The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
RntlanA aDetklp Gloht.
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1876.
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL. MENTlON,
Old Weatherwse predicts hot and dry
summer.
Well executed counterfeit quarter dollars
have made their appearance.
Somebody is killing off all the valuable
dogs and taking their hides.
Farmers will plant more corn and less
potatoes this year than Lass.
Counterfeit So and $40 on the Farmers
bank of Malone, N Y, are afoat.
On account of the temperance lecture no
no services were held at the Congregational
church last evening.
Centennial excursion tickets are sold
from Albany TO Philadelphia and back for
$3.50, good for 30 days.
Judge Dunton is planting centennial
trees about his residence, corner OF Wash
ngton and Nckwackett streets.
1t is feared that the intensely cold north
west wind of Saturday night has complete
ly blasted the buds of many of the early
varieties Of fruit.
A new Sunday milk train has been put
on over the Delaware and Hudson canal
compapys lines, leaving Rutland at five
o'clock in the morning.
A gentleman just returned from trip
through Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana says
that tramps are wanted in that country by
the farmers. Go west, young man, &c
west.
Mr.. Rufus II. Green, former well
known inventor, musician and music teach
er, died on Wednesday, at his residence in
Poultney, after lingering illness of some
months.
The people are warned to look out for
canvassing agents who want pay in adj
vance for the benefits they promise to con.
fer. Ascertain what you are paying fol
before you give away any money.
At the woman's suffrage convention, il
New York, Thursday. Mrs. Helen M. Slo
cum, formerly of Rutland, was elected cor
responding secretary of the New York state
womans suffrage association for the en-
suing year.
Recently, a dangerous counterfeit $l(
note of the National state bank at TerrC
Haute, Ind, and counterfeit So note o.
the First national bank of Louisville, havt
been discovered at the United States treas
uIy department.
N. T. Sprague, jr., returned from Phil
adelpha on Saturday. lie is enthusiastic
over the great success of the opening cere
monies. lie informs us that the frame OF
the Vermont headquarters had been raised
before he left Philadelphia.
Rev. Norman Seaver, d. D., preached
in the Rev. DR.. Cuylers church, on Sun
day evening, before the members of the
Twenty-third regiment, of Brooklyn, Of
which he is chaplain, and who were pres
ent in full dress uniform, without eros
straps or side arms.
The machinists have all been ordered ava.
from Salem to Green Island since the burn
ing of the car shops, except nall uOzel
to look after the property. Some siXt
men went down Monday morning. Thi
VIII be a severe blow to Salem, if the al
rangement becomes permanent. 1t is hope
that the men will be returned to the shop
in the fall.
The reform club have engaged the hal
in the Rutland national bank, formerly oc
cupied by the Young Mems christian asso
citation, and with the assistance of some o
the citizens are furnishing it. The clul
have received new members at every meet
ing and now numbers sixty. The mex
meeting will be held Wednesday evening
DR.. NJ. c. Edmunds, fish commissioner
started for Danville and Greensboro wit
lot of fish for the ponds in that vicinity
and was met by the great freshet in III
Connecticut and unable to conve
them further than Wells River, where i
left them in good condition in suitab
waters, telegraphing the parties for whoi
they were intended where they would fin
them.