Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-04-28
Miscellaneous Items.

effects of his Incarceration.
1t is reported that GOV, Morton will
take command in person of the Indiana
militia.
Edward W. Green, who murdered
Frank Converse, teller of the Maiden
Bank, has been sentenced 10 be hung.
Nevada has sent 200 pounds of sill
yer to the st. Lonis sanitary fair and |
proposes to make it half ton.
-ThurIow Weed lost pile last week |
by selling short on Harlem One report |
says it was 100000.
"A dispatch from st. Louis says that |
Capt Todd, cousin of Mrs. Lincoln and |
formerly rebel provost marshal at Alex
andria, has arrived within our lines with
his family and given himselfup.
In quarrying the solid rock in Sa-
bine county Missouri, the foot print of
an Indian with the moccasin on was
found clearly marked in the stone, two
and half feet down. Whew?
So many caval.y horses are ruined
by the neglect of their riders, that Off
GERS have been authorized to transfer
to infantry service, every man whose
horse is lost by his fault.
"A lady in an omnibus at Washing
ton espied the great unfinished dome of
the capitol, and said innocently, II sup
pose these are the gas works 2" Yes,
madam, for the nation, was the reply of
fellow passenger.
his wifes funeral postponed on account
of the non-arrival of professional gen
tleman who was to extract several teeth
from her containing Sl2 worth of gold
filling.
Wendell Phillips Garrison, an edi-
tor of the Independent lectured in New
York, on Wednesday evening, and went
in for Fremont against the President
He follows his godfather and forsakes
the counsel of his father.
After the report from the select
committee generating Frank Blair
from the charge Of smuggling liquor in
to camp, and his speech on Saturday,
some of his admiring friends in the
House, with Others bought and gave
him $500 worth of sword and trim
mings.
Col Fish, late provost marshal of
the middle department has been sentenc-
ed to'be cashiered, to pay fine of five
thousand dollars and to be imprison-
ed one year in the Albany penitentiary.
He has been sent under guard to Alba
| ny. He was convicted among other
things of robbing the trunks of female
prisoners in his charge
Pennsylvania is following New
York's lead in preparing to let her sol
diers vote in the Presidential election
A constitutional amendment for the
purpose is to be voted on in August, and
| the legislature will meet in extra session
| to perfect the details. ...f.1. -.
| The printers of Atlanta Georgia,
having struck" for s1S7 per thousand
ems, the four journals published at that
place have been compelled to suspend
publication. AS soon as the prin-
tiers quilted work, however, the con-
script officers seized them and marched
them off to camp.
Little Rock, Ark, dates say that the
| nIhdusdS leSlSldtuIt luet on u0e llC0.
| The number of votes cast for free state
constitution were 6'777,-a greater num-
Der than is required by President Lin
coins proclamation On the Sth Gov.
Murphy was inaugurated with impress
sive ceremonies.
In 1860 Illinois raised one hundred
and fifteen million bushels of corn. If
this were placed in cars, three hundred
bushels in a car, it would make a train
of two thousand three hundred and
ninety-fve miles long and allowing
twenty-five cars to locomotive, it
would take fourteen thousand three
hundred and seventy locomotives to
! draw it.
"A grievous famine prevails through
out large part Of Hungary The har-
vest is a failure, and the valley of the
Thesis, noted for it's abundant produc-
ton, has become desert. Thousands
of the inhabitants sick and foot-worn,
are wandering about in search of food.
! A committee has been formed in Paris
10 afford immediate relief.