The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-06
LOCAL GLOBULES.
GCld 1862

GCid 1869
Flour is down one dollar in the last ten
days.
Bids will be received in ward seven for a
telegraph line.
The trustees advertise for bids to cover
the West street sewer.
Gen. II. II. Baxter and family will come
to Rutland for the summer soon.
The Reform club will give their regular
literary entertainment at their hall this
evening.
Meeting of j. w. Champion hose COM
pany this evening at seven o'clock for
practice.
The furniture for the new Bates house
has been ordered from Holmes of Boston
and will arrive In few days.
Showers will be necessary soon to save
the strawberry crop in this vicinity. The
prospects are reported as favorable for
large yield.
Chauncy Smith of Boston and James N.
Edminister of Windsor are in town and
will appear as counsel at the session of
the United States circuit court to-day.
The officers of the sheriff department
state that the warrant for the arrest of
William Ii. Eddy was not received by them
until Saturday, three days after Eddy had
left Chittenden.
The members of the Union hook and
ladder company who take part in the run
ming will meet in at their hall at 1880
sharp, this evening. Business of impor-
lance is to come up before them.
Mr.. Trenor w. Park, president of the
Panama railroad, sailed in the Colon, On
Friday, accompanied by Miss Lila Park,
his daughter, and Mrs. General Baxter.
Mr.. Park visits Panama to inspect the rail-
roads and its business and look after the in
terests of the company, and will return on
the same steamer. Sc says the Burlington
Free Press.
Some persons have been poisoned by
killing potato bugs in hot water, and one
granger attempted to be rid of them by
planting field of potatoes on lonely hill
surrounded by woods. He took every pre-
caution not to carry any bugs to the field,
even wheeling the potatoes nearly mile
over rough road, bat the pests discovered
his hidden field, and promise TO do good
work for him this spason
Remember the festival at the Congrega-
tional chapel this evening. Refreshments
including Strawberries and Sinesbaughs
ice cream, will be furnished in the parlors,
and an entertainment consisting of readings
and music by members of the Sabbath
school in the chapel at a quarter before
eight. The proceeds are for the bene ct of
the Sunday school. The attendance should
be large.
Judge II. II. Wheeler will hold ses-
sion of the United States circuit court at
the United States court rooms, beginning
at nine o'clock this morning. A session
will be held hereafter in Rutland the day
after Rule day-the first Tuesday-in each
month. The case of David w. Prime ct al
vs. Brandon manufacturing company, will
be heard, Chauncy Smith and Prout, ST.
mons & Walker, appearing for Prime and
w. G. Veazey and ]. N. Edminster for the
Brandon manufacturing company.
The drouth is wide spread and serious.
The clouds of dust make all kinds of
travelling through western Vermont a
grevlous burden, and the crops are serious
ly threatened. Some farmers report great
injury to the pastures and mowings be-
cause of the burning heat, parching the
young grass and destroying the prosp cts so
fine only few days ago of a good hay
crop. Pastures are thus carly beginning
TO look brown, and the earth Is so dry tsat
seeds planted weeks ago lie unspr u ted
where they fell. The infrequent rains
have been followed by drying winds, that
made them Of little avail.
George Blossom, boy ten years old,
who has been the terror of Mill Village for
some time, was yesterday sent to the Re-
foIm school at Vergennes, by Justice CIV.
Warren, for general deviltry. He has done
everything that it is possible for a boy to
do, his latest achievement being striking a
girl in the head with stone and severely
injuring her. Under a new law his father
can release him at any time by paying his
fine, $l5, and costs. The father say she is
better off In the school and will leave him
there.
Francisco's stereopticon will exhibit this
evening, If it does not rain, the following
views: Statuary, the orphans, the rose,
the dying lioness : interior of the main
building at the centennial panorama of
Paris, showing the eight bridges, the mu-
scum, Egyptian room and picture gallery
of the Louvre, the cathedral of Notre
Dame, and interior of Notre Dame rail-
way station at Milan cathedral at Milan
section of the roof of Milan cathedral In.
terror of the same panorama of Verona
the leaning tower of Pisa 'Yankee Doc
de" from the painting at the centennial.
A Large Contract.