Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-12-08
Miscellaneous Items.

Carpets and ribbons sold very slow
in New York on Saturday, at decline
of l0a15 per cent.
"A punning son of st. Crispin, in the
city Of Washington, says that cold
Abe's last" is a big thing.
Louisville believes she has been
eating horse-fesh for beef lately-fiesh
of government horses dead, and not
killed.
The First National bank of New
York takes the initiative of paying in
terest on deposits. 1t will pay interest
on all deposits left over fifteen days.
-Four little misses in New York, II
TO fourteen years Of age, have realized
$50 for the soldiers from fair gotten up
by themselves. Good girls.
The family of old John Brown have
arrived safely in California; and have
settled upon the headwaters of the Sac
ramento river.
Eight of the prominent and infiu-
entail Democratic journals of the West
have come out strongly in favor of
emancipation.
Lyman North, the postmaster in Allie
ghany county, N. Y, who was lately
fined and imprisoned for stealing stamps
from letters deposited in his Office and
then destroying the letters, is man so
years old, and worth $4,000.
The tunnel under the lake at Chica-
go for a supply of water goes on well-it
has progressed out 100 feet, nearly
quarter of q mile, goes ahead ten feet a
day, will be half mile long next May,
and all done, two miles out, in 1865.
democratic papers out West are
dying OFF. The Illinois State Register,
at the state capital, the Des Moines
Statesman, at the Iowa capital, and the
Bloomington (Iowa) Citizen are among
the late suspensions.
In Maine the Bath Courier, Farm
ington Patriot, and Belfast Journal
have followed the Augusta Age into for
getfulness. The wonder is not so much
that newspapers die, as how half of
them keep alive at the present cost of
publishing.
New evidence in the case of Col.
North Of New York is said to implicate
others in the soldiers vote frauds. An at
tempt has been made to induce the pres
ident to stop the proceedings, but he
very properly declines to interfere.
Major General Alexander Mcdowell
McCook received orders, last week, to
report to Gen. Sheridan. Gen. Sheridan
was the commander of a division in Nc
Cooks corps during the Chickamauga
campaign.
According to the Washington Re-
publican, Gen. Candy still retains mill
tary command of the department ~ Mis-
sissippi, and Gen. Banks goesc, back as
commander of the department of the
Gulf, for the administration of civil af-
fairs.
The New York Herald says "Some
yess.is ago q section of the democracy
were called barnburners, because of the
fires they threatened to kindle in the ru-
raj districts. Now section of the peace
democracy ought to be called hotel burn-
ersn
The new State Of Nevada sent to
the United States Sanitary Commission
$4,000 in gold and silver, equal to 1885,
600 in currency, making an average of
fifteen dollars and thirteen cents, in cur
rency, for each voter, according to the
vote given for the Constitution last
June. .......... ....... ..
"A new comic paper is to be started
in New York, on the plan of the London
Punch and the Paris Figaro, after which
latter journal it is to be named. It is
to be edited by gentleman from Eu-
rope, of great literary abilities and of
note in both the musical and dramatic
world.
1t will be remembered that Mrs.
Rose Greenhow, the female rebel, who
has attracted so much attention during
the war was lately drowned near
Wilmington, N. c, A Richmond paper
says that her drowning was caused by
her having six hundred pounds sterling,
in gold, about her person.
Another explanation is offered of the
$4,000 in gold taken from the Smith
DlOlllElS III NON cllClho Wy oCl. but-
Ter ; that the money was used for the re-
lief OF destitute Louisianians, with the
% 3. United States govern
ment. IL the Smith brothers prove
their loyalty, they will doubtless recover
their money
The Southern papers call Sherman's
venture a desperate case of chance.
Very likely but he made his first
point" in taking Atlanta, passed
Hood into Alabama, "euchered" him in
the next deal, and now holding both
bowers and an ace,n he is playing "a
one hand, I and makinga march" with
every prospect of agoing OUT
An old whaling captain accounts
for the existence of petroleum in the
West, upon the hypothesis that it comes
rom large deposit of whales which
were caught there when the food aba
ted and have since been covered up by
q CONFUSION Of nature. To the object
ion raised against his theory, that De
troleam is not fish oil, the captain re-
plies that the whale is not f3sh, and
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