The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-30
LOCAL-GLOBULFS.


To be continued-dog days and taxes.
"Put your lip on ice' is the latest
slang.
1t may be re-iterated-"This is not a eli
Charles johnson was arrested Saturday
night for drunkenness.
Mrs. j. Williams, mother of Mrs. John
Bradley, is seriously i'll.
Francisco's stereopticon attracted quite a
crowd Saturday evening.
Mr.. Ivan L. Morawski is in town and
in Trinity church yesterday.
Col. A. +. Walker commands the first
of veterans at the Bennington CEN
Talk with a train man in this vicinity on
the chances of a strike and he only smiles
at the idea.
Conductor John Stanley is running the
Boston and Saratoga express from Rutland
to Whitehall.
Capt. E. j. Ormsbee of Brandon, is on
the staff OF the general commanding the
veterans at Bennington.
1t takes lots of el~bow-grease in this
weather to keep up the standard polish on
a pair of boots or shoes.
Killington lodge No. 90, l. o. o. F.
meets this evening at 2, 80 o'clock, at Odd
Fellows hall, Globe block.
John A. Nichols delivered an earnest
address on temperance at the town hall last
evening to a large audience.
Ex.Gov. William p. Kellogg and Gov.
Packard of Louisiana, were in town on
Saturday, en- route to Saratoga.
Rev. NJ. H. Buckham, president of the
university of Vermont and state sgricul-
tural college, was in town on Saturday.
The rifle club practiced Saturday at their
500 yard range. Out of a possible 70 James
Beattie made IA, DIR. A. Kilburn 70 John
Hunt II.
George NJ. Sawyer, an engineer on the
Vermont and Massachusetts railroad has
been in town for several days on a visit to
his family.
Rev, A. NJ. Merwin of Santiago, Chill, a
brother-in-law Of S. L. Burnham, is in
town and preached at the Congregations
church yesterday morning.
Trains begin running to-day from Bur
lington to Portland over the Burlington
and Lamoille railroad. A time table will
be found in another column.
1t is reported that the Central Vernon
railroad will run the Harlem extension
road until September first, 80 as to carry
out the arrangements already perfected fol
the Bennington centennial.
The Bennington Centennial makes th,
following note: "The many friends o
Paymaster- General Benjamin Alvord,
native Vermonter, will be pleased TO hea
he is coming to the centennial"
John d. Mitchell and wife of Corpu
Christi, Texas, are stopping at Clarendon
Springs, and were in town yesterday. III
is a son of Rev. William Mitchell, former
ly pastor of the Congregational church il
Rutland.
The destruction Of the switch board IL
the New York telegraph office, last night
very materially interfered with our re
ceiving dispatches, last night, and our tel
egraph columns, this morning, are meagr
in consequence.
Fred r. Patch, foreman of the Suthel
land Falls marble c%ompany's upper mi
was severely injured Saturday. A bloc
of marble which was being moved fell o
one end of a roller, throwing the other en-
into the air and striking him.
The programme for races here in Augu!
is being rapidly perfected, with the pro-
pect of an exciting three days entertain
ment. The Delaware and Hudson, til
Fitchourg and the Cheshire railroads retur
free all horses entered in the races passin
over their roads.
A well dressed stranger with a fashion
able white hat and a silk umbrella made
sad exhibition in Keeling along the sidewal
on Merchants row about 8 o'clock on SaI
urdsy evening. His umbrella manifesto
much weakness in the hour of his necessil
and finally left him sprawling upon Il
stone pavements.
1t Is reported that on Saturday a rum
prevailed at Middlebury that a strike WI
progressing in Rutland among the railros
men and at the marble quarries at West Ru
land and Sutherland Falls, which it W,
necessary to suppress by a military fore
1t is also reported that some wag sent Il
militia company at Middlebury a telegral
signed by the proper authority
the captain ordering him to report with b
company at Rutland Oh the first train.
consequence his company were ordert
out armed and equipped and marched
the depot ready to take the train which a
rived here at 10 o'clock Saturday evenin
The cruel hoax was soon discovered al
the company marched back to their armor
This is the story as we hear 1t.
John freeman OF Wsllingford drove in
town on Saturday afternoon and hitcht
his horse on Merchants Tow. He we
into the store of b. f. Kidder to purcha
n anti of clOthaa. and after n half hOui