Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-24
News Condenser.

Suicides are on the increase.
Iowa plants every year a forest of
100000 trees.
The largest vineyard in California,
has BOG, 900 vines.
Wine is cheaper than milk in the
lower part of California.
Specie payment is resorted to by ad-
vertisers in all our large cities.
Figaro says he never keeps Lent, but
that all his books do.
The Turkish postage stamps are the
most beautiful in use.
"A decline in rents from May 1, 1870,
is promised in New York.
The women in Bristol, Tenn, take
their knitting to church.
Every adult male at Newport be-
longs to some club or other.
Somebody once wrote on Burlin-
games door, "China repaired here"
Cincinnati has twelve hundred poor
who receive daily soup tickets.
Two young boys were recently ar
rested in Buffalo for stealing coal.
Boston expects to pay $1,400,000 for
its public schools the coming year.
There are over eight hundred pen
sioners in the county of Onondaga.
Retailers throughout the country are
resuming specie payments.
-Olean, n. Y, is attempting to form
an open temperance organization.
Brigham Young talks about buying
lonely isle in the wide Pacific.
Rich gold fields have been discovered
sixty miles from San Diego, Cal.
Half the towns of Wyoming county,
n. Y, are building cheese factories.
Martha West has been elected Justice
of the Peace in Wyoming Territory.
Tom Thumb and company are on
their way TO Australia, to remain year.
-Eugland has paid $50, OO0,O 900 to buy
The telegraph lines from their owners.
The wildcat banking mania at Ma
Piles has been killed by the government.
"A concert in aid of confederate or
phans" in Louisville only paid expenses.
The ice in the Baltic sea has broken
up, and navigation will soon be resumed.
Twenty barrels of silver coin ar
rived in New York city from Canada last
week.
-Terre Haute is boring for either
salt, oil or q magnetic well, no matter
which.
In Vanderburg county, Ind, an In
dian is officiating as Methodist preacher.
Boston has furnished four hundred
recruits for the regular army the past
year.
"A fllibustering expedition is re-
ported to have left San Francisco for
Mexico.
"A pelican, measuring nine feet from
tip to tip, has been killed near Sscra-
mento.
The Canadian Government is issuing
twenty five cent fractional currency
notes.
Henry D. Bsrger of Trenton, aged
seventy-four years, is cutting new set of
teeth.
An Albany letter carrier one dsy re-
Gently delivered 1905 letters, and col
lected 1909.
"A new transatlantic cable, smaller
and lighter than those in use, is in con-
temptation.
Rhode Island is gazing at young
lady who has been in a trance for twenty
two days.
"A subsqustic pneumatic railway is
contemplated between Louisville and
New Albany.
That tremendous bore, the Hoosac
tunnel, is getting along at the rate of four
feet day.
San Francisco shipped one thousand
packages of tea, by rail, to Chicago, one
day lately.
"A Georgia balloonist was up for three
hours the other day-up in the top Of
tall pine tree.
"A Brooklyn canine Toasted for thirty
four days, and looked little shadowy
when released.
Warren county, Indiana, is SO poster
ed with red foxes that farmers turn out
on grand hunts.
"A negro signalled train on the Mis-
sissippi railroad recently, to see if bis
wife was on board.
The Buffalo Common Council has in
creased the salaries of lady teachers in the
public schools.
1t is said that there are now four
times as many cattle in Texas as there
were before the war.
The Sutro tunnel has been excavated
one thousand feet-one-twentieth of the
whole distance. ..s..
AT Pennington, Illinois, on the 9th
inst, prisoner set the Jail on fire and
persisted in the flames.
Mass meetings. to express sympathy
with Cuba, are to he held in the leading
cities of the Union.
I'm Montreal, policemen compel house
holders to remove the enormous icicles
pendant from the caves.
The election of members of the Span
ish Cortes has so far resulted in favor of
the Government.
1t is stated that the sessions of the
Ecumenical Council will be suspended
during May, June and July.
An entire tribe of gypsies are living
in comfortable shanties on Twenty-first
street, New York City.
Seven hundred and fifty sailmakers
aud Triggers were discharged from the
Brooklyn Navy Yard last week.
A San Francisco school teacher has
been sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for cruel punishment OF pupil
A broker once saw so many chances
cor making money that he was inclined
to speculate, but after listening to friend
one day, he promised to walk within the
legitimate channels OF his business. He
kept, however, a fictitious account Of the
stocks he would likely have invested in,
had he not given his pledge, and at the
end of three months be struck balence,