The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-20
state at Large.

The bonded debt of the city of Burling-
ton is $279,9OO.
The population of Burlington is esti-
mated at between seventeen and eighteen
thousand.
Every town in Montgomery county, n.
Y, have elected license excise commits
sioners.
The capital stock of the national bank
at Wells river is to be increased from $780,.
900 to 100000.
The Dog river valley association have
appointed their next annual fair on the
Goth and 30th of September, at Mortified
The hotel at Enosburgh Falls, owned by
the well known Landlord, d. C. Isham, has
been sold to T. G. Kimball, jr., who will
hereafter keep it.
The Chittenden county court house, at
Burlington, is one of the finest buildings
for the purposes in New England. The
cost was between $50, 900 and $1,000.
The Patrons of Husbandry, at.Gaysville,
received their first invoice of flour last
week. which for quality and price beats
anything Of which they have any knowl-
edge.
The annual fair of the Washington
county agricultural society will be held at
East Montpelier, September Goth and Both,
on the same grounds occupied by them last
year.
Mr.. +. G. Lucas, auditor OF the Central
Vermont would be pleased to receive copy
of essex Junction." humorous poem
written number of years ago by +. ].
Phelps, Esq, of Burlington.
Albert Aseltene of Alburgh, aged about
twenty-siX years, who has been crazy for
several years, was found dead in his room
at his fathers house about IL o'clock last
Wednesday night. lie has had to be chain
cd in his room for several years.
No coal has been burned at Barnum-
vile siucc December, but it is expected the
kilns of Barnum, Richardson Il Co. will
start again in early spring. Thirty men
have been employed during the winter cut
ting the wood OH the mountain.
Orville Bishop, son of Chas Bishop of
Eden, had both feet badly frozen on the
9th inst. He is lad thirteen years old,
and was engaged in drawing wood at the
time, and took both the freezing and the
thawing like soldier.
Owing to the severity of the weather in
Hancock and bad roads, travellers have
been weather bound at the hotel for sew
eral days, their teams being too heavily
loaded to pass through the drifts Some
of the hill roads are wholly impossible
with teams.
A. =. Cameron and A. $. Wheatley,
farmers of West Woodbury., have failed.
Wheatleys liabilities arc about $4,000 in
excess of mortgage claims, which amount
to near the full value of real estate. The
assets are estimated at less than sne-third
of the liabilities. Cameron's liabilities We
have not ascertained.
There are no more new cases of small
pox at East Berkshire, and the present
cases are doing well, There has been con-
siderable fear least the disease should
spread throughout the vicinity, but there
has been very general vaccination and all
precautions except the pest house plan
haye been adopted.
Mrs. Moses Sabin, of Wiliamsville, met
with shocking death on Wednesday
morning. She arose at four o'clock, and
had kiudled fire in the fireplace, when, by
some mishap, she fell headforemost into
the flames. So severe were her burns that
she only lived short time. Her son was
badly burned in trying to rescue her. She
was eighty-nine years of age, and was uni
yersally respected
The trustees of the reform school held
meeting in Waterbury last week, says the
Montpelier Journal, and went from there
to Vergennes, to look over the property at
that place. 1t is currently reported that
they found the old arsenal buildings en-
tirely unfit for any purpose connected with
the school, and that they would have pre-
ferred the land without any buildings
rather than with them. They will need to
| be pulled down IL used at all. They also
measured the hay in the barn, where II was
claimed there were forty tons stored, as the
avails of the crop of hay last season, and
found but sixteen. The barn contains the
crops of two seasons instead Of one, 1t Is
said, too, that the soil of the celebrated
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