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

The Stuyvesant pear tree in Third
avenue, New York, which is PIT years
old, is in bloom.
The famous trotting stallion George
NJ. Patchen, purchased four years ago
for S25 900, died Sunday on Long Is
land, N, Y,
The new ten-forty loan is now be-
ing absorbed at the rate of about mil
lion of dollars day,
The editor of the New York News
gives a list of what he calls obstacles to
federal success. He would no doubt he
glad TO be able to make it twice as long.
New York has got new Eve
naked and lying in a bower of foliage
very voluptuously High art thinks it is
classical and lovely common folks that
1t is vulgar and indecent, Rossiter
pointed 1t.
"A worthy deacon and his wife, Of
floral tastes, saw on a recent visit TO
Washington, a sign, winter Garden
Purchasing tickets they passed into a
brilliantly lighted hall so little resem-
bling conservatory that they inspected
their cards, and observed that they were
Inscribed" good for one drink"
The tax on matches by the new bill.
| is one cent per box. Mr.. Carleton has
| three establishments in Boston, in which
are consumed twenty cords of wood and
five hundred pounds of birthstone per
day. He employs two hundred girls
and a number of men, paying the Gov
eminent Sl400 taxes per day,
The defeat Of the attempted rise in
the New York omnibus fares furnishes
very good illustration of the corrective
of the prevailing high prices which may
often be found in the power OF combined
public opinion. r...
"A veritable soap mine has been dis
covered in Esmeralda, California. The
vein is ten feet wide, six hundred feet
long, and runs very deep. The soap
when taken from the mine Is as soft as
putty, but hardens on exposure to the
air.
-Scions for grating may be sent safe
" any distance by mail or express, by
dipping the ends in thick solution of
gum arabic and wrapping them in dry
paper.
Mr. Tuttle, the astronomer, CON-
pletely exposes the fallacy of the predic-
ton attributed to Prof Newmanger
that our globe is endangered by an i'm
pending collision with great comet In
the first place Prof Newmanger is I'M
known in the astronomical world and
secondly there is no comet now known
Of which such career can be predicted.
An army dispatch says that every
thing is in readiness for forward move
ment Gen. Grants plans are unknown
to both superors and subordinates. No
commanding officer knows anything
more at the utmost than the part he is
himself to execute. This is as it should
be-
A Port Royal letter states that the
white troops are to leave the department
for the North, with few exceptions
and the colored regiments which are
daily arriving are to take their places
Our forces in Florida are to be with
drawn, and are also expected to go
North.
A gallant gentleman of the old
school in one of the Boston city rail cars
the other day, gave up his seat to lady
who, as is always the case under like
circumstances, failed to make the proper
acknowledgment. Standing awhile af-
ter the car had moved on, he stopped
over as il to listen, and said to her,
What did you say, madam :" Nothing,
sir" was the reply Of the startled lady.
ooh" said he, excuse me; I thought
you said 'thank'ee'"
The ladies OF indianapolis, Ind, had
a meeting the other day at which Mrs.
Gov Morton presided, and decided that
they would volunteer as clerks in stores
to supply the places of the young men
who may enlist to serve in the army for
one hundred days, the clerks to have
their salaries continued, and the ladies
to have the soldiers monthly pay as
reward for their labors. The movement
is very popular there, and win be imi-
tated in many westers cities.