The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-04
LOCAL MENTION.

In town yesterday.
The "big show opens week from yes
terday, at twelve sharp.
The date of Barnum's centennial show
= here will be about the first Of June.
Mr.. Alfred b. Conner, telegraph mana
ger of Manchester, was In town yesterday.
Maggie johnson was yesterday commit
ted to Jail on old mttmuscs amounting to
el2O.
Spring vegetables are coming in market
from the south, and the demand equals the
supply.
Both scrip and silver are getting scarce.
Shrewd people carry nothing but ten dol
lar bills.
The Woman's Temperance Union"
will meet in the Baptist vestry this after
noon at 3 o'clock
Whitehall is to have ice ON the 18th. IT
the weather doesn't moderate they will get
1t fresh from the lake.
The real estate sbrinkags during the past
twelve months has ruined more holders
than most people are aware Of.
The rain yesterday YVES not wet enough
to prevent the dust from thickening the air
to greater degree than was pleasant
The annual auction of the Rutland book
club vlS held at the residence of Hon.
LuthDAoaniels, on Main street, yesterday
After twenty years of connection with
the lumber busnefs Of Burlington, Dea
Mai Davis retirss from tho firm of Shep-
ard, Davis & Co
The regular communication OF Center
|, lodge No. "a, F. and A. NJ, will be held
this (Thursday) evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Master Masons cordially invited.
We are under obligations to Prof. Peter
Collier for copy Of his opening address
delivered before the medical class of the
University OF Vermont, March 0, 1876.
The foundations of the new Bates house
are nearly completed, and the work is pro-
crossing rapidly. This corner seems to be
the one lively place IN Rutland just now.
Dealers of all classes report that spring
trade has fairly opened, and the present
indications are that business will continue
to be Lively during the remainder of the
season.
We are indebted 10 Hon. Charles II.
Joyce for pamphlet copy OF his speech,
son the early resumption OF specie pay
ments," delivered in the house of repre-
sentatives April Sth.
d. w. &. Gaskill, esq.,, of California,
and formerly of Clarendon, VT, is with
his family on visit to his Vermont
friends. lie is stopping with his uncle,
Newman Weeks of Rutland.
Counterfeit So bills on the Traders bank
of Chicago are freely offered, and there
are many unsuspecting takers. There
seems to be flood of counterfeit money
ahoat Business men should take warning
Centennial guides begin to appear in
abundance. One OF the best of these is
the "Ofilca Guide, published by Porter
& Coates, Philadelphia, and for sale by
Spauldng & Co. 1t is illustrated with
numerous engravings and maps.
A special dispatch TO the New York
Times says the committee on the Emma
mine investigation will very soon present
their report TO the house. 1t is likely to
censure Gen. Schenck, but 1t will not find
that he was guilty of any intentional
wrong.
See what it ID to be be an enterprlsing
newspaper with unlimited sources OF in
formation. The Whitehall Times has found
that there were five inches Of snow in Rut.
land Maydsy, and the two Rutland papers
and the half dozen Rutland correspondents
never knew 1t at all.
Ga the frat page to-day will be found
"The Poets first song," a translation by
William Cullen Bryant letter from
President Buckham relative TO the Uni
versity of Vermont and the state agricul
tural college On the fourth page Wells
items, and Vermont news.
A box was yesterday received by Dunn
g. Cramton from G. 9. Dunn, Florida.
contained a great variety of curiosities
among them a number of cypress knees TO
rustic baskets large number of canes @
various kinds shells, alligator paws
turtle shells, running moss, which will rul
among the branches Of tree all summer
and othera.
Next week promises variety of enter
tainments. Monday night is the Berge
family and Sol. Smith Russell at Bsxte
music hall, and Wednesday there will
the great Inauguration ball for the benefi
of the free library fund at Baxter hail., tn
most brilliant affair of the season, an
Madame Renizs female minstrels at tn
town ball.
One of our contemporaries has employed
asa local correspondent, an inmate CT III
Vermont Reform school, to furnish new
not from the Reform school, but from IL
city of Vergennes. 1t is understood thu
On inmate OF the Vermont state prison ca
have the situation Of local correspondent
from Windsor on the same cnterprisin
newspaper.
4 business man called at the bushes
Office of The GLOBE, yesterday, and O
dered an advertisement published in IN
DAILY and WEEKLY GLOBE stating Thu
he had received letters from some of h
former customers asking if he was still
business, they thinking, from the abscn'
of an advertisement in The GLOBE, TIL
he had retired. 1t does pay to advertise
THR GLOBE.
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