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

AT Natchez, the freedmen have
bought a church property for $4,000,
paying 5000 down, and the rest they
agree to pay in ten months.
The number of freedmen killed in
Texas during the past year is estimated
by Mr.. Roberts, Senator elect from that
State, to be 300.
"A dispatch from Fort Laramie
states that in recent fight with In
dians q lieutenant and sergeant were
killed and several wounded.
"A feature OF the French Exhibition
is to be a Japanese coffee-house, with
eight genuine japanese girls, already on
their way TO Paris, as walters.
1t is said that the government has
it in contemplation to place Admiral
Farragut next spring in command Of the
Mediterranean squadron.
The secret service division have ar
rested a band Of counterfeiters near Nj
agara Falls A large quantity OF Spdri-
Gus currency was found in their possess
sion.
AT the masonic fair in Washington,
pictures OF Lincoln, Grant aud Lee are
voted for at dollar ticket. The first
night, the votes for Lee were nine times
as many as for the Others.
1t is said that Rev. J. S. C. Abbott,
whose name became so intimately as
ISOLATED with the elder Napoleon, is
about to sail for France to collect ma
terials for life OF the present emperor.
"A st. Louis dispatch states that
warrants have been Issued for the ar
rest of Colonel MONTGOMERY, commander
of the Missouri Militia In Lafayett
county, under the Civil Rights act.
WIN. Peterson, Of Lafayett, Ind,
hung himself with a whip-lash in his
barn on Friday. Cause--that his wife
had used too freely the whip,lash afore-
said during their six months marriage.
The New York pilot boat Hope No.
has accepted a challenge from the pilot
boat J. d. Jones for race across the
Atlantic for $4,000. We shall have
wherries racing across to England pre-
sently.
--aHow came such q greasy mess in
theoyen?" said a fidgety old spinster to
her maid of all work. "Why," replied
the girl, "the candles fell into the water,
and put them in the oven to dry"
The trial of Geo. W. Gayle, the Ala
bamian, charged with melting the MUIR
der of the late lamented Lincoln by an
advertisement offering reward for his
body, has been commenced in Mont
gomery, but continued to the next term
of the court.
The legislature of Virginia has con-
| firmed the nomination of Hon. Alexan-
der Rives as a Judge of the Court of APP
peals. Judge Rives is one OF the few
distinctive Union men of the State, and
the large vote he received is the occa-
sion of most pleasurable surprise.
"A young man in st. Louis recently
wrote to Mr.. Horace Greeley to use his
influence in obtaining a situation for
him. He received the following reply
"New York is just entering upon the in
teresting process of starving out 100000
people whom war and irredeemable pa
per have driven hither. 1t is impossi-
BILE to receive and employ more till these
are gone"
1t is said the old aristocratic resi-
dents of Washington are Mortified at the
idea of negro suffrage. A gentleman
will have his sable body-servant ride
siae-by-side with him, or lady will
crowd her Ethiopian nurse into a rail-
road car, and it is right, for they appear
as members Of servile race; but the
Idea that a colOred man worth fifty
thousand dollars has as good right to
vote as drunken, idle, white vagaband,
is appalling. The only hope of the once
dominont race is that Congress will now
take away their charter, SO as to dis
pense with ballot boxes.