The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-11

at Whitehall for Lake Champlain. There
will soon be a respectable fleet of yachts
on the lake, and there is no better body of |
water in the world on which to sail them. |
Tally another for the Lake Champlain Re- |
gatta association. -,i-..--
Application for teachers institutes have
been received by the state superintendent Of
education and the institutes will be holden
during the fall.
The Kuickerbocker base ball club of st.
Adams have received their new hats. They
are of red flannel trimmed with a white
silk band and are quite handsome.
The trottiug horse "White Cloud which
was ru!ed.off. the!Belevue Park. st. Adams,
at the July meeting, won the second money,
$1,000, at the Poughkeepsie races, last
Thursday, in the 9 80 class. The best time
made was .271. Eight horses started.
The Ogdensburg Journal thinks it a won
der that the people of Vermont don't wake
up and lynch every tramp who attempts to
enter the state. The people may wake Up,
by-and-by, and wonder themselves that they
have not done it in such case Vermont
will be very unhealthy-fo for tramps.
The Vermont life insurance company of
Burlington, has accumulated fund from
the premiums received, upon which the in
terest alone has been more than sufficient to
pay all death claims. since it WAS established
January LIST, 1869. The company entered
| upon its seventh year of business with
| So. IA in assets in its favor, against each
| $l.00 in liabilities.
Ira Emery of Bethel, sheared two-year
old buck that clipped 1877 lbs. of washed
| wool.s
G. a. Scott, the we'll known livery man
at Brandon, died Monday morning of dis
ease of the heart and kidneys, aged about
As years. His remains were taken to Barre
for interment
Prof. Harms is to have for his assistant in
in the laboratory at Amherst college next
year, Harmon N. Morse, of East Cam
bridge, VT, OF the class of '73, who has
just returned from two.year's stay in
Germany.
Shipments from Vergennes station on
Tuesday, Aug. 3D., were as follows: But
ter 10, 292 lbs. ; cheese 3l4 lbs. butter fair
to good, 1S to 26c choice &c; selections
CSC eggs 1Sc per doz.
Nineteen years ago, Aug. 9th, 1856, the
first number of the Bellows Falls Times
was issued. A heavy rain storm had then
very high and the Valley railroad to Brat
tleboro was so badly washed that The cars
did not lun over it for week.
A tramp named James Murphy arrived
In st. Adams Thursday evening, with bad
looking leg which had been bitten by dog
He said that as lie was walking the railroad
track he saw two men loading a wagon
with hay, and they had this dog with them
and on seeing him coming by, the dog ran
out of the field to the track ana bit him.
Policeman Sullivan of the railroad employ
saw him proving about and conveyed him
to Jail. Perhaps if that dog was able to
speak he'd have different story to tell.
Mr.. Alder Z. Braley, fireman on the
Central Vermont railroad, fell suddenly
dead on the Lake shore, Monday evening,
as he was about to embark at St. Adams
bay, on fishing excursion.
Judge Powers commenced hearing cases
in chancery, adjourned from the late Or
ange county court, at the court house, in
Montpelier, on Tuesday. ~ .r
The barn of Peter johnson, at Norwich,
was struck by1ightnng Wednesday night
and consumed with its contents. Soon af-
ter, a fire broke out in the town, destroy
ing Olds store, Burnhams photograph gal
lery, Browns gun store, Hatch's shoe store
and the postotlice. A portion of Odds
goods were saved, but there was almost an
entire loss to the others. Nothing in the
postofiice was saved. Inccndiarism is sup
posed to be the origin of the fire. Loss
$4,000.
The Lyndon Union says : George s.
Shaw, the insuranc e agent, visited adentist
last week and had all his teeth extracted.
We got this item from a landlord, who
said there wasn't hotel keeper in this part
OF New England but would be glad to hear
it. The fact is Shaw Is not an easy sub
| iect to make money out of, and landlords
hayelthe slimest show OF all.
Heman Magoon, 1S years old, was visit
ing his uncle, James Magoon OF Troy, last
week, when he commenced bleeding at the
nose. The bleeding continued without
cessation for several days, finally resulting
in death.
The dwelling house and barns of l.. w.
Warner, near East Hardwick, were de-
stroyed by fire the 3lst ult. The fire is
supposed to have caught from sparks fall
ing on the floor. Loss $4,000 insured
for $4,000. 80 ~,
| Israel Wood of Bratteboro has in his
garden yellow lily plant which has 100
branches, each branch containing ten or
more blossoms. This plant has been in his
possession twenty-six years, and is some
seventy years old - 80
Waltham is the smallest town in Addi-
son county, and claims that her farms are
among the best, and her farmers the veal
thiest. She has no physician, lawyer,
clergyman. or other professional men, no
postofiice, liquor agency or grange.