The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-16
Vermont News.

G. ID. Holcomb has been appointed post
master at Lyndon.
Springfield voted Tuesday to adopt the
town system of schools.
II. W. Sheldon of Weathersfield keeps
seventy-fve swarms of bees.
Mr.. G. NJ. Peterson Of Burlington, re-
joices in the possession of cat weighing
1871 pounds.
Westminster at the annual town meeting
voted to elect street commissioners by q
vote of "a to SO.
Burlington supported nine insane per-
Sons at Brattleboro last year, at a cost to
the city of $742.53.
A new temperance society, called the
st. Mary's total abstinence union, has been
organized at Springfield.
Capt. Ira j. Flanagan, of the Green
Mountain Boys, Burlington, has resigned
his position in that company.
Hon. A. c. Catlin of Burlington, return
ed from Texas, where he has been for
some months past, on Saturday.
A fire in one of the Fall Mountain paper
company's mill at Bellows Falls, the other
night, did about $500 worth of damage.
II. Booth, an extensive manufacturer Of
lumber at Ottawa, Canada, has estab-
lished branch of his business in Burling-
ton.
The flats along through Leicester and
Salisbury are covered with water by the
overflow Of Otter creek. No damages are
reported thus far.
Mrs. Kendall T. Davis of Montpelier,
who died on Saturday, at the age of seven
ty-three, was the first to be taken Of q
family of eleven.
The arguments IN the Burdett- Estey pa
tent suit were finished at New York, last
week, and the judge Of the circuit court
reserved his decision.
Rev. O.. G. Wheeler of South Hero, de.
MES the authorship of the article on the
third district politics recently published in
the Burlington Free Press.
Thomas Connors, who was so badly hurt
in the Fall Mountain paper company's mill
at Bellows Falls, few days ago, has since
died. He leaves seven children.
Some fellow got into the house OF Mr..
Randall, at Bellows Falls, on Sunday night
and started off with trunk containing
bonds ana money, but just as he got to the
outer door he saw somebody, and dropping
the trunk he ran.
Col. and Mrs. John Hunt celebrated the
25th anniversary of their marriage at their
home (Fort Dummer) last week, and the
occasion was one of unusual hilarity and
pleasure, while the presents were not only
useful but very valuable.
During the ladies' centennial festival al
Brattleboro, on the 2lst and 22d inst, Mrs
Charles X. Field will display a pair of pill
low cases spun and wove by the wife of the
| late Lieut.. Gov. Phillips of Massachusetts,
| and presented to MOllie Jackson, q servant
in the governors family for thirty years.
There are girls enough at the Reform
school at Vergennes, 60 they form one Of
the classes at the Sabbath school connected
with that institution. Their appearance al
the Sabbath school Is good, and nothing
about their looks indicate more evil thar
ordinary girls that are met in the streets
every day.
Michael Casey of Richmond, aged thirty
two years, ate his supper ut nine O'Clock
last Friday evening, went to bed about ar
hour afterwards In his usual health, and
was found dead the next morning. HI
was single man, and had spent severa
years in the United States navy. Hear
disease is supposed to have been the cause
of his death.
Hartford, which has hitherto depended
on Maine for it's lumber, 10 to float q par
of it at least down the Connecticut from thu
head waters of the river hereafter. A con
Germ has Just got control Of 10000 acre.
of timber land up there, and has had I
large force of men at work cutting, thii
winter. A boom is to be constructed q
Terry Island, near Warehouse Point.
A. II. Burge of Alstead, N. H., ha
caught AZ foxes, 9 mink, coon, 10 musk
rats, and Q skdnks all in traps this season
and has sold the skins to Capt. Alexande
Atcherson of Westminster, for over $100
A correspondent says, Now Plymouth
with her Pinneys, Grafton with her presi
depts LAWYER dog Snip and the who'll