The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-10
Vicinity Items.

The contract for building the bridges
along Mill brook was let on Monday tc
John Mcclure, and work commenced on
| the same. The contract for repairing the
road near j. 8. Paris was let to j. Well.
| Wood.
b. N. Colvin and NJ. Z Markham took
the contract for repairing the road at SCOTS
vile, and building the bridge there, and
have the work nearly completed.
L. r. Fisk, has purchased a new model
Buckeye moving machine of w. Ii. Bond
Company E., of the Rutland county bat.
talon, Capt. p. #. Griffith commanding,
will meet for drill at the Borough on Sat
urday afternoon next. All the members
are requested to be present.
The school in Dist. No IA taught By
Miss Flora Baker closed last Friday, after
profitable term of ~ weeks.
81 Mrs. CLEVELAND of Pawlet is canvassing
the town for lives of Moody and Sankoy
Also for family Bibles, and other works.
Most of the farmers viii finish hayinp
! this week. J. @. W.
EAST DORSET.
OF course it rained here "on Sunday
night" and had there been thunder ant
| lightning TO match, many a night cap
| would have been filed with terror and I'm.
| accustomed affection. Damage trifling.
The potato crop 30 promising two weeks
| ago has had "strike" and in now and then
| field about half the leaves are dead. The
early rose suffers most. OF course the loss
falls most heavily upon the grangers and
beetles.
Mrs. Mary Curtis of Factory Point re.
| Turned homo AZ xpaaly
among US of ten weeks and one day. She
was here at DR.. j. w. Marsh's to be treated
| for cancer which first made its appear.
ance about score of years ago. Several
eminent physicians out of the state and al
home had treated her case till it was con.
sidered hopeless and they were right glad
to get her of their hands. She came ex.
| pecting the worst and with apparel prepar-
ed for it, but the doctor disappointed her
"most sanguine expectations most agree
ably and took her back to her home nearly
as good as new. 1t is said that some very
| genteel people want to go to Paris when
they die, but nobody would think of CON-
| ing 10 East Dorset when that event occurs,
| and we svmpathize deeply with those that
| have to come here to escape shuffling of
this mortal jacket. We would that all IN
need of physician might be healed in
some big town or city and at the hands OF
those whose fame touches the etars and
who exhale sweet foreign perfume. Even
to die thus is almost great gain" and near
ly pulls out the sting of death. Certainly
those afflicted with that dread disease, the
cancer, should never come here except as q
| dernier resort and after regular genteel
treatment in big places has failed. The
sacrifice is too great, is too Questionable,
| too un-Parisian.
About twenty-tix years ago when the
| railroad was completed here the company
bought or otherwise became possessed of a
little old one story dwelling house built
when the country was new. This was
moved and has been ueed ever since as @
railroad depot 1t much resembles some
of the school houses in our rural district:
"blackened with the hues of time" and
"carved with rude initials" Probably /,
is the banner railroad depot of the state Of
| Vermont if not of this continent. Ye,
more freight is shipped annually from il
than from any other station between Rut
land and Bennington with possibly one ex
ceptiop, and when another,marble mill now
nearly completed is added to the two We
now have there will be no exception. "Wt
have petitioned, VIC have demonstrated, VIZ
have duplicated, we have Frustrated our
selves before the throne" yet no relief
nothing new, nothing but promises. "SIt
needs no encomium." "There she is" wait
ing till her great chemical change comes
and if as many have supposed we still livt
after death in other forms of animal lif
what binders to suppose that she may We
assume other forms of architectural beauty
and become the grand union central o
some metropolis on some planet beyenC
our system. ely swift around, ye wheel
of time and bring the welcome day."
Z. NJ. T.
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