The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-21
Vermont News.
HIRE AND THERE.

HIRE AND THERE.
Barton has been visited by frosts for
twelve nights during the present month.
1t is reported that the Brattleboro saw
ings bank are to exact but six per cent. in
terest after July l.
Lewis Barton, flour merchant of Lyndon,
has failed with liabilities of $40, 1000, and
no available assets.
Quite large party start on a Maine fish
ing trip the last of the week with DR.. Gale
of Brattleboro, for pilot.
L. II. McCladey OF Albany, Orleans
county, has mare thirty-two years of age,
''still sound In wind and limb"
St. Johnsbury is infested with large
band OF gyp'iea, who beg by day and steal
by night, according to the Caledonian.
One hundred acres of good timber were
burned in Groton. Forest fires have also
been raging in Greensboro and Woodbury..
II. r. Edwards of Belvidere has a cat
which measures .thirty-two inches from
the end of its nose to the tip of its tail.
Some miscreant entered the saw mill of
William ODER, in Eden the 18th, and cut
the IL inch drive belt ten times asunder,
also cutting all the lacings.
A slight Misunderstanding was the cause
OF the postponement of the Brattleboro
rod and gun club supper on Tuesday
evening at the Brooks house.
Hon. Crosby Miller has purchased of
Frank p. Archibald OF Woodstock, hand
some granite monument, which is soon to
be placed over the grave of the late DR..
Kimball Russ Of Pomfret.
An award of $500 against the town of
Danville has been made in favor of j. G.
Varnum and wife, who in July last were
injured by their team breaking through
water course near their own house.
For the past week the sun has been al
most hidden by the dense smoke from the
burning forests at Brattleboro. The Estey
fire department were called out day or two
since to protect the forest surrounding the
village.
Mrs. P. Sergeant of Ry egate, while look
ing over garden seeds, found a small pack
age which she took TO be dye stuff, and
threw it into the stove. The "dye stuff"
being powder, it ignited and burned her
face, neck and arms badly.
The Lyndon Union says: "There is an
old woman in Orange who will read moth.
ing but the Bible and the Union. She is
getting ready to be transplanted." We
should think that two or three of the
Unions jokes would give her speedy send
of.
A train of rolling stock on the Rutland
division Of the Central Vermont railroad,
belonging to the Valley railroad, left Rut-
land, Friday, to be delivered up to that
road. The property consists of the loco
motive Brattleboro, three baggage cars and
two passenger coaches
Senator Blaine has strongly urged upon
the interior department that Portland
should be made the paying center of the
new pension district, composed of Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont. He mas
pointed out the fact that Maine has as many
IL not more names on the pension rolls
than New Hampshire and Vermont to-
gether, and that it is really farther from
Portland to the eastern side of the consoli-
dated district than to the western side.
The stage drivers over the Bennington,
Jamaica and Jacksonville routes are natu-
rally unhappy because ]. W. Parker of
Kansas and E. w. Stoddard of Camden,
N. T., who bid off the lines, are disposed
to eub-let them for about half what the
government allows them. The Jamaica
route was bid off for s1062, Bennington
$1542, and the Jacksonville for $214e 1t
Is probable that the contractors will be
obliged to run them themselves or "come
down" to the "subs" offers.
The Ca'edonian learns that the publica-
tion of the Vermont Farmer is to be dis
continued, on account of financial Difficult
ty; and that $4,000 has been sunk in that
enterprise since it was started. The Lyn-
don Union says: "The subscription list
has been sold to the Boston Chltiuator for
81, 200, and after the next issue the sub
scribers of the Farmer will see it no more
forever, but in its place will come the Cul-
TRAITOR. MIR. Cummings, the proprietor,
has been engaged by the Culticator to &C.
company the list and travel in the interest
OF the Boston paper.