The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-22
LOCAL MENTION.

Saturday afternoon.
President Buckham, of the university at
Burlington, is seriously III.
Killington lodge No. 90, /. o. o. F.,
meets this evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Shovelng snow was the Sunday morning
diversion of many of our citizens.
Highland Gray has not been entered in
the races at Ticonderoga this week.
Rev. Mr. Mills preached forcible SER
mon yesterday morning on the boarding of
wealth.
Conductor John J. Paris will not &C.
cept a situation on the Panama railroad at
present.
Rev. Z. Mills begins his labors with the
First Baptist church ut Wohurn, Mass, on
Sunday, March 7th.
Dantorth held the rcins over Highland
Gray when he took the free for ALL at the
Burlington races last Friday.
A tip-over and lady and gentleman
struggling in snow bank was one of the
Sunday sights on West street.
We inform an inquirer that the Twenty
second of February is not made legal holt
day by the statutes of ' ermont
The mail train from Boston was one hour
and half late Saturday afternoon. The
delay being caused by the snow storm.
A disagrceablc snow storm prevailed
throughout New England on Saturday.
Some five or six inches favoring this sec
ton.
We understand that number of young
men about iowa are taking steps toward
starting new secret society on the tenn
perance plan.
George Washingtons have been numer-
GUS in America; namesakes but not rivals
of him who was and has remained distin-
gulsbcd as the "First."
A rumor is abroad that New York
train, arriving here at 5 p. M, is soon to be
put on, whereby the New York papers can
arrive here at that hour.
Those young gentlemen that sought TO
gain entrance TO the Eddy homestead on
Saturday evening last, and didn't succeed.
were not much Eddy fled.
Our farmers are complaining that tho
frost is penetrating into their cellars, and
freezing their potatoes and apples--to say
nothing of the cider barrels.
Tie night train from New York, over
the Rutland & Washington railroad, due
here at o'clock a. IN, did not arrive until
y o'clock on Sunday morning.
4 wealthy gentleman in one of our
churches yesterday in endeavoring to put
his contribution into tho box dropped the
Two cent piece OIL the floor.
1t was SO stormy Saturday that very few
people were on the streets besides those
ladies that were looking through Our MILL
merry establishments for spring ~ bonnetF.
1t is reported that horse was stolen
about FIVE o'clock Saturday afternoon from
the shed in the rear Of Landon's block,
corner of Merchants Row and West street.
We hardly know which is preferable, q
day when the thermometer is down to zero
or such day as Saturday, which was one
of the most unpleasant that we have had
during the winter.
slow do you like it as far as you have
got" was the sautation given to Rutland
man AS he suddenly sat down on Washing
ton street last Saturday afternoon. The
reply was more forcibe that elegant.
One of our business men taking advan
take of the fall Of p,ices on clothing ha
lately invested Filthy lucre' in a new
oyercoat, and when clad in the same i
hardly known by his most intimate friends
One day last week an uptown lady, WIFI
had Just purchased web of cotton clotl
and was carrying it home, stepped into on
of our grocery stores and ordered n hal
pound of tea with instructions to have
"sent up"
John Haley was arralgned before Jus
tice II. w. Porter, on Saturday, on com
plant issued by Grand Juror j. j. r. Ran
dali, for gambling and keeping a gambIin
resort. The case was continued at the re
quest of w. G. Veazey, the respondent
counsel, until Monday, March LIST.
Miss Alma Penfield, an estimable we
-known lady, long a resident of Rutland,
sister of Mrs. Flack and the late Mr.
Thomas Mclaughlin, was stricken wit
paralysis on Monday morning last, aud die
on Saturday morning at o'clock. Tn
funeral will take place this afternoon at
o'clock. The remains will lie taken I
Pittsford for burial.
The "father of his county" should be r
membered to-day by millions OF his chit
rem determined to initiate his urselfish, p
triotic, wise aud comprehensive Statesman
ship, reading and pondering his farewe
address, which the boys of former ge
Grafton used to wear bound in morocco
and suspended by blue ribbon on the
breasts, when they paraded on the annive
sary OF his birthday, 143 years ago.
We were shown, Saturday, book pu
ished in 1862, containing sermons prenc
ed by Rev. Jonathan Edwards and 9th
prominent dyines Of that time also
copy of the history of the revolutional
war in verse, published by Isaac Skim
of Granville, N. y, in 1906, which Is e
tirely out of print, but copies are soug
for with much eage"ness by those wi
prize old works. The books have be-
sent TO the Vermont Historical Society.