The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-10
Vicinity Items.

Four hundred and eighteen arrivals at
the Bomoseen house in the month of July.
A week ago last Sunday, most every one
in this village was gazing with wonder be-
tween the hours of eleven and one o'clock,
at the circle around the sun. The first
man your correspondent met, the next
morning, asked him if he saw that ''cir-
cumstance" around the sun the day before,
experimenting the question with the re-
mark that it was one of the signs we read
of about the last days coming to pass.
Sunday. the first of August. Rev. Mr..
Mears a talented preacher from Sterling,
Mass, delivered scholarly sermon at the
brick church. His theme was christianity
as fact.
The most radical temperance man in
town is rabd democrat he is a young
man and will not make. buy, sell or use, or
vote for any man that will, as n beverage
intoxicating liquors.
A Rutland NJ. d., recently, spent half
day here, visiting those of his old friends
who were here during his residence in town
from the year 1916 to 1855. He left bar
rel of flour, ten pounds of sugar and a
pound of tea with one of his old comrades,
not in arms, but in fishing and hunting and
sporting tgenerally. During the above
mentioned decade. he was the resident pro-
lessor of surgery in Castleton medical col
lege.
Morning services at the Advent church
have been discontinued for the present
The relationship existing between the pas
tor and people of this church ceases the
1st of September.
Mr. Hiram Ainsworth, of the firm of
& HI, d.,
dealers, is ON extended travels through the
great west and southwest, looking after the
flour interest. When heard from last he
was in Burlington, Iowa.
The weathiest man IN town is the owner
of thousand dollar pair of horses. He is
now deprived of the pleasure of drawing
the ribbons over them, by reason of dis
abled arm. They are large and rangy,
of bright bay color, and good roadsters.
George Bishop has just sold his fine step
ping and fine looking black mare to a doc
tor in Rutland for three hundred dollars.
Charlie ,Jackman has come out with one
| of Hoadleys best three hundred dollar car
riages. Hoadley not long since sent car
rage to Rev. John F. Smith, missionary at
Msssovsn, Turkey. Burt, also, sent q
good harness with the same. POSTER.
BRATTIEBOEO.
A new national bank is talked of at Brat
| tleboro.
The hotels here are doing thriving
business, some of them being overlooking
with summer guests, while the village has
not been so full of strangers for some
years.
The ladies of the Unitarian society hold
their annual fair on Thursday evening O..
BENSON.
The hay crop is larger than the farmers
anticipated.
| Potatoes promise an unusually large
yield. Corn is backward and heavier than
| usual.
The wrecked steamer Champlan is so
completely smashed that it is being taken
| to pieces.
| Quite number of visitors are in town
at present.
The Benson musical association held its
| first rehearsal of the season last Wednes-
| day evening, and will he held weekly upon
this evening. Mrs. III. NJ. Holmes directs
| as usual.
Rev. Otis Holmes, father of Rev. II. NJ.
| Holmes of Benson, has recently accepted a
call to the Congregational church at Green
port, Long Island lie enters his new field
OF labor at the age OF n.
Rev. Mr.. Munson of the Methodist
church is away upon his vacation.