Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-09-07
miscellaneous Items.

A man was admitted to the Nam
York hospital the other day, In ores.
agony at having swallowed his hISo
teeth. He was relieved at once. VIII
the teeth were found in his bed and pra A
sented to him,
A sheep swan ashore on Rye Ba,N
last week, supposed from an islapl7
miles distant. A distinguished VISITORS
the Beach suggested ii might be Il ly.
draulic ram,
"A Inan on trial Tor murder In Ban
gor, Ne, last week, secured his acomt
tai by his own simple, frank and apnar
entity truthful evidence, taken under rba
new law of that State, allowing all her
sons accused Of crime 70 be witnesses IN
their own behalf,
Queer way they have of doing bust.
ness at New York. While a coroners
jury is engaged in investigating the
late fatal explosion on the steamboat
Arrow, the vessel is being run as ferry
boat, without repairs and unmolested
by the authorities,
--One of the best postedswine makers
at Cleveland, Ohio, says Eft if for five
years TO come the people of this couu,
try plant vineyards as they have for five
years past, there will be more wine and
grapes here than in the old country.
There is contest going on out
West between the tree lined beetle,
which is consuming the potato leaf, and
the lady-bug, which is destroying the
egg of(the beetle. The fate of the crop
depends upon which eats the fastest.
"A mad bull broke loose the other
day, in st. Louis, dashed down one 0.
the main streets, goring several people
as he passed by, and at the corner Of
Sixth and Walnut streets charged on
General Sherman and his Adjutant.
The General made a successful flank
movement and escaped, while the Adiu.
tant retired behind strong Qualifications,
narrowly escaping.
"A few days since, near Prescott {
w. a COW attempted to butt railway
train off the track, aud succeeded, The
locomotive and all the cars were thrown
OFT. and some of them, with the engine,
fell down the embarrassment, There was
plenty Of beef after the collision, out
not much COW.
Three years ago, young lady in
Nashua, n. H., knitted a pair of drawers
for a soldiers fair and in them enclosed
her address. The soldier who came ID
! possession of the garment corresponds
with the lady, and afterwards, visiting
her, they were pleased with each other
and eventually became man and wife.
A hailstorm in the vicinity Of Nj
Sterling, Wis., has just destroyed $50.
600 worth of crops. HailstOnes, or rath.
er rocks OF ice, were seen which meas.
ured six or eight inches in circumteT.
| ence.
"A Yankee has just imported cargo
| of $50 negroes from Richmond TO work
as wood choppers away down in Maine.
They will be likely to sigh for the sunny
South before next Spring comes.
A correspondent at Idaho says y
must say that there are more ugly, cross,
! squint and one-eyed, one armed, grizzly.
headed, unwashed, ragged and miserable
looking men here, in proportion to pop.
ulation, than the world ever saw before,
| scarcely excepting the prison pens Of the
war"
They have found piece of petrifed
wood full of nails in California and tM
| Colusa Sun asks who drove those nails
| in that wood The Indians who inha1'
it the country have no idea Of working
| in iron. Perhaps it is a piece of one 0.
Solomon's ships that he sent to the land
of Ophir after goT.
Nearly half million (495, 500 PEG.
| pie in New York live in tenement houses
| and cellars. There is a story OF an in.
| spector who found four families living
in one room, chalk marks being drawn
across in such a manner as to mark out
a quarter Of the floor for each family.
- How do you get along here D. inquired
the inspector. every well. s 81, . was the
reply, "only the Ian in the further
corner keeps bo4rders."
The Fr.siyama one of the thfa
| steam wa. vessels for which the JapS
nese government appropriated three MI
lor.s OF dollars and ordered built in tdE
country, was launched in New foz
last May, and will soon leave for japan
She is a splendid vessel Of over 1000 ton;
and has an armament OF twelve Guns
including one one. hundred FOUNDER and
three thirty FOUNDER PARROTS.
The Iowa liquor dealers held Il con
vention in Des Moines last Wednesday
and declared theirs 10 be Legitimate
business, representing capital Of sls
100000, and entitled to protection unds
the state laws. They regard the prOh9
itory law as AN act of usurpation q
Infringement Of the rights and libers
of the people inconsistent with the spin
Of the Constitution of the United SUE
and opposed to the best interests d %
inhabitants Of the State"
"A good old-fashioned ghost is mas
ing sensation in fine mansion Ii
Bristol, Pa, all to himself, just now
flesh and blood occupants having
serted it Chilly stories come from tn
about means, shrieks, imprecauons
liloquies and SIGH, as if its ghostshlp :
uncomfortable about something, Y
lights often glare ont in the darRne
or pass by the windows with sucn I
pidity as to leave a long line of Ign y
hind. He isn't partial to the mes
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