The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-12
LOCAL MENTION

The next political event is charter cleo
ton.
Remember the Fairbairn family concert
tonight.
March has given evidence of Its leonine
nature.
Get your two dollars ready or shoot
your dog.
st. PatrIck's day will be celebrated next
Saturday with a parade.
Mrs. John Bradley sang alto in the choir
Of Trinity church yesterday.
"a man who dies before he Is dead" is
what Robert Collyer calls misanthrope.
An exchange says; "Rutland school boys
stick pen knives into each other for fun"
The drying of a single tear has more of
honest fame than shedding seas of gore.-
Byron.
People are already applying for chances
to build the new workhouse-if 1t is to be
built.
The recent storm proves to have been
one of the severest and most destructive of
the year.
Sixteen of the prisoners in Jail are to be
tried at the term Of county court beginning
tomorrow.
The new kid gloves have three rows of
stitching on the back of the hand, in the
English fashion.
DR.. Cyrus Porter has rallied somewhat
from his paralytic stroke, but little hope is
entertained of his recovery.
One of our venerable townsmen gave a
pleasant party to several Of his gentlemen
friends on Saturday evening.
The funeral of Hon. David A. Smalley
will be attended from his late residence in
Burlington on Tuesday afternoon.
New linen collars for ladies have round
ed corners instead of the sharp points
which have been popular SO long.
The present south wind will be sure to
raise large crop of coughs and colds, as
so many will carelessly enjoy its treachery.
Killington Lodge, No. 20, 1. o. o. F.,
meets this (Monday) evening at 73O
o'clock, at Odd Fellows hall, Globe block.
The trains are full of the returning
"early birds" from Washington. One
weeks time and the passage money out is
the result.
The game law docs not prohibit house
hunting, and anyone who enjoys such
sport can indulge in 1t from now until the
first of April.
The father of Judge Prout, aged eighty
three years, was stricken with paralytic
shock last Monday, and is not expected
long to survive.
The tro,ter Hiland Grey, who won a race
at Ticonderoga Friday in 1929, was in
town yesterday on his way to Burlington.
where he trots this week.
Kerosene is reported down again in the
wholesale markets, and doubtless retail
prices will soon be almost as low as befo'
the recent sharp advance.
Hon. A. P. Lyman of Bennington, Uor.
J. X. Batchelder of Arlington, Hon. Jed
P. Clark of Burlington, were registered at
the Bardwell on Saturday.
We learn that Katie Mcdonald, lady su-
perior Of the convent at Bennington, is
very low of consumption and Is not ex-
IL 20 I,,,k faxy Ioxro
1t Ia stated that the complaint against
the Delaware and Hudson canal company
will not be abandoned. The case will be
placed on the calendar for an early day.
A benzine cask, pretty full, name I'M
known, created good deal of disturbance
on the street Saturday night and was ar
rested by Officer Stearns He will be tried
to-day.
Kate Reidy Saturday "donated" a Jug of
liquor to the town agency-at the request
of the offlcerswith search warrant. She
has already been in Jail twice or three times
for selling.
Revenge is like boomerang. Although
for time 1t flies In the direction in which
1t is hurled, 1t takes sudden curve, and,
returning hits your own head the heaviest
blow of all.
Sir John Rose, mentioned in the tele-
graphic dispatches as the head Of an Eng
lish company buying up an immense tract
of timber land in Canada, is son-in-lsw of
Mrs. Robert Temple oil Rutland.
Mrs. William 8. French, lady quite
well known in Rutland, died Saturday of
pneumonia. Prayers at the house at 1890
this morning. The remains will be taken
to Nantucket, Mass, the former residence
of Mrs.. French, for burial.
Between II, 900 and 10000 ties have been
delivered at the Glens Falls station within
the past month for the Delaware and Hud-
son Canal company. They are to be dis
tr1buted along the line of the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga division.
The state workhouse committee, consist q
ing Of Gen. W. w. Grout of Barton, Hon.
Albert Clarke of ST. Adams and Hon. N.
p. Simons, meet here Wednesday or
Thursday of the present week for the pur-
pose of taking the subject into considera-
ton.
One II. Il. Matteson, who represents
himself as an agent OF the Weed sewing
machine company, End has succeeded 10
eating business men In different parts of
the country to cash fraudulent drafts for
him, is supposed to be In this part of the
country.
The March term of the Rutland county