The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-21
LOCAL GLoBULEs.

GCld 1869.
Haying began in the depot park yester-
day.
Meeting of Nickwackett hose at Nick
wackett hall this evening at half past seven
sharp.
The season has opened at Clarendon
Springs, there being already twenty-six
guests at the hotel
o. w. Currier will hold an auction of
boots and shoes at his store, No. @, Mer-
chants row, this evening.
The hotels and summer boarding house
keepers at Manchester, report encouraging
signs for the summer campaign.
There will be few quarts of Sinsa-
| baugh's ice cream for sale at the Congrega-
tional chapel at nine o'clock this morning.
Fred H. Brown, of Springfield, cores
pondent of the Boston Journal was in town
yesterday end gave The GLOBE office
call.
Scribner and 81. Nicholas complete the
list of July magazines. Now for quiet
hours reading in the hammock, on the
shady side of the house.
Deputy Sheriff Millington has fine gar
den, having eaten mess of green peas
from his vines last Sunday, June 10. These
are the earliest peas heard of this season.
Deputy Sheriff Milllngton leaves this
morning for Windsor with Joseph Sears
and Napoleon st. Peters, recently sem
fenced to year and a half each in states
prison.
Judge Dunton is presiding with great &C.
ceptance at the Bennington county court,
now in session at Manchester. Several i'm
portant, closely contested and long cases
have been heard.
The sale of pews at the Congregational
church last evening was quite successful.
The highest bid, forty dollars, was not as
large as last year, but the small bids were
good and more than supplied the def
cheney.
The boys of Rutland county, known as
the "Gouger Hill Guards" are making ex-
tensive preparations for midnight torch
light procession, accompanied by two
pieces of artillery, a drum corps of six
drums and cornet, and thirty muskets,
composing the infantry. They will have
meeting this evening at the usual place
All are invited to attend.
1t was rumored yesterday that Mrs
Emma Q. Malloy, the celebrated temper.
ance orator, died Tuesday afternoon al
Cambridge, at the house of Rev. Edwin
Wheelock. Her first attack was while ad
dressing meeting about two weeks since
Her illness was caused by overwork, ant
later an abscess developed in her side. Sh,
Is very ill, but the rumor of her death lack
; confirmation.
A fre-alarm gong has been purchased by
the Washington engine company to b.
placed In the tower of the town hall. i
weighs 600 pounds, and will not only give
the fire alarm, but also indicate the ware
in which the fire is located. 1t was pur
chased by X. X. Hannum for the Wash
ington engine company at cost of $75, Of
Rumsey g. Co., New York, and manutac
tured at Seneca Falls, N. Y. 1t was rails
ed to the tower Of the town hall last even
ing.
The festival at the Congregational chape
last evening was a successful and pleasan,
affair. The music and readings were ex
cellent, the most noticeable features being
a song by Miss Eva Herrick, a duet by
Misses Janet Ripley and Lizzie Cleveland
fine piano solo by Miss Hattie Duntor
and "The One-hoss shay" read by Fl. F.
Field, and one Of the Bigelow papers by J.
Ii. Goulding. The strawberries, ice. cream
and cake were excellent. The attendance
was not as large as before, the receipts
being but little more than the expenses
The Gypsies are ahead of the fashionable
world in discovering the virtues and pleas
ures of camp life. They take to it regu
larly each season and keep their camp OF
wheels 90 that they can shift their quarters
when they become weary of the views il
one locality. A party of about twenty "A v,
men, women and children, with clever
wagons, and sleek, well-condtioned sc
OF horses, camped half way between Eas
and West Rutland yesterday. At evening
they hauled out portable tent with bed
from one of the wagons, built camp fires
hung their kettles on iron pot hooks AM
part of the women prepared supper Will
other dusky beauties repaired to the brool
s, near by and did the monthly washing
J Dutch style. If the entire camp had Wis
tied the brook and adorned their faces witt
strong solution Of soap and water
might have changed the appearance of tn
camp considerably, though at the risk o
making it commonplace. Just as 1t wa
the scene was picturesque.