The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-19

some ten new houses Delng now Ill process
of erection.
The Vermont veterans association of
Massachusetts, had its annual meeting at
Fitchburg on Thursday and the officers
were reelected.
Mrs. Thomas O'Conner, living in Brat
tleboro, died last week, from lockjaw, &C.
casoned by stepping on rusty nail about
week previous.
The freight business on the Woodstock
railroad is getting so heavy that 1t taxes
the capacity of the road in side track and
yard conveniences to the utmost.
There is large difference in the price of
hops this year and last in Vermont. Last
year 40 cents, this year 8 to 10 cents, a
slight margin of 30 cents pound.
George Prinde of Charlotte has shipped
to New York several hundred bushels of
Snow Flake and Alpha potatos, new
varieties perfected by G. G. Prngle.
A Danville woman died, the other day,
on the anniversary of her husbands death,
the coincidence extending not only to the
day of the month, but the day of the week
and the hour of the day.
James Boyce, the villain who made the
murderous assault on Mr.. H. Hadley, in
Brattleboro, last June, was sentenced by
the co irt at Newfane, last week, 10 ter
years hard labor in the state prison.
Mrs. Susannah Eaton of .Danville, who
has lived in the town ever since she was SIX
years old, celebrated her ninety-fifth birth
day. few days ago, and is still in gooC
health and the complete possession of hel
faculties.
The Pittsburgh sports who bought New
York against Vermont in the pools on the
late Plattsburgh hose race, paying $40 fol
80, were scooped so thoroughly that they
are now obliged to cheek it when they
take ''smie."
The stockholders of the Burlington ant
Lamoille railroad have voted to accept thu
$S50,000 mortgage proposed by the direct
ors. 10 d. Hatch, G. Ii. Blodgett of Bur
lington, and L. ]. n Stark of New York
were appointed trustees.
The rain storm of Saturday at Burling
ton, came in the form Of snow In the coun
try around. Mansfield and Camol's Hum
and the hdlrondacks are covered wit
snow. At Jericho, the residence of Gov
nor Peck, four inches of snow fell Satul
day night.
John L. Daniels was recently convicte
of robbing the store Of O. G. Fits at Yves
Wardsboro, and sentenced to six years i
the state prison. He has been missiont
ry in South America, and is young ma
of very pleasing manners. The evidenc
against him was mostly circumstantial
In the Vermont journal of March Bis
1884, there is the following epitaph on
lawyer
"Beneath this stone lies Robert Shaw,
Who follow'd forty years the law.
And when he died,
| The Devil cried,
IIa ! Bob give us your paw"
The number of inmates in the Vernon
state prison is one larger than ever before
there being 112 men and one woman, wit
but 104 cells for their accommodation
Work on the new building is progressin!
and it will contain 40 cells--making 1G
cells in all, which ought to be sufficient {
satisfy the demand.
: The death of the venerable Mrs. JOSEF
Clark of Milton, has been anticipated fl
, ----- ---'r ,,ri 10 M less orinf IN a wit
circle of relatives and friends. She was
woman of many christian graces, and WI
/ much respected and loved in the con
munity in which she long lived. Her e
, teemed husband and sons and daughte
who survive her have the utmost sympatt
> of all who know them, and rich legaC
left them in the memory OF her honorab
life.-Free Press.
, Another elopement comes TO light.
appears that few days ago Miss HAITI
Doubleday, a young lady of IS, and tt
f married son of a clergyman, all of Soul
t Royalton, took it upon them to journt
away from home as man and wife, regi
tering themselves as such at one of Il
= hotels in Montpelier, where they RENAME
3 until the unfortunate girls father toun
them. The father sued the married love
but on finding if he sent him to Jail, h
daughter would fare likewise, he withdre
! the suit, returning home sad, sorrowf
man.
John Adams of Groton had his right ar
: torn off by threshing machine last Mo
/ day. 1t will be remembered that son
r four years ago, one John Adams, was co
! cerned in the murder OF Frank Randall,
. Croton, which occurred in drunken mel
between Randall and wife and Adam
l Ri ndall being stabbed twice through Il
heart Adams was arrested, tried at
Johnsbury, States Attorney Charles ]
DAVIS for the prosecution, and A.
! Dlckey appearing for the defendan
Adams plead not guilty, and although Il
evidence was pretty strong against him
was acquitted on the ground of self d
fence, if guilty. Public opinion has SIM
been strongly divided as to the verdict al
at the time much feeling was manifesto
; among the friends of both parties, Adam
lite being threatened if permitted TO retur
the parties insisting that he should
-, hung The same parties now fall back G
! the text, vengeance is mine" &C., ar
! say that this is the identical right arm tn
struck the fatal blow, which has bee
severed from the bouy by the above acc
dent. If SO, verify "The way Of the tran
gressor is hard. fire. Press.