Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-05
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construction Of certain wagon roads in
Dacoi.,i, Territory Passed -
Scissorings.
Literature is ON the wane in Boston.
just now.
Lord Brougham's health is greatly
improved,
-oswego is indulging in a temperance
revival
Gov. Ford of Ohio Is very i'll in
Washington.
Utah owes nothing. and has $4,000
in its treasury.
-Gerrit Smith has written long let
10 Fred. Douglass,
There are 1900 children attending
the public schools of Utah,
"A large immigration is setting in to-
ward Kossuth county. Ohio.
The canoes Of Alaska are made OF
the hide of the sca-lion.
Wild cats are killing large number.
Of sheep in Clarion county, Ohio.
Wood at Kansas City is five dollars
a cord. and hay eight dollars a ton.
A Mr.. Wright of Petersburg. Va,
claims to have discovered perpetual mo-
ton.
Hop raising in Fayottc county, Iowa,
will be extensively carried ON next sea-
son.
The whole of the Egyptian cavalry
have been supplied with Colts rcvolvcrs
An elegant lady of Paris eats pound
OF beeisteak every morning for break
fast
The n Y. Independent Of last week
calls "Washington's birthday" John
sons "deathday,"
A sect called the Christian. Anti-TaS-
payers has been summarily suppressed in
Russia.
The efforts to secure emigrants from
Europe for Southern settlement are pretty
general.
The ice bridge between Newburg and
Fishkill is from fourteen TO eighteen
Inches in thickness.
1t is said that there are $4,000 uucm-
ployed men in Chicago, and that 10000
of them are recipients of charity.
Ina single week no less than twenty
cars have been detained at PockShill ia
consequence of cracked wheels.
Mr. Edward Judson, son OF DIR, judi
son, has been appointed Professor OF
Latin and Modern Language in Madison
University.
The st. Paul Press estimates that the
| amount Of wheat now in Minnesota await
ing shipment is 3,l15,0O0 bushels.
A live stock insurance company is
being organized in New York There Is
now but one in the country, and that ha,
been very successful.
Nearly twenty thousand soup rations
We're issued in Boston last week, being an
increase OF some six thousand over til,
previous week.
Prof. loves machine for manufactur-
ing ice has been completed by the Amc~
Company, of Chieopee. and Is said to he
successful in its operation.
The Montreal Gazette contains the
| publication of letters calculated TO create
a feeling Of uneasiness in regard 10 the
| Fenian movement on the Eastern frontier
| Albert ID. Richardson, who continues
hard at work on his Life oi,Grant. expects
to make $4,000 or $4,000 out of the
book, which will be sold by subscription
The Washington Ice Company ha>
several vessels engaged in bringing zee
| from Maine and Boston for their houses
at Washington and Georgetown.
The Postmaster atiFluvanna, Chautau-
qua co. NY, has held his office since John
Quincy Adams time, and is likely T. hold
it as long rs he lives since he is THE only
resident of the place.
The London Telegraph approves the
suggestion to introduce the manufacture
beet-root sugar into Ireland in order to
create new industry and to promote the
profitable cultivation of the soil.
DR., Cumming is again before the pub
| lic He repudiates the character of a
prophet. II never in my life" he SAYS
'professed or attempted to prophcsy All
| have ventured to do is to explain and
unfold inspired prophecies in the Word Of
| God
Mr.. G. +. Train was at Barney on
| Wednesday, where he delivered lecture
in the Turkish Baths of that town on
"Hydropathy.." Train at Blarney, dis
cussing watery influences in the high
temperature of Turkish bath. is sug-
gestive Of the eternal fitness of things,
says the Court Journal
| The number of locomotives added,
during the six years 1s60-66, inclusive, to
the rolling stock of the railways of Eng
land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, was
no less than 1869. In 1866 each engine
earned G4,667 gross revenue, and ran
1876 miles; the total revenue acquired
| having been e3S, 164, 354, and the total
number of train mails run, 142, S07 1923.
Curiously enough, the Scotch locomotive
earned smaller average sum than the
Irish. The increase in the number of
train miles run, comparin 1866 with 1861,
was no less than 3S,666,4l3.
B-Gen. Lees biography of his father
is in the hands of G. B. Richardson & Co.
of New York, and will be published at
an early day.
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