Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-09-14
miscellaneous Items.

At Elmira, n. Y, lately, an indig
nant husband applied to a justice OF the
peace for warrant against a Baptist
clergyman, his otiense being that he had
baptized complainant's wife without his
knowledge,
"A Vera Cruz letter says the French
court martial at IaCatecas has caused
the execution of more than two thou
sand Mexicans on the charge OF being
guerrillas.
"A French photographer has made
arrangements for descending to the bed
of the ocean in u submarine vessel pro
vided with the electric light, and max
ing submarine photographs
At 4 pic mic near Boonsboro, Md, 4
few DAYS since, the American dag was
torn from wagon and trampled under
foot by a cOpperhead named Smith, who
said he considered it disgrace. Nobody
intertered with the traitor
A grand daughter Of CHIEF Justice
Marshall recently applied to the Freed
mems Relief Society in Richmond Tor
food to keep her family from starving
She had abundance till the rebellion
broke out and her slaves We're freed.
1t is rumored that a new daily pa
per in the Weed interest is to be started
at Rochester, N. y, and one in the
Greedy interest at Albany. Will the
Weed and Greedy quarrel be carried on
in the next world, and if so, how can it
be managed without daily papers
AT a sale Of unclaimed articles at
| Norfolk, Va, last week. was a. very
heavy box, addressed to DR.. Wood,
Army of the James" 1t was knocked
down for tifty-one dollars. 1t contained
New York electioneering documents,
and the purchaser has paper enough on
the subject of voting to last time
Oysters are to be very plenty this
season, and the reason is, that along the
shores of Virginia are vast beds Of the
bivalves that have lain undisturbed du.
ring the last four years, with nothing tC
do but to grow large and get fat,
The " Waterfall is after all an ole
as well as an abominable fashion.
coin of Hero I, Tyrant Of Syracuse, who
reigned from AIS TO 466 years before
the Christian era, has on the divers;
side the head of the goddess Diana, witt
an eXcresence precisely like that nov
worn by our ladies under the dah0u,
name OF waterfall.
The agent Of the Scotch emigration
company in Washington has succeeded
in securing Il twenty years lease OF up
wards Of thirty Thousand acres Of bot
tom land on the James river below
Richmond, which will be taken possess
ion of about the last OF October by
colony OF three hundred Scotch a9ricu
tursts. They will make market gaTt
ening a speciality,
Ohio papers say that il the Demo
Gratis could get the upper hand in th
Legislature, they would certainly cleo
Mr., Vallandigham They stand bettt
chance Of being struck by lightnin
than of controlling the next Legislatul
Of Ohio.
In one village in the delta OF Il
Nile, celtbra ted for the cultivation
watermelOns, the whole Of the inhab
tants died during the recent prevalen'
: of cholera. Being unable TO sell the
! fruit, they ate it themselves, and died
>, the last man. 1t was necessary to en-
ploy forced labor TO bury the last.
y all it is said that $1,000 victims Of Il
. contageon and bad living were buried
Egypt within six weeks,
The War Department has direct
Major General Reynolds, commando
s the department of Arkansas, to must
q out three thousand additional troops
g his command. Major General Aug
- in command of the Washington Depa
= ment, has also been instructed to redu
{ the number in his department to
thousand commissioned officers and
listed men of all arms.
l, Gen. Carl Shurz, who has been
- iourning for several days at JacksC
u Miss, is said by q correspondent ire
ie that city, to regard Mississippi as t
Y most hopeful of any Of the southt
states he has yet passed through. II
very clear that the action of the ST
Il convention has been much better th
could have been anticipated from
49, professions made by its members pre-
- Gus to taking their seats.