Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-24


Wheat is an inch high in Kansas
-Prentice's poems will soon be out.
The SNOW is ten feet deep in Nevada.
--Gottsohalk left 100000.
Iowa reports 5000 Quakers.
New York is lionizing Ave bogus
barons.
--Oyster-packing employs 5000 Balti-
more women.
The New York founding hospital re-
ceives nineteen babies week.
New Orleans has just discovered that
printing costs her $1S0,000 year.
Buffers initials are now supposed to
be read Bodder-me-not +. Butler.
DR.. Cutter of New York declines the
professorship of music at Racine (Wis)
college.
The mules in tho Scranton coal mines
are sick with the diptheria
"A Buffalo man has sold 20, coo valen-
tines, this season. Fools are plenty there
about.
The village of Sweet Home, in Mis-
souri,, containing two houses, has been
consumed by fire.
The New Orleans gas company has
left the city hall in darkness, because no
one paid the gas bill.
Partisan women suspend hideous
looking toads and frogs by one leg from
their ears and call it ornamental.
Gladstone recreates himself on the
saw-horse, and is said to be skillful with
the ak and carpenters tools.
The new Canadian postal regulation
requiring the prepayment of all local let
ters was damper on valentines, this
year. .-" ...- 20.
The Ohio penitentiary contains 81
prisoners under sentence for life. John
Gull, 20 years, has been in 33 years, and
long since became an idiot.
AT a dinner in honor of a retiring
circuit judge of the Missouri bench at st.
Louis, the other day, one of the toasts
was, to "the female students of our law
school," .-........
George w. Childs of the Philadelphia
Ledger, is willing bronze statue of him
self should be erected in Paramount park.
Ante-mortem bronzes are risky invest
ments. ".. ..#
The title of Lord Lytton's new
comedy is, "Walpole, or Every Man has
his Price" This sentiment has been
often attributed to Walpole but tho
actual remark which he made was in ref
erence to certain quack patriots of his
day, Gail those men have their price"
There is great confusion of names
among the Scandinavians III Minnesota,
arising from the fact that many OF them
have no family names. At Red Wing
the titles to farm consisting of three
eighty-acre lots are in three entirely diff
ferent names, one for each eighty, and
yet all belong to ono and the same per-
son.
In a book on the exercise of arms,
printed in 1908, we read General COM
mand Hold up your musket. And in
regard it is Il matter of no small conse-
quence, a commandour shall always have
special care and eye to his soldiers to
aceustome them to hold ever the musket
with the mouth up, the better to prevent
all mischief"
The society of French agricultural
ISIS at meeting of 700 members, the
other day, voted down high tariff resolu-
tions proposed by Pouyer QUARTER and
substituted for them others declaring that
no reason as yet appeared for condemning
the commercial free trade) treaties, and
that the fullest inquiry into their work
ing should be made. ..a sea
A rich mine of wealth will shortly be
made available, by the labors of the keep
ers of the archives of France, in the ar
rangement of the documents and the pub
LEGATION of catalogues and indexes The
: 81 ,-,t e 49,
ventory of the seals il Just completed
and photographers are now at work col
Letting the elements of a volume of plates
to complete the work. I'D
A communication from the other
world perpetrates the following in the
Spiritual Telegraph In the twelfth
hour, the holy procedure shall crown the
triuue Creator with the most perfect dis
closive illuminatim Then shrll the crea-
ton, in the effulgrnce ahov. the divine
seraphemol, arise into the dome Of the dis
closure in one comprehensive revolving
galaxy of supreme created beltitudes,
Paris was startled the other day, by
picture of Pierre Bonaparte in the print
shops one morning, which disappeared
before night 1t was the head, face down
wards, lying in the lunette, or iron collar,
into which the neck of man about to be
guillotined fall; underneath were the
words, ala dynastie Traupmann." This
head was of life size. monsieur de
Paris" and the knife were not visible, but
the terrified expression of the face indi.
Gated their presence.
Mr.. Edward Lyulph Stanley, son Of
Lord Stanley of Alderly, and brother-in.
law of Lord Amberley, is making a sec
ond or third visit to America. He was in
Boston last week, and met at dinner
party there Mr.. Charles +. Adams, Mr.
Garrison, DIR. Palfrey, DIR. S. G. Howe and
other Boston radicals; being himself one
of the English radicals in religion and
politics. He is now on his way to Wash
ington and the South, whence he will &c
to California and Japan. re
Not long ago, the young wife Of Oil
vier, the French minister, went to the
Tuileries in a high-necked white muslin
dress, which has made q great commotion
in the fashionable world Of Paris. Sim.