The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-13
Vermont News.

The selectmen OF Milton furnished meals
for 275 tramps last year.
The cotton mill at Winooski Falls is ad-
vertised to be sold March 10.
The spring term of Barre academy open.
ed with seventy-flve scholars.
Hon. G. W. Cate, M. c.. of Wisconsin,
who figures in the debates in the house, is
a native of East Montpelier.
The prospects for next seasons fruit crop
in the state are very encouraging, and q
large yield is certain provided late frostf
are not experienced.
While the republicans of Chelsea were
firing a salute, the 9th, the cannon explod-
ed and the pieces were widely distributed,
but no one was hurt.
A young child of d. L. Hall of Brattle.
boro, had a narrow escape from death the
other day-being given dose of laudanum
instead of NORWOOD.
The state superintendent of education
strongly recommends the adoption of the
town system in the place of the present
common school system.
The conviction and sentence of the muir.
derer Lapage at Concord meets with uni
versal approval in st. Adams. 1t is re.
duced almost to certainty that he muir
dered Marietta Ball on Adds hill two years
or more ago.
The republicans of Vermont are predict
ing glorious victory for the New Hamp.
shire republicans next Tuesda' We want
to see "Ben Prescott aud all other re-
publican candidates in New Hampshir
elected by an overwhelming majority.
The CaIedOnidn says that L. i. Part
ridge, the Danville swindler, after he got
out of the state wrote back to his father
in-law "Take good care of my wife and
| child, take up the forged note l gave
George Tisdale, and send me $25."
Mr.. Aaron Wheeler of Warren went to
his barn the other evening with Kerosene
lantern; colt kicked the lantern into frag-
ments, the barn was destroyed with all its
contents, one OK and one cow were fatally
burned, and Mr.. Wheeler himself was quite
badly burned.
Mr.. Tilden took down from his racks in
his office, yesterday, an old-fsshioned flint
lock musket that his grandfather had car
ried at the battle of Bennington, on the
Hessian side, and as the governor glanced
along its rusty barrel, II wish,' he said,
| ''oh, wish | knew the names OF the dem
ocrats in the house who voted, last year,
| for the admission of Colorado. "-Burling-
ton Haaok-Eye.
Some three weeks since, Mrs. Duncan
McDougall of Barton pricked her thumb
very slightly with a common pin, and in o
| few minutes the thumb began to pain her
| severely, and since that time the thumb,
| hand and arm have been badly swollen
sores have appeared on different parts OF
| the body, and it has been with difficulty
that the physicians have kept her from the
lockjaw.
Robert Bickford of Waterbury was ar
rested at Montpelier few days since for
stealing team from VIM. Scott of Mid
dlesex, but as the team had not then been
found and no evidence being offered to
connect him with the team he was dis
charged. Since then the team has been
found in the Sandy Hill neighborhood and
Mr.. Bickford arrested. He had an examina-
ton on Friday at Middlesex, and Witnesses
were produced who identified him as being
with the team and leaving it where it wac
found. He was bound over for trial at
the county court.