Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-24
miscellaneous Items.

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Panama, with 10000 people, has S
either public school nor public hos
ital.
THE little tax OF one cent upon
verv box of matches netted the gov
rnment 81, 100000, last year.
The British feet in the Canadian
waters is manned by 57l7 men, and has
IN aggregate of AS guns
The tract of land in Chicago, owned
oy the late Senator DouSi@s' was IL
Gently sold for s85 900 in cash.
Immense quantities of potatoes are
arriving at Cleveland, o., from Mlch,
igan, and are thence sent South anu
East.
A call has appeared in Indiana,
signed by several thousand men , VINO
voted for Lincoln and johnson in 1864
far a convention on the 30th, to sustain
the Presidents restoration policy.
"A "collud" effort: Why are perch
from Bangor Cup in Maine) like the
Wabberly Mobiles ?-kaze oey CONE
from the Pen-ob-scot.
Gen. Scott made his annual Visit 10
West Point on Thursday, accompanied
nv Gems. Butterfeld, Pleasanton ana
other military men. The party received
marked honors. Gen. Scott is in rather
feeble health.
Nashville papers complain OF rust
in oats and wheat in Tennessee. The
disease has also appeared in Northern
Alabama, and in some places in Ken
lucky,
THE military force now on duty in
Virginia consists OF forty-four compa-
MES of regulars, numbering in the a9-
orenate about two thousand men.
"A new steam wagon for common
roads has lust been tried at Quincy,
Ill, the papers say, with fair promise Oh
SUGGEST.
Rev. Dr. Cheever said in his ser
mon, last Sunday, that Congress and
the President are thieves and moral as
sassins. What a frightfully wicked
world it is, to be sure.
Samuel J. Tilden of New York, has
lust taken a mortgage on the chicago
and Rock Island railroad to the amount
of S2,500,O00. The revenue stamps up
on it cost $500.
DIR. Somebody AYERS that opium Is
a positive specific against cnoleFa, ahC
the owners of the Congress Saratoga
springs assure the public that Congress
water in an Invaluable preventive.
t,Do.,o1 rro,Osp to mt Ike into
store Mrs. Darlington 2" asked friend
, eyes" replied the old lady, "but In
+ npstiferous to know which. Some te
: me the wholesome trade is the best, gu
+ | believe the ringtail will be the mos
+ benefciOus to him.
IS The law Office at Franklin, N.
e where Daniel Webster and his brotht
n Ezekiel studied law, is now used as
@ shoemaker's shop. 1t was built in Us
and an unusual number of eminent law
E. vprs and statesmen received their frs
s. legal lessons within its walls.
y One of the $4,000 bonds stolen wit
y the 81, 700 600 taken from old Mr.. Lol
Nv of New York, has been found in the pc
ol session of a pawnbroker named Jam
" G. Ferguson, who has beeu arrested al
W held for trial.
" The British commissioners to loo
r. into the abuses in Jamaica, find that a
it rebels lnegroes) were shot during Il
of continuance of martial law, GOO persOl
en- were logged, and 1000 houses OF n
ell groes were burned down.
aC Harrison H. Dodd, grand comma
Ce der of the Sons Of Liberty, has cor
ne hack to Indianapolis from Canada.
Vi saws he is not afraid Of the civil cOur
" and has come back to fight the THU
,lo through but his old associates
i NC. rather disposed to turn a cold Should
700 on him.
oe- Fifty persons were killed by t
re- terrific 'dust-storm st Buenos Ayres
n! the 10Th of March. 1t occurred at abe
The 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but
heavens were Nobscured so thorough
by the driving clouds OF dust thai
was darker than the darkest mig
Trees, houses and ships were capsii
AS, in an instant, so powerful was the wi
tor Rev. A. L. Stone, recently ofBost
in had asnarrow escape at the time Of
ub- recent explosion OF nitro gIycerlne
;ro San Francisco. He was driving do
MS the hill directly toward the scene, 6
in a minute more would have been
ent front of the building. He had
we view of the horrible scene, and saw
uro fragment ola human body flying throJ
W the air.
heir
the The New York Tribune fOots up
mn. bank swindIngs aud embezzleme
rter from May, 1868, to May, 1856, at ab
ion s8, 164 600, besides s3,4720O0, Of wba
and calls "vulgar and violent rph1erie>.
can "A bashful lover in st. Louis, ah
pre- to be married, took morphine to ste'
ue, his nerves. Result: he forgot TO W
anu up at the wedding hour; the bride
as disguised, and the wedding indehni
ger postponed.
ked- A "day" census is about to be ia
-ime in the city of London. At the last
lave sus, taken in 1861, the population
red prised only those who slept within
lean city, and consequently fell far shor
Ihtet the population.