Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-08-27
Little Documents.

Gen Grant is at home,
Gen, o. q. Howard has gone to At
anita
Long Branch, it is said, "bristles
With scandal"
Chicago is an Indian word signifying
great place.
The Grant boys in the West are put.
ing ON blue caps,
There is firm in Syracuse by the
lame OF Settle \ Burst,
A political party in Ohio is called the
'straightouts."
Wilmington, y. C., has white and
black police, half-and-hali.
Tho Boston fountains consume l5o,-
GOO gallons Of water an hour.
\ lady in Washington has become
insane from using Plunchette.
Springfield. H., Is To have q barbe'
cue 4 whole OK will be roasted.
The American Scientific Association
is ustonishcl nj the size OF Chicago.
Syracuse has recently had u big drum
and a small meeting. 1t was political, of
course.
The Providence Tool Company has
manufactured recently fifteen thousand of
the Peabody rifle for the Swiss govern
mcut
Three hundred and thirty-nine per-
sons arrived at the Memphemagog House,
Newport, VT, for the week ending Tues
day, August IL.
-"Surprise weddings" are the latest
novelty at Cleveland, Ohio. They take
place at pie-nics, camp-meetings, exeur-
sions and the like.
A drunken Bostonisn attending a
picnic at Manchester, \. H.. day or two
since, was TIED to tree, and kept there
until he got sober enough to behave him
self
( Victoria has thirteen grandchildren.
( joel Benton is summering in New
Haven.
Hon. VIM Bigler, of Pennsylvania,
is seriously i'll.
Grant will see all who choose to call
upon him in the West.
The cattle disease has reached Provi-
dence.
-Oberlin College has 1900 students
and II professors
A lunar rainbow was visible at Otta-
wa, H., on Sunday night.
Tho Treasury Building at Washing
ton is nearly completed.
Trenton, y. J., is putting up a large
number Of new houses.
The Mammoth Cave is said to be pay
ing institution .his year.
The sisters of Charity ride free on
= all the street cars in New Orleans.
A million feet of lumber lately ar
rived at East st. Louis in four rafts.
Prof Caldwell takes the chair of Ag-
ricultural chemistry at the Cornell Uni
versity.
Bishop Quintard, Of Tennessee, col
leetcd $4,000 in England for the South
= ern University of Episcopalians.
The late Sir Archibald Alison's libra
ry has been sold for about 81 300.
-lllrriugton's lecture for the coming
season is On "Litorature and Democ.
racy.
Col. L, c. Johnson, ex-President OF
Randolph Macon College has just died
7. Buchanan Read and John r. TAFT
both Cincinnati artists, are making III,
tour of the Rhine in a carriage.
t 1t is said Gen Wool will vote for
t Seymour, but it is thought this is joke
t intended to pull wool over peoples eyes
) Deacon S. NJ. Blake of Biddoford
: gathered from his cucumber vines, the
t first week in August, one hundred bush
G els OF cucumbers.
"A Trotter estate of SlS,000,00O il
y running around in England, looking TO
heirs, and some Iowa Trotters are collect
5 ing money TO lee lawyers to investigate
A statement is going the rounds o
> the press that Wait Whitman never haC
an income of over 5000 year. This il
false. His official position At Washington
yields him some $1,000
Tho most eloquent speaker in til,
, North German Parliament, is DIR Willinn
! Lowe, for several years a resident of New
York.
/ Charles Elliot Norton retires from hi.
1 editorial position ON the North American
k Review, and will be succeeded by Profes
: sor Quincy, If Harvard College.
; p. T. Barnum and others, wishing t,
: camp out ~ Seaside Park, built there il
G the course OF one of the hot afternoons
Y hotel. 1sNfo. and slept in it that night.
, Mr. Moses. the Speaker of the South
Carolina House. Is, an Israelite a Sont.
. Carolinian 10y birth, and belongs to prom
incnt family He is a young man of de
i cided ability
Gov Burnside, oi Rhode Island. VI
{ Oliver Davidson, of New York, aud a. S
: Mathews, OF Stonington, have been ap
: pointed 70 prepare plans for the draw
: bridge across the Connecticut River a
/ Saybrook
? The right of way for the Cleveland
i Wooster. and GAINESVILLE railroad has beer
r secured n far as Wooster Ohio
: A new invention for lighting street
n gas by electricity has been exhibited at
+ The Boston Institute of Technology.
Fifty dollars wilfhereafter be charged
to the soldier who loses or disposes OF the
: Springfield breech-loading musket.
= -Havorhill il erecting marble monu.
7 ment to the memory Of her fallen soldiers
! ! to be placed in her Common, at cost Of
> $1,000
e The Protestant Churchman protest.
it against the use OF the phrase, "th
n Church." as applied to any particula
e branch of the church in an exclusive