Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-12-21
Miscellaneous Items.

reconstruction resolution.
The sugar weddlng-thirty days
after MARRIAGES. the newest thing.
DIR. Elisha Huntington, formerly
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts,,
died Wednesday at Lowell.
"A "garroter" In Boston, convicted
OF highway robbery, has been sent to
State Prison for % years.
The celebrated Albany bridge case
comes upin supreme court this week,
and will be argued by Daniel S. Dickin-
son.
A girl who made 1t a business to
dress in black and attend funerals to
pick pockets, has just been convicted at
New York.
A white New Yorker has brought
a suit for $4,000 damages against the
publishers of city directory for indi-
eating him as colored.
Bishop Odenheimer Episcopal OF
New Jersey accidentally broke his left
leg at South Amboy, Sunday, and will
be laid up several months.
Senator Cragln of N. H., was In his
seat for the first time during the present
session Wednesday, having been detained
at home by illness.
The farmers in the Catskill Noun
tain regions are complaining that the
bears, said to be unusually numerous
this year, are killing large numbers of
sheep.
A down east exchange has had a
hard spell at spelling "Appii Forum"
The first trial made it "Appic forum"
the second, "Appii Farum," and the
third, "Api Forum Try again; moth
ing like perseverance.
The New York Herald complains
that the middle States have been cleft
out in the cold" through the Speaker In
Congress giving the lions share of the
committees of the House to members
from New England and the Western
States.
Gen. Grant Is reported to have
stated that the disseminated Southern
ers who staid at home during the war,
and the women, he found to be our
greatest enemies, and that the leaders in
the late rebellion are the most jealous
tIIOdCbt bSbLOhhOsS
"A writer in Blackwood says that
when people want to speak of native
of Holland, they call him an Amsterdam
Dutchman, but when they speak of the
German race generally, they leave out
the Amster"
A little boy running along stubbed
his toe and fell on the pavement. "Nev-
err mind, my little fellow" said by
stander, you won't feel the pain to-
morrow Then," answered the little
boy, Il won't cry tomorrow"
A recently married lady in Cincin-
natl was called into the parlor of the
house where she boarded, for the pur-
pose Of seeing young woman who had
inquired for her. Upon entering the
parlor she recognized discarded lover
in feminine disguise, and only his awk-
wardness in taking revolver from an
unfamiliar pocket gave his intended
victim time to escape from the bastard
ly murder which he had planned with 80
much cunning.
live heard, Captain" said an Eng
lish traveller to Western steamboat
captain, chat your Western steamboats,
run In water not more than two or three
feet deep Two or three feet deep, in
deed" said the captain, why wouldn't
command boat that couldn't run on
the sweat Of water pitcher"
"A Princess Of Hungary once asked
81 monk, who was scholar and q wit,
to explain to her the story Of Balaam
and the ass, adding, "good father, can
ha rJlxy haliaua that H.
laxative" Madame" replied the |
father "your scruples may cease, when
you are informed that it was q fsnsa1e.n
A New Yorker who had buried five
successive wives in five different grave |
yards and was counting an intended No. |
=, resolved one day to make "collec- |
ton OF his former spouses and bury |
them all in one place. Having put the |
five collins in one wagon, he drove for |
the cemetery, and unfortunately passed |
the house where his intended resided |
and caught her eye. He bowed politely,
but it was too much for the young lady, |
who vowed that after that she wouldn't J
have him any how, and she didn't.
REClPHoour.-The Canadian govern
ment offers as an exchange for the priv.
lege of selling their products in our
markets under the present reciprocity
treaty, to enlarge and deepen the We'll
land and st. Lawrence canals so as to adj
nit vessels drawing from IL to IA feet
of water, thus securing transportation
from Chicago to the Atlantic, and giving
the same privilege to American as to Ca.
madam vessels, free OF duty. If objec-
tion is made to this proposition, the
Canadian authorities propose that this