Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-19

Charles Dickens read before 500 per-
sons in the city of Rochester on Tuesday
night,
Coal is scarce in Harlem at seven
dollars ton,
1t costs $4,000, 900 to support for one
year all the dogs in the United States.
The new bridge at Dixon. H.. has been
swept away by a great freshet in Rock
River.
Another severe snow-storm on the Pa
cifc Railway, east of Ceyenne, occurred
on Sunday night.
The White Mountain elevated rail-
way will be completed this year in time
for visitors TO make use Of it,
Aft<r three trials for the murder Of
Mary Geary, McAvena was discharged
7 from custody ON Tuesday, in Boston.
4 The great thaw Of the last few days
has created great freshet in the creeks
and rivers in the vicinity OF Buffalo.
/ Seventeen Illicit distilleries have been
seized in one county IN Tennessee, this
month.
The new bridge across the Hudson
River at Sehuyleryille. Saratoga County,
is compreted and ready for TIN.
Snow mixed with black dust has been
falling in Minnesota. 1t probably came
from Pittsburg.
Work win be resumed on the Catho.
,ic Cathedral at indianapolis, the first OF
April, and ii viii be enclosed before next
winter.
OF seven thousand students in thirty
| Western institutions, half are professors
of religion, and nearly a thousand conver-
sions are reported.
During the recent cold weather .
man and his horse, travelling in Southern
= Louisiana, were frozen to death an un-
common occurrence so far south.
r Tho TTeBfows of MITwauKee nave m
augurated new benevolent society, which
. is doing large amount of good to the
poor of that city.
+ Two cargoes of tea recently arrived
at Boston, renewing the memory OF old
days, when Boston owned the tea trade
} of the country.
The first Grant flag will be flung 70
c Boston breezes this week, inscribed "fhe
Boston Mechanics Banner--General Grant
= for President"
e. The Rev D. H. Paddock, Of Detroit,
who was elected Episcopal Missionary
q q Bishop for Oregon and Washington Terri
= tory has deceined.
A company has been organized to
~ n. ,lap 70 hrlnn
u water to a mine in Colorado. 1t will cost
two and quarter millions.
d The medal which was ordered by the
IS Wisconsin Legislature of 1867 to be pre-
sented to Cyrus W Field has just been
f received. 1t Is of solid gold, and cost
: 81 600
The La Crosse Republican says Of
G Horace Greeley: This irrepressible phi
i losopher, politician, editor and lecturer,
is a strange production of nature
q -Thiers, the French orator, is little
d man, with round head covered with siI-
|. very hair He has bright black eyes
and quick, nervous movements.
n The buildings erected by Mr.. Peabody
in London for the poor now have popu-
lation of 1888 A new building viii soon
) be erected at Westminster.
i A sweep stake race is on the tapis in
Baton Rouge, in which the winner is to
become the owner of all the horses entered.
'e Distance $50 yards.
n B. ?. Shillbaer, Esq, who is afflicted
with the very unliterary disease, the gout,
AYERS that he inherited it from his wife's
a. ancestors.
~ A member Of the public schools OF
. MARYLAND are to be closed for the want OF
funds. A little less attention to the mi
( litia, and more to education, would i'm
Y prove the tone Of that State.
:" -"Barnum in ashes" is the most start
ling announcement in the Philadelphia
in Telegraph. Meanwhile Mr.. Barnum goes
a. up and down on streets as usual.
The Missouri Legislature is consider
ing bill for ceding tract ten miles
r square south of St Louis, for the site Of
Il the national capital. They have little
> prospects of getting the capital.
The hop product Of the United States
of this year il estimated at twenty million
l. pounds, of which seven million pounds,
T. are credited to Wisconsin. and four MIL
lions of that to Sank County in that
ID State.
le The present estimate Of the number
n of cattle in Texas is five million heaa.
Raising beeves and selling cotton 70 the
n Mexicans are yielding good profit to the
n people of that State.
d The Iowa House of Representatives
ON Thursday in the committee Of the
r whole. had under discussion the bill
ID changing the name Of Andy johnson
h. county to Ben Butler.
"A little German girl in Cincinnati,
., who is only two years and eight months
u old, has the physical and mental devsl-
opment of girl of fifteen. Her case
ID excites much interest among the medical
le faculty.
A stump speaker at a late meeting de-
clared that he knew no east, no west, no
a. north, no south. :.
d "Then," said bystander, "you ought
l. to go to school and learn your geogra-
ply
II, With the Chief Justice presiding on
Of the trial of the President chase will be
,p made by the Senator from Ohio to wAde
through the slough OF impeachmens W
- the enchanted place of the White aoase,
% -Epitaph on Mr. Box;
III Here lies one Box within anothW
The one Of wood was very good.
We cannot say much OF roSoex.