Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-10
miscellaneous Items.

had RED shawl on. #m
The Democrats of Iowa are so dis
gusted with their old party name that
they have omitted it in their call for
State Convention. They are not pecu-
liar in their feelings.
John Bright, a returned soldier,
killed DR.. Colburn with pistol at
Leighton, Mich, on the 10th ult., for
having kissed his wifeiwhile making q
professional call.
Gen. Grant, for once, has been beat
en-. In the suit between him and Jo-
seph w. White, about piece Of land,
which came Off at st. Louis last week,
White got possession of the land.
The London papers cry out against
| the indecency that Is noticed among the
English sea side visitors. Men and wo- n
men battle together at all hours without
sign of a bathing dress.
The Tribune has the testimony Of
person who was present at the JEFF. Da-
Wis meeting in New York to the effect
that much of the language used on the
occasion was reasonable in its drift and
spirit, as was indicated in the first re-
port.
| -EA-IIcollCub EIdnh l. lSlCCi SuaLAOo
O'Connor Senator Bayard of Delaware,
and J. Morrissey, Esq, dined together at
the Lake House, Saratoga, on Thurs.
day. The meeting was not accidental,
and is supposed to have something to
do with the reorganization of the DEM
ocratic party. ....
Consul General Hale at Alexandria,
Egypt, in an Official dispatch to the
State Department, gives vivid picture
of the ravages of cholera in that city.
There were seventeen hundred and
eighty-fve deaths from June 9th to
18th Of July.
There were numerous pleasing in
cldent" at Grants Faneuil Hall reception
in Boston, on Monday. A man who had
been through the mill and shaken hands
with Gen Grant was himself seen shak-
ing hands with less fortunate people
outside for ten cents apiece.
Since 1888, when the first steamship
crossed the Atlantic, twenty-nine steam
ers have been burned between England
and America, an average Of little more
9 than one per year. The Glasgow, which
was burned on Monday last when two
DAYS out from New York, was the last.
l "A confidence woman has been opera
. ting in Schenectady. Her game was to
. enter dwellings boldly, and when not
= detected, to steal all she could find; If
- discovered, she would inquire after some
: unknown person. She made quite haul
. of property, including diamond ring,
several articles of jewelry, dresses,
shawls, ETC., and at last accounts she had
+ not been arrested n aaU
/ In Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincin-
4 att, Cleveland, Washington and Rich
mond, there are no other banks than
= those under the national bank act. In
:; New York city there are fifteen yet in
t. operation under und State law; in Bos-
: ton, l in Baltimore, Z; in Pittsburg, l !;
in Albany, in st. Louis, A. in Louis
vile, 10; in Detroit, 2, in Milwaukee,
8. ....
d Two young men were lately arrested
70 at Rock Island, Ill., for passing coun-
terfeit 500 greenback. They were re.
> leased on the ground that the greenback
was not bank note, but money itself,
Just so much so as gold and silver coin,
u having been made so by act Of Congress,
q and that, if they were to be prosecuted
d at all, they must be prosecuted before a
l. United States Commissioner.
s. Ma. Gen. Prentiss, in Quincy, ILL.,,
is thrashed Young man who kept com.
pany with the Generals daughter
against the Generals wishes, and was
1t arrested and fined So for it. The Gene
It RAILS son, who helped, was fined IS, too.
<, Cheap enough.
II Lewis Osborne, Boston boy of II,
If has the Bostonan desire, to 'see how
# it's done" largely developed. He studied
the pictures Of the Washington hang
u ings till nothing would do but he must
+ make some experiments with a rope and
r slip moose He made them on We'd
d nesday, and that was the last Of that
% little boy.
d "A clergyman of Meriden, Conn, it is
said, preached recently from the text !:
"Adam, where art thou?n and divided
# his discourse into three parts-flrst, all
, men are somewhere; second, some men
:, are where they ought not to be and
IL third, unless they mend their ways, they
will find themselves where they'd rather
not be.
s A little two-year cid girl fell the other
l. day, and striking her head, cried at the
J. top of her voice. In the midst of her
,f tears she CHANGED to see from the
!, window poor old horse with dropping
- head. Instantly checking her sobs, she
&c asked him in the kindest tones !:
le "What'ee matter, hossy? Bump 90
IS head 2"
e Sax, Of Sax-horn celebrity, has Just
It brought outan extraordinary invention
e by which the sound of all brass instru-
ments (of all wind instruments, be-
lieve) can be increased to marvellous
# extent so that band Of six musicians
= can make as much noise as one of sixty.
p In some of these instruments the vol.
:. ume of sound is increased 35; lin others
y but ri.
: A fellow known as "Old Jim
= Smith" who had been leader In out.
u RACES upon Union men in East TenneS-
y see, was recently arrested near Nash
l. willie. The Sheriff stepped aside to give
- | uoy,a cur;ous pareOns An OnpOrtunifv fO