Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-07-20
Miscellaneous Items

A ire insurance detective agency
has been started at New York,
The Canada papers say that the
German settlers and some others upon
the upper Ottawa are starving.
Bob Toombs is reported to have
left the country and gone to Cuba.
where, instead Of calling the roll of
his slaves he will play the role Of a
refugee.
A man in the town Of Cape Eliza
BETH State of Maine, few days since
turned his only daughter out of one of
his houses for non payment of rent he
having some dozen tenements 10 let be
sides.
The London Times New York cor
respondent says it was thought in some
quarters that John Mitchell would he
sent to England under the Extradition
Treaty as an escaped convict from Aus
tralia
p. T. Bdrnum remarked in the Con-
necticut Legislature Wednesday, that he
paid tax on an income Of $4,000
Twenty four hours later, his museum in
New York, where it all came from was
a mass of ruinS.
The heat in Paris, daring the past
month, has been intense. Not drop of
rain. The city is literally fiery fur
mace, a furnace so terrible that at Ger
tain hours OF the day the asphaltc Of the
Boulevards is, in some places in AaII-
molten state.
-Arguelles, the alleged slave trader,
now in prison at Havana, has been Of
fered his pardon by the queen Of Spain,
but declines to accept it, asking that ne
may be sent to Madrid for trial, that his
Innocence may be shown.
in Il trial now in progress in one OF
the courts Of Sweden, a series Of the
most appalling crimes has been brought
to light. A clergyman named Lindback
is charged with the murder Of several OF
his parishionerS by administering to
them poison In their sacramento wine
The proof is said to be conclusive.
James ConnOr, who was switchmau at
Trenton, N. j., on the Hudson River
railroad when u recent fatal accident
occurred, had to perform the duties OF
sWitchman, baggage master, freight
handler flagman, mail carrier aud track
cleaner; James was mortal and couldn't
do everything at once, and do it well
hence the accident, which was the fault
of the company and not the man.
"A Washington correspondent says
there are many grOundless rumors afloat
concerning JEFF. Davis trial, but there
is high authority for the statement that
the matter has never been officially dis,
Cussed. Informal conversations have
occurred in Cabinet and elsewhere be.
tween officials, but all probabilities are
against an immediate or speedy trial.
1t is reported than an English chemist
named Gale has discovered q method OF
making gunpOwder nOn. explosive, The
process is said to be simple and effective
the cost trifling, and the powder is not
injured. In five minutes barrel OF
powder can be made nsn-eXplOsive, and
in the same time its explosive properties
can be restored.
A very extensive system of Snug
| Cling, extending along the whole Cana
dian frontier from New Hampshire tC
| Lake Superior has been discovered re.
Gently. Hundreds of men, who claim tC
be respectable, have been engaged in it
and they have inaugurated a sort OF
reign of terror along the border threat
| ening to burn the buildings Or shoot the
cattle of any one who should give in.
formation against them. A good many
women have also been engaged in the
business, and the government has female
examiners stationed along the line now
| LIGHTNING PLAYING CURIOUS FREAKS
| ON HORSE RAILROAD TRACKs.-The Chi.
cago papers give interesting accounts Of
what they call strange storm, Satur-
day week, revealing peculiar natural
phenomena. They say that the fiery
element flashed and shot hitler and
thither ali over that devoted city. On
the North and South Division street cars
al. was excitement The electric fluid
took to the rails, and ran up and down
the track regardless of stations, and far
ahead OF time. Conductors became fran
tic: passengers looked despairingly
around for an avenue of escape. With
out the. crowded cars poured the de-
scending river; On the rail ran the ele-
ment they dreaded SO much more. The
scene became exciting. Some rushed
from the cars into the street, and were
drenched to the skin in moment !;
Others more reckless OF consequences,
watched the zigzag lightnings play upon
the rails. The philosophieally- inclined
were In their element; the practical peo-
pie, who saw no beauty in the threat
ening lightning, had left the cars, and
were enjoying free baths in the streets.
Loconotion wss an imBossibility; the
horses would not go The lightning
playing ahead of them on the TaiIs was
novelty which they PREPARED 70 stand
still and wstsh