The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-05
Current Notes.

| AL uitlil VI iiIC III lDuIllIslOH, Datuiuul
night, was caused by the burning out of
the chimney of house OH Allen street
The King is not to visit st. Johnsbury
as has been announced. He will 20 direct
to Albany, and from thence to Niagara
Falls.
At Boston, Saturday, Ogdensburg and
Lake Champlain railroad stock, ex-div..
sold at 40t Vermont and Canada, A
Connecticut and TassIimpsic preferred Gll;
Is, 1881, 05f.
At the close of the morning services at
the First Baptist church, Burlington, ON
Sunday three persons received the ordin-
ance of baptism, at the hands of the pNstor
Rev. NJ. A. Wilcox.
Friday morning fire was discovered in
passage-way connected with the g:ccn-
house of VIM. y. Crombic, Esq, of Bur
hngton, but it was speedily extinguishcd
with but little damage.
The little town of Readsb,ro, in Ben
nington county is sadly stricken. Up to
the 2lst ult., there had been IA deaths
from dipthciia in that place, and the dread
| disease is still raging with unabatcd fury.
Cankcr rash IS prevailing quite exien-
| slvely in Stowe Two children Of Truman
Smiths. aged respectively eight and ten
years. died on Tuesday Of last week, of the
terrible disease, and were buricd in the
same coffin.
1t was reported in Boston Oh Saturday
morning that Hon. Hcman Carpenter of
| Mortified, was dead. A telegram was re-
ccived in the afternoon that the report was
untrue, and that he was alive and enjoying
his usual health.
| Worcester, Washington county, has re-
Gently had n "bcar scare" and two days of
| suspense over the results Of the hunt, when
he char proved 10 be Newfoundland
pup. So they don't care snap about
Danforlh's bounty bill.
AT the gathering of the Sabbath school
of the Baptist church at St. Adams, on
Wednesday last, Dea. George L. Foss was
presented with Charles Knights history
|
sen,ation was made by Lansing Mills, ESQ.
The Methodist society of St. Albans bay
are on the alert to build new church in
place of the one destroyed by fire on New
Years morning. A committee has been
appointed to select site, and subscription
has been started TO raise a sum not exceed
ing So. 900, to build a church.
One day last week a gentleman opened a
fish hole in an eddy, at Lyndon, and re-
moved with his hands nearly 800 pounds
Of pickerel and suckers. The same thing
was done year or two ago at the same
place. The fish crowd up to the hole IN
the ice for a fresh breath and are captured.
, The fire department of this town, says
the Danville Star, consists of an engine all
out Of order, town pump that refuses to
work, and village population so near
dead that il the alarm of fire was raised at
, midnight they would consider it an intima-
ton that more fuel was needed in some
bodys stove.
: The invitation cards to the second an
I nual ball of the st. Adams Division, No
t IS, Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
I are out. The ball takes place at the Wei
=. don House, Jan. 21st, with Hough's lie.
:. banon, N. H., band, 10 furnish music.
+ The bill is only SO and railroads carry for
+, fare one way.
: The Valcour communists have received
an accession to their ranks, in the person
of DIR. j. ii. Hill, who came from Knights
. town, Indiana. According to the current
report DIR. Hill Is the third convert the
Free-lovers have made within week, and
at this rate the hospitality OF Mr.. Ship
:. man will soon be taxed to the utmost.
. At half-past 4 o'clock Wednesday after
=, noon last d. w. Pope, of Kirby, who was
at work in his barn, discovered flames
issuing from beside his house chimney. lie
gave the alarm and went TO fighting the
fire; but it was in VAN. Before help ar
rived the flames covered the whole house
Nothing but table, some chairs and a few
other articles were saved.
The other day Frank Lowell of Bellows
Falls and two other persons in L. T. Low
l. ellis market got into discussion, which re
suited in q bet of five dollars that Tho
former could not draw the latter IN slet
=, to Walpolc in two and half hours, dis
Of lance of some four miles or more. The tria
came off on Saturday evening and resulted
in an easy victory for Lowell, who ar
rived with his load at Walpole with goot
margin TO spare, having been but It'll
over two hours.
A Wcaihersiield correspondent of III
Woodstock Post complains that the tow
paupers receive shocking bad treatment
That aged End infirm people are compelle
to do hard work, that the sick are no
cared for and are kept in cold room, an
thinks if the legislature would appoint
man to inspect the poorhouse he woul
probably know what becomes OF th
A. strings of gold beads as fast as the owner
are killed off, and render an account @
them to the town" Doubtless there Is al
as other side TO the story.
In The octogenarlan, Mr.. George Brown,
as Bradford, referred to in the Waterman lai
D. summer as being remarkable pedestrian
IL has made still greater recent feat OF wall
Ing. The frat woek In December no le