The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-31
CHE gutland daily Glubs
MONDAY, MAY 81, 1875.
Vermont News.

| stock National Bank on Tuesday elected
William L. johnson Director after having
voted to increase the number of Directors
to six.
Luther o Weeks of Proctorsville, re-
ceived severe kick in the lower portion
: of his bowels one day last week from his
horse, while leading him from the barn to
the carriage house. Inflammation soon
supervened, and for a number Of days he
remained in critical condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Smith, Of New
Haven, the Oldest couple in that town,
have passed away. Mrs. Smith died March
oath, aged SO years. On the 10th inst
Mr.. Smith died in his seth year.
BY request of the Ferrsburgh Sports
mans Club, $4,000 salmon we're turned out
in Lewis creek on Saturday, 22d inst, by
DR.. M. c. Edmunds, fish Commissioners.
There is great reason to hope for the sue
cess of the experiment, as Lewis creek was
formerly noted salmon stream, and DR..
Edmunds says that he has seen no finer
looking stream for salmon in New Eng
land.
Last Saturday portion of the track of
the Montpelier and Wells River railroad,
some four miles from Montpelier, slid away
rendering it necessary to construct trestle
work fifty feet long. The highway below,
for three or four rods, was filled with dirt
to the depth of eight feet.
The Montpelier correspondent of the
Boston Globe says: ''But you cannot force
the season in Vermont. With her grand
old Green Mountains, her sloplng hill sides
patched with wood land and dotted with
frequent white farm houses, her smiling
valleys, ribboned with with ponds and lakes
she is forever charming and enjoyable. 1t
is an Indifferent matter whether you see
her in winter in her robe of white, in spring
in her garment of green, In summer in her
yellow tinery, in early autumn in her coat
of many colors, or in the later fall when
she has donned her robe of russell. Once
and whenever seen always remembered
and admired is this dear, noble old State
sure to be.
The work of rebuilding in Montpelier is
progressing very fast. Thirteen new stores
are in process of construction.
We learn that the effort to organize a
company of Green Mountain Boys, in this
city, is meeting with excellent success.
There is no reason why Burlington should
not maintain a military company the equal
of the Ransom Guards of st. Albans. and
we are in hopes, should the project prove
a success, that standard of height shall
be prescribed that will make the Green
} Mountain Boys of the Queen City the
tallest company in the State.-Chpper.
At the Windsor county court, on Tues
day, States Attorney Walker entered a
mol pros. in the case of James VIM, of
Windsor, accused of killing one Donoghue !;
on the trial of which, at last term, the
jury stood seven for conviction and FIVE for
acquittal; and he was discharged from Gus
tody.
The "Actives" of Vergennes played too
well by 81 for the Addisons base ballists,
the "Innocents' on Saturday last-it stood
active II; Innocents PC.
Individual deposits in Natl Bank, of
Middlebury $40,459,77.
Mr.. Isbon Allen, of Ferrisburgh, is the
owner of full blood Durham bull calf
raised by Mr.. G. f. o. Kimball, of Yer
gennes, which was one year old April Goth,
last, and weighs nine hundred and fifty
| pounds.
The Bennington County court assemblies
at Manchester on Tuesday next Hon..
Hoyt Ii. Wheeler will be the presiding
judge.
Last Monday morning, the wife of Mr..
Joseph Carpenter, who lives in the north
part of Cambridge, attempted to. commit
suicide by hanging. Mrs. Carpenter has
been sick and Respondent for some time,
yet being usually patient and kind mother
and wife, no one suspected that she antic-
ipated selfdestruction. The attempt was
made by tying together the ends of a wor-
sted comforter or belt and making moose
which she slipped over her head, and then
standing on small box the other end was
passed over the corner of an open door.
Her struggles occasioned some noise and
a member of the family found her before
life was extinct, yet her recovery is consid-
cred somewhat doubtful
The new Episcopal church at Winooski
will soon be completed.
A few days ago two marlborough ply
sicians, with an assistant and DIR. Ellis OF
Manchester, performed remarkable oper-
alton on the face of Mrs. S. Miller. He
extracted an eye taolh and then sawed the
jaw bone of and entirely removed it back
to the joint. This was done to get rid of O
bone tumor.
DIR. Morgan, a physician in one of the
back towns, who has long been addicted to
the use of liquor and opium, lately reform.
ed, and, to assist in his cure, took a guam
tity of so-called opium antidote, but il
made him violently insane, and he has beer
taken to the Brattleboro asylum.
Diptheria in its malignant form has mad,
its appearance in ST. Johnsbury.
The Centennial meeting at Burlington
on Wednesday was presided over by o. s
Senter of Philadelphia. He was followed
by Hon. Daniel Roberts and l.. l.. Law
renee Esq, with eloquent and stirring
speeches. Mayor Blodgett, Capt. F. w
Smith, w. A. Cromber, Joel II. Gates
DIR. b. s. Nichols, Il. w. Chase and Guy
N. Willard were chosen a committee t.
look after Burlington in the matter ant
arouse its citizens.
Mrs. Berker of Plymouth Hill opened
box of parlor matches the other day ant