The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-09
Vermont News.

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been organized in West Randolph.
Convicts in the Vermont state prison are
working for Boston firm at 80 cents a
day.
Col J. B. Mead addressed the reform
club at West Randolph, Wednesday even.
ing.
The contributions from St. Johnsbury to
the American board of commissioners for
foreign missions foot up $3,S0i.35.
An excursion took place on Saturday.
from Wells River and below on the Pas
sumpsic, to the White mountains notch.
Mrs. II. B. French of Fletcher, trained a
squash vine on to the roof of her house,
and has harvested 100 pounds Of squashes
from it.
Mr.. Louis Follclt, formerly of Burling-
ton, has formed co-partnership with
Capt. p. D. Blodgett in the insurance bust
ness ct st. Johnsbury.
Charles Lee, the pickpocket, had his
trial in the Franklin county court, We'd
nesday, aud it took the jury only few
moments to find him guilty.
Hayden, the Derby line wife murderer,
has been removed TO Windsor prison, for
safe keeping, until February, when he will
be tried. He is looking we'll.
The statement that the Burlington Rifle
-. i,.l t1.u 49, 49,.
under the auspices of the Crescent City
club of New Orleans, is denied.
The October meeting on White River
park at Bethel, is appointed for Tuesday
and Wednesday, Oct. nth and 18th, when
$4,000 in pursc1 will be offered.
Twenty citizens of st. Johnsbury, in
Guiding the two pastors Of the Congrega-
tional churches, were in attendance upon
the American Board at Hartford.
The annual target shoot Of the Ransom
Guards.di not take place at st. Adams on
Wednesday, Oct. 4, on account of the rain.
The shoot has been indefinitely postponed.
All the stores and places of business in
| ST. Adams will be closed at 5 o'clock in
the evening from October /, 1876, to April
| 10, 1877, by an agreement of all the mer-
| chants
DR.. II. II. Atwater, the Vermont CON-
missioner of the insane, strongly urges that
the question Of the sanity or insanity of q
person charged with crime ought not to be
lett to a jury.
B. G. Bagley of Bethel, had AGO bushels
of corn ground into meal and put aboard Of
the cars in fourteen hours. The corn was
taken across the stream from the store
house in an elevator during the time.
The friends of George N. Pike and wife,
Sept %, it being the twentieth anniversary
Of their wedding day. Substantial tokens
of their friendship were left in articles Of
use and beauty.
A suspicious character, who made an un
successful attempt to steal the team of j
A. Wyman of Bloomington, in the AlleI
Woods of Ilasbuig. Tuesday night, ha
been arrested and lodged in Irasburg Jail
He feigns idiocy.
Dana Tory, living in the noithery par
Of the town, brought to the town clerk
Office in Be hel a black bear, which he hat
shot that morhing. II weighed about for
tv-fve pounds, for which he desired a Ger
tiicate for Sl5.
The weekly offerings at the North Con
gregational church, St. Johnsbury, for tn
quarter ending September 1st, amounted
to 81 ,6S1 70, which, after deducting ex
penses, leaves balance of 81, 900 for bo
o1volent objects.
With great frankness the Chicago Time
, says: "The result of the election i'll Vel
mont makes it plain that Mr.. Tilden's bar
o money" either did not arrive in til
, Green Mountains on time, or that it wa
not placed where it would do tie moi
r good"
The state superintendent of educatio
thinks it has been demonstrated that ii
town system of commo n schools is simple
D more flexible, more efficient, more conven
| tul duu luuTt eCDuOiuiCdi tuC diSt ~
system, and yet il is in operation in onl
seven towns in the state.
, Frank Durham. a boy eighteen yea
n old, recently took fifty dollars from Il
pocket of James Winslow of East Concor'
at night He denied the theft, but final
. gave up thirty-pirc dollars and fegnt
sickness and great distress. So the Office
d left him with nurse, but he very soon g
e able to leave for parts unknown. 1t h
since been learned ne had committed oth
thefts.
" The st. Adams christian workers,
,. their last quarterly meeting, voted
h change the name to that of the Your
Mems christian association, in order to
, in more perfect correspondence with sin
lar organizations throughout the stat
= The organization is very simple and inc
J. ptnsive, and consists OF an executive cor
W mi,tee of six, who direct in all matter
D They are selected two from each of q
Baptist, Congregational and Method
d, churches
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