The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
LOCAL MENTIOR

services at lrlnity cnurcn tnl5 evening"
Reform club meeting at their rooms this
evening.
The wide Byron collar Is to be the ia
vorite this season for ladies.
The Cramton, and not the Baxter hose
company, had an election of officers Satur-
day evening.
The nights now are the finest of the win
ter, the moonlight being almost bright
enough TO read by.
Attention is called to advertisement in
another column of store and tenement to
rent at 10 Washington street.
Every fellow who is suffering from tight
boots, or who has scowl on his face from
any cause, is just now supposed to be de-
feated candidate.
The next street sensation will be bell
crowned hat worn by peripatetic advertis-
ers, 10 which attention is called by a gong
on top. 1t has appeared in New York.
The man who is curious to see how the
world could get along without him can find
out by sticking a cambria needle into a
mill pond and then withdrawing it and
looking at the hole.
The estate of Willis Benson of Claren-
don, except the farm, was sold at auction
Tuesday by the trustees, bringing about
81 ,40e. The sale of the farm was post
poned till March 10.
Sap is said to run well now from ten till
four. An authority says that one barrel
of sap boiled with one hundred pounds Of
sugar and made up in scalloped cakes
makes f1rSt-class quality of new sugar.
Frank Crazy, from whom the money was
stolen in Wallingford. ]. w. Ainsworth,
Israel Munson, DR.. E. Hit with Thomas
Keeffe, otherwise Tramp No. l." were in
attendance at tie trial of Fred Burns,
Tuesday.
L. j. Vance has sold his tavern stand
known as the Wallingford house, to Grape
& Hulett, for So 500. The new proprietors
take possession Sept. 1st. This sale will
be surprise to Wallingford people, as
mine host "Lytle" has become very popu-
lar as a landlord.
"That fellow that looks like me" 10 prob
ably what L. B. Knowles sang when he
read that he had been arrested in Bellows
Falls. The man arrested there answered
to Knowles description, but when Deputy
Sheriff Stearns reached there he discover ed
the mistake, and he was released.
But seventeen miles of iron now remain
to be laid to complete the Vermont division
of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad.
The grading can be completed in three
weeks, and as the iron is all delivered, and
the work of laying it being vigorously pro-
secuted, the people on the line are con-
graduating themselves on speedy connec-
ton at the western terminus.
Considerable sport is made in Walling-
ford, at the expense of Mr.. Israel Munson,
In connection with the stealing of the
money from Frank Crazy. Mr.. Crary is
working farm for Mr.. Munson ION the
halves" The tramp took only half the
money from the trunk, and Wallngford
people say the part taken was Munson's
half Of the profits, while Crazy came out
whole.
Hereafter no one can say that Rutland 10
not place of culture. Cns of the tele-
graph operators yesterday in putting die
patch on the bulletin board, carelessly
spelled "naugerAted' and in fifteen min
utes crowd of ten boys, three democrats
and fifteenth amendment were standing
around calling out to him: 80 set 'em up
Set EN- up!" Such appreciation of the
niceties of language is quite remarkable in
provincial town.
DR.. Stewart of Eagle Bridge was struck
on crossing in that place Tuesday, by the
New York train which reached here at five
O'clock. He was thrown about twenty
feet onto pile Of railroad ties, and struck
on his head His forehead was crushed in
and the brain protruded. 1t was thought
he could live but few minutes. The train
stopped as soon as possible and backed up
to the spot.
The question is very often asked, What
is the difference between registered letter
and any otherf The difference is that a
registered. letter does not go in the mail
proper 1t passes from hand to hand out.
side the mail pouches, every person
through whose hands it passes being re-
Qured to sign a receipt for it on receiving
1t, and secure receipt for 1t on passing II
over to the next in transit. The person
holding the last receipt is thus always able
to show who 10 accountable for the loss
The responsibility tests upon the man who
has signed a receipt for the registered pack
age, aud who is not able to produce the
package or receipt from somebody else
for IL. The safest way to send money Ii
by money order. Where 1t does not go t.
a money order office it should always b
sent In registered package. Money ough
not TO be sent in an ordinary letter uDde
any circumstances. There is no possible
way of cracking such a letter. "-Ir0
Times.