The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-11
LOCAL GLoBuLIs.

stock of coal.
The sewing machine is common thread
OF newspaper discourse.
L. Dawley, Eco, is acting as aucioneer
at the marble trade sale.
The cold north winds have bro sht veg
citation almost to stand still.
Straw hats and linen busters have busted
from the street the last few days.
Perhaps it is not advisable to close up
the record of snow storms just yet.
Last week farmers could be seen plant
ing potatoes with their mittens en-. b.
Mr.. j. P. Upham of Claremont is in at
tendance upon the marble trade sale.
Be prepared for hot weather. Buy a
lemon squeezer before they are higher.
Some method should be adopted by the
village trustees to prevent evening corner
loafing.
Yesterday was the anniv ersary of the
opening of the centennial exhibition at
Philadelphia.
Gen. George j. Stannard and Gen.
George P. Foster of Burlington were in
town yesterday.
Ben X. Chase intends to open jewelry
and watch markers workshop in his block
now building on Center street.
Counterfeit half dollars are in active cir
culation and citizens should receive coins
OF this denomination guardedly.
Business is starting up with our mer-
chants and the average woman is busy
sampling calicos and dress goods.
The days at present have over fourteen
hours of daylight; gain of nearly five
hours from the shortest day in the year.
Services with Communion were held yes
terday at Trinity church. Beside the reg
ular services there was an infant baptism.
Hymenial matters were never more
| flourishing than at present. A number OF
full dress weddings are booked for an early
day.
The "oldest mason in the United States
died in four different cities last week, and
there can't be more than fifty or sixty of
him left.
The Reform club yesterday moved their
furniture into their new hall in Simons'
block. The room will be ready for occu-
pancy in few days.
| Spring oyercoats are a prime necessity.
The prospects are for still cooler weather
and the signs indicate stiff weather in prep
aration somewhere.
The United States circuit and district
court holds its May session at Windsor
next Tuesday. Several of our lawyers are
to be in attendance.
| G. E. Palmer left yesterday to take pos
session of summer boarding house, located
at Swampscott, Mass, which he is to open
to the public on June first.
Croquet has not gone out Of fashion, as
was predicted would be the case soon after
its introduction. 1t is, and probably al
ways will be, the standard lawn game.
The poor woman who has bought her
sewing machine on The installment plan
can see now how many times more than
worth she has been compelled to pay for it.
The Montpelier Argus gays "The
Rutland daily GLOBE has been cut down in
price and size, and yet go much improved
l thot N Ia tpppth koFo
was raced"
The law forbidding fishing on posted
streams is likely to be advantageous to
country landlords. The proprietor of 9
hotel in Pittsfield has secured tha right &c
seven miles of trout brooks for the benefit
of his guests.
One doesn't hear 80 much about the
wonderfully early spring this week as We
did two weeks ago. There is an old adagt
which says that, whether a spring is early
or late, the "20lh of June is always the 20tt
of June"
of the multitude Of picture and story
books for very young children, one of thu
very best is "Baby land,"a series of 81,
papers, having approprite stories, and som'
unusually attractive wood cuts. For salt
by Spaulding & Co.
Mrs. L. A. Froude Carter, OF Manches
ter, who has gwen several successful read
ings in Boston, the papers say will ieaC
again at Wesleyan hall in that city, on tn
| auaninn Of tha XXI, inatant aaatatad II,
Miss Lucy Williams Weller Dickens Shaw
young English vocalist.
The house OF Mrs. r. Cleveland, near tn
famous Eddy homestead in Chittenden
burned about one o'clock Thursday morn
ing. The members of Mrs. Cleveland
, family were absent at the time and she ha
gone to stop at a neighbors, being afraid +
sleep in the house alone. TIE buildin
was entirely destroyed the amount of tn
loss unknown, but covered by Insurance i
the Vermont mutual.
The fourth day Of the Rutland marbl
company's trade sale at their yard in Yves
. Rutland yesterday was well attended an
d the sales reached about 100 carloads. TIL
prices ruled low as they have throughout
Most of the buyers of the first part of tn
week remain and are still adding to the
purchases while new bidders arrive daily
|, The sales yesterday were. for New Yor
and Philadelphia and cities throughout th
west and Canada. New York has take
the lead throughout and Boston dealers al