The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-21

ne annual muster OF tuc STATE militia
will be held at st. Adams this year.
A large Tlden and Hendricks banner
has been thrown to the breeze at St. AL
bans.
Congress hall, Sheldon, has thirty guests,
Bellevue house nearly as many, and the
Portland few. More are arriving daily.
Benjamin II. Leach. aged 70 years,
respected resident of Fairfield, fell from a
beam in his barn, recently, breaking sew
eral ribs and injuring him so that he died
on the 18TH
The Messrs. butchers of st. Adams,
are shipping about 5000 worth of their
lightning fly paper daily. They give en-
ployment to seventeen girls in preparing
and putting. up the paper.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
At the speciel meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Portland and Ogdensburg rail-
road, held at Hydepark, Tuesday, the d.
rectors were, by unanimous vote, author
lied to issue the preference mortgage bonds.
| The meeting was very harmonious. The
hall was densey crowded and numbers
could not get access. The utmost good
| feeling prevailed and much confidence was
inspired in the early completion Of the
| road.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The Baptists of Randolph are to organize
into a society and build church.
The Rev. s. w. Dixie of the CoDgrega.
tional church, Randolph, will be absent for
| the next succeeding three Sabbaths on his
| vacation.
| City boarders arrived in quite large num-
| bers at Randolph during the heated term
| and are scattered around at the hotels and
| private residences.
The streams and springs are lower If
Vermont now than for many years, there
having been no continuous rains since las
| May. The reservoir which supplies Ran
| dolph village, which is fed by springs
is now wholly insufficient to supply the de
mand.
| ORLEANS COUNTY.
Henry Condor of Coventry was fatally
overcome with the heat while harvesting
on Friday.
Summer tourists are very scarce in New
port so far this season, and the hotels hav,
made up their minds for dull season
Not one-fourth as many guests as in pre-
vious years.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Several laborers on the Montpelier an
Wells River railroad were Frustrated b,
heat last week.
The Sovereigns of Industry have opene
a store in Montpelier. The Changers tai
of doing the same thing in the same place
The village of Montpelier has a meetin
July 22d, to see if the citizens will vote t
supply the town with water for the pui
pose of extinguishing fires.
Hon. Il. p. Walton, of Montpelier, wer
TO Plainfied Springs Tuesday, where h
will spend few weeks in mental labor an
writing, as is his usual custom.
The democrats of Mortified raised
Tilden and Hendricks flag Saturday ever
ing last, with speech by G. M. Fisk an
music by the Mortified cornet band an
the brass cannon.
| The largest man in Montpelier is E.
Irish, whose usual weight is 375 pounds
He is now little lighter than that, OWN
to a recent fit of sickness. Miss Aldricl
of Barre, an unmarried lady, weights 81
|, pounds, and she is not the largest of ii
family, it is said.
Mr.. Hayden, gardener at Montpelie
! has created considerable excitement in ce
tain quarters by wholesale slaughter {
, cats. By placing poisoned meat in h
garden, where the cats were wont to col
gregate, he has killed many pet cats, an
he has been warned in writing not to thro
any more dead cats into the West brancl
Three lawyers who were on a mounta
in Calais. running out disDute9 ,ltne s
in the forest, and j. A. Wing, who is veI
old, came near melting himself The la
+ mile he walked he was so overcome by IL
heat and fatigue that he could only 90
few rods without restiag. He is now in
proving, and will, in few days, it
, hoped, have recovered.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
George Budson, a shoemaker, employe
by G. E. Holbrook of Bellows Falls, sht
himself in a shed connected with the sho
Monday afternoon, living only few mt
ments after committing the deed. He ws
30 years old, and has no relatives in tn
part of the country. Dependency cause
by the habit of opium-eatng, caused hiI
to take his life, which he had attempted
number of times before
WINDSOR COUNTY.
G. III. Mitchell. of Concord, n. H.. an
A. ii. Libby, of Springfield, will walk
, ten mile match for the championship
Vermont, on the grounds of the Spring
field trottiDg park association, on Friday
July 81.