The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-15
Vicinity Items.
EAST DORSET.

Mrs. Duane Gilmore of Chester Cross
Roads, Ohio. started homeward on Monday
last. She was formerly Miss Rhoda Ben
son of this place, and has been here few
weeks visiting, "swcet Auburn, lovelest
village of the plain" and "dear, lovely
bowers of innocor and ease, and reioic.
ing the hearts of her parents, now more
than three score years and ten, and pour
ing sunshine around them "lke a shower
of gold" May she and all the far off sons
and daughters who do likewise have safe
and pleasant return.
Mr.. Jonathan Howard and wife returned
last week from Detroit, where they had
been summoned some weeks before to the
sick bed. and as it proved the death bed of
their only son and child. The deceased
was good little boy of bright intelligence,
and when he grew to manhood he was still
good and full of business activity and en-
terprise. But "dcath loves shining mark"
and George Howard has sought in better
world the need to blameless life by heaven
dccrecd."
Mr.. Il. Ii. Mosher had trial of speed
with the staging from the roof of build
ing to the ground, distance of about fif-
teen or twenty feet on Friday last, and
won by neck He didn't wake up for
some time, but no bones were broken and
he is doing well and will soon be about
again.
A Hayes and Wheeler flag 10xl5, ex-
elusive of margin for names, now floats in
the breeze between Barrows & Wilson's
inn and the store of j. M. Griffith. The
republicans hereabouts expect the gentle
men whose names arc inscribed thereon
will be president and vice-president 10 the
near future, the democracy to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
d. L. Kent and family, and w. D..
Ames and John Curtis of North Dorset,
have gone to the centennial. Others talk
about doing likewise. Mr.. Ames expects
to take trip to Washington and through
northern Virginia before returning.
AT last, on Sunday, the 9th ult., the
Union church was dedicated anew. DR..
Wickham, Prof. Shaw aud Reys. p. S.
Pratt and France were tho humble nstru.
menls. Mr.. Pratt read the hymns and
scripture, and Mr.. France offered prayer.
Prof Shaw preached the sermon and Dr.
Wickham followed with some remarks,
touching finance and the difference
between the new dedication and
the old and pronounced the benedotion
DR.. Cushman was expected to preach the
sermon, but at the eleventh hour and after
it was too late for his substitute to make
special preparation, he was taken sick and
so we listcned to the last anniversary ser
mon to the boys and girls of Burr and Bur
ton seminary. The house was choke-full
What the people wore we didn't mind. We
were looking mt the new Bible and hymn
book, the new pulpit chairs and marble-top
table, the new seats with their black wal
nut flush, the new carpet, the new uphol-
stery, the new organ, one of Estey's best,
| and the entire new and ne 1t interior With
| out the whole exterior is new and neat and
fashionable. There are new marble steps
and a marble walk extending therefrom to
the street and the ample grounds have been
improved and beautified by shade trees and
| inclosed by post and rail fence. And
now at cost of 50 800 we have a some
what attractive and convenient house of
| worship.
the 9th inst, aud a noisy and disgraceful
affair it was. Tilden reformers, born on
the Shannon and the Lffey, Keeling and
swearing and shaking their fists in the face
Of the tom authority and the authority re-
tusing again and again to take votes, and
threatening to arrest. Men, not few who
had been out of town in Rutland and else
| where all summer, were allowed to vote,
aud tickets intended to deceive careless re-
publican voters aud circular containing a
most scurrilous attack on republican nomi-
nees were freely peddled. At last on the
third ballot we were beaten by 10.
Y, NJ T.