Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-10-05
Miscellaneous Items.

Colorado has adopted Its state con-
stitution by very large majority, but
has rejected the article giving the suf-
frage to colored men.
In Montreal, J. Bartlett and his
wife were lately indicted for stabbidg
each other. They are a bad Bartlett
pair.
Good tea is raised in Georgia. The
plants require no culture after the third
year and will produce good crops for
eighteen or twenty years. The yield per
acre is about 400 pounds.
When Burley, the pirate, escaped
from Jail the other day, he left behind
him a number of letters, some Of which
were from prominent conspirators and
others from young ladies in Sandusky
who were in love with the luckless ad-
venturer. They furnish rich and racy
reading.
Major Mahan, in speech in the
Fenian meeting in Worcester on Tues
| day evening, intimated that Fenian on
board the Great Eastern purposely dam
aged the cable, because he was deter
mined that informers should not have
the use of the cable until Irish inde-
pendence is achieved.
The other day three soldiers in
Memphis, while running away from the
patrol guard, leaped from the Susque-
| hannah Bridge into the river, making
! good their escape. This is the best
Jumping since Sam Patch went over the
| Niagara Falls.
Gen. Morgan, democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio George H. Pendle-
ton, who ran on the Mcclellan ticket for
| Vice President, and Clement L. Vallan-
digham, the traitor, are stumping Ohio
in company. They are known as the
"Three Graces."
There's difference in time, you
know, between this country and Europe"
said gentleman in New York to new
ly arrived lrishman, " For instance,
your friends at Cork are in bed and fast
asleep by this time, while we are enjoy
ing ourselves in the early evening"
That's always the way" exclaimed Pat,
ireland niver got justice yit."
The Freemans Journal discourages
the Fenian movement, and the Irish
American favors the movement, heart
and soul. Bonds of the Irish Repub-
lie" will be issued next week, in denom-
nations of $40, $40, $50, $780, $500 and
$1,000. In the centre will be a figure OF
Liberty drawing sword, and at the
sides yignettes of Emmett and Lincoln.
John Morrissy is said to be willing to
take 100000 of this stock, at par,
The Columbus Crisis-the Albany
Argus of Ohio-is savagely down upon
the New York Democratic ticket and
platform. 1t says their " monstIGus in
consistency seems to have given the cor
ruptiOnists no more trouble than an oath
would pirate" and it concludes: "The
truth is, the New York politicians are
utterly rotten with corruption, and can
be bought and sold as easily as cattle in
, the live stock market"
A fellow named Pendleton, once an
old line Whig, has been making speech
in Virginia. He wants to 90 to Congress
and in his speech occurs this pathetic
passage: -Four Yankee Generals
Wadsworth, Morrow, Robinson and
Rice-Camped on my place for five
months, Winter before last and, al
though | don't exactly believe in special
prOvidenCes, the fact that three of them
fell dead at the Wilderness, the day after
they crossed the Rapidan, looked like a
special dispensation in my behalf" This
stamps Pendleton as being about the
"healthest" loyalist we have seen yet.
Send him to Congress.
Handel Cossham, one of the English
visitors, has patented plan for render
ing gunpowder non n-ex plosive. 1t con-
sists of mixed powdered glass with the
gunpowder, the philosophy of the thing
being that by mingling the explosive
gunpowder with a certain proportion of
a non-explosive powder of much great
er degree of fneness each grain of pow
der is surrounded and isolated from its
fellows by a non combustible wall,
through which no fire can penetrate, If
then, fire should be communicated TO
any part of this mixture, only those
grains of powder will be burned which
the fire actually touches. 1t will not
flash through the entire mass. Very
satisfactory experiments have lately
been made with the compound at Jersey
City.
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