The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-28
LOCAL GLOBULES.

Dog days will continue until Septem' er
oh.
The Saratoga train was halt an hour late
last evening.
Rutland county hes raised over $1,000
for the Bennington celebration fund.
Regular monthly meeting of the Sheldon
hose company this evening at 1880 o'clock.
A number of Rutland people attended
the hose tournament at Fort Edward yes
terday.
Regular monthly meeting of Washington
engine company at half-past seven this
evening.
Railroad travel is so light nowadays
that even running expenses of the trains
are not realized.
Rev. Lewis Francis of Greenport, NY,
formerly of Castleton, spent few hours
in town yesterday.
E. M. Archibald, the British consul at
New York, and his family, were guests at
sNS JNpsSAboys
Hon. T. w. Park and Hon. A. B.
Gardner of Bennington, are stopping at
the United States hotel, Saratoga.
The FL. Ii. Baxter hose company are
having new two wheel cart built for use
at fires. Levi Promo is doing the work.
Spaulding & Co. have "Me," the book of
the season, which is having a greater run
than "One Summer" did on It's publication.
A base ball match between the compost
tors of the GLOBE and Herald takes place
on the Playground at three o'clock this az
ternoon.
The wonderful trance medium, Miss
Lottie Fowler, will remain two days at the
Bardwell house. Gives your past, present
and future
Governor Fairbanks and Secretary Ran
kin, returned from Bennington yesterday
noon and went north on the White noun
tain train.
Mr.. ). W. Cults of the firm of Davis
y Curtis, arrived home on Thursday even
ing, after an absence of several weeks or
western tour.
All persons wishing space for stands or
booths on the Playground for the August
races should apply to j. w. Cramton or
W. G. Landon.
Rutland has at last q brass band COM
posed of sixteen of our young men, who
are practlcing twice each week under the
leadership of NJ. Collins.
An excursion boa. leaves Troy for Rock
away Tuesday next at eight in the evening
and returns next day. Tickets for the
round trip, two dollars.
A hundred yard foot race comes off at
the Playground this afternoon between five
and six o'clock for 500 side. The run
ners are not yet announced.
John A. Nichols speaks on temperance
at the town hall tomorrow evening at half
past seven. He is highly recommended by
the press and clergy where he has ap-
peared.
The employees of the Troy and Boston
railroad company have been uniformed,
and conductor and brakeman alike are re-
splendent in blue cloth and brass buttons,
says the Troy Times.
Rev. y. B. Hubert, D. D., President of
Middlebury college, Col. Mason s. Colburn
of Manchester, and Charles NJ. Bliss, Sec
| rotary Of the Bennington Centen NAL com
mission, were in town yesterday.
Judge Prout finished very able argu-
ment, says tse St. Adams Messenger, in
the railroad case at len o'clock on Friday
morning. He was followed by Edward j..
Phelps, esq, who was followed by Col. A.
f. Walker of Rutland.
Ths thunder shower of the 18th, was the
most terrific ever known In Pittsford, and
caused immense damage to roads, bridges
and crops, in some instances washing whole
fields of corn and potatoes out of the ground
by the roots.
Col. r. r. Drake, Mr.. +. c. Denison OF
Pittsford, and Mr.. N. Nottingham Drake
of the Windsor hotel, New York, took
with hook and line from one of the nume-
rous beautiful mountain brooks of Chitten-
den, on Tuesday the Gath, in four hours
fishing, one hundred trout each.
There 10 knowing dog in town. One
day recently when his master neglected to
feed him, he went to the depot restaurant
where his master often eats, sat on one of