Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-10-01
Herald Items.

The Nashville, Tenn, Fire Depart
ment costs about $4,000 month,
The editor Of the New Orleans Times
is dying of cancer.
Garrison viii give us history of the
United States.
The orange crop in Florida has been
engaged at $50 thousand.
"A bcggar died recently, in Rome
worth 100000,
Rich silver deposits have been dis
covered on the Canada side Of Lake SUI
perior,
+ One thousand cattle pass through the
Seminole agency daily, bound eastward
Prince Napoleon employs six cooks
and spends SEQ, 900 year on his table,
The public gaming tables in Ger
many are to be abolished from the year
1872.
Harvard has admitted one hundred
and twenty-five Freshmen.
The British Royal family cost the
country So, 800, 900 annually.
The prize wheat crop in Georgia was
forty-three bushels to the acre.
/ Sharks have recently been caught
near New London.
The city limits of Scranton, Pa, om-
brace population Of nearly forty-fve
thousand people.
Alex. T. Stewart, is not an eight hour
man. He works fourteen hours, and gets
about $4,000 day.
About ,l9S acres of land in Vir'
ginia have recently been sold TO colonist'
-Hollanders for the most part.
Southeast Missouri believes it can
supply the world with plumbago for sew
eral millions of years.
The order of Red Men numbers
ten thousand members in Philadelphia
Most of them are Germans.
The Queen Dowager Of Prussia is
queer old lady. Bread and milk Is tn
whole Of her diet, and still this old VIC
man can never be quiet.
-Twenty-four churches were struck b
lightning in a district in France, Lately
: in one storm. Only three claps of thun
t der were heard,
Tho women in the Paraguyan war,
, turns out, are the women who have al
ways done the field work in Paraguay, a
4 as Indian women do everywhere
Robert H. Isabelle, the colored Speak
= er OF the Louisiana Legislature, is a 50
= of DR.. Isabelle, who served Us surgeo
h in the armies of Napoleon.
d Ten thousand dollars has lately bee
: given the Mount Holyoke Female Sen
:. .lnarv for the library ON condition a bull,
ing shall be erected which shall cost ii
: teen thousand dollars.
= Gloucester is not only the large
j seat Of the fisheries in the world, but
n also, after Boston and Portland, the lar
e est port in New England in amount
e foreign commerce.
a Oscar Dalrymple, Of Minnesota, WI
Is last year cultivated seventeen hu
20 dred acres Of wheat, made $4,000 out
= his speculation. There is room In Mi
nesota for plenty more such ventures.
-Rockland, Me, gathers and shi
r. more than one hundred and fifty thousar
bushels of blueberries annually, sellI
: them at an average price of two dolla
/ per bushel, or for three hundred thousar
d dollars in all.
Charles G. Atkins, one of the Sta
20 fish commissioners, is experimenting wi
j. shad breeding at Augusta, Me, and h
~ Matched and let loose in the river 400
!, shadlings from the 100000 eggs vi
which le started.
The Lutherans in the United Stat
VI have one thousand seven hundred and t
ty clergymen, fifty synods, three thousal
one hundred and twelve churches, al
i' nearly three hundred and fifty thousar
/ church members.
ie During the years 1866 and 1867 n
" less than nine thousand houses were cree
id ed in Pittsburg, Pa, and the adiace
= municipalities. Most of these buildin
- are Of stone and brick. Not a few
them of the most elegant and costly d
u scription.
:, -Squa-ga-na-ba, an old chief of the {
III tawa Indians, died recently, and med
er was found hanging ON his neck which
had worn for fifty-four years. and viii
was presented to him in 1914 by the Br
l. ish government for the part which he to-
" in killing and scalping American whit
:, at the River Raisn massacre.
b. Five of Mr.. Duftield's eleven so
), survive him: one of them is Rev. Geor
Dufheld, Of Galesburg, Ill, whose cid,
~ son is Rev Samuel Duffield, now labori
or in Philadelphia Last September !
IN Dufhcld celebrated his golden We
Of ding, and on the Sunday previous, t
father, son. and grandson, occupied 81
= cessively the pulpit of the First Presby
- rian Church, in Detroit.
"' New Orleans and St Louis are to
TO connected by railroad to run on
west bank of the Mississippi.
The Rhode Island Locomotive Won
Nv have orders for thirty-six engines, are
in livering five month. and propose SC
to double their productive capacity,
ire How manifold are they deyelopmel
III oh oyster Raw, boiled, grilled, roast
of fried, stewed-in every form thou
n still the utmost lovely product of
ro- aqueous home.
20 The man that hath not oysters in
=, SOUL and is not moved by concord
- sweet stews, is fit for treasons, stratege
~, and spoils.
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"A The Legacy of Doctor Simeon Smi
nc to the town of Westhaven.
WV