The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-05
Vicinity Items.


80 Vicinity Items.
EAST. nUpBARDToN.
| Mrs. L. g Gault's health continues deli.
cate and fears are entertained concerning
! her. 1t is to be hoped that the bracng air
| of autumn will. prove Favorable to the res
toration of firm hehlth.y
The Sabbath school on Eaton bill closed |
for the season on Sunday, Sept. Goth. The
| school has been n very pleasant one. This |
success is due to the interest manifested by |
the young men and ladies' and their teach |
ers, who have been constant in their at
tendance and laborious in their efforts to |
| achieve success. iI ~ ISL -HlTIE d..
Potatoes are going to market at low |
figurc--7,30 cents per bushel. There may
be cases IN which it is better for farmers |
to feed out their potatoes and save hay and |
oats, which generally command a
fair price. My experience has been,
that potatoes are very profitable when fed
to farm stock, especially cows giving milk,
and young cattle. Two quarts of potatoes
J'er day fed to a cow will sensibly increase
her milk, impartng rich color TO the but.
ter, and diminish the amount of hay other
wise required. Even when potatoes are
forty cents per bushe, moderate feed to
COWS and calves is profitable. If potatoes
continue low, would say TO farmers feed
them out 10 COWS, horses, sheep and young
rcattie, and soil oats and hay Hay and oats
are less perishabe, and another year hay
may be scarce and high-priced.
There are some fine clips of wool in
town unsold. When manufacturers need
a few lots of good wool, this is the place
where they can find them
Picnics and Advanced weddings have in
manner subsidized, and life is putting on
more Puritanic form. Husking, digging
and tbreshing- out grain, of course-are
now the order of the day. Winter shakes
his snowy locks from the distant peaks,
! and threatens to descend UPON us with his
icy chains to bind us in his cold embrace
E'Procul, nrocul, este profani:' s-51
BENSON
Mr. William Brown has had on exhibit
| ton at the Benson postoflce, stalk Of
sweet corn with numerous BRANCHES or
, suckers that Contain 90 ears of corn, ali the
product of one Ike. mel of corn Also a
stalk of pop corn with 20 ears. From the
same garden a crook-neck winter squash
weighing go pounds, and stalk OF the
{ Jerusalem artchoke ID feet tall, with GO
, flowers. ia710. at- l"
| The farmers of this town are harvesting
. very large crppspf cornnd potatoes, some
= fields sof POTATOES averaging from 200 to
: 300 bushels per acre.
.sf,ien co,nnittee ~ Mo Conorpoo,iopal
. church have made no more effort ~ snnnlv
y the nulnit. 'hIt have rented lie narsonnge
M. 1t, -, -,
inc eciipse mas noI yet passed on tle
SUI, vi u. ieast siia' GLORIOUS Vi wh'ch Is
! 30 'uu'l aooHeu ~ u.s. ~" ms nts hot l'ut
J III an "PPeaia"co einoc i"s' "eunesuhy
J. morning. L. l.. II.
, y = - MDpLEBuY.
| n...a a. 1
y ments are being made i'm st. Stephens
r. church. The chancel is to be entirely re-
~ nodded ana mace recedlng. This is be-
q ing done by bmiding out into the body of
the church. On one side of the chancel is
:, 70 bei arecess for the new organ and on the
. other the pap'lstry With the roblng room
/ immediately Dehinu. me Old organ lott is
n to he removed and the body OF The church
a extendeq Dack, 81 me Walls are to be tinted
v light color lpstead OF the dark and dingy
color RS at present, and the church will be
N newiyocagpeted. These improvements have
N been contemplated ior some time, ana
% weeh comI,leIel VIII aug materially to in
id side appearances. services IN me mean
Is WINE VIII oe hc'u IN we court ho'ise'
If The highway surveyor is putting in n
newcoyered gutter at the crossing near the
sehaol hohse. aud opposite President HUI
bert's residence. We arc glad to zee these
improvements: bat why there are no Ian.
ID terms hung out at night Is beyond our com
{ prenehsion' ana we wonder II any one has
,Bn.'1T. iea svy open Htlteis anu ditches
Is without nghls; we nave hau very de-
H. clueu opinion aooat ms since we fell lIfC
lo an open trench oppositetne Congregations
ohurcht wh'ch was ieit IN the same man
m srio w no no. i'gns, Perhaps II some
10 ssni1u - aegiueS. napPahs ana lle Town pc
-, ,a,sa, r'' '''PN' f'SsNN' "'u'' -
y. p,n,a;o,,,;sn,;,o. a., h ;,
n tr;ct Ths frame ,yor ~ parl,a nv u's
or ;snn o,d tho h,,;,d;n,r i. 'shod snn
e. ward IN comrles;',n W. ha1a p1s ,ho, ~
il that snbstont;,i %r;ci, ~ s,ono hion,
hahnilt lmt w.. s,,nnoss obeon a,. h,,;,a;',.
cost less. Il seems az thongh il vos ..nan
- Nv Wis 4 IA nSnna afool;shF, ~ mn P hni
loon frame wooden finder boxes. One OF
en- the needs of Middlebury is good protection
Il. against tire. ,ss Yerg,nnes a few wears ar,
49, had a disastrous FIRE. The people acceptet
" the wayripg, aud built the water works, ant
to khow fea sAe.e Must Siiddlebury have ,
I'D second confiagration, or will she talk,
he measures d9r prpiection!Eq with thor
Nv oughly equipped fire department, this las
=. hre Inlght nave psen coninsd 70 a small
nc area. water works which would drowl
he nny hre liiay " Pu' III VIII comparatively
nd I'LL zap ,..aau
ne me .t bears nave -peeii making SAD havoc
,is among me sheep IA ING east part OF tn
Town; nAshageo oid pear mas been seer
gu proving ABOUT, ana mr.. fratt set tral
he l9r nun pnp caugnt q spotted lynx. Th
at old pear seem 70 nave seen the trap apd
w. avoided 1t, but the lynx was not so foItu
l 81 nf IL