Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-07-27
Miscellaneous Items

LOT Ieeulltn Seeking employment ana
for employers.
A gentleman who complained that
he was suffering from suu-stroke, eX-
planned by saying That his family had
been blessed by the addition Of twin
boys.
Mrs, Howell, sister OF JEFF. Davis,
was in Rochester last Thursday on her
way to Canada. She stopped long
enough to purchase some dry goods.
Capt. Z. NJ. Mesiner, of the Relief
Commission at Richmond, has, during
the past five weeks, distributed 2lO339
rations to destitute families Of that
city.
A cute Yankee in Kansas sells liquor
in gun-barrel instead of glass, that
he may evade the law, and make It ap-
pear beyond dispute that he is selling
by the barrel.
A boy picked up six pound lump
OF gold lately, while fishing ON creek
near New Virginia, la. He won't take
$500 for his treasure, and he won't tell
where he found it. The excitement there
is intense.
The gap in the Pacific Railroad is
now but twenty-five miles wide. As
| soon as ii is completed we will have rail
| communication with the heart of Kan
! sas. The engineers on the road are now
on a strike against q reduction of
prices.
An intelligent colored man of Mem
phts reports to Gen. Howard of the
| Freedmen's Bureau that his wife recent
! " received from her former owner three
! hundred lashes for some tTitiing offence,
and that at his own solicitation he was
given the other one hundred awarded
her.
A new drive, to be known as Union
| avenue, is to be constructed at SaratO-
ga, at a cost of $4,000. 1t is to lead
from Union Hotel to the race track and
| will then take a direct course to the
lake. The drive will be one hundred
feet wide, with several tracks and prom
enades.
There are six hundred women in
Richmond making up garments for the
negro troops in Texas. They make from
| "a to So per week. Among them are
| not a few representatives of the first
laTllilGSs IL Is SiCh1IdO4S W tAAStA NNaNN
they are willing to work.
The free negro laborers on the Sea
Islands make large wages-trOm $500 to
81 900 a year In many cases, where
they work the land on their own account
they make from 81, 900 to 5000. There
is now on deposit in bank, by negroes
in the neighborhood, over $4,000.
"A Cairo, Ill, correspondent writes ::
u The season here is usually opened with
great celat by smallpox, continued spir-
itedly by cholera, and closed brilliantly
with yellow fever" A good place for
consumptives to go in Summer they
would not be likely to die of consump-
ton there.
Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate
Of England. is falling very fast. He was
lust recovering from a severe attack OF
: throat disease, when, walking late one
) evening in his Isle of Wight garden, he
| took cold and now symptoms Of con-
, sumption are evident His friends are
} going to remove him to the south O.
) France at once, as the only chance o
< saving his life.
u
; a raid on Washington, they stole val
! liable bracelet from the house Of Franz
, P, Blair. Since then q soldier has beer
= constantly hunting for the bracelet
T valued as a mementO-and a few day
a since he discovered it upon the wrist o
+ a Young lady attending church in Win
" chester, Va, 1t was Immediately handel
y over and is now in the possession o
Miss Blair.
II Within the past two years the col
e Ored people of Alexandria, Va, hay
d built over a thousand dwelling houses
e costing from $500 to $1,000 each, and thre
Il churches, and have invested over $500
o in ground rents. Out of a pOpulatio
II of over 5000 colored persons in tn
town only % were drawing ration
u from the government on last Saturday
e while more than four times that mum
y Der of whites were receiving from tn
Il same source.
II Madame E. B. Jumel Burr died q
= New York Sunday. She was married !
l. early life to Mr. Jumel, French gentle
n man. Later, her singular marriage wit
q Aaron Burr brought her into public NJ
year 1882. but the alliance was 500
re followed by separation. She resume
D the name Of her previous husband man
D, years since, and was highly esteemed b
n the few with whom she was acquainte'
- The Raleigh Progress glowingl
io sets forth the great benefits Newbern hf
lo received by the influx Of northern bus
ness men, 1t says that, in 1868, it wf
- = deemed inpracticable to run line {
~ steamers to New York, but now IL
= northerners have established two, al
>, one or two to Baltimore, while there
20 larger trade for sailing vessels Una
= | ever before. The northern element
&c largely in the ascendant at Newoer
" and will remain So The best OF Zee
a ings exist between them and the natiVe
"a "a Travel between Newbern and Raleigh
~ ~ large and constantly increasing.