he will live to see Valcour de-
voted to the cause which brought the COM
munists hither, it is quite plain that the
thing is ended. And no good citizen can
wish to see it resurrected.
The st. Adams Advertiser says The
Franklin county Jail was built TO accom-
modate eight prisoners, which number, by
crowding two persons into narrow cell
just large enough for one, might be dou-
bled. Yet at times within the past two
years.there has been as many as thirty-two
men confined there, living and eating in a
room hardly eighteen feet square. When
the fact that it Is ebout impossible to ven
tlate this room is taken into consideration,
one can well judge the purity and healthy
quality of the atmosphere. Such thing
is little short of barbarism. For three
months, ending February 2Sth, the num-
hsr ,f ,G,n n,zt ftxr
two. OF this number, thirty were
locked up for common DRINKS one for
selling liquor seven for theft; two for
forgery two for assault and battery. and
three for debt. March LIST seven of the
prisoners confined for drunkenness were
pardoned by Governor Peck.
We clip the following from an exchange,
says the Burlington Clipper, and siuce ii
must allude to some AIiddlebury, Yer
gennes or Newport editor, we give it a
place in our columns
They tell pretty good story of one of
those wild-eyed Vermont editors. He is a
great hand to Jeff, and whenever he can
make the knicks ON quad settle ques-
ton he prefers to do it in that way. He
"jeffs' to see whether he shall pay his
hands in cash or store orders "jeffs" to
decide whether ho shall come out on half
sheet Christmas week and ''jtffs' to decide
whether he shall go to the lodge or to the
weekly prayer meeting. ltwasn't long ago
that he attended temperance meeting,
more in the capacity of reporter than sin
ner, and before going drank something to
make him feel good. When a call was
made for "tiplers" to come forward, a
member stepped down and took the editor
by the hand and entreated hun to take a
position with the upright.
sob, guess not replied the editor.
"Come, we want to save YOU contluu-
ed the friend
"Oh, I'm all right was the reply.
''No one can be all right who is not a
working reformer. Come, let us have your
example"
The editor felt in his pocket, produced
five fem quads, and as he shook them in
his hand he replied
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