Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-24

machine shop was $4,000.
Thieves run regularly on the New
York and Albany steamboats,, and de- |
tectives to checkmate them will hereaf-
ter do the same.
There is great excitement at Glens |
Falls, n, Y, over the disappearance of a
beautiful girl of l6 named Agnes
Young. She is believed to have been
kidnapped.
Col. A. d. Straight, OF Libby prison
fame, is going to take hold Of the Indi-
annapolis Sentinel q played-out Demo
cratic sheet, and endeavor to make it
respectable.
"A Catholic curate at Seville, Spain,
denounced electric telegraph, railways,
and the substitution of steam power to
hand labor as the devilish devices of
Satan, to aid protestants in the perVer-
sion of society"
There are 800 Cinnamon, but not a
half dozen Chinawomen in New York.
Forty of the men have married Irish
wives and are generally industrious, al
though they are inclined to be drunk
and dirty.
Government is making arrange
ments to sell some eighty-hve locomo-
tives and several hundred ears at public
auction, during next month, at Man.
chester, opposite Richmond Va.
The rebel Gen. Forrest, of Fort Pill
low massacre infamy who is now at
Memphis, cannot in safety visit his old
home on the Mississippi without the
protection of Union soldiers, those of
his old neighbors and friends whom he
deluded into the rebellion being now his
worst enemies.
"A man by the name of Stoddard, in
Cass County, Iowa, was carelessly hand
ling, recently, a loaded gun, when it was
discharged, fatally wounding young
lady named Decker, who was standing
near by. Stoddard and the unfortunate
victim were to have been married in a
few days.
There are really signs Of reform at
Washington Several clerks of the
Treasury Department have been notified
that intoxication during business hours
will be considered sufficient cause for
immediate dismissal, and few have
actually been dismissed for this offence.
The Fortress Monroe correspondent
Of the Philadelphia Inquirer says that
JEFF Davis and G. c. Clay are permitted
to read an occasional daily newspaper,
and that Gen. Miles has selected the N
quirey and New York Herald, And this
The correspondent calls another ameli-
Grafton of their Imprisonment !"
-"Do you keep nails here 2" asked a
sleepy looking lad, walking into one of
our stores the other day. "Yes," re-
piled the gentlemanly proprietor, 1--WE
keep all kinds of nails. What kind
will you have, and how many" "Well, :"
said the boy, sliding towards the door
'Ill take pound of finger nails and q
pound and half of toe nails"
"A clergyman at Saratoga Springs,
few Sabbaths since, was preaching a
sermon upon death, in the course OF
which he asked the question, "Is it not
solemn thought 2" His little four
year-old boy, who had been listening
with rapt attention to his father, imme-
diately answered in a shrill, piping
voice, so as to be heard throughout the
house, eyes sir, it is'-greatly to the
amusement Of the congregation.
"A terrific tornado recently swept
over parts OF Cook and Du Page coun-
ties, Ill.,, levelling to the earth houses,
barns, fences, orchards, crops Of grain
almost everything which stood in its
path. One house was carried ten rods
in the air, and then dashed down in
fragments, woman and three children
who were in it miraculously escaping
serious injury.
"A lady with an immense waterfall
was the object of much attention in
New York the other day. Presently,
along came careless painter with =
ladder on his shoulder and in turning a
corner the ladder came in contact with
the waterfall, and out rolled the follow
ing articles: Two curled hair pufs, one
piece mourning Grape, two pincuishons
and one black stocking. The painter
ran and the female lodged in store.
Col. Harding of Nashville, a leading
rebel, and owner Of two hundred slaves
before the war, told Gen. Fisk that he
would pay his blacks wages, but that
they could have no school on his prem
ises. The General went on and opened
school, however, and the Colonel now
acknowledges that it is good thing.
Bishop Elliott of Georgia has writ
ten letter on the subject of the reunion
of the Episcopal Church, North and
South. Before such reunion takes
place, he wants the conservation of the
new bishops, Wilmer and Lacy, recog-
nized, as well as the action of the South
ern Church in making Arkansas dio-
cese. But he is especially solicitous
that the memory of sour beloved Blsh-
op Polk" should be guarded from re-
proach. ~
When Gen. Grant was in Montreal,
Admiral Hope Of the British navy, with
| three feet officers, in all the glory of lace
and bullion drove around to see him.
They found plain man, In linen wrap
per and carpet slippers, smoking a ci-
gar. The Admiral expressed surprise at
| this lack Of ostentation, but hastened to
follow the Generals free-and-easy exam
| pie, by getting himself into an undress
/ unifoPI1a aud hahipd q ciuar cnan.