Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-24
Gleanings and Gossip.

Widow Stonewall Jackson is about to
marry.
The countess of Breadalbane died re-
Gently at Nice.
A flock of crows estimated to number
million, flew over Salem, Or, the other
day.
The Northeastern rail way of England
is about to establish telegraph system
of its own.
-Balfe, the composer of the Bohemian
Girl" has been made a chevalier OF the
legion of honor by Napoleon.
"A Texan, the other evening, showed
his remorse for failing to hit negro girl
by shooting companion dead.
While snow was drifting here on Sun
day, rose geraniums, verbenas, helitropes
and mignonettes were blooming in Flor
ida.
"A Virginia ''aunty" of II years, on
being kept in from recess by her teacher
was much grieved that she couldn't go
play wild de rest of the chillen."
"A Frisco saloon-keeper is described as
chopping away at guests head with a
Ratchet, while the assailed was filling him
up with cold lead.
San Francisco reioices in the ap-
preaching opening of Il new road to the
beech at San Bruno mountain, making
with the "Cliff house road" magnificent
drive of 16 miles.
jeff Davis is writing a novel which
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relates to the Mexican war and is not to
touch on recent politics. 1t will be pub
lished first in England.
Mrs. Sarah Blocketter of Litcthfeld,
MINI, only II years old, charged with
the murder of her husband, has been
bailed for $4,000. Cruel treatment by
her husband goaded her on to the crime.
The steamship Brazilian, with A.
900 bales of Indian cotton, has arrived
at Port Said, having found no difficulty
in passing the Suez Canal. The postal
steamers of France are also passing
through.
Gov Geary is charged with having
his own face painted over Gen. Pope's in
picture of Grant and his generals"
in the Pennsylvania State library at Har-
risburgh. The figure is now all Pope but
but the countenance.
The female artists of New York COM
plain that they have no convenient quar-
tiers for studios, and ask to be counted in
when the national gallery" is built. At
the rooms of the Ladies' Art Association
$50 year is charged for 'easel space"
The Alaska Times objects to the
farming out of the seal-fur business, and
continues TO demand civil government
for the territory. It thinks, however,
that two gunboats and two companies of
soldiers would well replace the present
establishment.
When Admiral Porter was in COM
mand at the Annapolis Naval Academy
be took the money appropriated for pro-
fessors' and employees wages to enlarge
and repair the buildings with. These
men now go unpaid, aud a deficiency bill
of $4,000 goes into Congress.
When the funeral services of John
Bell were held in the State capitol at
Nashville, he United States military
band furnished the music, for which it
has never received any pay. The leader
of the band has now sued Gov. Senter for
the sum.
Mr.. Lockwood, the New York bank
er, with the grand house at Norwalk, Ct,
who got nipped in the last September
frost in Wall street, will sell his best pic
ture, Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite,
for which he paid $4,000. San Francis
GO ought to buy it for its Pioneers hall or
mercantile library.
"A Japanese prince, after prolonged
and instructive sojeurn in this country,
set sail from San Francisco, the other day
for home, but left small valise contain
ing $1,000 in gold under the seat of the
hack that carried him to the wharf. bis
trunks were safely embarked, but the
gold was forgotten. Strange 70 say, ,ne
hackman did not appropriate 1t ana II
was forwarded by the next steamer.