Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-23

gave oueA W uoDy Weighing nineteen |
pounds.
-One Henry McGofr was fined twen-
ty-nine dollars in Springfield, the other
day, for abusing his horse.
A skeleton of mastodon has been
discovered near Adrian. Mich, by a
farmer while digging ditch.
A new crisis has been brought about
in Canadian anairs Ny TIC passage sne
assembly ola vote censuring the Minis
Try or Finance for certain mal-appro-
priations in 1859.
-Rt. Rev. Bishop McClosky, OF Al
bany, has received announcement from
Rome of his appointment to be Arch
bishop of New York
The Blair men of Missouri have put
up state ticket, with Frank Blair
for governor, since the Baltimore con-
vention. oIjs
Gen. Grants army is nearer Wash
ington by two days time, at Bermuda
Hundred, than it would be at Spottsyl-
vania Court House.
The following game notice was post
ed up In the county of Kent: Notice is
hereby given, that the Marquis of Cam
den Ton account of the backwardness of
the harvest) will not shoot himself nor any
of his tenants till the 14th of Septem-
Der"
A man in Litchfeld, Conn.,, who un-
dertook to watch with sick neighbor,
one night last week, is reported to have
been seized with an attack of delirium
tremens, and, in his frenzy, assaulted
the helpless invalid and beat him to
death.
There we're 1888 arrivals of emf
grants at New York last week, which
makes the whole number since January
LIST, SLIGO. The number who arrived
up to the corresponding date OF last year
was So, 427
"A special train passed east, last
week, over the Central Railroad convey
ing about three hundred and fifty rebels
who were captured by Sherman's army,
and after reaching the prison at Rock
Island, ILL.,, enlisted in the United States
naval service.
The Boston Herald, the most popu-
lar Democratic paper in New England
comes out for Lincoln and Johnson.
John Morgan made raid against
Keutuckians, but he soon found Ken
tuckians arrayed against him, and left.
The Thirteenth army corps, General
McClernand, has been discontinued, and
Gen. Candy authorized to consign the
troops composing it to other corps.
Some of the correspondents tell
most ridiculously laughable stories, for
instance: can aid of Gen. Butler on
his way to Grant, with an escort of ten
men, ENCOUNTERED t'Oo rebel picFets, toho seat
tered IN al directions"
An individual advertised for wife
the other day, and requested each appli-
cant for the situation to enclose her
carte de visite. One of his correspondents
closed her reply in these terms II do
! not enclose my carte, for though there is
some authority for putting cart before
a horse / know OF none for putting one
before an ass"
-"Gail Hamilton" writes an indig-
nant letter to the Boston Congregation
alist because Mrs. Prince Of Wales was
not allowed to nurse her own baby
She says the Princess did not cry long
enough to get her own way in the mat
| ter, and she rises into passionate elo-
| quence about Goods own beautiful
bountiful, blissful ordinance" of nursing
babies. Oh, Gail, what can such a"pooI
lone body as you are know about ba.
| bies.
No son of French emperor has sue
ceeded to the throne Of France for 22(
J years. Will Louis Napoleon's nine yea
old prove an exception ?
The Siamese twins still live in Nortf
Carolina. Half the time they stay a
Changes house and half the time a
Eng's One has nine children and tn
other eight
There is rat-eater giving exhibi
tions near Carlisle, England. The NAL
is a tall Kaffir, only wears head dres
and an apron, and eats thirty to fort
rats per day, first biting off the heads Q
the vermin. The police permit thes
disgusting exhibitions, and the peopl
go to see them.
Two men and boy are going t
sail from New York next week for Eng
land, in little boat brig rugged, onl
fifteen feet long and one and three-qua
ter tons register. This is the smalles
vessel that ever essayed to cross the AT
lantic, and it is expected the voyage wi
take six weeks.
A bright little girl, in playful angel
caught hold of an older sister, saying
now, I'll shake the sasc-dust out of you
thinking the human species was got u
on the same plan as her dolls.
Mrs. A. f. Crafts, of South Deerfelt
recently found in her garden a silve
dollar Of 1916 and of American coinage
1t had on one side the inscription: "Det
laration of independence for the SUP
port of this we pledge to each other on
Lives, our Fortunes and our sacre
Honor"
DEMOCRATIC Conference.-The Ill
nois Democratic State Convention, t
choose delegates to Chicago had
stormy time between the peace and wa
mon They mana oed howpver IN avoi