The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-23
LOCAL MENTION.

Gold 1861.
Gen. l.. G. Kingsley and family returned
from the west last evening.
W. l.. Verder sailed from New York for
San Francisco, October 10th.
The Vermont branch of the Woman's
board Of missions holds its annual meeting
in Rutland on Wednesday next.
Mr.. AFRO Gould leading merchant of
Swanton has closed up his business rela-
tons there preparatory to his removal to
Rutland.
The grading on the extension of Terril
street is about half done. When il is COM
pletcd, 1t will be one of the improvements
in this village.
VIM. B. Thrall represents the Rutland
division in the grand division OF the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, now in
session in New York.
l.. w. Redlngton and wife returned
Thursday evening from their wedding trip
to Washington. He has taken Col. Joyce's
house on Cottage street.
1t is understood that Rev. j. G. johnson
will preach a memorial discourse on Dea.
James Barrett, at the Congregational
church on Sunday morning.
The engines of the Delaware and Hud-
son canal company are decorated with
mourning rosette in memory of the late ii.
w. Oliphant, vice president of the COM
pany.
Center street offers an excellent opportu-
nifty if any one cares about running into an
INSTRUCTED highway and then recovering
damages of the town. The facilities are
ample for an accident of that kind.
The Woodstock Standard says our New
York papers come BY the Chicago lightn-
ing train to Rutland and thence by stage
and reach here by eight or nine o'clock in
the evening. Quite an Improvement
Enoch Smith, esq.,, of Clarendon, has
been sadly bereaved the last few months,
in the death of his wife, a granddaughter,
and now of his youngest son, the announce
ment of which will be found in another
column.
Mr.. E. E. Perry has charge OF the Rut-
land telegraph office of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company. The line is new
throughout, new wires and poles, running
from Rutland to Albany, and all the rail-
road business will be done on it.
The Main street people are getting very
indignant, and some of them even threaten
to have the town indicted and do no end OF
terrible things If the drain opposite the
high school is not closed. The drain is GER
tainly nuisance and should be covered.
The masonic hall in Morses block is to
be handsomely fitted up, two ventilators
being put in, the walls ornamented with
masonic emblems, etc., and the furniture
to be newly upholstered. When complete,
it will be one of the handsomest halls in
the state. anii.
A wag entered smoking car on the
Central few days ago while the train was
in motion and in an earnest and sympa-
thetic tone said: "There is lady in the
next coach tainted away. Has any gentle
man here any liquor to give her." Twenty
eight men in that car Immediately rose to
their feet, each with flask in his hand. 4
more eloquent expression of sympathy
could not be conceived.
The ring swindler is in Rutland again.
The game which he plays Is an old one,
but still he made pretty good thing of 1t
Yesterday. He has a loi of initial rings,
which he says are old and valuable, but
which he is forced to sell, as he needs
money. The rings are valuable, worth
from ten to twenty dollars, but then, seeing
its you, and he's hard up, he will take
three, or even less. We don't know how
large his list of victims was yesterday, but
one ieweler tells of eight unfortunates who
had come in to have their purchases
weighed, and successfully seen their hopes
crumble as the "gold fell away before
the magic of drop Of acid, and Their
turned away and walked out, signing fol
one glance of that ring mans eye.