The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-20

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Ward of Barnard.
In Waltons Vermont Register, in the |
statistics for Waterbury, the Vermont Re
form School is named as one of the literary |
institutions of that town.
The telegraph wire along the Burlington
and Lamoille railroad, has been connected
with the Office at Burlington, and will soon
be extended to Cambridge.
The Burlington meeting of the Vermont
and Northern New York trotting circuit
will be held September 21st, ED, 23d and
oath, instead of the time heretofore adver-
tsed.
There is rumor III town says the Bur
lington Clipper that the Sentinel is to be-
come republican. The proprietor says his
patronage is derived almost wholly from
that party.
Goddard Seminary, at Barre, which is
under the control of Universalist denomina
ton, has just held its fifth annual COM
mencement and is reported to be in
flourishing condition.
At the base ball match at st. Albans,
Thursday, between the Montgomerys of
Rouses Point and the Crescents Junior of
St. Abans, the latter were victorious by
score of 81 to 20.
A. M. Clark of st. Adams, has been re-
leased from thttenden county Jail, of
which he has been an inmate for SIX weeks
past, having been sent there ON account of
contempt of court.
In the Barre bank burglary case the re-
spondent was held in the sum of 900 to
answer at the September term of Washing
ton county court, and was subsequently
brought to Montpelier Jail.
Seventeen persons have been admitted to
the next freshman class of the University
of Vermont. Several Others are intending
to enter at the fall examination, and the
prospect is fair for goodly class.
The Union slate quarry at Norihfield, is
doing thriving business, having had more
orders than they could fill for the past
three weeks. The help have been obliged
to make extra time, to keep up with this
increased demand.
A dispatch from Kingston, Ont, says
The 25 propellers of the Northern trans
portation company laid up this season,
formerly running between Ogdensburg and
Chicago, are to be sold by auction. 1t is
reported that Montreal capitalists will buy.
JOSIAH Palmer, native of Thetford, vt,
but for the past six years resident of
Hopkinton, N. H., died instantly at the
breakfast table Saturday morning, at the
residence of his son in Lowell. ApopleXy
was his disease He was 81 years of age.
On Saturday last, Horace T. Root, a son
of DR.. Root, Of Randolph Centre, met with
a serious accident. A colt which he was
leading started suddenly, throwing HIM
violently to the ground and injurlng his
head and hip and breaking his left arm
above the wrist.
A Frenchman. name unknown, while
driving between Winooski and Essex juno
ton Tuesday afternoon, being somewhat
intoxicated, leaning over the front part OF
his wagon to whip his horse when the an
imal kicked striking him in the chest and
killing him almost instantly.
Mr.. w. II. Morris at Mortified, thinks
livery business rather risky, having to 60
after his teams in all directions. After his
chase last week, he had another this week,
going after his team left in Woodstock by
one of the supposed Barre robbers. He
recovered this team without damage.
Six or eight years ago John Mills found
what was called gold on the farm now
owned by Peter Hogden, in Craftsbury.
No further investigation was made and the
subject was dropped. Recently two
miners. one of them from the gold regions,
visited the place and found both gold and
silver.
The new yacht, Eta May, built by A.
| b. Curtis at Shelburn Harbor, this season,
is said to be the finest sail on the lake.
She is the property of II. L. Hubbard,
esq.,, of Boston, formerly of North Hero,
and will cruise the present summer among
the islands, and the in fall will be taken to
Boston.
Mrs, Laura Hill, an old lady In Burling-
ton, when going across a pasture to the
residence of her son-in-law, Willard Full
Ter, was attacked by vicious heifcr, and
bruised and gored IN a shocking manner;
| If she had not been near fence, which she
reached and crawled under she would have
been killed.
On Friday last the barn of Abby & Son,
of Essex, was struck by lightning, setting
fire to the hay, but Mr.. Abby, was in the
barn at the time, smothered the same with
some green grass. Three horses standing
in the barn were thrown down, and a
gentleman near by holding square, had
the same wrenched from him and thrown
some distance.
Mortified has had another dastardly act
within her precincts. Last Saturday
morning, as L. Hassam went to get his
horses, to draw in some hay, he found one
of them dead in the field. with three bullet
holes through its leg. The animal was
valuable one, and MIR. Hassam feels the
loss. He thinks, too, that he has well
founded suspicious of the perpetrators.
There is slight revival of the lumber
trade OF Burlington. Shepard, Davis &
Co., sold over 1900, 900 feet of lumber the
last month, are now filling large order for
Melbourne, Australia, and for Capetown
Bronsons, Weston, Greene & Co. sold
about the same amount last month, and
now have orders for Canton, China, and
New South Wales, tor over six million feet
of lumber.
Z. L. Hall of Lisbon, N. H., man pro-
Tossing to be thoroughly posted in gold
mining is operating in Worcester. He has
five or six hundred feet of sluiceway built,
and is said to be picking out some very