The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-28

WEDNESDAY, MARCH os, 1877.
LOCAL MENTION.

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New surgar is selling at retail at twenty
cents pound.
The last of the nego prayer meetings Al
the Baptist church will be held at ninC
O'Clock this morning.
Another northeasterly turn reached III
on Monday, followed at night by tempestu.
GUS winds.
Meeting of tho Reform club will be held
at their roons Ills evening. The Literary
Gazette viii b. isad.
Judge Wheeler will hold his frat court
as Judge of the United States district court,
at Burlington, on Tuesday next.
The last methodist soclable of the season
will be held at the Methodist chapel this
evening. Supper will be provided, and a
fine programme will be carried out A full
attendance is desired.
Rev. Mr.. Perry, the eccentric preacher
of Worcester, Mass, discoursed last Sab
bath on "zanss, the lawyer, or can law
yer be jealous Christian"
philosophical clergyman riding through
one Of the hill towns of western Massachu-
setts, was met with bow and respectful
saluta,iou from boy by the roadside, by
which he knew, as he said, "tbat he was
getting beyond the bounds of civilization 7"
The state workhouse commissioners after
examining the warehouses at East Boston,
East Cambridge, East Bridgewater and
Lawrence, Mass, returned home Tuesday.
They will meet the Rutland county CON-
missieners In Rutland at an early day to
agree upon a site, ETC., etc.
Mr.. A. s. Meacham of Chicopee, Mass,
formerly of Hydeville, died quite suddenly
on Tuesday. He was father-in-law of MIR.
Z. d. Billings of Brandon. Mr.. Billings
has been sorely afflicted within the past
three weeks, his father and mother and
brother-in-law having died within that
time.
Tho last performance of Slavin's Geor-
gla cabin singers, at the town hall last
evening, was greeted by large audience.
One or two fsvorite songs were repeated,
but otherwise the programme was entirely
new. 1t served to exhibit anew the sweet
voices and peculiar excellenccs Of the
troupe and to delight the audience.
''Now that the presidential conundrum
Is answered and business is reviving," said
lazy tramp to the landlady of an uptown
clearinghouse, last Saturday, "let us re-
turn, madam, to the generosity Of former
days" "Certainly," was the prompt reply,
''just put in that ton of coal, carry or.
those barrels of ashes, beat three Of my
carpets, and do some other triHing chores,
and you shall have your dinner and ten
cents an hour extra" He neither spoke
nor uttered cry, but slouched along down
the street to find woman less endowed
with executive ability.
The signs of an carly and warm spring
are 80 many and clear that no one should
mistake them, and especially should the
authorities bestir themselves to put the
highways and byways in perfectly sani-
tary condition. The accumulated dirt and
garbage of winter should be cleared away
by all householders, lest they breed dis
ease exhaling their poisons under the warm
rays of the sun. 1t is from compost heaps
that the worst forms of disease are engend-
cred, and it is from them that the seeds OF
fever and disease are scattered broadcast
through community.
Wanda, the man with the iron jaw, per-
formed some wonderful feats in the depot
park yesterday. Among other wonderful
things he lifted in his teeth heavy table,
and had man Weighing 100 pounds placed
on 1t. He also l.ited barrel of water
weighing 300 POUNDS in his teeth, had a boy
placed on top Of it and held pail of water
In each hand. HIS home is in Cambridge,
N. Y. He Is of German and WEIGH blood,
nineteen years old, and has been doing the
iron jaw business for four years, two of
them with Barnum's hippodrome. He ex-
hibits in the park to-day at twelve and FIVE
o'clock