The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-10

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1875.
LOCAL MENTION.

Election day in Rutland was exceedingly
quiet, there bling no riots, fights or arrests.
Sweet potatoes are very plenty this year,
the largest and best coming from New
Jersey.
Mrs. Senator Foote left on Monday to
spend the winter with a brother at Staten
Island.
A. D. Francisco is now general agent
for the Farmers mutual insurance COM
pany. Office, No. II church street.
The consumption of grapes is steadily in
creasiug in Vermont, and tons are sold
where a few hundred pounds formerly suf-
feed.
A. E. Frink, No. . Nickwackett street,
repairs and makes furniture, frames PIC
lures, etc. Read advertisement in another
column.
The well known %trotter, George II.
Mitchell, who has frequently trotted on
the Rutland track, has been sold to George
d. Klngsbury of Springfield, Mass. for 49,
500.
Mr.. w. II. II. Earle, formerly in the job
department of the GLOBE has purchased
the Day Spring, a paper published in the
e~nterprising little village Of Hartford,
Michigan.
The fire seen on Monday evening men,
toned in the GLOBE was a small building
about half way between Sutherland Falls
and pittsford. The fire took from the
sparks of a passing engine.
Deputy Sheriff Howe of West Rutland,
brought over a fellow named Dillon, yes
terday morning, charged with breach of
peace. He was tried before Justice Porter
and the states attorney entering a nOUe pros.
was discharged.
Politics run high in the high school in
this village. One young miss yesterday
forenoon was very anxious that school be
dismissed fifteen minutes before twelve
that the scholars might go down town and
learn election rows before dinner.
American housekeepers will be interest
ed in knowing that American beef, for
which they pay eighteen cents a pound, is
freighted by steamship 5000 miles further
to London and sold there at a profit of
nine pence, or say seventeen cents.
Rt. Rev. Bishop De Goesbriand, assisted
by Rev. Fathers Boylan, Carol ard
O'Reilly, held confirmation services at st.
Peters church on Thursday morning be-
fore a large audience, many persons of
other denominations being present to wit
ness the ceremony. Over a hundred chill
dren were confirmed. The music was ex-
ceedingly fine.
The most astonishing bet on the presi-
dental election Is that Of two old topers,
one a true Bourbon democrat and the othel
a dyed in-the.woul republican, that thu
loser shall go without his daily drinks-be
q perfect ~teetotaler in short-for the re.
malnder of the year, and that the other
shall have the privilege of tantalizing him
TO any extent.
For some time past Mr.. Millington bal
suspected that some of the visitors to thu
jail supplied the prisoners surreptitiousll
with whisky, and has lately laid his plan
to catch them. A few days ago he caugh
Mag johnson slipping a bottle through tn
bars, had her brought before Justice Por
ter aud fined. Yesterday he caught Pa
McCue of West Rutland and served hin
the same dose of $40 and costs. He sus
poets several more persons who will fin
the experiment a dangerous one to try here
after.
William E. Easily, elocutionist of Lor
don, England, will give a reading at Baz
ter music hall, Wednesday evening, Nov
10, for the benefit of Killington cornC
band of Rutland. The general admissio
will be 25 cents, reserved seats 35 cent
Mr.. Easily is one of the few really exec
lent readers and elocutionists. Having d,
voted a great deal of time and attentio
and being endowed with what is more NJ
cessary-a natural talent in that directio
we can assure q rich treat to those VII
shall attend next Wednesday. The XII
lington band is an organization of our ow
Rutland young men striving to organize
band in our midst. We hepe there will |
a full house.
NJ. ]. Francisco who has acted as agel
fer the Farmers mutual insurance con
pany for the last six years, severed his col
nection with that company on the first da
of February, 1876, and transferred Il
agency to A. D. Francisco, who has bee
employed by him as travelling solicito
NJ. j. Francisco has now no %connectiC
whatever with the company, either
agent or director, and will in future {
vote his entire time to the management {
the extensive business of the Lycoming al
other stock companies.
Prof. Judah Dana has-or rather had
one of the finest poultry yards in the stat
He has taken, justly enough, almost
much pride in his chickens as in his Lati
Now that poultry yard is q thing of Il
past. Tuesday night, when the rest of Il
world was busy discussing election return
two dogs entered his hen house through
small aperture and made way with all {
hens that roasted within reach ,twenty-or
Only six or seven of the flock were LEI
Those killed were almost all of them bla,
brahmas, pure blooded and finely bred, a,
were worth about forty dollars. The Dc
also entered the hen house Of CHAR
Olmstead, next door, but some of the fal
lily heard the disturbance and brighten
them away before they had killed but "
fowls.
CONCERT at M%iddleburY.