Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-03-01

Duke Gwiu is praying to be let out
of Fort jackson.

OF Fort Jackson.
When the load OF Massachusetts
women reaches Oregon it is proposed to
found a city and call it Shecargo.
"A jovial couple at Indianapolis were
recently married in the morning, got
drunk by uoOn, and spent their frst
night Of welded life in Jail.
A boarder at one Of our city board
ino houses on being asked how they
lived there. replied that the hash was
rather doubtful, 59i the Sos2f oe2tf bully"
This dubious compliment failed to at
tract new boardeT
There are eighty Thousand people in
Tennessee who can neither read nor
write. The Memphis Bulletin thinks it
would be well to initiate New England
and teach them, rather than to abuse
the Yankees and still leave these unfor-
tunates in ignorance.
Ben. Woods paper the New York
Daily Nt5gS, is in ecstacies over the veto.
1t assumes that President Johnson must
hereafter be in full communion with his
old rebel sympathizers. Ben. may live
to see that he has misjUdgcd the char
acter Of Andy Johnson.
The panic among the pork eaters OF
Germany, in consequence Of the spread
of the newly discovered worm disease,
is so great that, according to the Frem-
! denblatt Of Vienna, the pig dealers OF that
| city have telegraphed to their agents in
Se"Via and Hungary not to send them
any more swine for the present, as most
Of the great hotels have suppressed in
their bills of fare all preparations Of
pork.
The confidence of Speaker Colfax
that the President would sign the freed
mems bill had been so implicit, that he
wagered box of cigars with promi-
nent member from Connecticut, assert
ing at the time that he had conversed
with the President, and had been made
aware Of his views. On Tuesday morn
ing, the cigars were found ON the desk of
the member, endorsed "From a victim
OF misplaced confidence So says
Washington letter.
The Manchester Mirror tells of two
men who found a wallet with $500 In it,
and papers showing who was the own
er The finders started after the loser,
and hunted him half over the city before
they found him, and restored his prop
erty. He most generously paid the men
twenty-five cents IN currency.
GLORIOUS Andy {" Thus shouts the
Hartford Times, which said during
those trying days when the present
President Of the United States was brav-
ing secession in Tennessee
ANDREW johnson is an qGttee, selfish
politician Of aho'lo,0 capacity and complete
dsinagogYcn
Is there anything Janus faced about
this We TASK for Information, '-Hart-
ford Courant.
"A pair OF elopers, at Chicago, the
other day, were so closely followed by an
enraged parent that they couldn't get
the marriage rite performed, and tried to
make good their escape with horse and
sleigh But the weather was bitter cold,
and before driving far their limbs began
to freeze aud soon became insensible. In
this condition they were discovered,
taken in aud cared for by hospitable
family. who hadn't the slightest idea
that they were not man and wife and so
put them to bed together. They reCov-
cred from their stupor Just as the inde
fatigable pareut introduced himself,
finding their heads side by side on pill
low, and first-class scene immediate
ly ensued After all this romance Of
course there must be happy termina-
tiOn, and a minister made 1t so.