Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-01-19
General News Summary.

Counterfeit five hundred dollar bills |
on the North Bank of Boston are in cir |
culatiOn. They closely resemble the |
genuine.
Gen. James H. Lane, Union, has
been reelected TO the United States Sem
ate from Kansas for six years from
March 4th.
"A Connecticut man mas invented a
watch which is simpler in its mechan-
ism than ordinary watches, and will run
three hundred and seventy eight days
with once winding.
The loaded she'll fired into the rud-
der-post of the Kearsarge by the pirate
Alabama has been sent to Washington
as present from Capt Winslow to Mr..
Lincoln, the latter having expressed a
wish to have it as trophy.
j. H. Draper & Co, New York, will
sell the Savannah cotton at auction, j.
II. Draper is a son of the collector, and
the commission on the sales will amount
to at least half million dollars.
Application will be made to the
British parliament at the next session
to give the Prince Of Wales $l500OO
| more annual income. If he can't sup
port his wife and child on his present
income, 100000, he had better go to
work
Edwin Forest, the actor, has built
private theatre in Philadelphia for the
education of poor boys and girls in de-
clamation and recitation. He benevo-
lently proposes to fit for the stage those
who have an ambition for it.
Gen. Roddy having carried off from
Huntsville Ala, Judge D. G. Humphrey
a Union man, Gen. Steadman has issued
an order directing that ext United States
Senator Clement G. Clay and James c.,
Donegan be imprisoned as hostages for
his safe return.
AS an old gentleman and his daugh-
ter who started to go to Artemas Wards
lecture at Providence, the other night,
but by mistake went to Henry Ward
Beechers-and didn't know it-were
going out of the hall, the old gent was
heard to say, "Well, if that's Artemas
Ward, don't think he's worth d"
About 10, 900 pieces OTTOMAN money
T. principally Of the reigns of Augustus
Tiberias, Claudius and Nero, have beer
discovered in the bed of the Mayenne
at st. Leonard. Their presence is ex
, plaiped by the fact of dangerous fore
having formerly existed at this spot
, and the custom of travellers to throw II
the river 81 piece of money ca toto.
A sack of -four lost in an election
bet in Ne ada, and sold and resold ther
and iii california for the benefit Of thu
: Sanitary Commission till it has producet
in all s6S 600 In gold for the soldiers, i
now on its way to the East, accompa
= MED by the man who first lost it. Sacl
! and man have got to be CuriOsitles, ap'
j are coming to New York to be treate
81 such,
/ In the United States district cour
I at Baltimore, lately, the stock OF good
of 4. Braffman, valued at 800 1000, wa
i forfeited by verdict Of the jury, i
1 consequence of violation of the intel
r nal revenue act by Braffman, who faile
: to make proper monthly returns of th
r amount of the manufacture and sale
arising from his business as a Clothier
t. The criminal authorities in Ne'
e York have entered on q crusade again'
e the practice of carrying concealed weal
u ons, and several noted prize fighter
d thieves rowdies and bar-room loafcl
$, have been summarily dealt with. II
TT practice of carrying pistols and kuiv,
o is at the bottom of the many murde
ID and mutilations which disgrace Il
)t name of most of our large cities
:" Pope Plus TX has addressed to "tl
Church throughout the world" an eI
cVcllcal letter denunciatory Of VIII
Cd His Holiness is pleased to term Il
r progress of radical IDEAS, loose notiol
at Of civil govern inent, aemOralized al
h, ,'emoralizing ! literature, disresDect
=. ecclesiastical a."'.t.nority, 80 and a vast v
Wv | l'T' of other grievous things viii
&C. distinguish the "evil days" on whi
le. we are fallen.
- About fifteen miles above St.
at seph near the Missouri River, an eXtt
,",o %" sive body Of very peculiar clay has be
" ~ discovered When first taken out it c
'e' be easily cut into any shape desired a
" and surface made as smooth as gla
90 In few hours it hardens, becomes fl
~ ~ as d rock and has a whiteness equal
10 snow. In Texas and Utah this kind
at ato clay is used for building purposes, II
bo is exceedingly beautiful.
cb Dates from Mexico to the I'd sh,
no the republican troops still giving
,rd impeTialists plenty to do. Betwt
it, 1000 and 5000 of Maximilian's troc
,he were defeated by Juarezs troops at Et
ok The reported defeat Of the republics
the under 0rtega is unfounded, Thror.
, out all southern Mexico supporters
Juarez are very active. In one TO
IER the imperial garrison had Eevolted,
Ger the prefect to death and joined the
eat publicans. -
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Zip, a FESALE REBEL GRArTPIED.-Rob
'eC- X. Reid, of the Seventh Connecticut T