The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-22
Vicinity Items.
BRATTLEBORO.

bered as one of the gcntlemanly clerks at
the Brooks house, died on Wednesday of
last week at his house in Putney after
lingering sickness, during which time he
had suffered amputation of one limb, at
the age of twenty-siX years.
Five heavy frosts are the result of the
late cold weather. The farmers products
have suffered but little.
Col. Edward Cole, of Troy, N. Y, who
was so warmly received during the late old
soldiers reunion, will give Bratteboro
Round a camp fire" the coming season.
BRANDON.
The committee have finally completed
their arrangements for the coming fair to
be he'd on Wednesday and Thursday, Sep
TENDER 30 and 3d. Their aim has been to
SO arrange tho exercises as to interest, in
struct ard amuse and they tlatter them
selves that they have so well succeeded
that all who may attend this gathering can
say that they have been profitaby and
PLEASANTLY entertained. The following
programme has been agreed upon, and will.
in the main (weather permitting, be car
ried out:
The grand procession, and the other
duties pertaining to office of marshal will
be under the direction of that prince of
marshals, A. S. Cook (known the world
over as Captain Cook, aided by able and
efficient assistants. A new feature has
been added to the amusements this year.
Instead of horse racing the managers have
inaugurated man racing.
Our citizens have raised one hundred
and fifty dollars, which is offered, through
the hose company, in two prizes, one of
one hundred dollars and one of fifty dollars,
to the hose company that will run eighty
IA m Tn
and then string three hundred feet of hose
and screw on the discharging pipe in the
shortest time. Several companies have
sgnified their intentions of carrying off
the first or second prize. We are assured
that the band will appear in their new and
beautiful uniform. The money that the
club pay them for their services goes to
help pay for their uniforms.
1t showed on the mountains east of here
during the rain on Friday. Saturday
morning the "green banks" of Vermont
were white with frost. No marks of frost
in the village. Some marks on the low
lands.
The graded school commenced the fall
term on Monday, September 5, under very
favorable circumstances. The high school
department is more than full. Some of
the scholars are Obliged to find seats in the
have been changed for this term The
following are the new ones, viz. Miss
Ferrin, Mrs. Hawkins, Miss Peck and
Miss Ward. The following is list of
teachers in the several departments j. S.
Cilley, principal, Brandon; Miss M. II.
Ferrln, preceptress, Hlnesbnrgh E; Miss
Julia X. Bond, grammar school, Brandon /;
Mrs. Hawkins, second intermediate, Castle
ton Miss Addie A. Boyce, first interme-
date, Orwell Mrs. Jane Thatcher, third
primary, Brandon f.; Miss Amy Peck, sec
ond primary, Ira; Miss Maria Ward, first
primary, Shoreham.
Mr.. James Knapp and family leave town
Tuesday noon for Brandon, Wis, to visit
his brothers, sisters and an aged father
who is now very sick, and it is thought
cannot recover. NJ.
MT. HOLLY.
The people of Mt. Holly were favored a
few evenings since with lecture delivered
at the Town hall by female talkist
of the spiritualist persuasion, a Mrs. AL
bertson from Boston. The subject, as
pre-announced, was "Our Union, lis Past,
Present and Future" The speaker was
fluent in language, energetic in delivery,
and vehement in gestulation. She COM
menced by giving us some items of history
revised and corrected. She informed MS
that the pilgrim fathers left their native
land and settled on the bleak shores of New
England for the sole purpose Of establish
ing ''individual sovereignty" which means,
according to her definition, the right Of
each Que to do about as he pleases. That
our revolutionary forefathers had the same
object in view when they threw off the
yoke of Great Britain and established an
independent government that Tom Paine
was the leading spirit of the revolution
and did more than any other man toward
gaining the independence of the colonies.
She also favored us with SEINE new views
of the powers and functions of government,
making the declaration of independence
instead of the constitution, the fundamental
law of the land. Affirming that all laws
and constitutions which conflict with the
axioms enumerated in the declaration, arc
simply null and void, and of no binding force
on the people that the declaration of in.
dependence having established the self
evident truth that life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness were inaienablt
rights, government has no power unde
any circumstances to take the life, o.
abridge the liberty of any person, or Il
force any individual into any position
where life or liberty would be jeopardized
Hence she denounced the drafting O
soldiers during the late war as an act o
gross tyranny on the part of the govern
ment, instead of which, she would hav'
congress confscate the surplus wealth o
capitalists and offer 1t in bounties sufii
ciently large to assure voluntary enlist
ments. After all, there were some goot
points made In the lecture, and when sh'
applied the lash to dishonest officials ant
showed up the rascality and corruption o
the various rings and monopolies whicl
curse the country, the audience was evi
IDENTIFY with her. o.
SOUTH WOODSTOCK.
This is really very quiet place, and,
believe, the valley of the Hedeon. in which
we are located, and is one OF the healthies
localities in Vermont. Report says Their
are many cases of typhoid fever and dy
sentery in Reading, Hartford and at Wood
stock Green, but there is, as yet, nothing
of the kind here.