The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-03
LOCAL MENTION.

Gold 1l7b.
Regular meeting of Rutland Topographic
cal union this evening at o'clock IN Lam
don's hall.
Mr.. F. E. Church, the New York artist,
is to spend the summer at Clarendon
Springs.
Liquor dealers were on the alert yester-
day. They were exceedingly blue-at the
sight of . blue-coat.
Street Commissioner Patch has improved
the condition of several streets which have
been neglected for years.
The national debt was reduced 81, 431,-
249 the past month, making for the fiscal
year reduction of $14, 399,5l4.
On July l, 1874, gold was l1Oa. The
highest price ever attained in this country
was in July, 1864, when it reached 1856.
Rev. E. A. Winship is the representative
of the Rutland GLOBE in the eastern cdi-
torial excursion to California and the 70
Semitic Valley.
Mark Twain says: l have seen slower
people than l am--and more deliberate pco-
pie than l am-even quieter, and more
listless, and lazer than i am. But they
were dead"
The celebrated railroad suit of the Page
directors versus the Smith directors, is to
be tried in the United States court at Wind
sor, on Tuesday, before Hon. Ward Hunt,
O United States district judge of New
York.
Rev. William H. Collins, son-in.law of
George Graves, esq.,, rector of st. Michael's
church, Brattleboro, received the honorary
degree of Am. from Trinity college, Hart
ford, Conn, at the commencement on
Thursday.
A few days since, Charles Bateman, en-
g,neer, ran the New York train over the
Harlem Extension railroad, from North
Bennington to Rutland, distance of "a
miles. making eight stops, in one hour and
twenty minutes.
We desire to correct the impression
formed by some of our readers, from the
new advertisement of the Rutland foundry
company, that the firm of Harris & Clark
had been dissolved, and that the wood
working department was to be carried on
by the foundry company. The change this
morning in the foundry advertisement
shows that the two concerns are entirely
distinct as heretofore.
The Rutland correspondent of the Man.
chester Journal in speaking of the choir OF
the Congregational church here, says II
Is under the entire supervision of Mr.. Geo.
A. Mietzke, most talented musician. lie
is superior as an organist, composer
worthy of note, and pianist who stands
pre-eminent his taste and culture are ap
parent in the training of his choir, and to
him they owe the high praise which is SC
layishly bestowed on their fine singing
Rarely do you hear choir whose voice.
blend so tremendously one with the other
and that an amateur choir can render
classical music in the artistic style that th
choir certainly does, is something won
derful. The principal soprano is Mrs
Mietzke, who possesses voice OF uncom
mon excellence combining power ant
great sweetness, with a sympathetic quail
" 90 essential to the proper rendering o
sacred music. This choir sing the bes
kind of music, chiefly classical, and thei
rendition of this class of music is character
lied by perfect distinction of enuciatior
and is really admirable in artistic effect
their voices are each and all good, and the
sing with care and skill. Long may the
continue to charm the listening ear, an
may be among the number to appreciat
their charming music with the same d.
gree of enjoyment as in the past