Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-27
Miscellaneous Items.

The total cost of A. T. Stewards
new mansies in New York, with the
furniture, will not be less than $780,
900.
"A Wilmington, Delaware, paper
speaks of man who hurt his foot by
Striking it on heck attached to hole
on the sidewalk"
The Michigan lake fisheries furnish
from seventy Eve to one hundred thou
sand barrels of fish per annum, worth
about 81 100000.
-As old bachelor seeing the words
"families supplied" over the door OF q
shop, stepped in and said he would take
a wife and two children.
"A printer, in setting up the SEN
tence, ave are but parts Of stipend
GUS whole" by mistake of letter made
it read. 1--WE are but parts of q stipend
Gus whale"
The New York jury in the suit
against Herring, the safe man, to re-
cover cash stolen by burglars from one
of his safes, coulG not agree, being
equally divided.
"A conflict Of authority has arisen
between the civil courts imposing cor
pOral punishment for certain offences in
North Carolina, and the military au-
thorities, whosforbid its infection,
The government has just seized at
Chicago $4,000 pounds of carriage
springs, and at Cleveland about $4,000
pounds more, which, it is claimed, were
struggled into this country from Canada
at halfrates.
The Detroit Free Press says the
last crop of Winter wheat in Michigan
"may fairly challenge comparison as to
| quality with any that was ever grown
in any country"
AT the New York Central election
last week, there was some tall voting.
LIE Grand Lockwood voted on stock to
the value of s4,6O0,O00, Henry Keep on
S3,500000, Cornelius Vanderbilt on
| $1,000, 000-all their own.
The merchants of Erie Pa, are
making an effort to establish a direct
line Of vessels to carry petroleum from
| Erie to Liverpool the vessels to have
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make three trips per season.
A lady asked a pupil at public
school, what was the sin of the Phari-
sees 2" eating camels, marm," quickly
replied the child. She had read that the
Pharisees STRAINED at gnats and swal-
lowed camels."
1t is proposed to increase the num-
Der and pay of the Chicago police force.
The present cost of the force is $l93, 700.
Should it be increased as proposed to
four hundred the annual cost would be
about half million dollars.
"A Cincinnati gentleman, of large
business connections, and whose two
| daughters were married on the same dav.
last winter, to brothers, received a tele-
gram one day last week, informing him
that one of the daughters had been de.
livered of child at four o'clock in the
afternoon, and the other of ditto an
hour later.
The Baltimore Commercial says that
the prosperity of that city at the present
time is unprecedented" Last year there
were 40 building permits issued, in
GLIDING those for renovation and repairs.
The returns for this year up to the pres
ent time show that 1913 permits have
been issued, of which over 1000 were
for new buildings.
"A gentleman from Shreveport, La,
states that while there a number of
planters came in voluntarily and re-
quested to be placed under heavy bonds
to keep the peace toward the freedmen.
They said the desire and temptation to
"kill Niger were SO strong that they
dare not trust themselves; but they
thought the restraining power of a heavy
pecuniary penalty would enable them to
get along without taste of African
| blood.