The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-23
Vermont News.

Vermont News.
North Troy, Orleans county, is going to
celebrate the 4th.
Scarlet fever in mild form is quite pre-
valent at Swan,on.
Corn WAS ruined b. tn, rect mt frost in
some parts of the sta Z.
The butter shipment from St. Adams
last Tuesday was 1, 428 tubs.
The Springfield Post is no more. The
funeral occurred last week
The canker-rash is having a large run in
Reading, and diptheria in Harthnd
]. Z. Blake of Newport Center was
fined IS last week for beating his horse.
Geo. NJ. Clark, the actor, is engaged to
deliver the Grafton at Windsor, the Sd of
July.
Fifteen persons were baptized and re-
ceived into the Free Baptist church in st
Johnsbury, last Sabbath.
Mount Mansfield was covered with snow
on the 18th inst. Drifts of old snow are
still visible on the west side.
An excursion train Of seven cars from
Massachusetts to California, passed over
the Central Vermont ON Thursday.
Jonas N. Smith has erected tower go
feet high on Grand View mountain in Ad-
dlson, where large numbers repair to take
look.
The strawberry festival of Trinity church
at Shelburn on Thursday last, the society
realized 1856. Col. LeGrand Cannon called
and left $50.
Craftsbury people are indignant at having
to pay sixty cents a year box rent on post
office boxes that they furnished themselves
by subscription.
Jonathan Dyer Of Elmore, "a years old.
cut and cleared 12 acres of woodland,
alone, last year, and recently cut 10 cords
of wood in two days.
There is one snow drift on Mt Pleasant
In Woodford, Bennington county, yet
which is nearly two feet deep. There is
ice in the narrow gorge the year round.
1t is now reported that the liabilities OF
Blodgett s. Heath, clothiers at st. Adams,
who suspended on the 18th, aggregate
about $25, 900. A compromise is talked of.
The extensive docks of the Rutland and
Vermont, and Vermont and Canada, at
Burlington, are taxable under the old law
and were not included in the taxation OF
railroads.
There are In this state 1877 Congregational
churches with $500 members 40 Sun
day schools with 1903 pupils. Benevo
lent contributions last year amounted t.
$4O,341.
l. F. Blake, a longtime resident of SUIT
ton, recently died in Texas, leaving by will
800 to the town of Sutton, the interest t
be expended every year in trimming up thu
cemetery.
The bears have been committing heavy
depredations In Rochester, for two months
Several attempts have been made to cap
ture them, all of which have proved unsuc
cessful except one.
In the case Eliza j. Whitney w. Towr
of Sharon, just tried at the Orange county
court, the suit being for injuries received
on the highway, the jury have advanced
plaintiff 81 1898 damages.
The annual excursion of the Vernon
editors association takes place June 24tl
and 25th. The trip will be to Mt. Mans.
field. George H. Bigelow of Burlington
is the orator of the occasion.
Henry Bucking of New York, WOO
dealer, has failed. He had large dealing
with wool growers in Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine. Bucking wa
hardly enough for the New England
''bucks."
VIM. Vaughn and Herbert Mattsoi
caught 81 pounds of trout in the Batten
kill, Tuesday. The largest one weighed
pound and twelve ounces the next morn
ing and several of them weighed over
pound
X. M. Douglas, u young man from vii
liston, has his 800 acres in Apple Creel
Valley, one of the richest valleys in tn
west, about three miles south of the city o
Bismarck, Decotsh, on which he has a
acres OF Oat6 tnlS season.
A new breed of grasshoppers have mad
their appearance In several places on tn
farm of G. f. Webster of Irasburgh. The.
are no larger than hornet; some are al
black, some are all green, and Others have
red bodies and black wings.
Under the new railroad law the Contra
Vermont is assessed In the city of Buring
ton for buildings, land and track $50,
875; the Rutland railroad $25, 070 and th,
Vermont and Canada $2.845. This will
increase the grand list of the city abou
$500.
A dog is good for something. The stor
of A. N. King g. Co., in Tunbridge, wa
broken into by burglars, recently, but tn
dog IN the store made spirited resistanc,
and altough badly bruised and jammed
in the end remained master of the situa
ton.
W. g. Baldwin. under whose manage