Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-03-17
Miscellaneous items.

Rev, Mr.. Sturgeon, the celebrated
London preacher is said to contemplate
visit to this country in May,
-Onious rubbed frequently on the
head are said to restore the hair. They
will certainly make it grow strong.
Fifteen State Legislatures and Con-
ventions have declared their preference
for Mr.. Lincoln as the next President.
Emma j. Smith, a music teacher at
Chicago, lately became discouraged by
want of success in securing scholars, and
took poison.
-Vallandigham has written letter
from Canada, recommending his follow
ers to make reprisals whenever copper
head newspapers are damaged by mobs.
He says there is now no legal redress,
and the only remedy is retaliation.
Feels bad
Do you see anything ridiculous in
this wig :" said a brother judge to Cur
ran. Nothing but the head" he re-
piled.
"A country editor living on the line of
railroad sent to the superintendent of
the road for pass for himself and added,
please embrace my wife" The super
intendent returned pass to the editor
but declined the proposed honor.
Mr.. Bryant democrat from New
York, introduced series of resolutions
into the New York assembly, Monday,
declaring that the war must be prosecu-
ted until slavery is annihilated that
f,a constitutional 80 81.
would clear the path to our manifest
destiny and produce the restoration of a
united nation and requesting Congress
to submit to the people constitutional
amendment, forever prohibiting and ex-
terminating slavery.
--Gov. Smith, of Rhode Island, was
walking down 4 street in Providence the
other day, when culprit came daShing
with a policeman in hot pursuit. The
Governor gave chase, caught the fellow
as he was scaling fence, gave him over
to the officer, and then proceeded on to
the State House, where he presided in
the Senate.
Eleven soldiers of the One Hundred
and Fifty ninth New York Volunteers
were tried in New Orleans on the I'd
inst, for marauding and plundering q
plantation, After robbing the place of
every valuable thing, they ravished a
negro girl in presence of her father and
and mother and afterwards stripped
her OF her clothing and left. The ring
| leaders were sent to Tortugas for life,
and the rest We're sent to the same place
for periods varying from three to ten
years. The offenders are all young
some of them being boys of sixteen.
How. to make Berlony sassidee-
carefully prepared by Ike Billings, from
the original resipee, now in the possess
sion of the families of the Duke of Cat
| fish Take eel skin and stuff it with
ground cat seesin it with Scotch snuff
and persimmOn lie; lay it in hog pen
to dri, and then hang it up by the tale in
Dutch grocery for three months, for
the flies to give it the bridesmaids, then
it is ready for use, and ken be kut up
into rite lengths and scaled for perlice
klubs.
1t is stated that the managers of
the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair neglected to
furnish the editorial and reportorial fra
ternity of New York city with compli-
mentary tickets, and that on the open
ing night several reporters made them
selves known but could not obtain en-
trance until they had paid. They pur-
chased tickets, looked around. and made
no notice oft. This accounts for the
absence of any lengthy notices of the
fair in the New York papers.
"A passenger on a Western railroad
saw young lady in the seat near him,
with whom he thought he would scrape
an acquaintance. So he handed her over
the Chicago Times, copperhead peace
organ, saying "That's the only well
conducted paper in Chicago" The lady
looked at it it was the woman tradu
eng organ. STOPPING over, she lifted
pair of petite but rather muddy rubbers
from the floor wrapped them in the pa
per, placed the bundle on the seat beside
her, and quietly drawing book from
her satchel, began to read. The Judge
of newspapers looked as if something
had struck him.
AT meeting held in Cincinnati
last Friday for the relief of the loyal
East Tennesseeans, Mr.. d. Fl. Battle
who has returned from trip for the
sanitary commission to Knoxville and |
Chattanooga, narrated some of his ex-
periences. He saw hundreds of these
refugees at every point-the children |
barefooted, in the cold, and women and |
Zen shivering from scant clothing. and |
haggard from stinted food. He exhib-
tied specimen of the bread he found
In their possession. 1t resembled SOAP
stone more than anything else, being
made out of smut four, and as palate,
able as half burnt bricks. They de-
ciared they could get nothing else for
bread, the army having taken every
thing else from them. Many of the
men were clad in carpets, fastened
about the neck, and hanging down like
a gown. There was much sickness
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