Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-31
Miscellaneous Items.

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beef dressed and delivered at lndiMola,
Texas, at six cents a pound.
Among the prizes offered at the
great shooting festival in Germany are
"a Waltham watch, Springfield rifle,
and an American buggy. a...a
Five thousand bushels of the ashes
of the tobacco burned at.the evacuation
oonhagration in Richmond, have been
shipped north by q cute Yankee to be
used as fertilizer.
Treason is a crime which is likely
to get punished in Andrew county. Mo.
The grand jury has indicted 800 for it,
and thinks the State courts can punish
them, as well as the United States.
In cemetery in Charon, Conn.,, is
| family lot in which are seven graves
arranged in circle. Six stones COM
memorate six diseased wives of D.
| s., while the seventh and more stately
slab bears the simple but affecting in
scription, sour Husband"
-Meerschaum pipes which retail at a
high figure are made in New York ct an
expense of five cents apiece. Just sat-
urate carbonate of magnesia in silicate
of soda or soluble glass that's the way
they do it.
"A Boston merchant, a married man,
while on visit to New York recently,
became enamored Of waiter girl, and
while beozy, proposed and was married
to her. To compromise the matter. he
afterwards had to pay her $25OO.
"A New York Frenchman proposes
to establish the manufacture of silk on
large scale in this country by import
ing from France small colony Of work.
men and commence operations in Nir-
ginia, Georgia or South Carolina. The
climate and soil are all right and the
mulberry is indigenous. -. .ar
Gen. Curtis, commanding at Lynch
burg, Va, has recently learned the
whereabouts of over seventy-eight
thousand dollars in specie, formerly be-
longing to the rebel government, which
had been secreted by a rebel express
agent and a rebel business agent, who
:, have been arrested. -r,-
. The rebel nest in Montreal is, be-
= coming fuller every day. Beverly Tuck
er Carroll, George Sanders, Dr. Black
burn, DIR. Pallen, ex-Gov. Wescott, II. s.
Foote and other less prominent men
have been there some time. Robert Il.
Lee is expected, and JEFF. Davis family
are quietly living at the Donegana hotel.
The last invention of India rubber in
Paris is "a false bust for females-vbust
and neek"-a perfect imitation of flesh
and blood, and las they say of good
counterfeits) "well calculated to de-
ceive." At the circle where the-trUe. and
false neck are connected, is worn a band
OF ribbon, or a wide necklace, which
completely conceals the junction.
1t has been supposed by many. that
!, the national debt would be immensely
| augmented by the war claims of the
, several States. This is a great mistake.
! The claims filed by all the loyal States,
foot up but $27,710,864, the highest
claim being that of Illinois, for $3.800,-
, 613.
: Real estate has. fallen seventy five
per cent in the past eighteen months in
Canada, as a result of. the general de-
preston of business andthe utter want
: Of confidence that the people have in
their government. Take Toronto as an
example. In that city it is estimated
there are 1900 empty tanements. Many
residences of small size can be had 4 for
a slight advance upon the taxes.
Capt. Moore and his party, who
have just returned from the laying out
of the national cemetery at. Anderson
!, vile, found the greatest ignorance
among the people OF that section, One
man was found who had not heard ot
President Lincoln's death, and another
who refused greenbacks because his
government would not allow him to
take those things. He absolutely did
not know that the Southern Confederacy
had gone up. ,eezea. ~ ss
, Senator Summer has written another
letter to Mr.. Perkins, one of the trustees
for the colored, schools of tle District OF
Columbia, in reference to the fund with
, held by Mayor Wallach, in which he
! says: repeat again the good cause
cannot be lost. More than ever g. am
, satisfied that the next Congress wall see
: that the principles of the Declaration OF
: Independence are not defed, and all men
are made equal before. the lax, But
meanwhile we must all work to tbs
end"
7 TO make peaches grow witha
stones, turn the top. of the tree dos
, cut off the ends, stick them into, ,
| ground, and fastaa so with stakes; ir
year or two these tops will take i ~,
and when well FOOTED, cut the bra ,ch
connecting these reversed and oot,
prancnes VIE ene tree Proper, ~ I'D th
Ieseiseu s. p1'Sn ~ wa nj piUaS ce fin
paUnes "issou' s.ones. Ing 80 me e1
pSor.;on pSi,men' aa may pe .,iea "" 'plums
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