The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-23


new. The confidence with which some
people buy maple sugar In February Is very
inspiring.
As town meeting draws near the number
of candidates for town offices increase.
There are several new names brought out
for positions, but as we have not heard Of
their personal desire TO run we do not pub
lsh them.
A man from n neighboring town, stand
ing In the depot yesterday was so badly
frightened by an engine whlstling just as
1t went out of the depot, that he dropped
a paper of sugar, breaking the paper and
scattering considerable OF its contents
around promiscuously.
A gentleman in town yesterday, in
formed us that he had just received let
ter from his brother in San Francisco, In
which he said that they were now enjoy
ing strawberries, lettuce and other vege-
tables, that the trees were in full bloom
and the fields as green as they are In May
in Vermont. A change Of location for n
few days would be desirable
NickwacSett Engine Company, of Rut-
land, says the Woodstock Post, has at
tended eight firemen's musters, taking six
first prizes, one second prize. and dis
abling the engine on one occasion before
a full pressure had been put upon the
brakes Now, before you forget it, trot
out an engine with better recoid
A Rutland boy, says paul" the cor
respondent of the Woodstock Post, has
solved the problem of rapid transit. He
seeks the ice-bound streamlet, puts on
his skates and grasps the tail of large
dog. Urging him on with whip and voice, he
attans a high degree of speed. Comment
upon the merits or dement's of the inven-
ton Is deferred until the boys hand heals
A young man came to Rutland last week
and was enticed into gambling den. He
shook dice and lost all of his money-be-
tween three and four hundred dollars, he
said-and his watch. He was about to stake
his coat when friend entered and dis
suaded him from so doing. It. is the old
story of three or four experts playing
against an inexperienced person. SO says
the Rutland correspondent of the Wood
stock Post.
John p Phair, the Freese murderer now
in the state prison at Windsor, has not yet
been put in the shops OF the prison. The
Windsor Journal alleges as the cause of
this is that the officers of the prison are
puzzled with the problem Of executing
the new provisions of the law relating to
parties under sentence of death, passed at
the last session Of the Legislature. As the
law now stands, 10 murderer can be exc
cuted in Vermont until after the expirs-
ton of two years from TIE time Of SEN
tence. The first twenty months are 10 bc
spent in hard labor in the state prison, and
the last four months in solitary confine-
ment.
Among the pcddlers who pcrvadc this
section (Rutland), is one of the class
known as German peddlers, who, in max
ing change, never accepts a coin, not even
a cent, without first inspecting both sides
of it. have known an utterly depravec
person TO hand him twenty-five copper
cents, and then, retiring behind him, almost
burst with suppressed emotions as he sol.
| EMMY turned over and over each penny
| When he enters room he takes a chair
and sits silent for time, seeming to be en-
gagged in winding up his vocal apparatus.
He then names, in most seprlchral voice
every article in his trunks. If you want
anything, you are expected to interrupt
him. The effect, as he cons his mental
catalogue, Is ludicrous in the extreme, since
he, like Holmes katydid, says ian undis
puted thing in such solemn way. -
Woodstock Post.