Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-09
Recent Clippings.


-ChiGago has the small pox.
General Fremont wants Chase for Pre-.
ident.
Chicago BUILT fifteen miles OF sewers
in 1867.
The price of kilograms is again se-
duced in France
Alice Cary writes on an average two
poems a day.
Miss Mulligan is the hes, lady skater
in Buffalo.
Our Pope has lost his temporal power
.-BastoH Pest,
William Murphy has just died in
Taunton, Mass, aged los.
Tho first Canadian Parliament assem-
blsd at Quebec seventy-fve years ago.
Coal is being shipped iron Brazil to
points on the Ohio river.
The Sterling Gazette wants Anna
Dickinson Ito speak out like man"
a railway direct from St. Louis to Oma-
ha is to be begun in the spring
Elias Howe, father OF the inventor Of
the sewing machine is just dead.
"A million dollar canal is proposed
from Houston, Texas, 10 the G If
Tho ratio of deaths during the past
year in Philadelphia, was one in fifty.
Punch calls the Grand Trunk of
Canada the biggest portmanteau known.
R d. Hannahs, the first exporter Of
Gennesee -four to New England, is dead.
-Nallandigham is lecturing in Ohio on
the Bible as a Literary Book
-Bayard Taylor has been riding over
the Alps on a railroad. He likes it.
-Californias debt is less than it was
four years ago, and is now but 1920
-Prussian soldiers have had an advance
in their wages-they now get $3.50 a
month.
The Montana Legislature kindly en-
emrts lawyers, editors, and idiots from
jury duty.
The Chicagoans spent two and a half
millions OF dollars for new buildings in
1867
Col Bowie, the Governor elect of
Maryland, keeps stable OF one thousand
horses.
Coal has been found at Rhinebeck, on
the Hudson, and itlwill probably be
worked
Miss Emma Hunt is candidate for
enrolling clerk to the Kansas Lepisla-
ture
Weston, with nurse, wife, child and
baggage, is at the Biddle House in De-
troit
The Empress of Austria is having
prayers said for her until the first of April
next
A little girl in Bangor last Sunday
astonished her sunday-sehool teacher with
Blessed ere the dress-makers."
colchester. Connecticut, on Thanks
giving and Christmas. gave away $4,000
worth of poultry.
The Connecticut Democratic State
Convention meets at Music Hall, New
Haven, on the Goth.
W. Va zap
taiHs are members of thr Constitutional
Convention.
Peter Cartwright the celebrated
Methodist preacher, it is still vigorous at
the age of eighty-three.
Jack Jones, Rocky mountain pio-
neer, is just dead. At one time he owned
the whole of Denver City.
The Andover Phillips Academy begins
its winter session with two hundred and
forty students.
Henry Ward Beecher sent Christ.
mas present of fifty dohars to his old
school teacher. John f. Lowell of New
Haven.
The selectmen of Maiden, Mass, have
gone to Angola to find the remains Of
their townsman, John w. Chapman.
But twelve fishing vessels go out Of
Rockport, Mass, this winter, instead Of
twelve hundred last winter.
The first Romanist church exclusive
" for colored people will soon be dedi-
,ated at Charleston, s. c.
Capt. Grant, of New Bedford, has
ust got home with 100 barrels Of sperm
Ill. He caught big whale.
--Sprague of Rhode Island, is huml-
tied because Englishmen can make bet
er cotton goods than Americans.
The editor of the Winstead Herald,
Conn., has been sliding down-hill He
ell off the sled and broke his nose. -
The Columbia Fire Insurance Com
'any of New York city has just declared
Is Goth dividend of five per cent.
A Bostonian ordered two dozen Be-
lanas, and the telegraph 80 transformed
lis order that he received two Bremen
reese.
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