Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-04-06
HIisceiIan. ous Items.
Advertising in the New York Her
aid is one dollar line each insertion,
What do country folks think of that

Advertising in the New York Her
aid Is one dollar a line each insertion.
What do country folks think of that
-Kennedy's executioner last Satur-
day, was a condemned deserter, and full
pardon was his reward.
New York gets rid Of her volunteer
tlremen. The bill TO establish a paid
system has become law.
Jacob Little, formerly the leading
stock broker in New York, died Tues.
day, lie was 68 years old, and has made
and lost many fortune,
The safe in the Provost Marshal's
office at Syracuse was blown open the
other day, and robbed of $4,000 in cash
and bonds.
CONTRACTS for supplying sugar to
the United States were awarded at Chi
cago last ThurSday-60, pounds at
l6 IA cents per pound, and 10000 at
Is ID cents.
-Michiganders are oiling and lamp
backing common sheep and selling
them to the Ohio farmers for big prices
as the real Vermont Spanish merinOes.
-Four hundred millions of rebel
bonds have been "made way with" at
Richmond The thief must realize soon,
or else it all won't buy him dinner.
AT Louisville, on Monday three fell
lows went to the banking house of L.
Blood, and while talking about some
silver one of them presented pistol,
drove Mr., Blood into his safe aud locked
him in, The fellows got about $4,000
and LETT.
"A magnificent comet was discovered
at Rio de JaneirO Jan. odd Its length
was between eight and nine degre, s. its
breadth forty or fifty minutes
-Heeuan, the bruiser, is in Southern
France, and is reduced to mere shad-
ow. He had a fortune Of Sl35 900 in
gold once, but spent it in sporting and
horse racing.
Who was it that recaptured Fort
Steadman from the rebels last Saturday
Every correspondent has his own way
of rendering the brave fellows name.
1t is printed HartSutf, Hartraupt, HaT-
tranpt, Hartrauft Hoortranft, HOrtrauft
and HOrtranft.
collector Simeon Draper has return
ed to New York from Savannah, having
completed his duties there in regard to
the superintendent of The cotton cap
tured in that city by Gen. Sherman,
which it is now asCertained amounted
to 81 800 bales, the greater part Of it be
ing Of the Sea Island kind.
Our Government has now in the
field an army of not less than five hun
dred and fifty thousand effective men
well equipped and supplied, differed
WELL and commanded by Generals of
first rate ability. This is the best mill
tary organization that the sun shines
upon. The same government has also
a navy of five hundred armed vessels
many OF them Of very great power
and manned by eighty or ninety thou
sand sailors.
Oregon sends fresh baCkwoOdsman
to Congress, who had never seen rail
road till he came on this season. He
had heard much of the sharpers, and
was determined to keep his eyes wide
open. He kept them open so wide that
when the conductor came and tore off
the coupon of his car ticket, he seized
that worthy official by the throat and
| had nearly made an end Of him before
he could be persuaded that no wrong
had been done.
The son of DR.. Livingstone, the At
rican traveller, was not Kidnapped as the
| doctor thinks, but enlisted voluntarily
in the Sd New Hampshire regiment be-
| ing, like his father, fond Of adventure
and he is now prisoner in the hands Of
| the rebels. He was one of the very best
| soldiers in his regiment, and was pro
| NOTED to be sergeant within month af-
| ter his enlistment.
The Main Farmer says that lady
| who always Contrives to have plenty Of
eggs, says that the best food for hens is
a dough made from meal from corn and
Cobs ground together. Meal o. corn
alone, or clear corn, is apt to fatten the
hens too much, while they do not, in
| order to be kept in good laying condition
require such concentrated food.
The Richmond Sentinel exhorts the
| rebels to eheertulness, and by all means
| to write cheerful letters to the soldiers.
Don't wait to think whether You are
cheerful or not; thinking and imagina-
ton ought to have nothing to do with
it. Write that you are cheerful-thatis
the plain duty before you" This ex-
hortation is occasioned by the doleful let
ters received by the soldiers, specimens
of which are given as follows: Faith
er and George think you had better 90
to the enemy" "Billy and Mother and
Jane wants you for to get home" "If
big crowd comes, you come too. That
is my advice" Such letters must be
rather demoralzing, no doubt.
SECESSION FROM SEcEss1A.- The New
| Orleans True Delta of the 10Th states