The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-25
LOCAL GLOBULES,
Cod 1863

10 nOt forget the Beecher lecture Mon |
day next.
Meeting of the Cramton hose company |
this evening at y o'clock.
Regular meeting of II. II. Baxter hose
oompay this evening at y o'clock.
The Austins with large company ap-
pear at the town hall this and to morrow
evenings.
Regular monthly meeting of L. G.
Kingsley hose company this evening at
1880 o'clock.
The top of Killington was white with
snow yesterday and overcoats were not I'M
comfortable.
The talk about a grand musical festival
in June is increasing and we hope may not
end in talk.
Our present relations with clouds are
those which 1t would be pleasant to have
sun-dered.
Look out for coun erfeit $40 bills on the
Mutual bank of Troy, N. Y. They are in
circulation here.
The mail train from Boston due here at
two o'clock was two hours late yesterday,
being delayed by the accident at Keene.
A. A. Deming of Rutlsnd has been ap-
pointed administrator of the estate of the
Brandon tramp murderer, and suicide.
The Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad
track bed is undergoing repairs in the
grade between Saratoga and Fort Edward.
Regular monthly meeting of Nickwack-
EFT engine company No. 1 this evening at
1880 o'clock. A full attendance is desired.
The plant and flower stealers in Ever
green cemetery will get into hot house
finally if they keep on doing such wicked
work.
Bear in mind that job printing of all
kinds is done in the nestest and prettiest
styles, and at the lowest prices, at the
GLOBE office.
Nearly 900 seats are already taken for
the Beecher lecture; 600 more can get
seats by securing them soon. Order by
mail of futile 81 Co.
More wood and field birds are noted this
year at this time than common. 1t may
be that the smoke of forest fires elsewhere
has driven them this way.
A friend from Castleton informs us that
he uses slack lime to eradicate the currant
worm that it does the work effectually and
is preferable to any other article for this
purpose.
Now that sewing machines have come
down fifty per cent, isn't it about time for
piano patent to expire, so that $500 in
strument may be sold for $50, and the
manufacturer clear $75 on itf-Norris-
t0ton Herald.
The proposed bear hunt did not come off
vest rday, some of the would be sons of
Nimrod having their ardor considerably
dampened by the brisk rain. We under
stand that party of expert marksmen
who are not afraid of water propose to
have an interview with Bruin to-day.
The new fish law doesn't make the
average man happy, for he often makes a
journey to some good stream only TO find
the unaccomodating "Notice" posted, and
has to content himself. Happy the man
whose best friend is farmer, through
whose land runs brook stocked with the
coveted trout.
, AS the two o'clock Boston mail yesterday
was near Keene an engine following then
ran into the hind car and smashed it con
sderaby. The passengers all escaped
with only slight injuries. Charles r. Bates
q who was coming to Rutland to visit hi
uncle, A. G. Bates, had his ankle sprainet
in jumping from the car.
E. N. Merriam, who has gotten up tn,
uniforms of three of our Rutland hos,
4 companies, is turning out something TO
the Cramton boys which will be particu
larly neat 1t is a shirt of gray lady
q cloth trimmed with shild, sailor collar AM
cuffs of blue with white weltings and or
nsmented with the silver fire department
o buttons.
The fire at East Wsllingford was the hot
\ test, the firemen say. of any thing In thei
experience. When they reached tn
ground at half past two Thursday morning
g there was nothing to be done but protec
> the piles of four foot wood which extende
completely around the burning shed. Thi
:, they did and thus saved the railroad CON
pany the loss of about 1000 cords whic
would have probably burned but for thei
aid. The intense heat warped and twiste
n the rails for about 200 feet and new rail
Of had to be laid. The fret train to pass wa
- the Boston mail which left here at twelve
The engine did not stop playing till abor
10 three O'Clock in the afternoon, it being In
possible for a car to pass without Ii
paint blistering before that time.
A meeting to raise funds for the centen
NAL celebration at Bennington, was held I
IN the town hall, Thursday evening. j. ].
ID Randall was chosen chairman, L. w. Rec
ington, secretary, and the following con
mittee was appointed to solicit subscrll
tions; ]. j. r. Randall, William Gilmor
j. w. Cramton, Redield Proctor, HoraC
II. Dyer, e. H. Ripley. Charles II. She
> don, B. r. Greene The clerk was instru
ted to prepare subscription papers an
place In the hands of the members of Il
, committee The amount assigned to Ru
- land as its proportion of the funds for Il
celebration ia about S., 900. Several qui