Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-12

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in each school rtrict Of the townNb So
icit contributions
News by the Mails.
Edwin Forrest is acting in the
South.
-Disraeli is not an Israelite in relig
ion.
Louisville, Ky, is to have magniti-
cent new opera house.
Sheridan has gone to Fort Leaven-
worth, his headquarters.
1T costs so sterling per week to keep
the Great Eastern,
Gen Wool was 81 last saturday, yet
he has had but 81 birthdays,
"A young London nobleman lost ei0.-
900 the other evening, at whist.
December is hereafter to be known as
the Princes month in Australia.
The London royal academy of music
has been closed for want of public sup
port.
The Chicago Times of last week re-
ports 90 chicken fights, which occurred
there in one week.
In 1866 there were 93,907 ,GS2 passen-
gers on the New York city avenue horse
cars; in 1867, 100,061 ,294.
There are twenty-Hve new railroads
in process Of construction within eighty
miles of New York.
The last county treasury robbed was
that of Harrison, Iowa, and the amount
taken was $4,000.
1t is proposed To form new county
from part of Rensselaer, and Washington
counties, n. Y. and call it Lincoln.
Major Helm, who died last week in
Toronto, was friend of jeff. Davis, and
the rebel financial agent at Havana.
Mr.. Kettles, United States assessor
at Waterloo, H., was garroted there,
Thursday night, and robbed of $1,000
A Union Pacific railroad bridge over
Dale Creek, West of Cheycnne,wi be near
" two thousand feet long and over llO
feet high.
"A sparring exhibition in St Louis,
for the benefit of the poor, by McCool the
pugilist, Saturday night, is the latest nov
city,
There are three editors in the Iowa
House of Representatives. and table,
Just issued, sets them down as having no
religion.
Official dispatches deny that there
has been any such suffering at Fort Ste
venson, this winter as telegraphed few
days ago.
The cold has been so intense in Paris
the past winter, that many of the most
valuable animals in the Garden OF Plants
have died.
One of the Pennsylvania papers makes
a practice of putting New Jersey news
under the foreign head with the cable dis.
patches.
Ohio claims TO have 2,113.s32 inhabi-
tants an increase of 3S0,000 since 1860.
1t hopes before many years to report
five million population
The French Academy of Medicine
has offered a prize of $50 for the discov-
cry of an infallible means of recognizing
the presence of death.
B. P. Shillaber, Esq. who is afflicted
with the very unliterary disease, the
gout, AYERS that he inherited it from his
wife's ancestors.
Tho house and shop-letting season has
set in with great vigor in the city Of Ed.
inburgh Rents have in some instances
taken quite fabulous leap.
Prince Edward, of Sax-Weimer, will
proceed to Dublin on the 4th of March,
in command of his Battalion of the Gren-
adler Guards.
M. Auguste Charles, hutist to the
Emperor of Russia is the lion of the
musical salons of Paris. He is COM
poser as well as performer
At the instance Of Mr.. Odo Russell,
the Scotch Legion" forming at Rome un.
der Papal auspices has been disabanded
and the men sent home.
The Princess de laeTour Auvergnc
has given up the great world, and is
building chapel at Jerusalem of exceed
ing beauty and artistic merit.
kentucky is to pay to John Young
Brown the salary to which he would have
been entitled from Government as member
of Congress if the House had admitted
him to u seat.
Canada has adopted a judicious sever
ity with regard to applicants for divorce,
They must give notice in the newspapers
for six months before their application can
be received.
"A horse-fesh banquet has just been
served gratuitously in the large saloon
adjoined the lecture room of the Crystal
Palace, England. The animal eaten was
twenty-five years old, and had been used
as brougham horse.
The report of the Commissioners OF
River Fisheries has been presented to thu
Senate, and is being printed. It is {
lengthy and valuable document, and viii
recommend as entirely practicable, th'
restocking Of our rivers with edible fish
There is a report in London that
distinguished clergyman yho is about t
visit the United States is disgusted witt
the British laws relative to marriage witt
deceased wife's sister, and that he vii
remain across the Atlantic in hopes Of bet
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