Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-04-21
Miscellaneous Is~p,as,

of at one sale at New York, Saturday, at
III.
The Ohio Supreme Court has decided
that the soldiers voting law is consti-
tutional.
The women's loyal league have H.
600 petitions circulating, asking Con.
gress TO abolish slavery
Punch says it has been proeosed N
tax stays, but it was objected to on the
ground that II would diminish the con-
sumption.
About two million volumes were
sold at the recent New York book trade
sales. Prices were ten and fifteen Der
cent. higher than formerly.
-Harper's Weekly says that 9TH.
man who plants birch tree near a
school house little knows what he is
comforting on posterity,
The Chicago Board of Trade have
resolved that on and after the 9TH of Nav
next, all their transactions viii be based
on Treasury notes or their equivalent.
Mrs Partington says that consider
ing all their trials and temptations, the
managers of the Sanitary Fair deserve
credit for preserving an unraiiied tenn
per. ...t,... ....- abba.
"A Florida letter says that nearly
one thousand rebel deserters are in Ole
| fenokee swamp in that State, regularly
armed against the confederate author
/ tiles, .t.
The steamer Harvest Moon has ar
rived at Washington from Fortress Mon
roe, with Admiral Dahlgren, who mas
again been unsuccessful in obtaining
the body of his son.
On tombstone in churchyard in
Ulster England, is the following cpl
taph Erected TO the memory of John
Phillips, accidentally shot as mark Of
affection by his brother s
The great elm in Springfield, Mass,
has been cut down. According to DIR HOl.
mes measurement in 1896, it was TWEEN.
ty-nine feet and four inches in circum-
ference one foot above the ground,
A Richmond correspondent Of the
Atlanta (Ga) Appeal says that a resident
of Richmond advertises his furniture for
sale because his rent was raised from six
hundred dollars to five thousand dollars
The omnibus proprietors in New
York made a mistake in raising the fares
to ten cents. People patronize the cars,
60 afoot, do everything rather than pay
the ten cent fare, and the stages 20
empty
A man in Lewiston, Me, got his life
insured for $4,000 and Immediately went
into decline. The company bought his
policy at discount of $500 and he went
TO California and got well, and is now
enjoying the benefits of his own lie in
surance.
California letters--a month old
speak of sad drouth there. Thou
sands ofcattle and sheep have died FOR
lack of water, and farmers were killing
their cattle for their hide and tallow.-
| But since then the telegraph has told Of
abundant rains. .-..#
The Archdnke Macmillan has ar
ranged loan for S25 100000 in 4 six
per cent. stock at sixty three Ttisnow
said that the old bondholders, for whose
rights Napoleon pretended to go to war,
are thrown entirely on the generosity Of
the new Emperor
Fire was discovered on Friday morn
ing in building ON the premises Of the
! Pacific Mills Company at Lawrence, used
for sorting wool, but by the active ex-
ertions of the fire department the flames
were confined to the second story, which
was pretty thoroughly burnt out.
> 4. "A L.. Al A., a .,
in North Adams, Mass, named Burdick,
I who was drafted at Berlin, N. Y, and
served in Vermont in the war of 1872,
who was never discharged from the ser
! vice and is now entitled from Govern
ment to fifty years pay, which including
! rations would amount to $4,000.
A girl, fourteen years of age was
taken from the poor-house in New Haven
sometime since, and provided with 3
home in a good family in that city. A
few days ago she astonished her bene-
J factor by announcing that she must
hereafter have half dollar more a
week, as provisions We're double what
they used to be, and she couldn't live
on her present wages"
Mr.. Thomas, the radical anti-Frank
Blair candidate for Mayor of st. Louis,
was elected by over twenty-six hundred
majority. The attempt, however, to
class the result as Fremont triumph
is a failure, as vast number of Mr..
Thomas supporters are said to prefer
| Gen. Butler to any living man; many
others are in favor of N. p. Banks; some
are in favor of Mr.. Lincoln, and the bal
ance go for Fremont.
The editor of the Richmond Dis
patch, the most ferocious OF the rebel
papers is said to be Oliver p. BALDWIN,
formerly a resident of Cleveland, ono.
| Twenty-Five years ago he was law stu
dent in that city, but subsequently stud
led divinity and went to Virginia, where
he became editor of literary weekly
journal. Baldwin was distinguished as
a fine scholar, and as handsome put
not very forcible speaker. He is now
the bitterest rebel in rebeldom.
"A Hindoo chess player at present in
London plays three games blindfolded,
and wins; a game of cards and wins
and during the play a bell is touched
every one or two seconds and he gives
the number of tunes it has been touched.