Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-09
Miscellaneous Items.


The Sanitary Commission spent |
100000 in May for the army OF the Pc
tomac.
Among the rebel prisoners at White
House are two females, one Captain OF
artillery.
Mr.. Everett has got his one hundred
thousand dollars for the East Tennessee
sufferers. 1t was good thing well
done.
Nearly fifty thousand acres of land
in Canada have been sown with flax
this year, ten times as much as last
year.
The Department of Missouri has
been merged in that of West Mississip
pi, and Gen Rosecrans is now under Gen.
Candy.
The transportation train of the ar
my of the Potomac would make line
of wagons sixty.two and a half miles In
length, according to Gen. Meade.
The Baltimore hotel keepers are 60
ing to charge seven dollars day to the
members of the republican convention;
so the papers of that city say, at the
same time exhorting the people to open
their houses and so put down this at
tempt at extortion.
An enterprising but ignorant South
American has sent to an Albany locomO-
tive shop for one hundred cow catchers.
He expects to use them in taking wild
cattle on the plains of Paraguay, in place
of the lasso.
AT the st. Louis fair they are vot-
ing on horse, as well as a sword, which
will be given to the general who gets
the most votes. At last accounts Han
cock was ahead for the sword and Sher-
man for the horse.
"A new torpedo invention, designed
for use by our navy department, has
been successfully experimental upon at
Schenectady where portions of the ma
chinery are now building.
The strong. minded sisterhood ought
to be content with the enlargement of
the sphere of woman that has taken
place since the introduction of hoops.
The original Eve was Adams bone, but
our Ewes are whalebone.
The democratic papers, big and lit
tie, have heretofore been denunciatory
beyond measure towards the incen-
diary radicals" as they stigmatize
them. Now they tell us these "radi-
icals," the Missouri " fanatics" Wen
dell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury and com
pany, who have made such judies OF
themselves at Cleveland, are 4" the pur-
est and best portion of the republican
party !" Remarkable, isn't it?
The statistics of the hospitals of
Washington for the past year, show that
the rates of mortality was less than four
per cent, while the splendid hospitals of
London exhibita mortality of more than
nine per cent, and those of Paris more
than ten per cent. In the hospitals of
the Bosphorus, during the Crimean war,
the death rate was twenty per cent,
and in those on the Crimea the rate was
over fourteen per cent.
Some time since man in Maine
wanted to exhibit an Egyptian mummy,
and went to the court house to get a
license. What is it % asked the Judge.
can Egyptian mummy, may it please
the court, more than three thousand
years old said the Snowman. 'Three
thousand years old !" exclaimed the
Judge, jumping to his feet, "and is the
critter alive ~
"A Red river correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says that he has been
informed that Col. Mudd, with five hun
dred of his command, captured on boat
on Red river, after surrendering, were
inhumanly butchered in cold blood. The
demons drove the boats crew into. the
hold of the boat, battened down the
matches and then set fire to her She
was totally consumed.
The New York World prints extracts
of 1856, in praise of Fremont, then just
nominated for the presidency, under the
head Response of the Press to the NOM
ination-cordial endorsement of the New
York Tribune and Times" 1t gives no
dates and the reader is expected to un-
derstand that the republican papers APP
prove the present nomination of Ere
mont Sharp, but unhandSome.
The coroner's jury in the case of q
woman who was killed at Newport while
walking on the sidewalk, by a heavy
carpet which was thrown from third
story window, rendering the astonish-
ing verdict that they "are deserving OF
the severest censure who threw so heavy
carpet from SO high window"