The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-14
Vermont News.

The watch. chain swindler took SAT out |
of the boys In st. Johnsbury.
The lightning rod men took orders at
North Ferrisburgh amounting to 81, $50 In
single day.
Franklin farmers are shipping butter to
Liverpool via Montreal, which Is new
Route for the business.
Ms. McMahon Of Stowe, who Is now
101 years old, was discovered at the tub on
Monday doing her weekly washing.
Prices Of butter at North Troy range
from ID to II cents per 10 the latter price
for the best. At Richmond from - to 10
cents.
Among the carpenters recently at work
on a steam saw mill In Cambridge, was
Dea. Solomon Montague, who is over 90
years Of age.
The Isl regiment Of national guard of
Vermont has been ordered into camp at
Bennington Saturday, August 18th, for
muster Of eight days.
| Oilhdn dnuSibt JOuuB uah ~ ycoio
old, of Orange, committed suicide the 9th,
by hanging himself with a check-rein.
No known cause for the act.
| 1t 10 announced that the first through
train will run from st. Johnsbury to Swan
ton on Monday next and regular time
table will be announced the next Gay.
Manchester is rapidly filling up with
summer guests. There is also good num-
Der at Newport. There are over 100 guests
at the Mount Mansfield house, Stowe.
A hall storm visited Cornwall the eth,
destroying much corn and vegetation gen.
orally. and running the onion crop which Is
u.ually very la &c and remunerative IN thai
town.
The new locomotive Mansfield" Of The
Burlington and Lamoille railroad, has JUS
arrived 1t has six drivers, and ia said t
he the heaviest and ttroF Rest locomotive il
Vermont.
On June 90, fearful hail storm rasseC
over the east part Of Roxbury, damaging
crops to the exieut of several hundred dol
lars and obliging many farmers to replsn
their land.
Ward Eastman Of Sutton took compass
sion on q tramp and gave him work tn
tramp reciprocatpd by stealing Mr.. E.
wallet containing $50 and fleeing to part
unknown"
Rev. Frederick q. Clark, D D., of New
York, whose summer residence is at Ben
nington, Vt, will preach at the Secon
Presbyterian church, Fifth street, mex
Sunday morning.
I The premises of Aaron Sanborn, one O
7 the wealthiest men in Topsham, have bee
entered by burglars twice during the pas
few weeks. Once they obtained seventy
eight dollars, and the next time sixty do
, lars.
Little River bridge, on the island {
Brattleboro, was struck by lightning dul
ing the heavy thunder storm the Both, bu
four Little children who happened to be |
D the bridge at the time luckily escaped will
I out iDju y.
Mr.. Charles II. Walton, proprietor {
a the Florida AgriculturaHst, and formerl
connected with the Tallahassee Sentin
last week. he was cousin of the Hol
n e. p. Walton of Montpelier. and graduate
8 from Amherst College In 1865.
The Burlington and Lamoille rsilroe
will use the old Rutland railroad depot
that city for their oH1ces, telegraph oft
l. and the storage Of cars, ETC., and the nece
l. sary repairs are approaching completion
, 1t is understood that their passenge trail
will run from the Central Vermont depo
> The Burlington Free Press says a que
genius lives at East Burke, man who pro
ably has not spoke to another man direc
10 ly for the past twenty five years. He vi
talk with a woman or a minor, but new
al with man; even hi, own sons, as tn,
arrive at twenty-one years of age, are tai
VI ed to no longer. When he can no bett
at he will talk to the stove, or q horse,
III whatever else happens to be near: 30
A horse, you tell MIR. Smith l want to bl
> his farm" MIR Smith can speak for hir
lib self. but will only get an answer address,
er to the "old horse" This eccentric inc
as vidual will allow no man to sit at his rig
VI hand; he will sooner stand up or leave, al
has often stood up through service when
ie could find no seat without man at b
v right hand. He speaks in meetings, OF
20 is quite an earnest, interesting speaker.
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