The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-12
Vicinity Items.

FAlRllANEN.
We see evidence, daily, of g revival Of
business in this place, in some of our mills
that had kept running On Eight orders"
they are at work full time on "heavy or
ders" Some mills are working q quarter
extra time. This. with the increased de-
mand for roofing slate, Q1,000 squares Or
dered for export IN SepttmteO increases
the dem, nd for laborers IN toe quarries,
which stimulates TIE merchant, farmer and
mechanic The enc move acts upon the
whole business the same rs does walking
beam act upon steamboat. While tue
walking beam remains statiOrary the boat
moves only by tue force Of the tide,
wird or current; but when the machinery
is adjusted, steam let on, the walking
beam moves, then the boat will be pre-
PEELED against the action Of wind, tide and
current. When we start from the right
position we shall prosper even though the
winds Of adversely shall blow.
Mr.. Leander Sheldon of this place has
given evidence OF desire to return TO the
habits of our fathers. Friday evening he
hsd au old fashioned husking party, jolly
party OF ladies' and gentlemen who had
jolly time, huskipg corr and eating pump
kin pies. If they did not eng the song they
did no, 60 home till morning. More par-
ties like this and fewer dress PARTIES, we
will be just as happy and our outgoea will
not exceed our incomes.
For some time | have been anxious to
get hold OF the hand Of your Dorset core
spondeDt, look him in the eye and res il il
was not Hilsnd II. If his eye is as bright
as his productions, should dislike to have
him look sharp at me. His letters read as
H II. ii. used to talk. s.
Guess again. There lie more than one
bright man in Dorset -ED.
WOODSTOCK.
Tuesday of last week being the 10th an
niversiry OF the marriage Of DR.. o. w.
Sherwin, large number Of persons in
vaded their residence in the evening unin-
vitel, bringing with item presents, useful,
valuable, ornamental and otherwise;
among them were several dolls, the signifi-
canoe of which wa, well understood and
appreciated. The presents were Of tin,
On tie fair grounds Saturday, Norman
Taylor ran twelve miles in one hour eleven
mi0utes and thirty-three seconds.
The Woodstock railroad company are
building an engine house on the depot
grounds.
BURLINGTON.
At the recent bankers convention in
Philadelphia, Henry =. Hickok, president
of the Merchants bank of Burlington, was
chosen vice president of the association Tor
Vermont.
j. j. Richardson of the Davenport,
Iowa, Democrat, is visiting at Burlington.
MIR. Richardson is native of Vermont.
This Ia his thirty-sixth trip from the Mis-
SIS ippi valley to tAe Atlantic seaboard.
IL. l,l 10, fra Gu Inxr
night.
Gen. W. W. Henry and family, Gen.
Geo. p. Foster and wife, aud i. l.. Law
renee. esq, left for the centennial en- Mon
day night.
The first snow of the Season fell at Bur-
ling,on on Sunday night, but it speedily
disappeared on Monday morning.
Sheriff Drew escorted to the state prison
n. Windsor, Monday, John Mcnamara, re-
ceiving stolen goods, sentenced to five
years; Joseph Laplant, larceny, three
years; Eli Paya, forging an order for
clothing, one year.
The board of school commissioners have
decided to allow the teachers Of public
schools leave of absence for enc week to
attend the centennial, provided substitutes
be supplied. Suci of the tcholars as wish
TO go are also granted leave of absence.
Many of the teachers and scholars will
start for Philadelphia at the end of the
week.
MIR. T. V. Cosgrff on Monday, while
engaged in putting furnace into the resi-
dence of Capt. John Il. Drew, met with O
nearly fatal accident. A workman over
head accidently let slip a piece of heavy
joist-timber, which iell, striking Mr.. Cos
griff Just back of the crown of the head
knocking him for moment senseesa
Fortunately the skull was not fractured
and he escaped with apparently nothing
more serious than a severe shock and la,
scalp wound
OAsTLRToN.
1t Is with pride aud satisfaction that
take upt II myself the name Vermonter, ant
as your much sought for and wil1ly.circu
lated paper is the print of old Vermont
allow me through its columns to speak o
that beautiful little village of Castleton
which lies some twenty milas west of ih
Vert Monts," and at the junction of thu
Rensselaer, and Saratoga and Rutland an,
Washington railroad thereby making 1t o
easy access. Its location cannot be excele,
il equalet in our own Green Mountail
state. The streets are broad and neat will
fine residences, and symetericslly shadet
with the dim leaiy maple and fragrant 10
Gust, which together beautify and charm
The beholder ss he diiaks in to the fulles
extent its many attractions can but eXclalm
how peaceful, though by this expression
peaceful ii he were to test by experience
would eady be disappointed. Justice can
not always be found,as there are inbeded il
the heart OF some who claim to be of tina
family known as Goldfish aIistocracy or no
bility of Castlelon to crush TO earth at an
and all times, those who hold to justice anl
stand for the right in any place, and TO aid
protect, forward the work of the devil tina
old serpent who was cursed above all cat
tie, and above every beast of the field, al
of which to gain their own sinful end
which will if persistive aud at the last bit
like serpent and sting like an adder
There are here some twenty places OF bust
ness which jog along in the same old wa.
from year 10 year as there Is no wa
street TO excite this community and we de
mend mostly on the agricullurst for trade