The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-25
Centennial Gossip.

OCuteuHAol OOoolp.
The police force on the grounds Is to be
reduced to 1000 men.
benefit by the closing of the grounds Sun
days.
The great demonstration of the national
division of the cons of temperance will take
place June 12.
Up to the 22d inst. only seven pick
pockets had been arrested and convicted at
at the exhibition.
A steady increase of paying visitors to
the exhibition is claimed. Cash admis-
sions on Saturday last were 1912
The different displays in agricultural
hall are said to DC very curious, and not to
attract the attention which they deserve
Eight car loads of goods from Australia
arrived last Thursday. These will com
plcte the display of the EngliOh depart
ment.
James Gordon Bennett and George W.
Chlds will both provide costly prizes, to
be competed for at the coming information
81 regatta.
From May 23 to October II, there to'
be in Philadelphia no less than Ga conven-
tons, conferences, congresses of STATE,
national and international character.
1t is stated as one reason why the expo
sition should not be opened on Sunday,
that it "would be fragrant breach of the
well-settled law of the state of Pennrylva-
| MIA"
Many of the large employing establish
ments in Philadelphia have made arrange
ments 10 give their workmen day at the
exhibition some of them even two, with
out docking wages.
Governor Tilden has accepted the escort
| rendered him for the 4th of July celebra-
ton at Philadelphia, by the Albany zouave
cadets. By this acceptance the CADETS will
have the right of the line of the New York
state militia.
Mr. j. n. Read, the leading dairy pro-
duce dealer of Philadelphia, has resigned
from the dalrymen's centennial committee
because of a difference with Mr.. 0. s.
Bliss of Vermont and other members of
the committee.
All things considered there will be no
better time 10 visit the exposition than in
these last days Of Missy and the first week
in June. The weather is perfect, the
flowers, trees and greensward in the
grounds are looking their BEST the city is
remarkably healthy, lodgings are abundant
and comparatively cheap.
The Army of the Potomac society is to
hold It's annual reunion in the city of Pha-
delphia, Pennsylvania, on June 9th next,
at the Academy Of Music, at noon. Major
General John A. Dix, late governor of New
York, will deliver the Grafton, and William
Winter, esq, Of New York, will read an
original poem. A grand banquet at Saint
Georges hotel is to follow In the evening.
A large gathering of veteran survivors is
expected.
A commemorative exhibition will be
opened on the 9TH of June, to illustrate
and celebrate the birth of the nation and
the principal events in Its history. This
exhibition has grown oat of the "historicsl
department." which, some time since, was
committed to the care of Col. Frank
Etting. The 7th of June is the anniversary
of the day on which Richard Henry Lee
offered in congress the resolution for indie
pendence, and on that occasion there may,
perhaps be some literary ceremonies. The
work on the historical rooms in the Art
Annex will hardly be ready by the time
appointed; but by July there will be an ex-
ceedingly interesting collection under Col.
Eting's charge.
An interesting corner in the American
section OF the main building is that where
the TRANSACTIONS of the Scriptures into two
hundred languages are shown by means of
excellent specimens. The collection COM
prehends series Of bl-lingual volumes
also, showing at one opening the combina-
ton of English Scriptures with German,
French, etc. This exhibit is under the
charge of the American Bible society," The
"Bntish and Foreign" has loaned many of
is treasures for the occasion, among them
ire John Miton's Bible, and a lovely copy
If the Scriptures printed in Venice before
the discovery of America.
Mr.. Longfellow's visit TO Independence
Hall on Saturday seems to have turned at
tention in the direction of the venerable
structure, which has been somewhat neg
lected since the movement began toward
the exhibition. Tuesday there was large
number Of visitors there, including dis
tinguished people from numerous cities.
Up to last week the precincts of the sacred
ediiice were held mainly possession of by a
crowd of losfersh men and boys, who
seemed to fancy themselves specially ap-
pointed to inundate the passers-by with
tobacco juice but now ladies In bright
costumes and the mass of cultured folk are
making their pilgrimage to the shrine Of
Liberty.