The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-07-18
Vicinity Items.


The first thing on the carpet last week
was the departure on the early train Mon
day morning OF G. S. Sherman, E.q., and
his SONS Charlie and Fred for the worlds
great peace Jubilee at Philadelphia. They
returned safely on the last train Saturday
evening, after having been pretty well
roasted and toasted on and around the CEN
tennial grounds by night and by day
through the week, with the thermometer
up among the nineties and over all the
time Mr.. Sherman's Oldest son, G. f.
sherman, is a resident of the Quaker City.
On the afternoon of Monday one of the
most furious thunder showers of the sum-
ner passed over us. The display of hea-
ems artillery was decidedly fearful, The
host fatal freak of the occasion was the
me that caused the instant death of three
Charlie Ransom's valuable young cattle,
q his farm three miles north of here.
hey were valued at hundred dollars.
10 insurance.
AT six o'clock Monday evening the bios
ON on Mrs. Preston's night blooming
circus began to open, and between that
bur and ten one hundred persons visited
hr parlor to witness it, some of the visit
OBJ viewed it with delight and admiration
am exclaimed, how beautiful, Oh, how
| BEAUTIFUL the next morning its glory and
beauty had departed. The plant is TWO
years old and this was the first bloom or
| blossom.
rhe Ladies' Corban Society held a
PLEASANT, social, and genial reunion with
Ms B. w. and Miss Frank Burt Wednes-
da evening. The guests of the society
fr,m abroad were Prof. Wright, wife and
daughter from Massachusetts,, Prof Arnold
an. lady from st Louis, Misses Curtis and
Smith from Indiana. The contributions Of
pleasure and profit was quite liberal
A Castleton girl, recently married and
| now residing in another county with hei
husband, spent commencement week q,
Williamstown, Mass. Her husband, by
the way, is graduate of Williams Col
lege, in the class of 1868. She thought il
pleasure enough for one week TO be per
mitted to see and hear such representative
men as ex-President Mark Hopkins. d. D..
William Cullen Bryant and David Dudley
Field of New York, Gen. Garfield of Ohio
and others. Four graduates of this cele
brated institution are in Castleton-Rev
Il. T. Hooker, Prof. r. M. Wright, Sam
uel Williams, Esq, and Cashier d. ID
| Cole
X man who left Castleton in 1910 for thu
west, and has been leading merchant il
one of the most delightful and enterprsinl
cities IN Michigan more than thirty years
| informs your correspondent that he hal
taken the Rutland Herald twenty years a
| two and two dollars and fifty cents pc
year for nothing only the Castleton notes
lie now patronizes another Rutland paper
Miss Louisa M. Hulet, of Hampton, N
| Y, has lately spent some days in the fam
| lily of Mr.. NJ. ID. Cole. She is remember
ed as the faithful governeas of the semin
airy some three years when its interest
were in the hands of the late Rev. Il: J
Ifaliurk
Miss Sarah Hooker, of Boston, Mass.
visited her brother. Rev. L 4. Hooker
most of the time last week. She tool
leave of here Saturday for Bread Loaf Inn
Ripton, where she proposes to spend
good share of the present hot term. Mis-
Hooker was the principal instructor o
music at the seminary in the years 1862 an,
1868 when Miss Haskell presided over 1t
| destlnies so successfully.
The handsomest fence in the village i
the one just constructed by a Whitehall
man for Mrs. Noyes, in front of her dwell
ing, known as the Judge Wright place.
is one hundred feet long and it cost a SOUR
hundred dollars. The finishing touche
we're put on by Sam. Brainard, the knigh
of the auger, plane and brush.
The nomination of Mr.. Williams 70
senator is duly appreciated by the freeme
of this, his adopted town, and of this en-
tire probate district, and it will be full
demonstrated at the ballot box in Septeu
Der. The backbone of the democratic part
of Casteton raised a Tiden and Hendrick
flag Saturday afternoon. When will tn
republicans go and do likewise for Haye
and Wheeler? b. W. u.