The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-11
LOCAL MENTION.


Col. Albert Clarke, of the st. Albans
Messenger, is at the Bardwell house.
The Century club musical will be at Mr..
John A Sheldon's. Main street, this eve
ming.
We understand that a detective from
Boston is In Rutland, working in Phairs
interest.
Special meeting of Cramton hose com
pny at their rooms this evening at 1880 p.
M, sharp.
The committee appointed by the gov
ernor TO locate a state work house, have q
tcsslon here to-day.
The thick dust which filled the air yes
terday, caused many red eyes and would
have made a sprinkler welcome.
Frederick Burns and Ira r. Preston
will be taken to Windsor this morning in
charge of Deputy Sheriff Millington.
Mr.. Randolph B. Rudd OF Middletown,
has leased the stock and farm Of the Rut-
land county agricultural society for the
season.
The Nickwacketts give their third annual
reception at the town hall this evening,
with excellent music and supper at the Ber-
wick house.
A. E Rankin, private secretary to gov
ernor Fairbanks, arrived in town last even
ing, presumably on matters connected with
the Phair case.
Mr.. Z. G. Carrigan of Dartmouth col
Phair's ''chosen and faithful correspondent
and reporter" for the Boston Globe, ia in
town endeavoring to work up Phair's de-
tense.
The extremely cheap rate for telegraphy
on the Western Union lines only applies to
places where there are Atlantic s. Pacific
offices to compete with them, and thus Rut-
land reaps no benefit.
A spelling match will be held at the Re-
form club rooms this evening. This is the
only match held in Rutland this season,
aud the many champion spellists" of two
years ago should not miss the sport.
The engine General Strong" which
went through the bridge at Pittsford last
winter, has been thoroughly repaired, re-
painted black, and was out of the shops
for the first time yesterday.
Sheriff S. w. Stimson, through our Lud-
low correspondent, has furnished US with a
copy Of Governor Fairbanks written re-
prieve of John P. Phair, until the 4th Of
May, when it will be seen he is ordered to
be hung between the hours of 10 o'clock a.
m. and 2 o'clock p. m.
A Mr.. Henry, from Syracuse, opened q
sale of tin ware yesterday at R%emington's
auction rooms, selling four tin pals and q
clipper for one dollar. He disposed OF one
hundred lots. While In Whitehall recently,
he sold 800 worth of these goods.
AT the time of Paton's sentence yester-
day, he arose and made a very voluble
speech in which he said that the McCues
stabbed him on the night of the 10th Of
June, and warned the tow to take care Of
his family and see that the McCues did not
murder them before he returned.
Two boys, sons of Joseph Austin, got
into a quarrel on Merchants row yesterday
afternoon, when one knocked the other
down, injuring him severely. The wound
ed boy was picked up and carried into the
slorc of w. L. Ross, where he soon recov-
cred consciousness, but was unable to walk
for nearly half an hour. The Oldest boy
was about fifteen and the one who was
hurt twelve. The quarrel arose because
the little boy would not 90 to school and
his brother, if he wouldn't learn anything
else, taught him how to lie down on q mar
BILE side walk scientifically.
Phair's hand writing has been made the
subject of much scrutiny Of late and again
compared with the signature to the Adams
house register 1t was the almost exact
coincidence of these two hands that had
more weight with the jury than any other
Circumstance. A new resemblance hal
been discovered by an expert in such mat
tiers. 10 all of Phsir's writing, wherever
he crosses a {, his pen suddenly drops.
This, the gentleman says, is caused by an
anatomical difficulty in the wrist, some oil
the chords being imperfect. In the sigma
ture "E. f. Smith" on the register the sam
peculiar drop in crossing the 3 occurs. II
the newspaper men outside the state had
ever compared that signature with Phair'i
writing they would stop their howl abou,
his innocence. The man has yet to be found
who has seen the two who does not believe
Phair guilty.