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

The Canadian papers declare that
the continued emigration Of the French
population from the eastern townships
to this country is getting positively
, Fearful"
The four perpetrators Of the brutal
outrage on Mrs. Bates, in Boston, the
other night, have been each sentenced to
the State prison for life.
A woman on Long Island gave the
| census man the names of twenty Of her
children, and said she couldn't Just
then remember the names of two or
three more. i
The Quakers of England have con
tributed over 100000 for the relief and
instruction Of the emancipated slaves
of this country, and their good work is
still going on.
"A friend, who is always INDUCING
his execrable wit, wants to know how
we think Cyrus w. Field when the cable
| went overheard.
"A gray snake, between two and
three feet long, supposed to have escaped
from Barnums Museum, is crawling
around New York. 1t belongs to the
copperhead species, and is seen mostly
around the World and News Office
An application for a pension was
| made in behalf of woman living in
Ohio, on Tuesday, wherein it appeared
that she had had eight sons in the I'm
ion armies, three Of whom were killed
in battle.
An arrangement for taking mail
| bags from stations while trains are mcv-
ing at full speed has been invented by a
mail agent on the Chicago and North
western Railroad. Numerous trials
prove it a success.
| One Of Dan Rices elephants got
furious in indianapolis lately, broke
into graveyard, and destroyed grave
stones, monuments and shrUbbery. He
was finally secured without injuring
any one.
The toad which was found imbed-
ded in a block of limestone in Hartle-
pool, England, and which is computed
to be six thousand years old, expired
last month. The animal has been on
exhibition for number of years.
Alderman Michael Norton of New
| York and another man were locked up
by policeman a day or two ago, be-
cause they remained on the sidewalk
and wouldn't "move along" at his Or
ders. They tried to come back on the
officer, but were unsuccessful.
Capt. Nye of the ship Abigail, a
vessel which the pirate Shenandoah re-
Gently burned, said defantly to Capt
Wordell of the latter: You have not
ruined me yet have $4,000 at home,
and before l left lent it to the govern
ment to help fight such fellows as you
are"
John Morrissey has purchased a
house in Troy as residence for his IA
Their and widowed sister. A Troy paper
is indignant because somebody called
Morrissey pugilist and declares that
he has retired from the arena. Which
is the worse, to be prize fighter or a
proprietor of gambling hells?
Henry Kauser of Newark, n. j., re-
turned from the war to find his wife
married to another man, as his colonel
had told her he had been killed. Henry
didn't pine away as Enoch Arden did
under similar circumstances, but has
gone to law about it. -. y
An irreverent correspondent des-
cribes the Emir Abd-el- Kader as a Jolly
round faced Algrian, who might be re-
placed today by any Kentucky negro in
the same costume, without the face be-
ing detected. He goes into the highest
Partisan society with his two beautiful
wives. for whom he paid $4,000.
THE New England cotton mills are
extending their operations as fast as the
I supply OF hands permit. Some of the