Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-20

th-- eAyIITfiIuy complain. that Ameri.
gan hunters are violating their same laws
by shooting dccr out Of season
The Cohoe, y. ) cotton ana hosiery
mill, which have been stopped for several
months, are starting NJ again.
Tho Robinson, or northern route, has
hc"L decided ON i,r the Canadian inter.
colonial railway
AT Helena, Montana, for several days
past, the thermometer has testified to 20
degrees below l5ro.
IN antiquarian bookseller in London
has copy OF the first folio Of Shakespeare,
the price Of which is Sl725 Photo
graphic copies cost $50,
convict was lately discharged from
tirv .tuturu, \. y, state Prison, who bad
served three terms OF ten years each, with
N IL walls lie il now 81, and help
less.
u Philadelphia ncwsv vender has been
held in 50 600 bail TO answer for selling
the two new indecent illustrated week
lies.
=Ilc steamer Montana sailed fFem
san trancisoo for Panama, Monday, with
SlU19,O0O in treasure, 81 ,039,000 of which
goes to New York
The Mcmphis, Tenn, city council has
passed resolution abolishing the fire
department after March |, ON accoun. of
the condition Of the city treasury.
Vanderbilt says that he shall use the
famous ATHENS cutoff" only for freight
hereafter, at which Albany is inwardly
pleased, much as she dislikes c. V.
81 little boy in Orleans County, n. Y,
was quite astonished the other day at find
ing his fathers ducks had their feet frozen
fast in pond.
Ohio has seven million FIVE hundred
and tifty-fivc thousand five hundred and
seven sheep, whose value is $20,360, ,302,
and Licking County leads with 3l5.SS6.
Joseph Smiths widow pretends to
have received revised edition of the
Mormon Bible, communicated to her by
spiritual revelation from the deceased
prophet.
One Of the beautiful stained windows
IF the new Romdnist Church in Concord,
\. H., is furnished entirely by an Irish
sorSant maid. Such generosity on the
part OF Protcstants would produce won
dors
The gum business OF Maine is esti-
mated al $4,000 year for raw material
Smart "gummers clear from s. TO 81
day gathering spruce gum. the best Of
which Is worth 30 cents per pound.
Tho New Haven, Hartford and
Springfield Railroad has stopped the sale
of the vile pictorial sheets which food our
news stands upon its trains We hope
this movement will keep on.
The men who te,egraphed twenty
tive hundred words in an hour, In a trial
Of speed two weeks ago between Ameri-
can and English operators, was compelled
to move his hand fifteen times a second
Fact.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road transporting 1900 car loads of iron
for the Union Pacific Railroad and the
saving in the transhipnent of this iron
across the Missouri will probably equal
the cost et the railroad bridge at Omaha.
How pressing the necessity for free
lodging houses in New York during the
winter months is. may be seen from the
fact that the number of dodgers in the
overcrowded station houses, last year, was
I105, AGO.
a Lcndon correspondent says he
learned more about human anatomy in
five minutes, at West end drawing room,
than he had acquired before in all his life
The fashionable women go to extremes in
England
There is aproposal to start iremen's
Museum in New York. We have splen-
did facilities for doing it, and with our
own and the European inventions could
make the largest collection in the world
The whole slope of the maritime Alps
is now covered with a coating of the most
dazzling whiteness. Asingular fact is that
below this belt of snow very mild tenn
perature prevails.
New York is to have horse mart on
the pain of the famous London establish
mcnt known as Tattersalrs. Like that
it will be the general depot for all horse
men, the place where all races are made
up etc.
Walter b. Rodman. Jr., killed Absa-
lom Wright, an old man, at Salem, Ind,
last Saturday, by fraeturing his skull with
the butt of gun. The murder was un-
provoked, and the murderer is still at
large.
The American exchange National Nank
Of New York discovered, Monday, that it
had lost s50,000 by the specuations Of
its assistant cashier. The officers resig-
nation was accepted, but nothing further
has been done with him.
Wost Indian dispatches bring the
news that President Cabral of st. Domin-
90 has fallen from power, and that Gen.
liungria now controls the government A
protest has been fled at Havana against
the detention of the brig federico, which
was detained ON suspicion Of being bound
for some Mexican port, and she has sailed
for Hamburg
A German named Albert Garganon
called at the residence of Henry Stranst.
No. ~ West Thirteenth street, New York
Monday, and asked to see girl named
sophia Waelt After conversing with her
a short time, he drew revolver and fired
az her twice, neither shot taking effect.
lie then drew razor and cut his own
throat expiring almost instantly. Jeal-
ousy was his motive.
q Bryant told this anecdote of Fitz-
Greene Halleck at the Sturges dinner:
remember what witty acquaintance
of mine said, some twenty years since, Of
certain persons engaged in trade, who were
of the denomination of Quakers-and
none the worse for that, hope. He said:
They are the most dangerous of dishon-
est men. They will never cheat you, not
they but by the help of plain, friendly,