Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-07-20

-Barnum will open this week a,
Winter Garden, New York.

-barnum VIII open ms week AZ
Winter Garden, New York
A sparkling toast: '' Saratoga
Springs, the politicians Paradise, where
any man can run for Congress water. u
The sum subscribed for the Lincoln
National Monument at Springfield, m,
now amounts to $50, 500.
Mary Preston of East Homer, N. Y,
went to give tame bear his dinner the
other day, but the bear chose to dine on
poor Mary instead.
The net receipts of the Chicago San
itary Fair Were 100000, Of which the
Christian Commission gets $4,000, the
Sanitary Commission 10000 and the
Illinois Soldiers home $4,000.
An American in Mexico lately had
an interview with Macmillan, and the
EmperOr's first question was, Have
you ever seen poor Lincoln That was
a great and good man"
Owing to the payment of the troops
that are being mustered out of service
including bounties and other necessary
obligations of the government, the daily
demands upon the treasury are Sd 1000
900 to 100000.
While Barnum's Museum was burn
ing on Thursday last, a new Museum
Association was started, with $500, 900
capital, divided into three thousand
shares, with John lanyard as manager
and G. r, Goodnow as Secretary.
Governor Pierpont of Virginia has
issued proclamation appointing
special election to he held in the City of
Richmond on the 25th inst, to choose a
Mayor, Aldermen, COuncilmen and vari-
Gus other municipal officers.
In Bath, New York, q dwelling
house was burned, in one Of the shade
trees in front of which robin had
built her nest. While the flames were
in progress the mother few back and
forth, calling her little brood in the
liyeliest distress. But when all proved
unavailing, she took her place on the
nest and persisted in the flames with her
young,
lightning struck twenty-five hun
dred barrels of whisky In a bonded
warehouse at Springfield, ILL.,, and the
whisky flowed into the river, covering
the water, for more than mile, in a
sheet of fame The loss is estimated at
three hundred thousand dollars.
There have been 50 many cases on
English railroads where women have
asserted that they have been Criminally
assaulted by fellow passengers, for the
sake Of making something out Of it, that
it is almost impossible now 10 coax an
Englishman to ride in the same carriage
with young or decent looking woman.
Conventions were all the rage last
week. An International Trade Conven-
ton was in session at Detroit; Con-
vention of Acknowledgements met at
Boston; q Commercial College Conven-
tion at Chicago; Convention OF music
publishers at Niagara Falls, and Con-
vention of plasterers at Pittsourg.
The log cabin which was used by
Gen. Grant as his headquarters at City
Point, has been removed TO Philadelphi
and is to be placed in one Of the public
squares of that city. 1t is two stories
elevation, having chimney on the out
side, in the rear end, which is used for
cooking purposes. There is also another
chimney for the purpose of being used
during the winter to keep the cabin
comfortable, by having cheerful fire
inside.
John s. Wallace, a merchant of Chi
cagO, was arrested on Tuesday last, for
using some revenue stamps two or three
times over, on his warehouse receipts.
His manner of doing it was to put q
stamp on a receipt, and after it had been
passed, tear it off and use it again on
another o'"t. Numbers of receipts
were found in his desk. nth stamps off,
and the stamps in an envelope. L. talS
way he cOnfesses to have saved about
$35, which will probably cost him about
$4,000, the penalty for each offence be-
ing 81 600, with the addition Of impris-
Onment. Wallace offered $1,000 to the
officer who arrested him, If he would let
him off,