The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-18
Vermont News.

The Derby Line Bank has put chro-
nometer lock on its vault.
A futile attempt was made to edo" the
Woodstock bank last week.
Another large temperance movement has
been inaugursted in Vergennes.
There are about two hundred guests at
MI. Mansfield hotel, aud more constantly
arriving.
Mr.. George Rice, Of Bloomington, one
day last week bought and shipped 242
quarts Of raspberries.
Mrs. Orange Buck, of Johnson, has a
fig tree with six full grown figs on it With
every prospect of their getting ripe.
John w. Nichols, of Waterford, up to
August 10, has made from eight cows 1000
pounds of butter, which he sold for $500.
Ashael Grow, of Charlestown, found
several bushels of clean snow under pile
of muck and had party with sugar on
snow, the sixth inst,
Jason o. johnson, of Norwich, has har-
vested this year one hundred and thirty
bushels Of strawberries, from one and one
half acres of land.
The fat men have caught the running
fever at Irasburgh and are chasing each
other around the common to tho amuse-
ment of all beholders.
Thomas Gilbert, of Westfeld has got
the promise of coat of tar and feathers,
and will be paid the next time he pounds
his wife with pitchfork.
Some cats die of extreme old age. Such
was the case with cat belonging to Mrs.
Noses Harding, Of Jamaica, which died in
June last, aged twenty years.
1t is expected that Prof. Conant, State
Superintendent of Schools, will hold an
institute the first week in September a,
Jacksonville, Lamorell county.
A twelve-year- old son of Alvin Bartlett
of Island Pond, was fatally injured, the
other day, by being dragged for some dis
lance by runaway horse.
The Vergennes Vermonter understands
that most of the scholars of the State Re-
form School will be transferred to that city
during the month Of September.
A little two-years-old boy OF Alvin Whit
ney, at Fairbanks village, stepped both
feet into pail of hot water and was SC
badly scalded that the skin came off with
his stockings.
Lewis Sears, of North Ferrsburgh, slid
off load of hay on Saturday last, and
caught on q stake in the hay rigging, re
ceiving injuries from which he died We'd
nesday evening.
The lightning knocked down a lawyer a,
st. Johnsbury, few days since. Pass
that shower around.-Monitor. Don't try
to disgrace the elements by urging them
into bad associations. Union.
Arrangements have been made with a
New Jersey peach grower, who will run q
special peach car from New York to Mont
real daily during the season, by which the
fruit will be delivered in st. Alban,
eighteen hours from the orchard.
Henry Lee, of Jericho. was raised few
days since by X. q. Lincoln's bull "Know
Nothing" for fifteen minutes, minus pants
and the two years growth, lots of friends
sympathse with him.
The Portland and Ogdensburgh Mail
Agents have been notified that their route
from and after the 18th of September will
be from johnson, Vermont, to Portland
Maine.
The stockholders of the Merchants Ma.
tional bank of st. Johnsbury have paid in
theiS first installment, fifty per cent. of their
subscriptions, amounting to $4,000. The
bends have been sent to Washington. and
business Is expected to commence SeFtem.
Der LIST.
DIR. G. w. Woodward, of st. Johnsbury,
who was arrested a few weeks since for
| selling Hostetter's bitters, has removed his
drug store to North Dsnville, where he
hopes to to ind authorities that are not 90
benighted but that they can distinguish the
difference between patent and ardent spirits.