Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-10-21

: William B. Astor has gone TO Rome
{ to study sculpture.
Gen. Banks and Nathan Appleton
will help open Suez.
Brigham Young weighs 200 pounds
; and his better hall 5000.
Washington county, Ind, has sold
; $4,000 worth of peaches, this year.
Mrs. George p Marsh has lately been
the guest of the President at Washing
ton.
!. The janitor constituted the entire
audience at Belle Boyd's reading IN Sac
ramento.
I'm the last great races at the Bois de
Boulogne, the French were badly beaten
by the English horses.
The late bishop of Exeter, 20 years
ago, said that the "Irish church is
doomed, and nothing can save it,"
The condition of Admiral Farragut,
at Chicago, has been improving. lie Is
now considered to be entirely out of
danger.
The first anniversary of the Cuban
revolution was celebrated on Monday by
a procession and oration at Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
Governor Stafford. of Arizona, has
offered Gen. Thomas 800 volunteers forta
six months campaign, all Of them skilled
in Indian warfare.
Mr.. kinglake, the author of the his
tory Of the Crime4n war, has lost his seat
in Parliament because he obtained il by
bribery, and he j. threatened with Grim
inal prosecution besides.
Mrs. Mercy Bryant, Of Freedom, O.,
has kept suit of graYe-clothes ready for
fifty years, having knit the stockings of
fine cotton seventy years ago. She used
them the other day at the age of ninety
three.
One Hart4in, aged about thirty
years, was found murdered near Norris
vile, on the PhilAdelphia and Reading
Railroad ON Saturday. His throat and
head had been cut, evidently with q
hatehet, which was found near the body.
Thomas Fowesr, of Fishbaek, Pa. re-
tired with Mary Ann Moore in a lime
kiln, ia Miner,yille. Pa. on Friday night,
and was found dead in the morning, hav-
ing been suffocated. His right arm and
cheek were roasted.
A recent publication. based upon let
tiers from several hundred cotton planters,
states that when labor i fully organized,
and the people cordially united in favor
of the laws, the South can produce at
least one hundred millions # bales of cot.
ton annually.
Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago. says
that Canada Is the most old fashioned
new country, probably. TO be foand any
where. 1t Is collection of people with
out nationality as the germ of national
idea. What this republic might have
been without New England, Canada Is
Ii is land without history.
An old man in Crawford county, Pa,
called crazy Odell. has for 30 wears. with
necessary intervals for sleeping and eat
ing, walked, in shine and storm, from
Meadyille 10 Peru Line, "A distance of 20
miles. He imagines himself the Duke of
Wellington, and is always marching to
the battlefield Of Waterloo.
Two men named Witherspoon and
King, had a terrible fight last Saturday,
at Lagrange, Tennessee. King. after be-
ing shot through the arm aud lungs,
forced Wifherspoon into a store, knocked
him down with his pistol, and beat his
head until he was Thought TO be dead.
Neither, it is believed, will survive their
Walter Williams, who was arrested
in New York on Saturday, charged with
having been concerned in the robbery Of
the Dntchess County Insurance Company,
was brought up before Judge Jones of the
Supreme Court, on Monday, on a writ Of
be 4
md the warrant sent back TO Justice
Dodge to be endorsed, in order that the
prisoner might be sent back 10 the county
where the offence was committed, for
rial
Moro "Big Tree Groves" have been
discovered IN California. They are giant
of the species famous in Gala
'ers and MaTiposa, and are found on the
leadwaters of the Tulare and San jos
luin rivers One of these groves is said
o contain trees measuring over one hum
lred feet in circumference. and even these
re reported 10 be excelled by those in
mother grove. The new groves are about
orty miles eastward from Visalla
"A series of mishaps occurred lately
t the funeral of little child at Hough-
ON, Mich. The horse attached TO the
earse became frightened and ran away
While on the way 70 the house to get the
'ody, threw the driver off and under the
Wheel, which took off one of bis ears. The
orse was coon secured and the funeral
eryiees proceeded. Upon arriving at the
emetery it was found that the gate keys
ad tten forgotten, and gate lad 10 be
urst open. Then the bands TO sustain
be coffin were missing; and, lastly the
ofiin box was found TO be too small, ard
o cords had been provided for lowering
be coffin into the grave.