Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-06-24
General News.

Wine Is cheaper than milk in Cali
fornia.
Fair Cnbans and Cuban fairs are TO
be the watering-place sensations.
Miss Craig gave the jury splendid
banquet after the 100000 verdict.
Ann Hathaway's cottage and garden
at Statford-on-Avon are advertised for
sale
Il copy Of Shakespeare has been Civ
On 10 Elihn Burritt by his English neigh
bors.
The police tariff in Salt Lake City is
$40 for drunk, $50 for drunk and pro-
family.
A Chicago paper advises Elisha
Sprague. if he wants a rich wife, 10 pay
the verdict, and marry Amanda
There is proposition that the women
should themselves decide by vote whether
they desire female suffrage.
A fair for the benefit Of the Tempo
rary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs
has lately been held in London.
The Londoner who let Reyerdy John
son his house denies that be came down
- - ---i-i-.~- - .hsf $4,000 forfeit.
Some one engaged upon medical sta
tistics AYERS that single women have more
headache than married ones.
- The steamship United Kingdom
sailed from New York ON the 18th of
April and has not since been heard from,
though eight weeks have now elapsed.
The Anchor Line seems unfortunate with
its vessels
Besides the thirteen railroads now
cenetring in Chicsgo, seventeen others are
building which will have terminus in
that city.
One department in New York Jour
nalism is styled the drunk and disorder
ly. II is well filled on all the papers in
that city.
The kilograms between the govern
ment and her Majesty during her stay at
Balmoral cost two hundred and fifty
pounds.
"A man in Tcrre Haute, Indiana, fills
the rather incongruous positions of
preacher and gaugcr of liquor under the
revenue bureau.
The skeletons of four British soldiers,
who Were probably killed during the re-
violation, were lately dug up near Swan
nah.
Next month the daughter of Presi-
dent Tyler is TO be married, and already
grand preparations are making for the
event.
An Indiana paper contains the fol-
lowing obituary: The indianapolis IL
Illustrated Christian j. dead II died of
fright atits own illustrations
"A runaway couple in San Francisco
hired a tug-boat and steamed out into the
harbor to have the ceremony performed
safe from interruption.
The Chicago misquitoes found the
spring weather in that city very unfayor-
able TO their health, and have left il for d
more sslubrious cline.
Mr.. George II. Angel writes from
Europe to Our Dumb Animals that be
has not seen ia Ireland or Scotland n
check-rein ON a draft horse, and very rel
dom on any horse. The check rein j.
used sparingly throughout Great Britain.
and never ON anything but carriage
horses.
A circus in Chicago was 70 crowded
the other night that the people eneroacbed
on the ring, and the services of an ele-
phant were called into reqnisition "to
tread on intrusive corns."
"A New Haven man has invented
machine for sewing shoes. A straight
needle Is employed and waxed thread,
and with il one man can sew six hundred
pairs day.
Cape Cod papers say that ployer and
other shore birds are immensely thick this
season in Orleans. and the sportsmen n
are making havoc among them, in spite Of
the game laws.
"A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes from Richmond that life
IN Virginia is as safe as in New York
.ity. Nothing worse could be said Of
Virginia
The relics Of Washington-clothing,
,rockery, camp equipage, etc. which have
Ior many years rested in the Patent ONCE,
have been sent to Mount Vernon, where
they will be exhibited hereafter.
WTTIcrsMs OF IRvING.-Washington
Irving was fond of ludicrous rejoinderA
. Do you sing Z" said be one evening to q