The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-26
LOCAL MI NGION.
Gold 114s.
Read Col. Colburn's valentine.

Of selectmen next Tuesday.
The bursted water pipes at the court
house were repaired yesterday.
Captain Thomas Failey, of Burlington
was at the Bates House yesterday.
"To step aside is human" especially
when the street is full of puddles.
1t was thought yesterday that we had a
mutual admiration society" in town.
THE GLoEE is under obligations to Sen
ator Edmunds for interesting public docu-
ments
We publish on the second page full
statement of the financial condition of the
town.
The great thaw is twenty-five days be-
hind time. The streets are full of slush
and ice.
A sharp dog fight on the principal street
corner was about the only excitement in
town yesterday.
A meeting of Central Council of the
the Sovereigns of Industry will be held on
Friday evening.
East creek already shows signs of up
heaval, and when it comes we fear there
will be crash among the bridges.
Regular monthly meeting of Nick
wackett Engine Company, No. /, this
friday evening, at u o'clock.
A brief and spicy debate occurred be-
tween two life insurance agents on the
street corner yesterday afternoon.
They had roasting cars in Corpus Chris
ii, last week. They weren't so plenty as
frozen ones in this vicinity, though.
Many of our citizens were busy yester-
day IN clearing sidewalks and opening
water courses as far as practicable.
The rain of yesterday afternoon was fol-
lowed by an added chilliness in the atmos-
phere which betokens colder weather.
There has been violent change in the
weather in this vicinity, and we are
plunged into impenetrable fogs and mists.
Scarlet fever in its severest form is still
abroad among us, and number of children
in town are sufferers from the dread NAL
ady.
Trouble on the Hudson River, caused by
the breaking up of the ice, delayed the
trains from that section somewhat, yester-
day.
Lenten services at Trinity church at II
this morning and sermon at : in the even
ing by Rev. Chas. r. Ogden, of Bellows
Falls
Locomoton is daily growing safer on the
sidewalks and more dangerous along the
highway. The streets are now one mass
of solid ice.
A call, signed by some twenty ofour bes
citizens,is out for caucus TO be held at the
town hall Saturday evening, as appears il
another column.
Hot lemonade is one Of the best rene
dies in the world for a cold. 1t acti
promptly and effectively, and has no un
pleasant after-effects.
Rev. Norman Scavcr, ID. D., was pres
ent and addressed the children at tn,
Brooklyn orphans home, at reception
given by them last Monday.
The cellars in town remain PRACTICAL,
dry so far as heard from, but should th,
rain continue much longer those on Mer
chants Row will be filling up.
Mr.. A. C. Bates left home on Tuesday
morning on an extended trip 10 the west
He will be gone about two months, ant
will go as far west as Colorado.
The sewing society connected with the
Rutland missionary association, will NEE
to-day, Friday, at 2 p. M, in the Trinity
= church. Ladies' rooms over the Baxte
bank.
The New York express over the Harlem
Extension division, arriving here at
o'clock p. M, is to be put on again mex
Monday. THIS is good news to all alonI
the line of the road.
The Manchester journal says Gentle
men from the suburbs with ladies in charg
ought to keep sharp lookout for tn
points of the compass in thickly settle
place like Manchester.
A Rutland man who spent one night al
tending the races at Ticonderoga, is said
have returned home the next morning wit
over one hundred dollarsimorh in his pockt
than he had when he left.
A lady out shopping, in zero weather
had cat reposing warm and peacefl
under her shawl she had picked it up
the street, all forlorn, half frozen and hal
starved, TO carry home and provide for.
There will be a musical entertainer
given by the young ladies and gentleme
of West Rutland this evening, for the ber
eft of the Baptist Sunday school library
at the Town hall in that place. A yer
pleasing occasion is anticipated.
The next lecture before the Brando
Farmers Club will be delivered by Mr. "
II. Utley, of Crown Point, on the evenin
of March 9th. Subject "Our need {
each other" He will be followed by eth,
Col. Joyce Or DR.. Loring of Massachusett
Mrs. Flora i. Barry the contralto of Il
Boston English opera company, who a.
peared here as Nancy in the opera I
Martha" the present season, assumes Il
same role with the Kellogg English opel