Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-05-03

"A boy scarcely 10 years old was re-
Gently hanged at Mobile Ala, for the
murder of another boy of Is.
"A scamp recently married widow
at Pekin, H., and the same night run
away, taking with him S1l0 in gold and
her first husbands clothes.
The European pocket time keeper"
extensively advertised at 81, is simple
pasteboard dial arranged to tell the
time by the sun, and costs only a few
cents.
Two of the Halifax doctors were at
tackled by cholera after attending pa
tients on the cholera ship, but have sur
vived. Their colaborer, DR.. Slayler,
died from the same cause.
The largest distillery in America
has been opened at Louisville, KY, by
New York, Boston and Louisville capi-
talists. 1t is able to distill million
lion gallons of whisky every year.
Another double comet has been dis
covered in Brazil, comprising small
one which is circular and large one
which is eliptical. The two parts OF
Bielas double comet are nearly alike.
1T is reported at Washington that
the counsel of Dick Turner, the rebel
keeper at Libby prison, has been prom
ised that his client shall be released.
The Senate of the Tennessee legis-
lature has passed the franchise bill, pre-
viously passed by the House. 1t dis
franchises all who took part in the re-
| bellion.
The Fenian organizer in the late East
port expedition says that it would have
been q success had Gen. Killian been
sustained. He considers O'Mahony "an
| imbecile and fraud"
The Goth inst. was to be celebrated
in Memphis and in other localities at
the South in memory of the Confederate
| dead. Their graves were to be strewn
with flowers and other demonstrations
made.
Gov. jenkins of Georgia, has ap-
| piled to Gen. Thomas for troops to be
sent to Fannin county, Northern Geor-
| gia, to quell disturbances which the au-
thorities are powerless to repress. The
troops will be sent.
A private letter received at Chicago
states that on the 10th inst. the ice in
the Straits of Mackinac was firm and
solid, while the sleighing was good on
land and water. The prospect was not
favorable for an early breaking up.
The State constables of Massachu-
setts report that nine-two shops in Rnss.
ton where liquor has been sold have dis
continued the traffic and many of the
places returned their stock to the whole
sale dealers OF whom they were pur-
chased.
-Confiscation proceedings in the
United States District Court at Jackson
ville Florida, have been stopped by an
order from President Johnson. All the
property of rebels now in the possession
Of the Government authorities will be
Immediately restored.
Somebody has stole the autograph
letters addressed by foreign sovereigns
to the pope, who kept them in a secret
drawer. Among them were letters by
Louis Napoleon, which compromised
that imperial gentleman, and which the
pope, it is said, intended eventually to
publish. Perhaps such a suspicion led
w bne toDbeEy'
The rebel Captain Burnett who
killed Sergeant Pollard, Of the 18th
New York, at Shell Mound, last July,
has been Internationally released by
Gen. Thomas, on account Of the dying
declaration of Pollard that he was part
ly to blame, and he did not want Bur-
nett prosecuted.
Information has been received by
the Treasury Department from the Can
ada frontier to the effect that smuggling
has become so unpopular and hazardous
that when practiced at all now, it is
only in small way. The recent steps
taken by the Treasury officials, it is be-
lieved, have done much toward bringing
about this state of things.
The farmers in some of the counties
of Illinois along the Missouri River,
who have been harassed by horse
thieves are taking summary measures
with the rascals. On Sunday afternoon
two of them were shot by the Vigilance
Committee of Jersey County, and on
Thursday another was killed, and still
another shot, but the latter escaped with
q ball in him.
-Montreals finances are shockingly
bad. The city has debt of over five
millions, with arrears of taxes amount
ing to half million, and wholesale
fraud and corruption among its Off
Cials.
st. Louis has Increased very rapidly
in the last year, and has now 100000 in
habitants. There are in the city 81
churches, 80 hotels, "a newspapers, Q of
which are dailies, so public and 81 pri-
vate schools, universities, 4 medical
and 8 commercial colleges, Al breweries,
IL distilleries and 1151 saloons.
The United States assessor at Alba
ny claimed, while ago, that banks are
! bound to take out government Ii
! cense, on the basis that their surplus
earnings are part of their capital stock.
Three banks, however, obtained an in
i junction on the collection OF anything
! | for the surplus, and the Injunction has