Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-01-19
miscellaneous items.

the 4th of March.
Gen. Grant has subscribed $500 TO
the Sherman testimonial in Ohio,
Flora Temple, the queen of the
turf, Is at Embellishments gray,
but looking bright as three year old
colt, She Is twenty years old.
The proposed new territory of Wy
oming, TO be made out OF Oregon and
Washington embraces an area twice as
large as that Of the state of Ohio.
"A physician speaking of the frail
constitutions of the women of the pres
ent day, remarked that we ought to take
great care of our grandmothers, because
we shall never get any more.
A telegraph message was sent q
few days since from City Point to Chat.
tanooga, with but single repetition,
and that at Pittsburg, The distance is
about two thousand miles.
"A whale was caught in September
in Davis Straits, ana in its body was
found embedded large piece OF a har-
pooh, on which was engraved, Gravel
Ter Peterhead-l938." This was the
name of a vessel lost about eight years
ago in Cumberland Straits.
The announcement that the citizens
Of Philadelphia had presented a $4,000
house to Mrs. Gen. Grant is premature.
They are intending to do something
handsome for the General and his fami-
ly, but haven't decided what, yet.
A writer in the Charleston Courier
predicts a campaign against South Car
olina by Sherman, and asks President
Davis, Where is that great retreat of
Sherman, which he said would be like
that of Napoleon from Moscow"
When casting the electoral vote of
Missouri, the electors united in an emf
nently appropriate, though an extra
official act. They joined in a petition
J to Governor Hall for the pardon of three
men sent to the penitentiary for aiding
in the escape of slaves to freedom, and
their prayer was granted.
The fatal accident at the Bergen
tunnel, n. j., on Thursday last was the
third thathas occurred there within six
months. All the trains on the Erie and
Morris and Essex railroads pass through
the tunnel, one hundred day in all,
and scarcely any, even the most ordina-
ry, precautions are taken to guard
against accident.
The Constitutional Convention of
Missouri ON Monday decided to COM
pletely reOrganize the Constitution, and
passed resolutions for the appointment
of eleven COmmi tees, to whom shall be
referred the different articles, and whose
duty it shall be to report such amend
ments as shall be advisable.
There is considerable opposition
manifested in some of the British North
American provinces to the proposed
colonial confederation. In Prince Ed
ward Island, it has caused ministerial
resignation, and it is claimed that nine
tenths Of the inhabitants there are op-
posed to the scheme. In Nova Scotia
also, some numerously attended and en-
thusiastic meetings ofinfuential citizens
to protest against it have been held.
The great California sanitary
cheese weighed 1880 pounds. twas
made by the Steele brothers, who select
ed 900 of the best Of their 400 cows,
and detailed thirty men to make the
cheese. The COWS yielded 100 bar
rels of milk in three and half DAYS,
and from this the curd was prepared.
"A dwarf, the counterpart of Tom
Thumb, has just died at Paris, at the
age of ~. In his sixteenth year he was
placed in the family of the Dutchess of
Orleans, and during the revolution was
able to render so important services that
he has received pension of three thou
sand francs year ever since. Unlike Tom
Thumb, he had horror of appearing in
public, and for nearly fifty years has not
left his house.
1t is reported that Gen. Lee has been
made commander of all the rebel forces,
and that he will leave Beauregard in
charge Of the defenses of Richmond,
while he goes south to conduct the cam
paign against Sherman. The rebel sym
pathiZers say Lee hoped to defeat Sher-
man, and be ready in the spring to in
wade Pennsylvania again--that he has
no fear of Grant taking Richmond.
Richmond papers say in the late ex-
petition up the Roanoke river, four Of
our gunboats were destroyed by torpe-
does, and that we lost one thousand
men, An account in the Raleigh Pro-
gress puts very different face on this
matter. 1t says the fight was very
trifiing affair-not man being killed on
either side, and only two ganboats be-
ing blown up by torpedoes,
Gov. Connolly of New Mexico thus
speaks of Indians and the precious met
ais in his message "The Sierra Madre
and our mountain regions must be
swept, as with broom, of the savage
Indians that inhabit them. From these
mountains has yet to come the treasure,
In gold and silver, that is to cancel our
enormous national debt, and supply us,
in all time to come, with the metallic
wealth that will defy the expenses of all
future wars, and make US the most in
dependent people on earth"
"A new poem by Mr.. Tennyson,
shortly to be published in England, is
said to bear the name of "The Cruel Sea
Captain" and to be founded upon cir
cumstance related by Admiral Symonds
(often denied) of the men of an English
frigate commanded by brutal officer.