Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-18
miscellaneous Items.

Gen Wallace has given orders to make
no prisoners of war of men who shall be
caught in Federal uniform warning upon
the people of Maryland This will make
short work of the rebel guerrillas.
Ct am surprised, my dear, that have
never seen you blush" said gentleman
to his wife. "The fact is, my dear" was
her reply, chat was born to blush un-
seen !"
"A gentleman in Hartford, on Wednes-
day, found five chickens Matched in his
pantry, from eggs purchased of his gro
Ger. They had been placed near chin
ney which completed the work begun
by the hot July sun.
Among the strong men who have
been nominated for reelection to the
next Congress are Messrs. Washburne
and Arnold of Illinois, Speaker Colfax
and Gen. Dumont Of Indiana and all
three of the republican representatives
from Vermont.
Among the wounded rebel prisoners
taken by Sherman at Atlanta were two
women. The sex of one was discovered
during the amputation of her leg. The
other was mortally wounded through
the breaet by grape-shot.
-Farini, a former rival of Blondin,
has been making preparations to ford
the rapids at Niagara Falls, on a pair OF
iron stills. He went out the other morn
ing to "rehearse," and when half way
across, one of his stills broke and preci-
pitated him into the water. He made
out to swim to Robinson's island, and
at last accounts was practicing gymnas-
tics there to keep warm.
Admiral Buchanan, who has been
taken prisoner by our forces at Mobile,
was commandant of the Washington
navy yard in 1861. He resigned on the
10Th of April, and afterward asked to
be restored, but his request was refused.
He commanded the Merrimac in her at
tack on our fleet in Hampton Roads,
and in the battle with the monitor, and
blew her up when Norfolk was occupied
by Gen. Wool.
"A Mr.. Henderson, of New York,
was killed lately at the place where the
recent sad railroad disaster in Canada
occurred. He went on to the platform
of the car, with some others, at the
Richelieu crossing, and leaned over to
see the place where the cars fell, and
while doing so had his head severed
from the body by coming in contact
with one of the supporting rods Of the
bridge. His little son was with him, in
car asleep, and on waking up found
himself alone and fatherless.
The Charleston Courier is very anx-
ious that some ingenious southern me-
chanic should invent an oil mill, and al
so a mustard mill, and pathetically asks
if some son of the south can't take the
old Yankee cider mill as model and get
up something which will answer for
grinding mustard and for pressing out
the oil of sunflower seed and the castor
oil bean, if nothing more4 The south
is beginning to realize what it is to be
deprived of tile services of greasy me-
chanicS."
Gen Scott's memoir of himself will
soon appear in two volumes from the
press of Sheldon, New York. 1t will
comprise about eleven hundred pages,
and a most interesting work may be
looked for.
There was severe snow storm on
Mount Washington few days since. A
party of ladies with winter clothing,
were nearly frozen to death on the way
up from the Glen House, and coach
and four horses were blown down over a
precipice by the fury of the winter gale.
Women require more sleep than
men, and farmers less than those en-
gagged in any other occupation. Edi-
tors, reporters, printers and telegraph
operators need no sleep at all. Lawyers
can sleep as much as they choose and
keep out of mischief
The.exchange of the officers placed
under fire at Charleston was proposed
by the rebels, who were fairly outdone
in the game of "bluff" Although the
rebels have made nothing out OF their
nice little scheme, it has proved most
fortunate thing for the officers on both
sides, who have in consequence been
| liberated much sooner than they other
wise would have been.