The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-30
LOCAL MENTION.


Chas. N. Davenport, esq OF Brattlebort
was in town yesterday.
Interesting miscellany will be found OF
the first and fourth pages.
Mr.. L. G. Mason has sold his hous,
on Pleasant street to John X. Spaulding.
Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Page give re
ception this evening from to II o'clock.
1t is rumored that the Queen City band
Of Burlington is to be in town this evening
The Bolivar base ball club meet fol-
practice on Hunts grounds, at six o'clock,
this evening.
L.W. Redngton Esq. returned on Monday
night from a three weeks tarry in New
York city.
A dangerous counterfeit has been dis
covered OF So notes of the first national
bank of Canton, Ill.
Patrick Cain yesterday raised the frame
of building, to be used as a store and
dwelling house, on Wales street.
Postmasters are to be held responsible
on their bonds for losses of government
property while in their possession.
Members of Washington engine COM
pany No. 2, are requested to meet at their
hall this evening, at 2.3O o'clock sharp for
practice.
The sophomore class of Middlebury COL
lege have repented of their hayward acts,
and yield allegiance again to the college
and the regulations of the faculty.
The voice of the auctioneer was heard
upon our streets last evening. Dawley
wasI in his jolly mood, and kept up his
audience to high pitch of enthusiasm.
The american Messenger for June 12th
announces that Mrs. Middleton Goldsmith
and Miss Mary Cook of Rutland are in Ber-
lin, and Miss Chapman of Vermont is in
Dresden.
On the evening of Aug. 10, Jupiter and
Venus will approach within one degree of
each other, presenting rare and beautiful
spectacle. So says an astronomical au-
thority.
A Washington dispatch to the Boston
papers of Saturday evening, announces
that ten cents will be charged after July
LIST, for registering letters, in addition to
the postage.
A base ball tournament will be held at
Granville, N. Y, ON July 81 and 81, with
four prizes. The attendance of the Boil.
vars has been solicited and they have the
matter under consideration.
Hon. Walton B. Harris of Alabama is
expected to arrive here this week, with his
family, to spend few weeks with friends
Senator Harris is fine specimen of thu
old school of southern gentlemen.
Mr.. E. G. Mason, agent of the Equita
BILE life insurance company is soon to re
move to Burlington and accociate himself
with w. H. S. Whitcomb in the manage
ment of general insurance agency.
A paper was in circulation yesterday
! and received many signatures, agreeing t.
close the grocery stores Wednesday even
~ at six o'clock. This will leave only
book and furniture stores, tin shop
Eat markets open.
ohm Broderidge tired of his confine
ment in Jail, yesterday, and disclosed oil
Edward T. Birdsall, bar-keeper at thu
"Home Rest" who was fined $50 each fo
three second offenses, and costs. He ap
pealed. Elihu Higgins, also connecte;
with this concern, was fined $40 and cost
for keeping with intent to sell.
Mr.. Wick says in his valuable Flora
Guide that ten drops of carbolic acid ,easil
obtained from any druggist, put in pin
of water and poured on the earth in flowe
pots will destroy all earth worms, whc
DO SO much damage to the plants. This
pretty good authority, and the information
may prove valuable to some of our readers
A deputy sheriff yesterday went to unfast
en- his horse which he had left standing O.
Center street, when, to his amazement, n
horse was there. An active search faile
to discover it, and supposing it had bee
stolen he went to livery stable to hire
substitute. When he got there, however
he saw brother officer riding lesurel
down Center street with the missing team
Monday, July 9th is not legal holida
in Vermont, as some of our cotemporarie
have assumed, unless Gov. Peck relaxt
from his duties of "milking his corn an
hoeing his kline" and issues his proclam'
ton making it such. The law in this sta
does not, as in New York, make provisio
that when the Fourth OF July falls on SUI
day. it shall be observed on the followin
day.
Two colored men took refuge under
tree in violent thunder storm. ''Juliu
can you pray ?" said one. "No, Sam, WI
the reply; "nebber prayed in my life
swell, can't you singa hymn ?" Just the
the lightning struck tree near by, shlve
ing 1t, when the first speaker exclaimed
s.See heah, honey, sumfin ligious has g
to,e done, an dat mighty sudden, toe
s'pos, YOU pass around de hat"
A Bosl,, drummer, who, with the aid
his feet, filleo svo seats on the train, a fe
days since, and w.s too ugly to mo-
though the car was crowlNd, was complet
ly upset when the conductoi took out h
foot.rule, and after deliberately taking Il
measure of his feet, announced in llol
tone eighteen and three-quarter irR
es!" The great roar of laughter throu
the car which followed, caused the fello'
feet to come down in a hurry as he ma
himself as small IN possible in the one Sc
no had paid for.
The new water commissioners have be
untiring in their efforts to find the lea
and wastes at the reservoir and dam, a
have met with such success that ever