The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-11
Vermont News.

Wilmington is to have new national
bank, the stock of which is nearly all
taken.
The new Pavilion hotel at Montpelier,
is to be opened on the. god, with grand
house warming.
A new Methodist church has been organ
lied at Elmore, Lamoille county, with a
membership of seventy.
The funeral of DIR. w. II. Marvin of
Chicago, son of Richard Marvin, esq.,, was
attended at Swauton on Wednesday, Rev.
Mr.. Wilder officiating.
The population of Brattleboro village
and Centerville is over 5000, which is
more than the population of the whole
town at the last census
The senate has passed, without opposi-
ton, the bill for the relief of the First ma
tional bank of st. Albans, robbed of gov
ernment bonds by confederate raiders.
The celebrated trotting horse Tommy,
owned by Mr.. Dow of Albany, Orleans
county, fell dead while being driven in the
road near Morrisvllle on Saturday. He was
a valuable animal.
1t is said that Mr.. Rollin G. Bromley,
late town clerk and postmaster, of Hunt
ington, has position in Washington, d.
c., as messenger for Senator Edmunds, at
a salary of 500 per month.
A dozen students in the New Hampton
school at Fairfax are in rebellion because
the principal has interfered with their fun
going home from prayer-meetings with the
gals.
The copperas mine at Copperas Hill in
STAFFORD, which was the first place in the
United States from which the mineral was
taken, 70 years ago, is still operated, being
now owned by w. II. Foster of Brooklne,
Mass.
The New York Tribune of Saturday
prints in full the answer filed by its attor-
ney to Mr.. T. w. Parks libel suit, which
repeats, and under the protection given by
the New York code, adds to the original
libes
Mr.. Peter Laro, of Essex, N. Y, came
very near being drowned, last Saturday,
while crossing the lake to Charlotte, on
the ice with the mail He succeeded in
rescung himself, however, and getting on
to Sloop Island, where, it is said, he came
near freezing before he could get help.
Representatives of a majority Gin amount)
of the creditors of l.. +. Arlington, of St.
Adams, have voted to accept forty per
cent. Certain New York houses, nuwu rS-,
have inotruotad their agents not to accept
the compromise, for they desire to have
Mr.. Arlington investigated.
st. Adams had genuine Jewish wedding
Monday night, at the residence of Mr..
Henry Danenbaum, on Rugg street, the
groom being Mr.. Moses Simon, of Tarer,
Iowa. and the bride Miss L. Rosenberg of
st. Albans, sister of Mrs. Danenbaum.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. S.
Bergman of Pittsburgh.
Mr.. X. S. Edwards, Of Tunnel City,
Wis, having read that some Vermont lady
had made bed quilt containing 4,56e
pieces, says that his wife, 81 years old, has
made one containing 1918 diamond shaped
| pieces, every one of which is quilted
around. If that lady didn't go from Yer
mont, then we shall lose our guess.
Mr.. Heman Johns of North Huntington
is at present afflicted with varicose veins
on his limbs, rendering amputation neces
sary to the saving of his life, and fears art
entertained that this severe remedy may
prove fatal. He has been a man of grea
muscular power, having accepted chal
lenge from the champion wrestler of Soutf
America, and, being victorious, won tn,
belt and watch, which ale still IN his pos
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