Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-06-15
Miscellaneous Items.

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The Minnesota people are buying
bloodhounds TO use against the, Indi- |
ans.
The Baltimore City Council has
and Improvement" Of the negroes in
that city.
Nickel cents are plenty now Bring
out the boarded dimes and half dimes
and let US do away with the ragged five
and ten cent currency notes.
The archives of Virginia, which
were removed from Richmond on its
evacuation, were captured intact in the
Jail of Buckingham County, and have
been sent to Richmond by order of Gen.
Hartsuff
John T, Ford avows his intention
of soon re-opening his theatre in Wash
ington, and thinks all difficulty in the
matter can be avoided by giving the
first performance for the benefit of the
Lincoln monument fund.
"A new religious sect has appeared in
Maine. Among its peculiarities are
eternal warfare with all religious de-
nominations power Of the Elders to
heal the sick by the lying on of hands,
and the expectation that in a short
time they would be able to raise the
dead.
JEFF. Davis has exchanged his suit
of rebel gray for one of black, and
amuses himself by trying to kill flies on
the wall of his cell, He talks in loud,
strong voice and is very inquisitive, but
gets very little information from his
guards.
"A m0use's nest in store in Enbar-
town, N. J., was lately discovered and
found to be composed Of two one dollar
bills, fifteen dollars Ia currency, and a
good many more OF the shinplasters
which were gnawed so as to be useles.
Gen. Grant passed through Buffalo,
Friday afternoon, going west. A large
crowd assembled at the depot, and the
general with great difficulty forced his
way from the ears to the dining saloon
and back. Unfortunate Grant He has
has to suffer the full penalty of fame.
Dudley Kavanagh, of New York,
and Louis Fox of Buffalo, were to have
played a while ago for the champion
billiard cue, but Kavanagh was unable
to appear in consequence of rheuma-
| tism. George Wilkes, of New York, has
decided that the cue belongs to Fox.
-Johnson's Island has been selected
as the prison where all the rebel officers
who refuse to accept amnesty on the
teli,I.- tl,- described by President John
Ston new prODA-,-,at;on xy;I1 bo l,on+
until final disposition Ia" WIZ ~ oe hepS pS
them. 'e vi
Payne, who tried to kill the Sew
ards, declares his desire to be hung at
once, and says that he is ready to make
! clean breast of it, but that Mrs. Sur
ratt is innocent, and that Arnold had no
knowledge of the murder.
The memorandum book of a slave
holder on the Mississippi, named Cock
erell, chronicles an instruction issued TO
| his Overseer one season, that the planta-
tiOn must produce so much corn, such q
quantity of cotton, certain number of
mules, a certain number of hogs, and
ten negro children.
Lots of whiskey are distilled in a
private way out West, so as to evade the
tax. Almost every saloon-keeper and
taverner in the great whiskey guzzling
states has private still somewhere on
his premises. In Peoria, ILL.,, distillery
was lately found in full blast in an aban-
doned coal mine.
The Quebec News of Wednesday has
this paragraph: 'In virtue of com
mission of inspection from the Vice-Ad
malty Court by Mr.. Dunbar, on behal
of the United States Consul at Quebec
the Deputy Marshall of that court, Mr.
Parkin, Jr., brought to town yesterday
from below Bic, three trunks belonging
to j. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Mr.
Lincoln. These trunks were shipped a
Montreal last Fall, for Nassau, and de
stined for Richmond, but the schoone
on board which they were, having beer
wrecked, they were taken to Bic by tn
salvors. The result of the inspection is
we, are told, that the trunks contain
very costly and extensive theatrica
wardrobe almost totally destroyed h,
salt water. There are also some papers
letters, &c, of Booths, but as to thei
Importance we have no information"
The county Jail at Quincy, Ill.,, wa
broken open on the night of the 31s
| ult, by mob of 500 men who seizet
} a wounded bushwacker named Rost
l one of Kirby Smiths captains, and hun
2 rying him to the outskirts of the tow
1 hung him to a tree. When aware tina
death was inevitable he asked for som
= one to pray for him, and dropped reveI
e emily on his knees, as German volun
l teered his services. The latter said h
D endorsed the action Of the mob, that th
l man deserved death, and that 1t wa
;. right that he should die, and prayed tha
a God might be merciful to him. Th
s crowd returned to the Jail the next da
y and demanded the keys of the jailo
e but he did not give them up, and th
:. timely arrival of a company of troor