Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-12
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Chicago.
1t costs So to boil frogs alive in Mon
treal.
Prince Arthur will give California
the go-by.
The Prussian army never looked so
well as now.
Female telegraphers are pronounced
o success in Russia.
"A Grass Valley gold mine has just
PANIED out $25, 900 in twelve days.
The Galvestonians have subscribed
1000 for new theater.
The Duke of Devonshire recently
sold for $4,000 ball calf, day old.
"A Mrs Willard recently received go
votes for mayor of Bslleville, 0.
Bishop Kemper of Wisconsin, we'll
known in New England, is dangerously
| i'll.
"A youth of 90 has been admitted to
the bar in Kentucky, by special act of the
Legislature.
Mrs jeff Davis is in Paris
Grace Greenwood calls her new lee
| lure INDOORS.
-Carlotta Patti will sail for Rio Janeiro
on the 23d'o May.
Ex-Governor Austin A. King of Mis-
souri,, died on Friday.
John P Hale will return from Europe
about the last of May.
Justin MCCARTHY and family sail for
Europe on the 18th of Nav
Rev. Washington GLADDEN., the au-
thor, has gone to Chicago.
Patti, the one in this country, is said
to be worth halfsa million.
Congress refuses to provide for n por-
trait of the late Gen. Thomas.
-''Little Barefoot" is said to be the
namo of Maggie Mitchel's boy.
The report that Father Hyacinthe
has become Protestant is not credited.
The watering places have begun to
fill up.
-Paniero, this season. will be more
prominent than ever.
The French government supports 600
musical students.
The succulent new potato is on
the Southern table.
Suicides by the pistol are increasing
in San Francisco.
The New Orleans detectives are
trained to blaok-mail and organized to
steal
The United States Supreme Court ad-
journed on Saturday, to re-assemble in
October.
The national encampment of the G.
A. R., will meet in Waehinston oA My
18th.
-Sleighs were used in New London,
n. H, az late as the 21st ult.
The latest fish story is of q tame
oyster, which followed its master up and
down stairs.
Charles R. Parsons was arrested at
Albany, Friday, for bigamy.
The Third Army Corps will hold
their union in Boston, May 8.
The crops in California have been
badly injured by protracted drouth.
Three sailors were drowned at Louis
| Vile, by the upsetting of d boat.
A plot to abduct Prince Arthur is re-
ported in Canada.
In anticipation of hostilities, Gen.
Sheridan has gone to the Indian country.
"A severe hailstorm occurred on
Thursday afternoon along the Hudson
River.
The vote on annexation in st. Do,
mingo stood Is, 119 for and 10 against.
"A London paper says the Ecumeni-
| cal Council has work before it for year.
-Ex-Collector Bailey is said to be liv-
ing in Canada. He is not in Ohio, as re-
ported.
Fifteen thousand wives are wanted
in Kansas.
The London Times calls for an Eu-
ropean alliance to suppress brigandage IN
Greece.
Three thousand goats perambulate
the streets of Savannah.
The Boston Advertiser announces
that boards are going out of fashion.
-AIphonse Karr defines dyspepsia as
the remorse of guilty stomach.
The Mount Gents tunnel is nearly
completed Only 1900 metres remain un-
finished.
Preparations are making in Richmond
for great tobacco fair to be held there
next year.
A colony of Michiganders that went
to Virginia are anxious to get back to
their old homes again.
A New York painter has gone off
with his landlady, aad it is understood
their address IL France. Meantime the
paintress and the children will starye if
she can't find another husband soon.
A Chicago man was so insane when
he saw his wife wearing pair of sleeve
buttons which gambler had given her,
that he shot her and recovered his reason.
Two little Jersey boys played Guy
Fawkes with a bottle of powder lately.
Guy turned up all right, only full of
broken glass, and the parents of the Brit
ish Parliament can't find him yet.
"A young man who went to Michigan
to teach school, quit when there was only
ter minutes pay due him, because there
were "big girls in the school.
A Hoboken builder, day or two
since, was displeased with the way his
workmen had built partition. so be de-
molished it with an axe, and one or two
of the workmen along with it, which IS
considered improper in New Jersey.
A little Indianapolis girl, while
drawing water at the well few evenings
ago, was surprised to find herself at the
bottom, by the boards giving way. Her
mother lowered rope, and she was reg
| cued unhurt.
/ Preparations for Spring Work.
The present ia the farmers time to ar
range his plans for the coming year, and
on this being carefully done depends