The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-21

Before this cold snap, Lake Champlsin
was open at the southern end from Chubb's
Dock to Dresden, and fishermen were busy
with net and line. From the latter place
to Rouse's Point the ice is firm.
A lodge of good templars numbering
twenty-five members has been formed at
Ely, in Orange county. II Is called the
Smith ely lodge, being named for the ven
cradle president of the copper company.
The largest spruce tree ever cut in this
vicinity, wa, drawn on to Groton pond by
d. P. Hall, few days since. 1t had ff-
teen hundred feet Of lumber in it. How
Is that for high? That was the "boss"
tree.
On Saturday, February "a, W. Fellows
of Washington, went to Montpelier, where
he arrived after dark. He was decoyed into
an old shed on Berlin street by two regues,
who then knocked him down and robbed
him of $l5
Mr.. William Easily, the elocutionlst and
reader, well known in Vermont, has re-
Gently met with sad affection in the loss
of his sou, aged twenty years, who was
drowned on voyage from New York to
New Foundland.
In Sutton, with population of 020 per-
sons, there are 10S persons over sixty years
of age, "a over seventy, 10 over eighty,
ninety-three and 1 niuety-four years of age;
the last two are as lively and hale as their
great grandchildren.
Sutton folks begin to think that Durkee
10 really a medium. A "circle" was held
at his house on the Goth inst, and ma
teriallzed form, representing cherub, was
seen In broad daylight 1t was of the
feminine gender and weighs nine pounds.
Three sixteen year old Port Henry
youths, one day last week, managed to get
railroad tickets to New York and surrepti-
tiously started out together for the Black
hills. They were stopped at Saratoga and
sent home. Their combined cash assets
when overhsuled amounted to SO 90.
A curious article in the warning for the
last town meeting in Cambridge was to vote
whether the town would return or pay for
lot of liquor seized at Chadwick's hotel,
in 1876. There was an exciting discussion
over the matter in the town meeting, re-
sultng in vote to dismiss the article
The Vermont division of the Portland
and Ogdensburg railroad Is graded for its
entire length, and only fourteen miles of
the track remain to be laid. Tho road will
be in running order to Swanton by the
middle of June, and the branch from Bur-
lington TO connect with the Ogdensburg
will open for travel by July /.
AS A. ]. Cutting, wife and daughter of
North Springfield, about nine years old,
were going home from church when they
had got about forty rods from the church,
the forw d axle to their buggy broke,
throwing them all head first into the mud.
Their horse being kindly dispositioned,
stopped, and they crawled from the ruins
unscathed
As Daniel Rowley of Willsboro, was
crossing the lake Thursday, on his way
home from Burlington, while en- the Shell
burn Harbor road, his team broke through
the ice. Mr. Rowley succeeded in keep
ing the heads of his horses above the water
until some gentlemen from Shelburn came
to his assistance, and the animal were res
cued after being in the water about an
hour, and in 30 exhausted a state that they
had commenced to bleed at the nose.