Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-09-28
Miscellaneous Items.

One of Caleb Cushings recent re-
tanning fees was $4,000.
Gen. Saxton, of Hilton Head, has
married one of the school maidens
A young girl in New York drowned
herself to escape marriage.
The widow of Thomas Moore, the
poet, is dead.
The War Department has million
and a alfpairs Of shoes on hands.
The Congregational Church in
WardsborO have driven Off their acting
pastor Rev. Silas Ketchum, for Joining
the Masons.
The poor fellow who died while eX-
amning a wreck at the bottom of the
ocean is supposed to have given up the
ghost for divers reasons.
They have had great celebration
at Halifax, Nova Scotia, inaugurating
horse railroad. The blue noses are a
little slow, but they fetch up after
while.
"A daily mail train leaves Washing
ton for Charleston, and train has been
run from Philadelphia to LynChburg
without change of cars, a feat never &C
complished before the war.
The case of the United States V.
Colchester, Ithe spiritual medium, has
been disposed of finally by Judge N. X.
Hall, tlning Colchester $40, and direct
ing him to pay the costs OF the trial,
amounting to $473.
"A living frog was found in bed of
hard blue clay, twenty-three feet below
the surface of the ground in Leicester.
Mass, last week. The heat of the sun
warmed the dormant creature, and he
hoped away in lively manner.
-" How do you like the character of
St. Paul % asked a person of his land
lady one day. All he was a good,
clever old soul, know, for he once said
you know, that we must eat what is set
before US, and ask no questions for con-
science sake. l always thought should
like him far a boarder.'
Information at the Agricultural Bu-
reau goes to show that the recent rise in
the price of wheat and -four results from
the speculative combinations rather
than from scarcity in the crop. The
wheat supply is much more than can be
consumed by the American people.
From Greece there is announced the
death, in the island of Egina, Of ma
tional celebrity. Alexander Mavrocor-
dato, one of the few surviving actors in
the war of independence, died on the
18th of August.
"A lady, who is rather too ambitious
in the use of words, said in alluSion to
ohr speech OF one Of the newly elected
members of Parliament, cit was verv
spirited and classical in style, but rather
too ad claptrapandum,"
Two damsels passing through the
depot, a day or two since, were having
an animated discussion on the subject of
Coiffure, and one exclaimed: What
do you think Maria 1t took me thirty
five minutes, this morning, to make my
waterfall. ."-SpriHg. Repab.
"A reverend gentleman having called
upon Dean Richmond for material aid,
and his petition having been literally re-
sponded to, as usual, he felt called upoH
to expostulate with the donor upon his
profanity. "Oh, that is nothing" was
the reply, "you pray great deal, and
| swear great deal but we neither Of us
mean anything by it,"
While General Grant was en- route
from Springfield to st. Louis, a crowC
/ pressed eagerly around the train while
it was stopping at Alton Somebody
stepped upon somebody's toes, and {
| fight cnsued which spread like an epi
demic through the crowd assembled
! The train moved off 'eaving them tC
fight it out on that line. A gentleman
in the crowd cried out, as the train left
" I never knew General Grant to 60 any
where but what he got out up bi!
fight"
"A stranger, apparently from thu
country, made his appearance on tn,
streets of st. Louis recently, attracting
much attention by the unusual loftines>
of his stature. He measured seven fee
two and half inches in his boots, anC
wore a tall white stove-pipe hat, which
made him as long as the moral law. H,
was a gOOd-natured "Cuss," and seemed
to enjoy the attention which his longti
tude attracted. At one time at least tiv,
hundred people surrounded him, and h
looked on the multitude from his lOftl
eminence like a tjaCkass among fioCl
Of sheep.