The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-06
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eye on Thursday, a piece of iron in wise
getting loose and flying up.
The Burlington and Plattsburg stages
discontinued their trips Thursday
er for the season or not the weather will
decide.
Burlington is to have trotting park, on
land owned by G. S. Appleton, north of
the city, and it is proposed to dedicate" it
with June meeting.
Small pox has entirely disappeared from
East Berkshire. There were seven cases
ticle of danger of exposure.
In order to get letter from Watcrville
to Bakersfield. distance of seven miles, it
has to travel a distance of sixty-three miles,
and it takes two full days to accomplish
even this.
On Thursday morning two gentleman
crossed from Pittsburgh to Shelburn
Point straight across the broad lake and
found the ice in good condition, which is
something remarkable for this time of the
year.
Mrs. Ann F. Gilchrist of McIndoe's
| Falls, lively matron of eighty-three
years, went coastDg with party Of young
ladies', a few days ago, and enjoyed the
sport as much as any of them, Juggling her
own sled up the hill.
While returning from visiting a patient
| at Fairfield Friday evening, DIR. Branch of
| st. Adams met with serious mishap.
While crossing a bridge near the mill, in
what is known rs the ''swamp road" over
which the water was running about three
feet deep, himself and horse and sleigh
were swept therefrom and the horse
drowned. Parties near by assisted the doc
tor, but for which he would probably have
found watery grave in Fairfield swamp.
At Woodward's factory IN Woodstock,
on Saturday, H. G. Thompson was adjust
| stopped for the purpose, when another OPP
erative, unconscious Of the state of affairs,
started up the machinery, and Thompson
was crushed in an instant. The works
were stopped as soon as possible, when it
was found that his sides were crushed in,
several ribs broken and his clothing torn
nearly off. He is alive and may recover,
but the chances are believed to be against
him.
There are quite a number of suits pend
ing in the Washington county court, for
damages received upon the highways, in
different towns of the county. Much dis
cusson has taken place relative
to the frequency OF these suits.
so much so that there has been
a great change in opinion, as to town suits
within the last two years and Plaintiff
must have strong case in order to get n
verdict now, even if his notice prove good,
which does not always happen under the
present law.
| Quite controversy is going on as to
whether or not the Montpelier firemen in
dulged too freely in the juice of the corn
at the recent fire in that village. Some of
the Montpelier papers Indignantly denied
| the story, but now Il correspondent of the
Freeman says: "Dsinterested persons,
not residents of Montpelier, who were on
the ground taking their own observations.
| have stated that there was no question hni
that the fire could have been controlled
long before it was, but for so much drunk
enness 1t is question of deep interest,
whether any good can come of disowning
so unwelcome a discovery, that, in the
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any place are at the mercy of rum and its
dealers The fact that after the first fire,
| whisky became more plentiful than water,
and its effects, plainly seen, even among
boys, made the destruction by fire seem OF
little Importance compared with so sad and
sickening spectacle"
There is lady by the name of Clarissa
Pennock, who lives in Barre, Mich, daugh-
ter of the late Major Josiah Benjamin, OF
Berlin, VT, who is now eighty years OF
age, and who has a crippled hand, and one
foot so lame and sore that much of the
time she cannot walk with it, but moves a
chair as she goes about resting the lame
foot upon it. In this condition she has
woven, on an old-fashioned loom, fiv,
thousand and eight hundred yards, and
made one hundred and thirty seven yards
of rag carpet for herself, doing all the
weaving with one foot, (resling the lame
one on a cushion preparing all the warp
and nearly all the filling, with her owr
hands. besides buying the wool and max.
ing fifty yards of cloth, doing all the spin
ming herself. All this has been accomplish
ed in the space of five years and nine
months. She has also planted and dressed
her garden, done her house-work, and ia
ken care of her COW, (hired it MIXED pig
and hens. Let all lazy, work-despiser'
read, and any of them may do better il
they can. She has a widowed sister If
this town of the same stamp.
Burlington has trotted out an historical
pistol. 1t is one of brace Of pistols SEN
there from the mint at Philadelphia, abou
the year 1928, when branch of the United
States bank was established in that city
for the protection of that institution. WheI
the branch bank was discontinued, tn,
pistols, with its other property, wer,
bought by private individuals, and subsc
quently by the directors of the Farmer
and Mechanics bank. When that institu
was closed its property was sent to TIT
auction room, and there the pistols fel
into the hands of the present owner, Mr.
Enos w. Taft. The pistols are, of course
flint locks; the barrel of each is of brass
SIX inches in length the bore is seven
Fights of an inch IN diameter at the muZzle
and gradually tapers down to three-eight
of an inch at the breech. At the end o
the barrel is spring bayonet, six inche
? in length the stock is of English walnut
| inlaid with silver. When sent from tn
, mint they were inyoiced at S25 each. TIL
weapon forms striking contrast with tn
neat, compact seven-shooter of the presen
! day, but is, withal, a decidedly ugly implo
1 ment of warfare, particularly at shol
range.
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MARRIAGES.
ROYCE--FLANDERS-A Chester, March 29tl
at st. Luke's Episcopal churCh, by Rev. A. |