Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

pounds.
Senator Wilson's son has passed ex-
animation, and been commissioned as LIST
Lieutenant in the 3lst Colored trOops,
now at Rickers Island. Fur
The Augusta Journal says: This,
will be great corn year for the bios
SONS of the May flowers are deeply ting.
ed-a sign which rarely fails" I
In Rochester, on Monday night,
while boy, twelve years of age, was
carelessly handling loaded gun, he
aimed it at his mother, when the weapon
exploded, killing her instantly. She
leaves family of eleven children.
A New York journal says that some
cities suffer from earthquakes, others
floods, others from plaques, Others from
an excess of beggars, but the seourge
and chastisement of New York is its To-
cal government" .....
The following was posted in his
house, few days since, by Pougb-
keepsie business man; aae#l --a.e
1. HEADQUARTERS, HOUSE, OF -.
''Gaeral Order No. Julia Until the
price falls no more butter win be used
in our family, JAMES"
He had hardly reached his counting
house when special messenger handed
him this: @
james Until butter is reinstated,
no more tobacco will be used in this
house. r JULIA, Chief of staff.
1t is said that butter won. .I .
A frog fell out of a block of sand
stone which some workmen were break
ing at Johnstown, Pa, a few days since.
The stone was known not to have been
disturbed since it was quarried thirty
years ago; and how long the frog, which
was squeezed as fiat as cent, had been
in it before that can only be a matter of
conjecture. Immediately on falling out,
the reptile began to swell and move, and
in short time became quite lively
A fraud was discovered Thursday in
the New York city tax levy, the words
said work being hereby suspended
having been interpolated after the item
appropriating $4,000 towards laying out
that portion of New York north of l65th
street. The Interpolation was evidently
made after the bill had passed both
houses finally and before it was re-en-
crossed. ..a-.- sH a
The official records of the military
authorities show that upwards of one
hundred and fifty female recruits have
been discovered, and made to resume
the garments of their sex. II is suppos-
ed that nearly all of these were in collu-
sion with men, who were examined by
the surgeons and accepted, after which
the fair ones substituted themselves.
Is B. F. Taylor Chattanooga cores
pondent of the Chicago Journal, tells
how disloyal federal officer was 'spied.'
by woman. The young man was in
the habit of riding out every day, al
ways carefully loading his pistol pre-
vious to starting. The shrewd little fe-
male spy became curious about the un-
usual charges which were put in the
weapon so one day when Mr.. Officer
was ready to start on his mysterious err
rand, she asked him to buy her lemon
AIDE. She was toying with the weapon,
and he went. The instant the door
closed behind him she drew the charge
and substituted another. She was not
a minute too soon, for back he came, took
the pistol, and rode away. No sooner
had he gone than she set about an ex-
animation of the charge and it proved
to be plans and details of the federal
forces and movements snugly rolled to-
gether. 5jHg al -EW H2IsLf'A >ih