The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-06
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL MENTION.
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The town meeting begins at 10 o'clock,
a. N.
Strawberries are in the New York mar
kets.
Morse Brothers have received stock of
blue glass.
New maple sugar, pneumonia and neural
gia are prevalent.
Yesterday was pretty day but the at
mosphere was Haysey.
Mea, is following kerosene and eggs in
their downward tendency.
Horace Baxter, who has been passing
the winter in New York, will return to-
day.
One or two cases of dlphtheritic sore
throat have developed IN the village within
day or two.
Rutland has had more sickness and less
funerals this winter than any winter for
several years.
Noah Landon, father of our townsman
Walter @. Landon, is lying dangerously ill
of pneumonia at South Dorset.
Pittsford probably celebrated the inaug-
uration of Hayes and Wheeler last evening,
as guns were heard from that direction.
Observing navigators of lakes and rivers
are wagering that this spring will witness
the earliest opening of navigation for ten
years.
We are indebted to Hon. Hilaud Hall for
his sketch of the battle of Bennlngt N,
which contains many new and interesting
facts.
In another column will be found an in
teresting letter written from Nassau, N. p,
by A. r. Vail, a well known citizen of
Fair Haven.
1.-THE story March has come at last
With wind and clouds and changing skies;
hear the rushing in the blast
". C. Bryaut.
To-day is not legal holiday. The last
legislature repealed the law making cleo
ton day legal holiday. The banks will
be open, and all bank paper due to-day is
payable.
A very desirable business block is Of
fered for rent by q. F. Huntoon; also, by
same party, two tenements located on Main
street. Read advertisement In another
column.
People who have won overcoats on
guessing the result of the electoral vote
find the result delayed 30 that the garment
is of little use, but it comes just in time
for the spring style of hats.
Open winters have been accounted I'M
healthy and severe ones conducive TO good
health. Yet with this dry, bitter winter
diphtheria, scarlet fever and kindred ills
have been moro than usually prevalent.
People coming into town from the sur
rounding towns report the "going" just
horrid. There appears to be considerable
frost IN the roads, though not in the fields,
and horses are just beginning to break
through, leaving dangerous holes.
William Salmon was brought before
Jus,ics Warren yesterday for keeping in
toxicating liquors. He claimed that he had
procured the liquor found in his house for
a christening, but the justice thought the
supply rather large for such purpose and
fined him $40 and costs.
The industrial branch of the Rutland
Missionary association will meet at the mis-
sion rooms, Main street, this (Tuesday)
afternoon at two o'clock. Unless there is a
special demand this will be the last meet
ing. A full attendance is requested az
business of importance is to be transacted.
The Sprinfeld Republican has the cham
pien piece of obituary poetry:
But up in groves OF paradise,
Full surely Wa shall see
Our morning glory beautiful
Irvine round our dear LORDS Knee
That ia unique and unrivalled as a pic
ture of heaven. In this world people aren'
in the habit OF sitting still long enough fo
morning glories to twine around theil
knees. What pity that hadn't been writ
ten in time to give Miss Phelps some new
ideas for her "Gates sjar."