Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-06-01
Miscellaneous Items,

The young lady to her waterfall
False one, love thee still
JEFF. Davis wore petticoat, and it
a great hustle.
1t is to be hoped that JEFF Davis as
sumption of the petticoat will not es-
tablish the fashion with his male ad-
mirers.
JEFF. Davis, even if pardoned, can
never again be elected to office. Our
people are not fond Of petticoat govern
ment.
The Petersburg (yirginia) Express
thinks there will be no scarcity of old
iron in that vicinity for some time to
come.
John Bull once asked an Indian if
he knew why the sun never set on the
queens dominions. The red man re-
piled, Because God is afraid to trust an
Englishman in the dark"
1t is whispered that the girls have
changed the pronunciation of the word
''petticoats" to "Jefficoats." Cavalry
boots are, now known as Davis run
ners."
mo amnesty to the murderers of
prisoners" says the New York Times
and this is the loyal sentiment Of the
whole country.
The radicals Of Missouri, at one
time divided upon the question, now APP
pears to be pretty thoroughly united in
support of the free Constitution of the
State. 1t will be carried.
On getting news of the Presidents
death a mob destroyed six or seven
/ copperhead newspaper offices at San
Francisco. Better let the people des-
troy them by suspending subscriptions.
The Dress Reform Convention,
which is to assemble in Rochester next
/ month, will have strong additional ar
| 9ument for discarding the present fe
male costume, after petticoats and dress
es have been assumed by the flying lead
er of rebellion.
! Some bold thief stopped a train on
( the Peru and Indianapolis railroad, the
other night, by pulling the engineers
! bell, and while everybody was trying to
! find out why the train had stopped, the
safe III the express car was taken out.
1t contained So 600 in money, and nei-
ther mouey or thief has been heard Of
since. .... ..a
ON Sunday night, the United States
authorities in New York entered a house
on the corner Of Sixteenth street and
Sixth Avenue, and succeeded in securing
! $4,000 worth OF counterfeit postal cur
rency, with the dies, plates, etc. Two
men found on the premises were taken
into custody. s
Z. The American residents of Honolu-
/ IN, Sandwich Islands, had grand re
| jOiCing on April IS, over the news OF
! the fall of Richmond. Some British
| midshipnen removed the flag from the
American consulate during the reioic-
fngs nut it was soon returned. and a
public apology made for the offence
DIR. J. A. Davis whose character for
reliability the Chicago Tribune indorses,
writes to that paper that a rebel sur
geOn, who had for four years occupied
the position of assistant medical direct
or of the army Of Northern Virginia,
told him that Union prisoners in rebel
hospitals had been vaccinated with We
nereal matter and that this accounted
for the frlghtful sores on so many of
them. What horrible story of rebel
f1endishness shall we next hear?
-Sherman's army while en- route for
Washington, marched over the battle
field of Spottsylvania. The bones of
about twelve hundred Union soldiers,
mingled with fragments of the national
blue uniform, were discovered unburied,
bleaching in the sun and storm. Many
of the brave patriots of whom these
whitened relics were the only remains
had fallen within ten PAGES OF the enc
my's works. Gen. Sherman contracted
with resident of the vicinity to have
the remains properly inferred. The
troops marched from Richmond to Alex
andria, a distance OF about one hun
dred and sixty miles in little over sew
en- days. .a E5-s ss 1...
a., Things are mixed at Philadelphia.
The street railroad companies don't al
| low negroes to ride in the cars with
white folks. But the courts fine the
conductors If they turn out negroes,
and so the conductors run the cars off
the track. That makes the white pas
sengers mad, blocks up the streets and
makes everybody mad and developes the
fighting propensities OF the African race.
| Altogether there isn't much brotherly
] love in Philadelphia now.