Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-02


GIeanings and Gossip.
"A daughter of Lola Mcntez is lectur-
ing at New York on the equality of wo-
man."
George Dawson has again assumed
the editorship of the Albany Evening
Journal.
--Barnum, who has just visited the
Mormons, says Anna Dickinson abuses
EN- shamefully.
President Grant has promised to
spend few days at the home of Senator
Cameron, near Harrisburg, Pa, this
week, where he will go trouting.
"A New Yorker writes to the Evening
Post that he will give 800 toward fund
to supply counsel for the purpose of get
ting Mcfarland into an insane asylum.
If any of the whipped Fenians want
transpo- tation, they have only to apply to1
the Canadian authorities. The latter
would be only too glad to transport the
whole lot of them.
"A lady is noticed in Western pa
per as calling on her friends in her best
black silk dress and cashmere shawl
with the name of the camel neatly en-
broidered in the corner"
-Four thousand women operatives in
factory at Vienna recently assembled
and demanded higher wages from their
employers, and that the working hours
should be reduced to eight.
"A "one.armed soldier" out West has
gone out of the hand-organ business, dis
gusted at the inquisitiveness of the people
who had the curiosity to feel his empty
sleeve and found sound arm underneath.
-Evergreens in ~" West are dying
everywhere. One Iowa nurseryman has
burned ten thousand trees which he ex-
pected to sell this spring. His theory is
that they were frozen past recovery in
the last snow storm.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic
is the doubt whether one may not be
going to prove ones self fool the truest
heroism is to resist the doubt and the
profoundest wisdom to know when it
ought to be resisted, and when to be
obeyed.
The silver mines of the Comstock
lode, in Nevada, are still the victims of
the San Francisco stock spectators. In
March, the prices were carried up an ag-
gregate of nearly three millions, and in
April, they were sent down again an ag-
gregate Of two millions and half. The
fall of the Gould and Curry shares alone
was over million dollars.
"A singular accident happened on tn
Hudson river railroad the other day. TIL e
bottom of freight car, which had become
old and rotten, fell out under the weight
Of seventeen horses while the train was
in motion, and it was not noticed till the
train stopped at Coldspring station. None
of the horses were killed but all of them
were more or less injured. One of them
had his hoof torn in q shocking manner.
"A new-fashioned railway, called the
Pannier system, is being tried in Eng
land. A single row of piles carries q con-
tinuous gir6er on which the train runs,
the cars hanging down on each side to
very short distance of the ground. The
carriages are so arranged that inequality
of weight on one side to the extent of
ton will not effect the equilibrium or
motion of the train, and it is estimated |
that the distance of 100 miles can be run
in two hours.
"A disguised London housekeeper
writes as follows to the Times, that reci-
pient and soother of all British woes My
servants have a meat breakfast at s a. m,
dinner at l D. M, tea and bread and but
ter at D p. M, meat supper at y p. m.
at all meals as much of the best food as
they like to eat. Two servants have this
day given me warning because l will not
allow lunoheons, consisting of beer and
| bread and cheese at II a. ma fifth meal
in 16 hours.
The following bill of fare and prices
of Montgomery street restaurant, in San
Francisco, appeal to the feelings both of
the stomach and the pocket Ice cream
| 10, strawberries and cream 10, oysters,
stewed and raw 10, clam fritters 10, two
eggs Is, ham and two eggs 90, tenderloin
steak 90 sirloin steak 10, mutton chops
| 10, porterhouse steak 80, bottle of white
wine 90, bottle of claret wine Is, bottle of
beer 10, green yeas 5, tomatoes 5, aspara-
gus 5.
A negro has been arrested at Galveston,
Texas, on complaint of his wife Diana,
| the charge being that he had undertaken
to kill her by 'Hoo-doo" devices, such as
placing speckeled chickens breast, sat-
urated with poison, in the feathers of
| pillow under the head of complainant;
saturating a string of red cord, and other
matters in the bed on the side were affant
sleeps; "noculating the air with offensive
odors, swelling the arms and body of the
affant, etc.
"A family at New Albany, Ia, have
been singularly unfortunate A few
years ago the father lost his eye; later
the eldest son was crippled for life by the
wheel of fire engine; two years ago, the
/, eldest daughter lost an eye by an arrow
accidentally shot from the hands of a
younger brother; : Few months ago, an
other son was dreadful damaged by a
wagon, and, last week, the youngest son
! lost all his fingers and portion of the
thumb while playing with a straw cutter.
"A story affecting the chastity of a
! very wealthy young lady at Davenport,
/ Ia, being circulated, she quietly watched
until she could find some individual re-
! peating it, and at last fixed upon the may
> or of the city as a guilty party. There
| upon she brought an action for Islander
against him, but the jury disagreeing he
i was acquitted, but she says that that
shall not be the end of the suit she will
not rest until verdict has been given for
l or against her, and that she will set not
l only her own, but all slanderers of inno-
! cent girls an example.