Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-16
miscellaneous Items.

ance as Juror,
Joseph Halleck, brother OF Gen,
Halleck, has enlisted as q private at
Minneapolis, taking the local bounty OF
1925,
A Canadian member OF parliament
has paid $500 fine and been imprisoned
Is months for trying TO enlist men for
our army.
A button, hole sewing machine is
one Of the latest inventions-the work
being turned out at the rate of 100 holes
per hour.
"A Philadelphia literary woman, au-
thor of several books and much news
paper poetry, was detected in stealing
a parasol at late White House recep.
ton.
-" You had better ask tor manners
than money" said finely dressed gen.
tleman TO 4 beggar who asked him for
aims. II asked for what thought you
had most Of was the cutting reply.
An experiment has been tried on
the western division Of the Central rail
road to ascertain the adaptibility of
peat as fuel for railroad purposes. The
result is reported to have been highly
satisfactory.
"A new railway bridge, now build
ing over the Susquehanna river at
Havre de Grace, is 3400 IT long and will
cost 100000. 1t will be supported by
thirteen piers, and the distance between
each pier will be 240 feet.
The elections in New Brunswick for
delegates to the Confederation Confer
ence at Quebec in the counties of st.
John, York and Westmoreland, have re-
suited in the election of the anti-Con-
federation tickets by very large major
tiles.
Two burglars have been convicted in
London, and sentenced to six months
/ imprisonment, on the indirect testimony
of a parrot, which told it's mistress that
one Of the prisoners came into the room
and stole her money.
John D. Fox, father of the spirit
rapping Fox girls, lately died in Wayne
County, N. Y. Mr. Fox was never car
ried away by spiritualism, but lived and
died devout Methodist.
Gen. Hooker wrote to the ladies en-
gagged in getting up the Chicago SAM
| tary Fair: "While Europe in the Cri-
mean War produced but one Florence
! Nightingale, we of the young republic
have such goddess enshrined in nearly
every household
Republican mayors elected in New
York on Tuesday; Uri Gilbert, Troy
Daniel b. T. Moore, editor Of the Rural
New Yorker, R oChester; George Innis,
Poughkeepsie John Butterfleld, of over
land express fame, Utica; II. w. Her.
rick, Oswego; John j. Vicks, Elmira.
Druid" of the World AYERS that
there is a serious quarrel between Lee
and Davis, and no hope of settling it;
and that the opinion is openly expressed
at Richmond that Davis wants to eyaC-
uate Richmond which Lee and the mil
| itary authorities have thought of
doing.
Eight English convicts, discharged
from prison after serving a portion of
their time, arrived at New York, Mon
day Their passage was paid by the
prison aid association of England which
ought to be in better business They
were sent to the police headquarters
and will be sent back to London, where
they belong. A little legislation on this
matter might do good.
Trouble is brewing in Utah. Gen.
Conner lately established provost
guard in Salt Lake City to keep order,
and Brigham Young demanded its re,
moval. Conner turned his guns on
Brigham's harem and told him he must
remove them himself if he wanted to.
Brigham didn't venture to attack them.
Deacon John Phillips, of Sturbridge,
Mass, died on Saturday week at the age
of one hundred and four years, seven
months and twenty-eight days. Deacon
| Phillips voted for President Lincoln last
fall, his fellow citizens standing with
uncovered heads while he did so, and
! the President afterwards wrote him. a
! letter in acknowledgment. He was a
member Of the State Legislature more
than fifty years ago.
Gen. Grant in a recent conversation
at Washington freely stated the ground
for RoSecrans' removal from the depart
ment of Missouri. He said II ordered
him to transfer his troops to Thomas,
after Sherman had started for Savannah.
lie cOuld have done it in three days he
spent thirty at it, There was no occa-
, :. on for the delay: there had been no
serious campaigning in his department.
and the talk Of an enemy then danger
Gus was preposterous. So 1 ordered his
removal"
The Presidents Inaugural Address
shocks the World, the Argus, and other
papers of that sort. They appear most
worried because Of the spirit of piety
that pervades the Address, There is no
special point of objection they are able
to make against it, except the piety; but
that is sufficient to condemn Mr.. Lincoln
in their eyes. According to their par
tisan view, piety is opposed to states.
manship, therefore Mr. Lincoln's ad
dress is shameful" a disgrace to the
nation" &c. We are inclined to think
that the popular mind will accept the
Presidents calm and pious utterances
in preference to the rawlings Of partisan
madmen, and approve tho patriotic and
Christian spirit of Mr.. Lincoln, rather
than the dsloyal malignity Of his &C