Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-04-28
miscellaneous Stems.
There are now 224 1000 new guns
'tored in the Springfield armory.

stored in the Springfield armory.
The enrolment of slaves In the 4th
congressional district of Kentucky has
been completed without difficulty,
Forty estates have been seized in
Alexandria, Va, during the last few
DAYS, and are now offered for sale by the
government
Got any tin 2" viii be the correct
luouiry.-The new cent win be com
posed Of 90 per cent, copper, and five
per cent, tin. .,
A use has at last been found for the
Great Eastern, She has been hired TO
lay the Atlantic cable next year.
ireland has lost $500. 600 of its pop-
ulation by emigration within ten wears.
and the exodus is still going on at the
rate OF 10000 year. .....H
The women of Utah have recently
altered the photography of their creed.
They now spell it hormaa. .,.. ..r
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, win re-
new his motion in the House to tax
whisky on hand, for the purpose OF get
ting the yeas and nays on the question.
A late London sporting paper says
Jim Mace has accepted Joe Columns
challenge for pugilist mill, which win
probably take place in June.
Wall street gambling is Illustrated
in the initiation OF Harlem which isn't
worth 80 to 20S Thurlow Weed and
Others who had sold short in immense
amounts, it is said are disastrouSly
| damaged If not entirely ruined.
James Rush, of Bath, Me, was so
frightened by the discharge of gun
few evenings since that he was taken
with bleeding at the lungs and died in
about twenty minutes. y r
The Fifty-flfth Illinois regiment,
lust about the time it re-enlisted, took a
vote on the Presidential question with
the following result Lincoln, 273; Nc
Clellan, IA Grant, 8; Butler, i Chase,
n; Gov Yates, ].
Both branches of the New York leg
islature have passed the new bill for a
bridge across the Hudson at Albany,
changing the location. The projectors
are already advertising for materials
and Workmen 20 push the work the
coming season. .....- ...r-..
The New Jersey courts and iegisla-
ture are the tools of the Camden and
Amboy railroad monopoly. The monop.
oly taxes every person crossing the State
dollar, and gives the State ten cents
as her share Of the spoils, The State
has sold itself cheap.
Try this, some of you: FaSten
nail or key to string and suspend I
to your thumb and finger, and the MAJ
will oscillate like a pendulum. lie
some one place his open hand under tn
nail, and it viii change to circuia
motion. Then let third person plac
his hand upon your shoulder, and ID
nail becomes in moment stationary.
"A Chattanooga letter says tina
while the rebels held Lookout Mountal
they made sleeping places of nat stone
in sheltered places. Some would hol
fifteen or twenty persons. In thes
paved couehes huge fires were built
The wood consumed, the Goals and ashe'
were raked out, and on the warm stony
bed the shivering soldiers dispose
themselves for sleep.
-Spalding g. Rogers's circus, return
. ing in brig from two years cruise /
South America and the West Indies, me
with a disaster near Barnegat a FEY
: days since The brig was wrecked, Nv
valuable horses drowned, and all u
properties and wardrobe belonging
, the establishment lost. The company
, now in New York recuperating.
t The New York Herald says that
S company has been organized under IL
E name of the Saratoga and Hudson Rive
e Railroad Company, TO construct RAJ
e road from Saratoga Springs to Scheme
tady, and thence to q point on the HUI
!, son river in the town Of Athens, opp
u site the city Of Hudson. The capt.
stock is 81 100000, the whole amount
d which has been subscribed. .fsa, nea
J Chicago has got another scand
case--this time involving the reputatlc
> of Rev. Mr.. Thomas, pastor of the Fir
j Unitarian church. His guilty paramol
is the married daughter of one Of Il
= most wealthy and respected citizens
that place, who is now residing in Ne
York. Mr. Thomas has wife, but
children He has left for parts u
n known. aN
A A physician in New York the 9th
a day wrote a prescription and sent
l. with the patient to another doctor
e have it made up. The second physics
e being unable from defective eye-sight
e read the prescription, which was We
badly written, made up poisonol
a mixture The patient drank it and di
d the next day. The coroner's jury &c
+ sured one doctor for bad penmansf
n and the other for bad eyes.
! A STocK BID IN CHURcH.-One of O