Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-25
TcEl,
Grimes and Casualties.

-FTanc,s Cehn, Milwaukee merchant,
has been convicted of Arson and sent to
States Prison for Eve year.
An usgratsfhl con at Boston, named
William Wallace, stole his mothers feather
bed, worth $40, and sold it for 81, to take
his girl riding the ether day.
-Catharine Eaylec. was married in
Cincinnati day or two since, was arrested
few hours after for then, and spent the
honeymoon in the station horse.
The barn Of Harrison Ross, at Shelby,
Orleans Csanty, vas burned by inesndi-
ariss, last Saturday night, and at the same
time young orchard of twenty-five trees
was cut down. Malice oould not take
more wicked end outrageous form.
claiborne G. Herbert, prominent
Texas politician, was killed on Fridav
night, July 5th, at Columbus, Texas, by =,
man named Speers, in bar, room fight.
Speer was aftsrward killed by the Fed
eral guard while making his arrest.
The Carroll (Miss) Conservative
says a disease resembling cholera has
broken out among the freedmen on the
plantations along the Yazoo river, and is
growing very fatal. The disease, it is
thought, was brought on by the negroes
eating half cooked cat fish.
"A disgracefal street fight took place
in st. Louis few days since, between an
ex-member of Congress and an insurance
secretary. After forty rounds had been
fought, two roughs separated the combat
ants, at the same time relieving them Of
their watches and pocket-books.
John rlagg of Troy, N. H., died the
other day, and on his death-bed confessed
to the murder Of psddler at Royalston,
thirty years ago, whose mysterious disap-
pearance at the time caused much excite
ment. He also implicated another man
who is living in Royalsson at this time.
The wife Of Aurora 0. Tieknor, a
prominent buainess Ean of Chicago, has
commenced C exit for divorce, alleging
cruel treatment end that her husband has
allowed, without reproof, q nephew of his,
aged seventeen years, to indulge in lewd
conduct toward @ soven year old daughter
of the parties.
In the case Of Lawrence Hart, tried
last week it Warnaw, Ind, FOR the muir
der of boy, a verdict Of guilty was rend-
cred, and a sentence Of twonty-one years.
imprisonment passed upon him. After
the sentekca was pronounced, the pris-
oner confessed that he killed the child pur-
posely that he knocked him down with
a broom handle, and kicked him in the
side until he wac dead. .
During a recent thander storm at
Middletown, Conn, q large tree standing
twenty-five feet from the river, just below
the city, was taken up, with its roots, and
at least thirty carloads of earth, carried
across road, out over the river seventy
feet from shore, and there set down squarely
upon its roots, in some twenty-five feet Of
water. Some twenty feet of the top Is
above water.
AT Danbury, Conn, last week, a
young man named Ezra Bennett, working
for Hull & Son, found hand grenade
among some old iron, and was foolish
enough to drive red-hot piece of iron
into the hole. The shell happened to have
some powder in it, and of course an ex-
plosion was the consequence. His left
hand was blown to atoms almost, render
ing it necessary to be amputated at the
wrist.