The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-07
State News.

AhO BldultG COHlpdDy has
received large order for stone paving from
Cincinnati.
Some of the Monktonians wish to
change the town clerk. The present clerk
has held the office twenty years.
A dry house belonging to D. G. Barney,
at East Arlington, was burned on Tuesday
evening. Loss $500 no insurance.
Papers are circulating at Winooski for
James Plat, jr., James Edwards, Samuel
Bigwood, and Dyke for postmaster.
Several teachers have taught school in
Newbury, this winter, without certificates,
and as o consequence will receive no pay.
A meeting of the state board of agricul-
ture will be held at Bristol, on Thursday
and Friday of this week, March Sth and
9th.
DR.. A. B. Thompson of Barnet RECEIVERS
from that town $1,000 for injuries sua-
tanned from being thrown from his buggy
last spring.
The dwelling house Of Chauncey Bennett
of Mortified was burned Friday afternoon.
Loss 5000; insured in the Farmers mutual,
Vermont, for 5000.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cook of Charleston
have just celebrated their golden wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Barnum of Shore
ham are another golden wedding couple.
The three leading competitors for the
postoflice at Montpelier are Captain John
Clark the present excellent postmaster.
General James s. Peck and Mr.. benson
Taft.
The dentists of Vermont propose to hold
a meeting of their profession at Montpelier,
on Wednesday, March 21st, to take into
consideration the formation of state dem
tai society.
Amasa Scott, of Craftsbury, has done
big thing in the butter line. From one
native COW he has made, during the past
year, 644 pounds. Selling the same at 20
cents per pound-result-$16l.
G. w. Day was arrested in North Troy,
recently, by John Bailey, Jr., of Wells
River. He was taken to Wells River, ex-
amined for having in his possession the
wrong woman, and bound up in 800
bonds.
Bob Kelley, a noted Brattleboro youth,
stole $40 from his mother, and, adding So
of his earnings thereto, started for North
ampton to get married. He was arrested
| at South Vernon, and was bound over in
| $500 for trial.
The Hayes and Wheeler campaign club
of Morrisvlle fired 100 guns on receipt of
the news from Washington, and celebrated
the Inauguration of Hayes by grand
mass meeting, oyster supper and dance, on
Monday evening
On the Goth, little boy three years old,
the con of L. II. Foster of Waterbury, &C.
cidentally fell into keller of hot water
and was 60 badly scalded that he died the
next day. There was only some three
inches of water in the keller.
A Boston dispatch says the news of the
decision in the presidential contest was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm in Benning-
ton county. Manchester has celebrated all
day by firing cannon, ringing bells, steam
whistles blowing and the whole population
in the streets in procession.
During the past year, 800 tramps have
been fed at public expense in the town of
Rockingham. OF these ninety were fed
and lodged at the town farm, and 756 in
the village; 7S9 were fed at an expense of
| $4,000, which is quite as cheap as could
have been expected.
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen of Charleston, Vt,
widow of Abraham Alien, the Oldest per-
son in the state is quite remarkable lady.
She was born in Voluntown, Conn, in the
year 1772, and on the ED day of next June
will be 105 years old. Up to few months
ago, she was able to read and knit without
| glasses, and she is still in good health and
walks without any trouble.
In the Emma mine suit. at New York,
Hon. t. w. Park, of Bennington, has been
on the stand, during this week. In his tes-
tmony he gave the history of the purchase
and sale of the mine, with which the pub
lie are already familiar. He contradicted
Lyon, the principal witness for the plain
| VA "ii WV pululb, anu 6Aplall-
ed to the Jury diagram of the mine.
The debt of Montpelier has been de-
creased little over ten thousand dollars
the last year. AT the annual meeting pro-
vision will have to be made for the nav.
ment of twenty-five thousand dollars of
town bonds, which fall due the first of
January next. A tax of two hundred and
twenty per cent. Is recommended. The
support of the poor cost two thousand Ave
hundred and fifty dollars.
The Brattleboro Rgormer severely criti.
cises the management of the town funds of
Brattleboro for the past year, and even
uses such hard words as ''lobbery" and
"swindling." 1t declares that several hun
dred dollars have been lost in carelessness
in making out the tax-list that an extrav-
agant sum has been paid for taking care of
| the town hall, the gas bill alone being more
than the rent; that at least 800 more than
is necessary has been spent on the poor
| farm that the care of the streets is entire.
| ly neglected, in spite of an annual appro.
pristion of from $4,000 to $1,000, while
sanitary measures are SO jlsregarded that
| Brattleboro Is the most unhealthy place of