The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-14

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On Inauguration day two boys in Sails
bury were wounded while firing a salute.
aud each suffered the loss of his right hand.
AT Bristol young man had his hand
severely burned.
Bennington expended $35, 1000, last year.
OF which $1,072 went to the poor and 3d..
007 to the school. The floating debt ia
$72, 764, and the bonded debt S11e 800
The grand list is $1,454,0 200.
The spring term of the windham county
court, which convened Tuesday, at New
fame, Judge Barrett presiding, will have
two murder and several arson triale. The
docket contains 2l4 casee.
An exchange says there is in North
Fsyston house which has been complete
ly covered with snow drifts until last
week, when the thaw settled the snow 80
that the chimneys are now visible.
The Portland Sc Ogdensburgh railroad
are selling excursion tickets to Boston good
for ten days for less than half rates from
st. Johnsbury, SIS down and return; Dam
vile, $780, East Hardwick, Sc 20, etc.
A Montpelier dispatch says "Mrs. Mol
10y is making warm work in temperance,
holding meetings every evening, and draw
ing very large crowds. Some of the most
confirmed drunkards have signed the total
abstinence pledge. and become earnest
workers."
The old soldiers association Of Wind
ham county is gaining daily accessions to
its ranks, and the prospect is that there
will be tolerably full battalion when the
march upon Bennington is begun. Col
Geo. W. Hooker has been chosen colonel.
Elijah Wales major, and Lieut. @. L. Piper
quartermaster.
a little daughter of Samuel Ramsey, of
Barnet, was attacked last fall, by what
the doctors called rheumatic fever, which
produced immense suffering. In the course
OF few weeks the bones began to disjoint,
until they appeared through the skin. In
this slate she continued several weeks,
when her body began to swell, and at last
death came to her relief.
In Hancock on the 2lst inst, Mrs. Will
liam Gillispe committed suicide by cutting
her threat with a razor, and the funeral
was attended at Granville church on the
23d, with large number in attendance:
the sermon was preached by Elder G. 8.
Hastings, assisted by Rev. T. S. Hubbard.
Cause of death, insanity.
At the Montpelier town meeting a
"Union" (temperancc) ticket and "Citi-
zen's" ticket, for town officers, were voted
for. 1t cannot be said that either partv
were victorious, as some on each ticket
were elected, and some who were on
neither ticket. Gen. p. p. Pitkin was
elected first selectman on the second bal
lot, BY 230 votes to 217 for j. W. Bailey.
j. W. Bailey and Sumner Kimball were
then chosen as second and third selectmen
by reclamation.
The Brattleboro liberal association is
fairly organized and interesting meetings
are held Sunday afternoons at Harmony
hall. The society has been presented by
Edward Crosby, esq.,, with fine library of
800 volumes, embracing all the more i'm
portant works on rationalism, spiritualism
and kindred topics. Mr.. Crosby is one of
the most prominent and public spirited
citizens, and head of the firm of e. Crosby
d Co., Wholesale dealers in flour and gain.
has just started for San Francisco, where
he hopes 20 recruit falling health by a three
months sojourn.
At the annual meeting of the st. Adams
public library the treasurer's report shows
some $500 had baen expended in new
books the past year, with balance of 1854
on hand. The library contains over 1000
volumes. The following officers were
elected: President, Henry M. Stevens; sec
rotary, Charles s. Forbes treasurer, IA.
Hull; librarian, A. G. Wardwell book
| committee, W. A. Cooper, A. D. Tenny,
A. Tinker library committee, s. s. Bee
man. 20. F. Fassett, @. s. Forbes.
]. Aston Breads beautiful cantata of
"Ruth" has been received with great ap-
plause at Woodstock. Mrs. G. D. Tukes-
bury, organist of the Congregational
church and valued music teacher. has
been drilling chorus of some fifty voices,
all winter, and the first presentation of the
piece, aided by local orchestra, crowded
the hall Many people failed 10 get into
the bali, on the second evening, and two
more repeiitions were given. So much
has the piece excited the local mind, that
probably full houses would greet still
other presentations of the play.
The Hon. Simeon Short of Thetford,
died at his residence on Sunday morning,
the 25th ult., aged ninety years and two
months. He studied law with Judge Hub
bard of Windsor was admitted to the bar
In 1914 and continued in the practice of
his profession for forty years. He served
for two years in the state legislature in the
house, and two years in the senate He
also held the offices of assistant Judge Of
probate, register of probate and Judge of
probate for many years. Judge Short was
extensively known as man of culture, in
telligence and the Strictest integrity. For
fifty-fiye years he was distinguished as an
earnest christian and patriot, and was hon.
ored and loved by all who knew him.
The new railroad enterprise lags sadly,
mainly, it Is believed, through the luke
warmness Of Braltleboro. The protracted
hard times seem to have benumbed the
energies and paralyzed the faculties of
those who should naturally be most inter-
ested in the immediate building of the road.
Hon. Is. ID. Harris gave a pertinent and
telling address on the subject at the town
hall last Saturday evening, and another
meeting is to bo held there soon, when
several speakers will be heard, among
them Judge Stoddard of Townshend, j.
III. Tyler, esq, Col. Kittredge Haskins,
Col. Geo. W. Hooker, and ]. G. Eddy, esq.
The local papers of Brattlcboro can't get
over the excitement Of election and are
throwing all kinds of missiles at each other
In consequence. The idea that Chairman
Herrick, who has grown up as a town fix.
ture from boyhood, should, after long ex-
perience as a town father, be assaied as to
his management by an infant paper, edited