Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-07-28
Miscellaneous Items.

After the surrender of New Orleans
there was slowed away, it is said, in
Atlanta as much specie as three locomo-
tives could draw.
The Virginia and East Tennessee
Railroad has been thoroughly repaired,
and cars are running regularly, The
road between Staunton and Charlottes-
vile is also in running order.
AT st. Johns, N. B.. on the 4th, a
policeman threatened to arrest an organ
grinder, who was playing Yankee doodle
for a Newburyport man, unless he
stopped The organist stopped and the
crowd cheered.
Julius, was you ever in business 2"
In course | was" "What business 2"
"a sugar planter" "When was that,
nv colored friend 2" gDe day berried
dat old sweetheart of mine"
Dissipation is getting expensive.
At New York and Brooklyn brandy is
81 a glass, cobblers and mint juleps 20
to Csc, lager bier 10c and cigars lOa4Oc.
Such prices will do more to secure re-
form than several temperance lectures
and antitObaccO tracts,
Forty farmers in Windham county,
Connecticut, turned out on Sunday week,
and got in the hay Of poor woman
who has six children, and whose bus
band is absent in the army.
The farmers in some parts Of Iowa
are paving 'harvest hands" three dollars
a day, and a number Of manufacturing
establishments have been closed in order
to give The workmen an opportunity TO
assist in harvesting
Canadian manufacturers are suffer
ing for anthracite coal. What is dug
there is Sent to Bermuda fer confederate
blockade runners, and the United States
has stopped the expectation from our
territory.
C. G. Spaulding, the editor of the
Newport (Vermont) News, feels himself
called to serve his country, either in the
army or navy, and, therefore, advertises
his paper and patronage for sale, hoping
it will be purchased by some young
man, "who is not able to serve his
country but is able to conduct a news
paper"
There is said to be a young lady in
st. Louis who, now aged eighteen, has
| been in q state of slumber since her
| fourth year. She wakens but twice in
twenty-four hours, remains awake for
seven minutes, converses and eats, and
again drops asleep. The case is good
one to describe to the marines, or to the
| psychologists.
| The effect of freedom on the negroes
| has been to lessen the manifestations OF
! religion in the merely emotional forms,
| and to increase it in the form of moral,
| ty and good works. ''Their piety," as
Dr. Howe rather quantity remarks, i:
less nasal and more practical. They
pray less vehemently, but lie and stea
| less readily"
"A young married lady, travelling 8
few days since from New York to SYRIA
| cuse, and suffering from consumption
had been laid carefully on pillow OF
the cars by her husband, while her LITTLE
girl by her side At Little Falls she tel
asleep, and the child commenced flaming
her, saying Mamma is sleeping" 4
passenger, however, noticed the peculiar
whiteness of her lips, and, on looking
closely at her, discovered that she wa'
dead.
"A nervous individual entered thu
car and commenced oveIhauling thu
baggage. The baggage master, ate
eyeing him moment, accosted hin
rather grufily with Whats wanting
sir?" "Im looking for my trunk" de
murely answered the nervous man. :"
will take care of your trunk, sir;-tha
is my business, retorted the b. N. ooh
| am aware of that, sir, but ] would al
ways much rather keep my trunk unde
my eye" "Well, then, sir; you shoul'
have been born an elephant, and theI
you could have your trunk under you
eye the whole time"