The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-15
&utland 1UrEkIu @lsbe.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1875.
Vermont News.

Moan hlmDall, much respected citizen
* Pf Pownal, died very suddenly last We'd
< besday
Rev. Mr.. Trevilla1 of Barnard was
+ icked over by his horse recently, ard fell
violently that he broke his collar bore
The horse OF Asahel Regis of STAFFORD,
ook fright the other day and Mr.. Regis
lsd hip broken in jumping from the
wagon.
David r. Fuller was arrested at Chelsea
10 Friday for violation of the United States
eyenue law, and taken to Montpelier for
rial.
Tie Baptsts of Ncrgennes are building
large and elegant church. 1t is to be OF
brick, filed in aud ornamcnted with brown
81 ne.
There is o gang OF thieves who are COM
hitting a large number of petty theits in
and around Addison, tnl no clue can be
obtained to their identity.
Trial A. Clark Of Broosfield, was thrown
from his wagon few days since with such
+ violence as to render him insensible, and
. dlslocatc and fracture one shoulder.
Hon. George p Marsh Of Vermont, min
E lister to Italy, is believed to be the only d.
ploma,ic agent Of that grade now in the
service who was appointed by Lincoln.
An eminent statislician estimates that
e there are 400 900 yards of rag-carpeting in
use in Vermont, and that every third fam
ly has a set of quilting frames to lend.
A large party of the men ia the Yer
6ennes machine works have been thrown
out of employment, and the otbor hands
have all been put on three. quarters time.
Joseph NJ Side Of Lincoln, who has been
confined tor several months in the insane
asylum at Bra,tleboro, has returned to bis
home much improved if not entirely cured
The December term of the Windsor
II county court comm need at Woodstock on
. Tuesday, Dec. 8 The court room was
crowded with members of the bar, jurors
and spectators.
Savage Island, IN Lake Chanplain, east
of Grand Isle, s found t. consist mainly OF
black slat, of fine qualify, AM preparations
are making for quarrying it. The island
has an area of $50 acres.
Mr.. Ed ward Kitler of North Ferris
burgh has served as incumbent in the office
4 of district clerk nearly twenly-three years;
also as highway surveyor, at different
times, about fifteen years.
A correspondent writes that the revival
of religion in Grand Isle and South Hero Is
unprecedented in extent. Whole families
pre- protesting conversion. Ia Alburgh
some forty persons have been converted.
Alfre1 C. Rowland has begun picture
bf the Connecticut river valley and village
bf Windsor, Vermont, with the AscutIey
fountain in the background, from studies
made last summer The size of the eau
ass is 80 by 20 inches. lie IS also at work
pom several cabinet pictures.
That pet of the democracy and hope Ct
fc eekers, Allrich, is getting wide
ut not particularly desirable reputation.
mong Other fragrant notices Of the prest
be New York Tribune says of his perform
pee, Wednesday sin Vermont there was
democratic lunatic loose.
Six years ago the St. Johnsbury Gale
bnian Mas sued for libel by DR.. Durant,
be doctor putting his damages at the sum
So 900. On the 9TH instant the case was
Ihdrawn, the defendant giving iudgmtn'
one cent damages and paying the costs
the supreme court. Ii Del suits as a rule
not profitable to the plaintiff.
O1e day recently fellow of an excitabe
mperament rode In hot haste from Bird
Drt to Mi1dlebury, aud went about town
pr some time looking for recruiting Of
Ger with whom he might enlist to go 10
Vashingtl IN to help clean out the demo
rats. He actually believed that the demo
ia.s hal taken the city, and "were raisin
be deVil'' there, as he himself expressed it
The Montpelier Argus charges tia. The
ill to refund N. T. Sprague, j., of Bran
on the money spent by him on the state's
entennial building was worked through
y trckeTy, that the house, regretting its
assage of the bill. killed it by refusing
ome senate amendments; but that some
ody stole It from the clerks file and re-
urned it TO the senat@, where it was pssst d
the original ht use form, when Mr.
prague has!en9d to the TIE lsurer and drew
is money.
The following notice of former Vermont
RS from Randolph, is from the Sycamore
pity, Illinois Weekly;
"Not the lea important business in the
ty 10 that OF our produce dealers. From
nal beginnings it has assumed large pro-
|orlions. One firm, that of Paine & Car
by, have done a business of some $40, 900
more the present season. With a single
Boston firm they have dealt to the extent
I 100000. AS high as $50, 900 was in the
ands of the firm alluded to, at one lime
hey have picked 35 900 dozen of eggs
: his year. The firm dee, business at De
lslo as we'll as here. Messrs. PAIGE &
farley are liberal, accommodating dealers
nd as a consequence their business is con.
family increasing"
The board of trustees of the Vermont
cademy recently held meeting at Rut
pod at which they fixed upon the course
ttudy TO be pursued in that institution
be course is equal to that of any schoo
the kin in this country. 1t consists o.
wo departments, a classical and an Eng
sh Ia the classical, men will be fully
tied to eater the frat colleges in the land
be course being shaped with special refer
nee to the requirements of Harvard ant
rown. A two years course in Frencl
German, as the scholar may ele IT, ha
cen added to the admirable English course
which it is designed that the pupil shal
come able to read tie language With thu
lme facility as his own, to write 1t wild
pre-, and T. speak it with some degree o
ccuracy. With Prot. Willard a. princi
al This academy is undoubted destinet
rank among the best institutions of III,
nd --BellOrs FdLs Times.
A more unique, conveniently arrange
stefully fnished and handsomely decorat