The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-09
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story ABOUT the smoking NIL NJ North rays
ton, is Every large lie"
Twenty-Five thousand dollars have been
| paid out in the village Of Royalton for
wool the last week.
Calais, in Washington county, is report
ed to have at the present time sixteen bach
elors, seventeen widowers, twenty. four
maiden ladies and forty-eight widows.
Thomas O'Neil, who was injured in the
railroad shops at st. Adams, last Saturday
afternoon, by falling from ladder, was
so seriously injured that he is not expected
to live.
A $4,000 house owned by Thos. Green
| bank of Lawrence, Mass, is being removed
in sections from Gaysvllle. VT, to Law
there Thursday.
| The work of raising money for the hotel
at Montpelier still progresses, and there
are now between twenty-five and twenty
three thousand dollars raised of the TWEEN
ty-fve thousand asked by Mr.. Bailey.
Within the last two years johnson has
had the measles, whooping- cough, mumps,
scarlet-fever, chicken-pox, canker rash, and
Dutch measles. 1t has now pulled through
about all of these and is ms well as could
be expected.
The number of deaths in Montpelier du-
ring the year 1874 was sixly-thirly
males and twenty-five females; of these
sixteen were children under three years of
age, six were over eighty years, and five be-
tween seventy and eighty The number
of deaths from consumption wcrennn
Hon. 5. $. Cox says
can joke all the defeated republicans
but two. There is tender mournfulness
about old Poland and Ellis H. Roberts
which dampcns all attempts at gaiety.
ELLIS hasn't smiled once since lie has
been back, and Poland gares ut me when
ever speak to him, as though | were n
robber of hen roosts.
The Nergennes Vermoatsr says They
are to have sheet and pillow case frolic
at Academy hall, Middebury, on Tuesday
evening next, Jan. 12th. OF course the
Chapman boys are the prime movers. We
wonder what they would do in the staid
town of Middlebury, if it were not for the
cup and coming" Chapman Bros
At the annual election of the Otter
Creek Navigation company, held Mt Yer
gcnnes January 9th. the following officers
were elected C. r. Stevens president,
secretary and treasurer; Directors, j. S.
llickok. n. G.. Norton, L. NJ. Strong, j.
G. Wetherbee. A dividend Of per cent.
payable Feb. LIST, was declared.
Dawson Burt of West Derby committed
suicide on the 3lst ult,, by shooting HIM
self through the heart with pistol lie
was 90 years old and served six years as a
soldier in the rebellion, and five years since
IN the regular army. He had been at times
low-spirted and melancholy, but gave no
intimation that lie contemplated self-de-
struclon.
On Wednesday last as Mr. Seymour J.
Everest of Addison was crossing the lake
near Norton's ferry, with load of fresh
meat for Port Henry market, the team
broke through the ice, about ten rods
from the shore. He lost everything but
one horse. The crossing was not consid-
cred safe for teams, although one man had
| crossed a few days before
Quite an excitement was caused at the
Vershire copper mines recently by the re-
port that German pedlar who had been
| in the habit of coming there nearly every
month, had been waylaid and murdered
somewhere in the vicinity of st. Johnsbury.
There were many variations OF the story,
| all agreeing, however, that he had been
| foully dealt with, but it is now thought
| they were utterly unfounded.
The family of II. w. Mcfarland of
johnson are suffering under great atillc
tons. Last week was recorded in the Ea-
press the death of his mother, Mrs. Nathan
| Mcfarland. The day after her funeral his
| youngest child died of canker-rash, and be-
| fore she was buried Mr.. Mcfarland himself
was taken sick and now lies dangerously
| i'll.
Fred. Kimball n lad of fifteen, living IN
Stowe, earned last summer from April LIST
| to November Goth, two hundred and seven
| dollars. He worked ten hours a day as
| spare hand at the tannery, driving team
and doing odd jobs, for which he received
about twenty dollars per month lie per-
formed extra work enough-such as taking
care of neighbors COWS, saving and split
ting wood-to make up the above amount.
Only one day lost time.
| Last Tuesday forenoon young man
hired livery rig at the stable of VIM. II.
Lane Il Son of Burlington, ostensibly to 60
to Williston, since which time he has not
been seen or heard from. The rig consis-
ted OF small chestnut mare, robe, silver
tppe harness, and Montpelier style
sleigh the young man was of medium
height, light skim face scratched, had on
a gray oyercoat, and was apparently about
twenty years of age. He gave his name
as Seymour, but it has since been ascer-
tanned that this was not his true name. He
is understood to be from Malone. N. Y. A
liberal reward will be paid to any person
furnishing such information as will lead to
the recovery of the property and the con
viction of the thief.
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