The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-02
state News.

The forge at lrona, N. Y, owned by |
Mr.. Asa Reynolds of Alburgh was burned
to the ground on Wednesday of last week.
Loss about $4,000.
Forty yoke of oxen have recently been
purchased in the towns of Jamaica, Lon
donderry and Winhall, and taken to North
ern New York
The young mems christian association of
Vermont will hold a series of gospel
meetings at Northheld, April 10Th, 18th
and 18th.
A man named Roberts, seventy years
old, belonging in Hartford, was run over
and killed near White River Junction,
Wednesday, by the noon mail train.
The Vermont Mutual suffered something
over $4,000 in losses in the Montpelier
fire, all of which have been adjusted and
paid so far as the insured could be reached.
Several parties in Bennington have been
attacked with the California fever, and
are already packing up for the Golden
State. The severity of Vermont winters
seems to be the impelling motive.
The Netosdealer is responsible for the
statement that Theodore Titon has been
invited to deliver the address at the cele-
braton on that fair ground at Morrisvile
on the 4th of July. lie has not yet ac-
cepted.
An injunction has been served upon II.
w. Catln, who has been levyng rent on
Burlington people, who thought themselves
fee-simple owners of their estates, claim
ing to act as agent of the original propre-
tors of the town.
| The medical class of the University of
Vermont at Burlington, the present term,
numbers seventy-five, the largest for sew.
eral years. Professor II. d. Holton of
Brattleboro gave the Introductory address,
last week. There are three clinics, each
week, to illustrate the lectures.
Mr.. John E. Grant of Rockingham. VT.
writes to the police that Pembel ton, the
East Boston murderer, was employed by
him in Lowell, Mass, some years ago for
several months, when he was sent TO the
Cambridge house of correction for falsely
pretending to be an officer that while in
his employ he came near killing a fellow
workman, and otherwise acted SO badly
that he Grant was glad to get rid of him.
A large-sized hen thief, in the form of
an owl, measuring four feet six inches
from tip to tip, was trapped by Oliver
Cone of Whitehall few days since. 1t
has been sent to add to collection of
stuffed birds in Massachusetts,.
Geo. W.Robinson of Bennington, Ihas OBJ
tanned patent on an attachment to an Or
binary hoe handle, for dropping corn and
other things of the kind. 1t is a very sim
pie continuance, costs but little, and bids
fair to become general.
The Washington county court now
in session, have finished the jury
calendar, and are now engaged lin the
trial OF cases set to the court. There are
| siyty-nine cases on the chancery docket.
Thirty-two are new entries.
A special town meeting was held on the
Goth inst, at Groton, to see if the town
would vote to raise money to create sink
ing fund to meet the payment of the town
railroad bonds for building the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad, when they come
due. The bonds amount to $4,000. The
vote of the meeting was to raise one dollar
on the dollar, which is one-sixth of the en-
tire debt. There were some of the tax
payers who advocated paying at least a
quarter of the whole debt.
Wednesday two men under the influence
of liquor entered the residence of DR.. Gran
dali in Burlington and refused to leave
when requested to do SO. One of them, a
big burly fellow by the name of Fisher,
threw himself upon the floor and rolled
about, pretending to be in great pain. A
policeman marched the fellows to jail.
They gave their names as Joseph Clark of
Plattsburgh, and John Fisher of Utica, N.
Y, and on Thursday were arraigned be-
fore Justice Hollenbeck, charged with in
toxication. They plead guilty and having
spent their last dollar in getting drunk,
were suffered by his honor to dig out of
town.
A Montpelier liquor dealer has been ac-
quilted by the county court by lucky
omission, that the complaint failed to state
where the offenses charged were commit
ted, A demurrer was made and sustained,
and respondent discharged. The COM
plant read, "and at divers days and times
to your complainant unknown, did sell,
furnish or give away intoxicating liquor
without authority, contrary to the form
and effect of the statute" etc., and did not
allege at Montpelier, in the county of
Washington.
Heman Aldrich, foreman on the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad section, had
a narrow escape from drowning last week.
He was cutting ice from under a trestle
work, in order to get it away from the
piling, and while thus engaged piece on
which he was standing gave away, letting
him into the water twelve feet deep. AS
he sank he went under the ice, which was
three and half feet thick. Fortunately
he had presence of mind enough when he
came up to look for the hole, which he
managed to reach, and thus escaped with a
cut nose and face, and thorough wcttng
in ice-cold water.
From the Rochester Democrat of March
18th, we learn of the death OF Charles
Miller, son of Ep. Miller, one of the early
settlers of Middlebury, who died in Roch-
ester, his late home on the 10Th inst. The
deceased was born "A Middlebury, Septem-
Der It'll, 1907 He graduated from Middle
bury college in 1882. In 1884 or 1885 he
went to Rochester, N. Y, and made that
city his permanent home For many years
! he filled clerkshi2s in mercantile houses OF
that city. A few years ago paralytic
stroke crippled him partially, and badly af-
fected his general health so that he gradrl-
ally sank Tor two years; On Friday pre-