Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-05
Gleanings and Gossip.

L esSansoes ana eOssip.
Coming events east their cables be-
fore.
Nashville has a negro with nine
wives.
Swimming fins are manufactured in
Providence.
Long Branch, July 30. Gen. Grant
ate a clam.
The Parepa Rosa troupe will pack
their trunks in September.
The blondes in New York are styled
the British legation.
The Suns Cnhan eagle has been
broiled and eaten.
Phil Sheridan has been to see the
Newport belle. PHuIP,
-Unimprovei Missouri prairie seilsfor
so the acre.
An Englishman has bough; the i-le
Of Monte-Cristo.
New York papers say everything is
dull, and their contents prove IL
A Missouri lady hung herself be-
cause her husband went 10 California.
The opposition TO the French line Is
called by the New York Express an Eng
lish cabal
-Vanderbilt's friends are going to pre-
sent him with American Girl. al a cost
Of $4,000
Greeley has got as r ~ Washington
in his high tariff history lie SAYS be
was not a free-trader.
Parents in China decapitate their
children TO cure them Of opium-eiting.
Ii is an active remedy.
Commodore Vanderbilt granddaugh-
ter wore silver-,inted silk, hpuneed. It
the Saratoga ball.
A Chinaman was playfully stabbed
in six parts Of his body in San Fran"isco
recently.
There Is a movement in Englsni 20
,holi-h trowsers. Ladies who wear them
oppose it.
The architects are puzzled 80 set peo-
pie ont of theaters: the managers 10 get
them in.
The negroes in Arkansas propose 10
pre-empt public lands and hire the China
men.
The Gar Of Rus-ia is the champion
qmill-driyer One stroke Of il touched
0o.00O priests.
John Brougham l. giving San FRAN
cisco course Of PochahontaS. and they
like il.
--Lani- Napoleon Is in no danger q
drcapiiatiun. His enemies say he ha-
already lost his head.
The Cpmm4rciil Bulletin saws W.
must Offset the Suez Canal by similar
enterprise on our own continent. That's
the talk.
A negro struck by lightning in Lex
ington. Tenn, walked off unhuri. but
thoiight the attention somewhat too Ia
miliar
Col Ryan has gone to canada as the
most appropriate way Of 'peri-hing in
the cause cf Cubin liberty"
T. Tilton isn't orthodox enough for
his patrons. aud S250.000 is 20 start
rival concern. which will give the pure
doctrine.
A member of tie Iowa Legislature
has been indiscreet enough to poison a
relative. He is rejecting upon it in
iaiL
"A dozen bottles of Grants Cham
pagne Cider" has been sent 10 the Presi-
dent What Office is vacant !-Ihladel-
phia Age
The Hartford Courant says: The
truth j. that the country has fallen into a
bad habit of thinking i'll of its represent
atives in Washington. IL II somewhat
80, and grows worse.
The last cyclone al Calcutta did an
awful piece OF work in blowing OF the
roof OF the hospital. and killing several
patients, blog X down tr.e- and houses,
and playing the mischief with crops.
The track of the railroad from s..
Louis to Leavenworth, 3lS miles, was
changed from broad "a narrow gusge III
sixteen hours The quickest time IN
+" making tracks GA record.
Holly Springs, Miss. was in doubt
whether the recent extraordinary cum
motion was an earthquake, or pigs on the
rampage. II was finally decided 10 he
the former.
The last divorce case-my letter
would be imperfect If | omitted one--is
that of the blonde and handsome Mrs.
Wilkonskey. who was prominent mem
ber of the Chicago Soro-is Society. sings
nlEltFil- uaDee-- HmlltS rMs&ilN- hDl l.
the toast of all the gentlemen who know
her. She has espoused women's rights,
and thinks she will choose her own hus-
band, and the case j. before the courts
Chicago Correspondence.
When the Fifth Cavalry captured that
Cheyenne camp. recently. in addition 10
52 Indians killed. 450 head OF stock cap
tured. 1000 or 5000 pounds of dried beet
destroyed, $50 buffalo robes. S. wigwaIns.
and other things made short work of. they
found two white women and pile Of
gold and greenbacks. One of The women
died. and the other was comfor "a by
dowery of the money.
TERRIBLE GALLONS SCENE X Sr.
f.oUIs.-William Edwards. a colnred man
who was convicted of killing Lewi- VIII
son, another colored man. az negro ball
last winter, was executed ia the all yard
on Friday afternoon last. When the
trap was sprung. and the man Dropped. it
was discovered that the rope was a Ll;le
too long, which allowed the culvrit's toas
TO touch the ground. An. awful scene
IL