The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-18
LOCAL MENTION.

A Touchdown occurred on Wales street
yesterday afternoon
The mercury stood 4So yesterday after
noon. The overcoat trade is brisk.
Hon. Thomas McDaniels. of Bennington,
has been in attendance at the state fair and
has been guest at the Bardwell house.
Pickpockets are said to have driven Il
thriving business through the fair.
lady lost gold watch in the depot Thurs
day.
How about ''the last rose of summer"
of the land to send up mighty wall 10
that effect?
The sermon at the Methodist church te-
morrow evenin5 at 1880 o'clock, will be the
second of a series of discourses on ''Chris-
tian Doctrines"
The Woodstock cornet band, who have
been in attendance upon the state fair, re-
turned home yesterday afternoon by way
of Bellows Falls.
All the saloons closed yesterday after
noon and evening. There were too many
half drunken individuals in town to make
selling exactly safe. .-.--
The game of ball between the Bolivars
of Rutland, and the Volunteers of Hyde
vile, will come off on the fair grounds
this afternoon-if it is warm enough to
play without mittens and overcoats.
A young man from the rural districts
figured in the police court yesterday. He
swore that he got his five drinks of Frank
Hickey, who was accordingly fined fifty
dollars for selling and ten for keeping
with costs.
In our report of the state fair yesterday
it was enormously stated that Noble
Blackstone" received the first premium
gold mediator stock horses, first class.
The gold medal was awarded to Moulton
Bros. of West Randolph for their "Ham-
bletonian Monarch" while the second pre-
mium--a silver medal-was awarded to
Blackstone"
The following moulders of public
thought were in town during the fair, mosi
of them Gas our bucolic friend, Sam
Evarts, professor of self-adjustable oscil.
lating Southdown squashes, remarks, being
thoroughbred short-horns Maj. j. Halsey
Cushman, of the Banner J. G. Angel,
of the North Adams Neacs ; Asa P. Childs,
of the Bennington Gazette A. p. Hitch
cock, of the Boston journal VIM. II.
Scott, of the Richford Sentinel; Il. A.
Treading, of the Chicago Times j. w.
Barnard, of the Boston Meas and Edin.
burgh Recie'o, and r. r. Rowe, of the
Burlington Free Press.
Cheek is good thing but 1t don't always
pay. This is an instance. A week or two
ago lady coming from Troy left parasol
in the cars. When the car went north
Brakeman Snow found the parasol and
looked for an owner. A lady (?) on board
claimed it as her property and took pos
session of it. Subsequently the owner of
the parasol gave MIR. Snow written des-
'cription of her property. Yesterday he
,spied the claimant with the parasol on the
fair ground. He Immediately claimed the
article which claim the possessor disputed
until she was told to either fork over OF
visit the hotel de Millington, when she
gave up and disappeared.
AS Frenchman from Ira, was driving
home from the fair Thursday night, about
nine o'clock, he ran onto the earth thrown
ont OF the water ditch on West street, land
;,,t In hott >F ba
wagon overturned on top of him, and hi
horse sPrawling on its back by the side
His cries--and oaths-raised assistance ant
his horse and buggy were extricated
While the operation was going on he stood
by shaking his hands aud exclaiming
Me do nothing. Town got to pay,
which showed that his head was level if h,
did come from Ira. Strange to say moth
ing was injured except the stranger
clothes which came in contact with tn
mud and water in the ditch
The full reports that THE GLOBE ha
published, from day to day, of the stat
fair, has created for it very large demand
and Yesterday we published an UNUSUAL
large edition of both our daily, and of tn
weekly which was issued yesterday morr
ang but we found ourselves ''short' at a
early hour in the day, for il takes the pull
l'c but short time to learn where to loo
nor the news, and it took them shortt
alme to decide that il they wished to po
sess themselves OF correct account of tn
weeks proceedings, up to that time, the
would find it in no other newspaper. A
though our daily edition Of yesterday WI
entirely exhausted we can supply te
copies of the weekly to those who con
first
Any one passing through floral hall du
ing the late fair could not help admirir
the fine display made by the differe
sewing machine companies and the sple
did samples executed. Among the INC
noteworthy of the latter we cannot forbe
mentioning sample of several thickness
OF heavy beaver cloth sewed with No,
linel thread and one of fine hemming
elk tissue paper sewed with lady's hi
instead OF thread, both of which were e,
.cuted on the Singer sewing machine. II
business of this (the Singer company hel
under the efficient management of N
Brady, is proving emlnently successf