Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-06
miscellaneous Items.

--Thirty-seven new oil wells are go
ing down at Pithole,
There are eight hundred licensed
liquor dealers in Albany.
During the late war, sos persons
were drowned In battle, and 640 scaldeo
in battle in the naval service.
The "Mormon poetess," Miss Car
michael, has left Utah as the wife OF a
Gentle physician OF California
Mine beautiful young ladies re-
nounced the world and took the veil at
q convent in Montreal last week.
The most astounding fish story yet
told is the statement by Professor Agas-
slz that in Brazil they have a species OF
fish which can climb trees . ..,..
In 1866 a mob at Suspension Bridge
destroyed several houses OF ill-fame. The
owners sued the county for damages,
and have just recovered the amounts
claimed.
Miss Sarah Allen, blind lady, re-
siding in Scottsburg, Livingston county,
has Just completed quilt composed OF
five hundred and eighty-five pieces, all
cut and sewed by herself.
Isaac Rector a private banker in
Bedford, Indiana, suspended business
last Friday. The local papers report this
liabilities at 100000, and the assets not
over s35, 900.
The last great telegraphic feat is the
ordering of wheat by London house OF
one in San Francisco, and the receipt by
the former, on the same day, of the IN
telligence that the order had been
filled.
One Johnston, an actor in Detroit,
large and powerful man, brutally as
saulted newspaper critic of less size
and muscle than himself, last week, In
return for some published structures
upon his performances. He has beer
arrested.
J The United States Senate at tht
opening of the session OF Congress vii
consist of fifty-two members, OF wnon
. fifteen will support thel Presidents policy
! of reconstruction and 81 or a majority
| OF two-thirds, and seven over, will OPP
pose it.
= 1t is stated that sharks are sold II
, the Paris fish markets. They are classet
4 in the city tariff as "curiosities," but be
come fish in the hands Of the purchasers
and figure in the bills Of the restaurant
: as sturgeon or funny. One lately sol
. was more than nine feet long.
i Cave Johnson died at his home i
s Clarksville, Tenn, on Friday, aged I
:. wears. He represented Tennessee /
It Years in the lower house Of Congress
It and was Postmaster General under Pref
r ident Polk, when he distinguished hin
If self by report in favor Of carrying th
r mails on Sunday.
70 John A. Karst, q stranger in Ne
8 York, made an attempt to "buck ii
If tiger few days ago and lost 81, 700. III
a proprietors of the gambling house wei
a arrested on his complaint, but were a
le lowed to 90 upon their own recognl
10 ance.
The town Of Dumbarton, N. h
m with a population of over one thousan
has no paper, no lawyer, no doctor, I
III hotel, or liquor store, no mandatory
O. any description it's town debt Is pal
it. and with the exception of minist
r. and two women, its Inhabitants are
farmers.
Of 1t is stated, semi officially, that Il
ID British government has already given q
" surances that the Alabama claims shi
nd be paid, but desires to do little dipl
m matte quibbling over the accounts
air order that the British people may n
no ascertain how much the breaches
he neutrality have cost them.
Vo The ex-rebel Gen. Edward Johnst
I'D having been recently pardoned by
en- President, called upo Treasurer SpinI
We, for the payment of a check for three
ay four hundred dollars, due to him on
'ur settlement as a major in the Unit
Ell; States army in 1861, just before he joir
IKE the army of the Confederate States. l
emu treasurer refused the payment in mi
nat ner that was anything but pleasant
inc the applicant.
II .,
ing Has JAMES STEPHENS DOUBLE Z!
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