Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-12-15
miscellaneous Items,

Potatoes 81 barrel in Cincinnati.
Gen Rosecrans has been relieved of
command In Missouri.
Dickens new Christmas story is en-
titled :" Mrs. Lerriper's Legacy"
Cheese in central New York dull at
l6al8c. per pound butter AZ cents.
MIR. Burlingame, it is said will be
transferred from China TO Il European
mission
FASHIONS for this winter in New
York :-Wooien comforters and nice
healthy, blue wooden stockings.
Bermuda Hundred is said TO be so
named because it il one hundred miles
from the mouth Of the James River
"A. c. Folton, near Davenport, Iowa,
has made 1906 net profits from farm
of 81 acres the last season. His crops
were onions, potatoes and sorghum,
Who says farming doesn't pay
The following toast was recently
proposed at a fireman's dinner: "The
ladies-Their eyes kindle the only flames
when we cannot extinguish, and
against which there is no insurance"
A notice of recent steamboat ex-
plosion in Western paper ends as fol-
lows: The Captain swan ashore. SO
did the chanbermaid; she was insured
for SIS, 1000, and loaded with iron"
BY break in the bank of the Erie
Canal, near Rochester, Il few days since,
damage TO the amount of S50,000 result
ed. The cause of all this mischief Is
supposed to be muskrat, boring through
the bank.
Gov. Gilmore has issued circular
TO the veteran soldiers in New Hamp-
shire offering bounty of 500, 5000 and
$500 to veterans enlisting for one, two
and three years, In Gen. Hancock's new
volunteer army corps, who may be &C.
credited TO the quots of New Hamp-
shire.
A Washington letter says 4 gentle
man called upon Mr.. Lincoln to get q
rebel prisoner released, upon which the
President remarked that the Union
troops would have to be more lively in
taking prisoners, as he already had two
applications for every one captured.
The government OF Brazil has or
dered the exclusion of the Wschusett
from its ports, because OF the capture of
the Florida.
DIR Gw1nR, ex senator Of California
mas been made governorsgeHeral of the
state OF sonora by the emperor Maxi
milan, through the influence Of Napole-
on. Gwinn ia rebel, and mischief NAV
DC meant by his Mexican appointment.
Here is Tentonic soldiers solllo-
luy on the Presidential canvass goes
or OFT Abe. Oft Abe he likes the SOL |
lier poy Ven he serves tree years he !
'ives him one hundred tollsr, and re-
nilsts him, and make him Won veteran.
VOW olt Abe he serve four yesrs-we
e-enlist him four more years and make
on retorar Of Ats."
"A dress parade of bounty Jumpers
box place at indianapolis, Ind. a few
avs since. Over ore hundred OF them
'ere dashed two-and-twO to long rome.
18th herculean African leading the
,umn through the principal streets.
40 ringing bell. Each jumper CARR
large placard on his back, as an ad-
srtisement Of his profession.
The rules of Libby prison allowed |
It elk lines to the letters of our sold-
rs confined there TO their friends ut
'me. Here Is specimen written with
the limit, My Dear wife.-Yours {
ceived-no hopes OF exchaDge-seDd | {
IN ttSrCh-WRnt Gacka--no ,,,o,a. |.
enmstlsm Ia left shouIdfT-piosles
~ gnd-send ssnssg.s-God bless
u-kiss the bsby-HaiI Colombia J.
'ur ceyoted husband. - &