The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-02
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. e. A. Ponds, Main street.
The moon is up to all sorts of shines for
the purpose of fooling the gas company.
Charity lodge, Degree of Rebekah, meets
at Oddfellows hall in Globe block at 1880
o'clock this evening
West Rutland has base ball nine organ
lied and for wonder Rutland has not yet
been heard from on this subject.
spaulding 6 Co. have Mrs. j. G.Smith's
new work "From dawn to SUNRISE" re-
view of the religions of the world.
Vicinity items from North Dorset and
Shoreham, and variety of general read
ing matter will be found on the outside.
The seectmen and justices meet at the
selectmen's office in the town hall, at Z
o'clock this evening, to revise the check
list.
There ia time for all things. The time
for an ink bottle to tip over onyour writing
paper is just when you have finished a
letter.
surance." he ought to have wound up by
recommending honesty as the best policy,
but he didn't.
Yesterday was the last day of suing time,
before the March court, and business has
been crushing" around the sheriff's office
for two or three days past.
Tlo AE;.,oo I;arno;nt ,ro,o o+topjtro, tho
Congregational sociable when the fire in
their house was discovered and were not
notified till it was nearly extinguished.
A leading democrat at Winooski says
that five or six of the republican electors
are "illegible." 1t will probably save
them from being read out of the party.
The New Hampshire man who called
worthy gentleman from Suckerdom an H.
) linoyster was completely crushed by the
return epithet that he was a New Hamp-
shyster.
w. E. Rogers, the converted comedian
and reformed inebriate, is causing quite a
sensation. Hundreds are signing the
pledge under his talk. He speaks at West
Rutland tonight, Thursday.
The ladies of the Methodist church give
socable at their chapel this evening, at
which recitations, music and dialogues will
be given and supper served. These en-
tertainments have been heretofore deserved
ly popular.
Spring has come but as yet no one pre-
tends to have heard the first robin or to
have begun planting early peas. The hens
faS We influence OF the weather and eggs
have been sold in town as low as twenty
and twenty-one cents dozen.
The board of registration interpreted its
meetings, yesterday, with that of the board
OF civil authority, and between the two
taxes were abated and names added to the
check list of voters, and the registration
board adjourned, late in the afternoon, to
meet at the selectmen's Office this evening.
About the sickest typographical error we
have seen for some time IS the recent an
noupcement that certain gentleman would
deliver lecture ION the smallpox, for the
benefit of the poor" The editor wrote ION
the sixth prox, and the intelligent com
positor will accompany colony to Texas
next month.-Norristo,cn Herald
The entertainment of the Wallingford
dramatic club Wednesday evening was a
very successful affair. The audience was
good one and the singing surpassed the
expectations of even the friends of the
club. The evening closed with very
pleasant dance.
A special telegram to the Boston Herald
from Burlington, says that it 10 reported
that strike among the locomotive engi-
neers in the employ of the Central YER
mont railroad is probable. This rumor
may be founded upon the fact that an Of
flcer of the brotherhood was over the line a
few days since.
Among those seeking registration yester-
day were quite number of the inmates of
the town poor farm. Having received the
bounty of the town during the past winter,
they don't propose to be deprived of the
right of saying how much the town taxes
shall be. or who shall dispense them to the
poor the coming year.
A committee of the Masonic Grand
Lodge of Vermont have just completed the
preparation of the manuscript of the pro-
ceedings of the Grand Lodge from its or.
ganization in 1904 to the present time,
which will be ready for the press after the
preparation of an Introductory chapter on
the history of anti-masonry in the state
This portion of the work will be committed
to gentleman eminently qualified to per.
form the duty.
A pleasant incident occurred at the
meeting OF the board of civil authority
yesterday. An old gentleman, from Wes
Rutland, appeared before the board, ant
desired to have his taxes abated. H'
stated that he had family of seven chill
dren-one man grown but subject to at
and, therefore, unable to work-that h'
had been out of work for some three
months, and had managed to get along the
best he could, and had neither called for OF
received any aid from the town. 1t ap
peared that his story was true, and taxel
were unanimously abated but 1t appearing
that they only amounted to sixty-fonl
cents, the money was made up by TIL
board, his taxes paid, and he went on hi
way rejoicing not only with his tax re
cepts but with handsome purse, the con
tributions of the members of the board
= beside. Long live such officers, and wou
that there were more men like the old ma
too proud to become town pauper bu