Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-09-26
uiscellaneOs Items.

-fUItS illuOE sclicih ua'c oosa a.
rested at Astoria, L. l., for selling with.
out license.
The returns OF registration in
Georgia, foot up s total OF lSS,92O, OF
whom 95, 30S are whites.
Three OF the murderers OF Cornelius
Drlscoll, at Kingston, Ontario, Saturday
night, have been arrested at Water
~ gn,
A break occurred in the Erie canal,
Monday morning. six miles west OF
Fultonville, II will be repaired in a
day or two.
The Central Pacific railroad of Cali
fornia is entirely graded to the Sierra
Nevada, and the workmen have moved
further east,
The production OF the Lake Superior
iron mines has increased from 1884
tons in 1856, to SOC, 252 tons in 1865.
While Massachusetts has suffered
by the heavy fall OF rain, the pastures in
the northern part OF Vermont have been
injured by the want Of rain, and butter
st st. Adams is consequently very
scarce.
Samuel Lancheimes, proprietor OF
cap store at New York, was arreeted on
Monday, on charge of setting fire to
his premises, and shot himself through
the heart while in the station house.
The commercial report for the past
year. furnished by the Cincinnati Cham
hor If N0Y,0 to
trade has decreased, the railroads have
carried less freight, real estate has de-
Clined.
Post Once Savings Banks are es-
established throughout England for the
benefit OF small depositors. They have
been in existence four years, and at the
close of 1866 held in deposit, including
accrued interes, G40,605,S 1915 in gold,
The whole of the first series OF the
1905 has been funded except about three
million dollars, and it is thought that
large portion OF this amount has been
lost or destroyed, so that it will not be
presented for payment.
1t is estimated that Maine has water
power enough, if used, to support a
population OF ave millions OF souls. She
would then not be SO populous as the
British Isles. In the Southern basin of
the State there are at least million of
horsepower.
"A few families increase for few
generations very rapidly, and rise in in
huenCe, because they form a superior
stock, until some habit, or vice, or pecu-
liarity OF employment, or disposition in
jures the race and renders them inferior,
and then they decline.
Robert Burns, ex-collector of East
port, Me-, who was active in opposing
the Fenians during their invasion of
Campo-Bello, and whose property on In
dian Island suffered by fire in conse-
quence, has received $4,000 in gold, as
indemnity from the British Government.
Two colored men, while excavating
ground in Alexandria, Va, near the
canal basin exhumed box containing
$67 900 in Alexandria corporation notes,
together with will. The testator was
ascertained to have fallen in the battle
of Seven Pines.
"A HAL Ou tAulDlLlOu III LUuuOU VINO
calls himself "Natator, or the Human
Frog" performs number of wonderful
feats under water. He eats sponge cake
and drinks milk at the bottom of an
aquarium. He also smokes a pipe and
comes up with it still lighted. He
has remained under water sixty-nine
seconds at time.
The Putnam (Ct) National Bank
was obliged TO suspend business for two
days last week, because the vault
couldn't be opened in consequence of
arrangement in the lock. a telegam
brought the maker of the safe and an as
sistant, who, after seventeen hours
work, opened passage to the treasures.
"A few days since man captured
near Bethlehem, KY, snake having two
heads. 1t was about ten inches in
length, and, though the heads were dis
tinct, there was but one vertebra and one
pelvis. There were two eyes ia each
head, and each mouth had the same APP
pearance and size. Sometimessit would
dart out one tongue and sometimes the
other, and at times both simultaneously.