The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-10
Vermont.

Bethel has another faiure-Samuel
LEACH a cattle broker and farmer.
The Catholics of Bennington are about
to erect convent near their school build
ing
Fourteen persons united with the Sec
ond Congregational church in BrookAelI
last Sabbath, nine of them heads of fam-
lies.
Mr.. L. G. Chniice, of North Troy, has a
tree on his farm which girts nineteen feet,
and is estimated to be eighty or ninety feet
high before reaching limb.
AT the annual March meeting, Fayston,
w. b. Porter was reelected town clerk,
position which he has occupied for 2S
years to the acceptance af all.
William A. Montgomery, well known
citizen of Boston, has been presented with
a cane, made from piece of wood of the
old line-of-battle- Vermont.
George $. Curtis, formerly of North
Montpelier, who has been in the insane
asylum at Brattleboro for year, has re-
turned with his reason completely restored.
Mr.. II. ID. Spafford of Springfield, has
Pine tree shilling, bearing the date A. d.
| 1862, which has been handed down by
several successive generations of his fam
| lily.
Rufus George, of Montpelier, and who
was bitten in the arm by horse some time
ago, has had the arm amputated, being I'M
able to treat it successfully in any other
way.
When deacon in Vermont with cold
in his head, said, "Breddern, let us Bray"
"a boy in the gallery started laugh by imi-
tating the music of a jackass. Then they
started him.
Miss Alice House of Troy, took lauda-
mum the other evening, for the purpose of
going TO sleep never to awake, but her
mother discovered her in time to save her
from her terrible crime.
There were several ''royal rows" at
Montpelier Saturday evening. The biggest
one was the one at the depot, where one
Rohan, of Mortified, held the field till
knocked with q stick of wood on the head.
G.. T. S., up in Craftsbury, wrote the
Montpelier Fireman few days ago he was
"expectng every day to hear of some new
tangled deyiltry, untried or unheard of be-
tore" How does this BellSnap business fill
the bill?
Twenty-Five persons united with the Con-
gregatonal church in Barre last Sabbath
two by letter and twenty by profession.
Three OF these were under twenty years of
age The others were older, and some of
them more than three-score years.
Two young ladies named Brady, who
board at the residence of II. j. Arlington,
in Bakersfield, went to bed the other night,
leaving kerosene lamp dimly burning
In the morning they were found uncon-
scious from the effects of the gaH which
had generated from the lamp, and were re-
stored with difficulty.
James Smith of Washington, attempted
suicide by poison, at East Granville last
week. DR.. Scott of West Randolph was
called,and by the administration of emetics
and antidotes frustrated his purpose. He
had prepared letter stating that unrequit-
ed love for one of Chelseas fair damsels
was the cause of it.
The March term of the Washington
county court begins next Tuesday, and
will probably be unusually long. One
hundred and twenty-sx civil cases have
| cat frr ba i,r o. &c
considerable Importance. There is the
case of Miles, the Barre bank burglar, and
some seven or eight minor criminal trials.
The post office in West Randolph has
been taken up on the list of offices supplied
with the Farmers Bulletin, which will
hereafter be sent daily from Boston, and
posted up in the office. These reports en-
anate from the office of the chief signal
officer in Washington, and will be of great
benefit to farmers in foiecasting the
weather.
While walking across the Northern rail-
road bridge at White River junction, to-
ward West Lebanon, on Sunday, man
named Butman of Cornish Flat, n. H.,
was struck by the locomotive of the south
bound mail train, receiving severe tract
ure of the skull. The injuries upon his
body are quite numerous, and may term
mate fatally.
One day recently Mr.. McLane, wood
chopper in East Haven, was telling a
spruce tree it lodging in birch tree, he
ran up the trunk of the spruce and chopped
away the birch branches which held it,
The spruce fell and McLane was thrown
forty-one feet to the ground. His arm
was broken his head and stomach badly
injured, and his whole body bruised.
VIM. Lyon and his wife of North Troy,
started to go to a neighbours the other day,
taking child about two months old with
them. After driving short distance the
| child became restless and the mother
nursed it, This not quoting the child, she
pulled away It's wrappings and saw the
child was bleeding at the nose. Hurrying
forward, they stopped at a neighbours
house, and found the child was dead
A worthy citizen of East Bethel last
week, Undertook to raise commotion in
his family; and the neighborhood in which
| he resided, by taking an ounce of laudnum,
| but as soon as ne neafu the doctor had been
sent for, the tide changed, and he was inn
medately better. He only took q very
small quantity, and disposed of the rest by
turning it away, and displaying the empty
phial.
| N. G. Munson, a former well known
contractor in the building OF the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad, on the re-
construction of three sections of the Hoosac
tunnel line, has failed, and his checks
| given in payment of subcontractors have
| been dishonored. The sub-contractors are
| in debt to farmers and can not pay for sup
plies for their men. Work on three sec
lions will be stopped temporarily.
Fire was discovered quarter before one
Wednesday morning in the basement of the
rear of the Wells River depot. All the