The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-17
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MONDAY, JANUARY II, 1876.
State Newa

! her p"TueTs. garry Tue news To 81. AlD4ns.
Fire Press.
George Miller of Wiliston has been che
sen marshal, and w. j. Shetland Of Essex
general superintendent of the next Chitten-
den county fair
L. b. Eddy has entered a suit against
Shepard, Davis 81 Co. for alleged false ar
rest in Burlington, and claims damages to
the amount of $500 600.
st. Johnsbury has directed the village
trustees to report plan for getting a water
supply from the Passumpsc river at an es-
timalcd cost Of $50, 600.
Rochester is having lecture course this
season, the first lecture Of which was given
by President Hubert of Middlebury col.
lege, to be followed by five others.
The opening of the Portland and o.
densburg railroad to johnson is already re-
viving trade between upper Vermont and
Portland, which in former days was very
extensive.
Mrs. Ransom Adams of Newport Center
became enveloped in flames from an over
turned kerosene lamp, the other evening,
and was saved from a horrible death only
by great exertions.
The governor will probably accede to the
request OF the centennial committee, and
call an extra session of the Legislature, as
almost all the members are willing to pay
their own expenses to the capital and re-
turn.
For several weeks before the late warm
weather the farmers in Vershiro had ship
ped thousands of bushels of potatoes to
market. But teaming is SUSPENDED till
travelling shall be improved, when the rest
of the crop will be forwarded.
Three men, workmen in the quarry at
Isle La Mott, started from that place some
days ago, with team, to go across the ice
to Rnnec's Point, n. l., ana nave not been
heard from since. 1t is supposed they
broke through the ice and We're drowned.
Miss Fanny Wilson, the young lady for
love for whom Harvey S. Rogers of Cam
bridge shot himself, is under fourteen
years of age, which fact would very prop
erly cause her friends to advise her against
receiving the attentions this young man
was paying.
The committee appointed by the citizens
of st. Adams TO frame plan for the sup
preston of liquor selling has addressed
letter to the dealers in intoxicating
drinks" appealing to them to stop the
traffic, and warning them, kindly but
firmly" of the penalties of the law if they
do not heed this warning.
\ theological discussion was recently
held at IIardwick for two evenings,
between Rev. A. A. Hoyt of Westerly
and John Birks of Hardwick, on the ques-
ton of the Immortality Of the soul and its
existence, distinct from the body between
the death Of the body and the resurrection
and judgment.
The first fire alarm since the organization
of the fire department in MorrisviIe was
last Thursday evening, to go TO the aid of
the neighboring town Of Hardwick They
loaded their engine and hook and ladder
carriage in twenty minutes, but when the
train arriued at Wolcott the fire WAS re-
r~-'ol nndnr ""-'-@l. ord th.y- rotnrnnd
home
Mrs. Seymour, mother of Hon. Edward
Seymour Of Nergennes, was born in INC,
and if she lives til May she will be one
hundred years of age. She is very smart.
and bids air to live ten years yet. She Is
wonderfully proud of the fact that she has
lived to see the centennial year, and yer,
few are living who can say with this uld
lady, a." ! Was born before the declaration OF
independence.
The Union says that five year old SOB
of f. b. Hovey of Waterford recently
went into the barnyard to fe,d the chick
ems, and large hucl went at him and lu-
ted him nearly to death. Tie chids head
was b dly b Used, having large cash in
the side and bruise on the back. For
some time after he was found he was sup
posed to be dead, but consciousness was re-
stored a few minutes.
At the annual meeting of the Montpelier,
Hardwlck and Black River railroad, held
at lrasburgh on January 4th the following
persons were elected; William Hayden OF
Albany, A. Z. Judevne of lIardwlck, ].
B. Wheelock of Coventry, J. C. Dow Of
Albany, f. X. Powell of Craftsbury, p. b.
Hancock of Coventry, VIM. L. Barrows
and l.. IL. Thompson of Irasburg, and d.
II. Buck of Troy. Forty-one votes were
cast.