Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-07-18
VARIOUS ITEMS.

AlAlTDDo IAID-
The weather ha ! become 50 hot at Wash
ington that great rare is necessary in the
movement of TROOPS, numbers Of whom have
already been sun-struck. Evening is the
only safe time for marching.
A gentleman whose wife has been in dis
tant State for while past, and expects 10 be
absent about two mont yet, says he thinks
he will try TO get a discount at bank for SIX
ty days to make the time pass more rapidly.
Those who have had discounts will see the
force OF his reasoning at once.
a company in London called the Pneu-
matte Dispatch Company, are erecting tun-
mel in that city thirty inches in diameter,
through which they intend to send parcels
by exhapsting the air in front OF the cylin
der containing them. The line IS first 10 be
put in operation between the general post
Office and Bloomsbury.
The commencement exercises al Dart
mouth College take place on the 23d. oath
and 2jth OF this month. President Pease Of
Burlington (Vermont.) University, will adj
dress the Theological Society on the 231
Hon. Edward Everett will deliver an ora
ton, and Rev. John Pierpont poem on the
the oath before the Literary Societies.
At Nantucket on Saturday last. the resi-
dents Of the town were much surprised a.
the appearance ofwhat seemed a slight snow
storm. but which. On examination, proved 10
be the falling of drv whitlsh substance.
resembling down. It continued several hours.
and 80 resembleh d snow storm that the
school children re ported to the teachers that
il was showing. Who can account for this
By b late census It appears that there are
some nine hundred inhabitants, permanent
settlers, on the Islands on the southern shore
of Lake Erie, mostly on Putin Bay, Kelley.
North. and Mddl4 Bass Islands There is
not doctor, npr yet Is there a lawyer
among tbem-nor Is there sick person.
more healthy. happy, prosperous community
Is not TO be found pn the face Of the earth.
At Bridgeport. Conn, on the Sd inst. Mr..
p. T. Barnum, while in the act Of arresting a
horse that had bee pine suddenly frightened
at the blowing of d locomotive whistle. Was
thrown violently upon his right shoulder,
crushing the cap bone. His injury, though
severe. it is thought will not prove fatal. but
it must be several weeks before he can recov-
or, as his system Is considerably affected by
the severe injury.
1t was Horace Nann's expressed wish TO
be buried by the side of bis first wife at
Providence. The wish has been complied
with by removing the body from the grounds
Of Antioch College. where it has lain for
nearly two years, tb its final resting place
Without ceremony and IN the quickest pos
sible manner. the transfer was effected last
week. The body was found 70 be in re-
markable state of preservatiOn-the features
retaining all the exp preston of life.
Prof. Mitchell thinks the reason the comet
-t.nA.- 4 II.
to the sun, II has been above the horizon on
ly during daylight, and hence escaped de-
lection that on passing its perihelion. it
made tracks uncommon. The last isn't the
professors phrase, bat expresses his senti-
ments.
A Richmond paper proposes to call
the comet the uthern Contederacy. The
Providence journal responds that the name
might be appropriate to that body. which
fas the least concei vable head with the larg-
est conceivable tail, and is running ANY, as
fast as possible.
The telegraph made Mr.. Vallandigham
say IN the Democratic caucus that he prefer
the preservation Of the Union What h
said was. that her preferred peace TO the
preservation OF the Tn m The caucus in /
which this intimation was made broke up in /.
a row.
VIRGINIA.-The veil OF secresv thrown /.
over the proceedings Of the late Richmond 7.
Convention has been removed. and We have .
a true statement OF the division OF the vote
on the Ordinance OF Secession. II appears I
that. out OF one hundred and forty-three /
votes cast. only eighty.eight were in favor Of /
he ordinance, leaving a formidable mega /
tive vote OF Gfy-ffe. And on the l4th inst. /
when the time arrived for signing the ordi- /
nance, -only Hmety-one delegates could be /
found TO do it.
NJ. Russell, the London Times Cores
Dondent, was in New York on the Fourth of
July and heard Mr.. Everett's Grafton. He
great surprise that the orator /
should be able TO maintain so dignifed tone. .
through an address two hours long delivered /
before a popular assembly.
The Rochester Union claims that the err
rors in the Presidents Message. as it was
originally telegrlphed, amounted TO nearly
1000, when the original document was COM
pared with genuine copy. The Union re-
published it.
\ sailor who had not seen the inside
of church for some time. strolled into
that of Portlock, in Somers9tshire, just
as the minister assembled the pulpit, who
gave out for his text-.Wilt thou 90 with
me to Ramoth Gilead, 10 battle !? which
being twice repeated. the tar, with some
warmth. rose up and exclaimed-'What
10 none OF You answer the gentleman =
For INV part. if nobody else will 90, III .
90 with him myself with all my heart /