Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-30
Miscellaneous Items.

j. B., the old pub. func., had ST., 326
income last year.
The government is disposing of pub
lie lands at an Unprecedented rate Over
one hundred thousand acres We're sold
last month.
An Englshman, named William II.
Watson, was held 10 bail in $4,000 on
Tuesday at Philadelphia, for forging a
draft on the United States Treasury at
that city for $3.50.
The police report Of Mobile for the
month of July shows that, with a nearly
equal population of the two races, there
were 2l8 arrested of whites TO 1877 of
blacks.
The New York Times pretends to
think that news of the harmony at Phil
adelphia caused the rise of fve-twenties
in London. This would be remarkable
if true" but it is only bosh.
Hon. Chas. Augustus Dewey, LII. D.,
Justice OF the Supreme Court of MasSa-
Chusetts, died at Northampton, of dys-
EMERY, on Wednesday, August o. at the
age of rs.
Mrs. LeOnidas Polk, widow of the
Louisiana Bishop and rebel General, is in
such reduced circumstances hat she has
opened female educational institute TO
support herself and family.
"A light fingered fellow who got Mr..
Tice, Brooklyn ieweller, to show him
some diamond rings, the other night,
grabbed $4,000 worth of them and ps
capped. He had a confederate at the door
with horse and wagon
The Mohamedau inhabitants OF
MaZanderan, in Persia massacred a
great number of Jews in that town du-
ring the festival of the Moharrem and
have compelled the rest to adopt Ma
hOmedanism.
They tell Of au old farmer who,
while in town one day, was asked the
best time to put in rye. It's about
the best time now" said the old fell
fellow, looking at his watch, "and if
you've got any postal currency about
you, I'll go and show you how it is
done"
twenty-five murders have been
committed In Hancock county, XIV,
within short time, and none of the
murderers have been arrested. One
would think that the population of such
locality would decrease by emigration
almost as fast as by violence.
"A trunk containing s500,OO0in secu-
rifles, which was deposited in the vault
Of one OF the banks at New York, has
been stolen. The loss is shared partly
by a house in New York aud partly by
firm in Boston. No clue to the perpe-
traitors Of the robbery has been ob-
tanned.
1t is said that chewing a piece of
paper will put a stop to bleeding OF the
nose, and trial has proved it efficacious.
Doubtless any substance would answer
the same purpose as paper, the stoppage
OF the flow of blood being caused doubt
less by the rapid motion of the Jaws,
and the counter action Of the muscles and
arteries connecting the jaws and nose.
The cable is kept very busy, and
with the present tariff and bushes. it
will earn 81 100000 per annum. Many
ON~ N'1Nib6S LNC" loI duu LOUuOD
firms have used it daily from the first,
and the prospect is that the business
Will quickly increase beyond the limit of
a single wire to transmit. In fact fifteen
or twenty cables between this country
and Europe would find enough to do.
The Nicholson (wood) pavement
which has been used in Cincinnati, Chi
cago and Milwaukee, is to be tried in
Nassau Street New York, aud if success
full will be substituted for all others. In
putting it down, layer of sand is COW
cred with floor of inch boards, tarred
upon this are placed, in diagonal rows.
pine blocks, sawn from three inch planks,
in lengths of six inches, standing on end
and held one inch apart; the interstices
are filled with coarse gravel, tar is then
poured in and the gravel hammered
down fine gravel and tar are spread
over, and sand covers the whole. 1t
makes a smooth and solid pavement,
q nd bon &t,-, a