Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10
STATEMENT.
All Sorts.

1t costs S465 to hang a man in New
Hampshire. ..
The State of West Virginia has no
public debt. How sad
The Chicago vigilance committee died
before it was born. 80
st Louis is trying to get the branch
mint away from New Orleans.
Greece is plagued with a forced paper
currency, and overrun with Brigands.
| In Monroe, Mich, a woman 81 years
old sued youth of 20 for breach of prom
ise. He settled the difficulty by marry
ing her.
The "1mproved Order of Red Men"
at Philadelphia are lifting up their voices
against the wrongs perpetrated on their
red brethren at the West.
The battalion which formed the ad-
vance guard of the Spanish expedition to
Los Tunas had either killed or wounded
its thirty commissioned officers and every
sergeant.
A new variety of cinchona has been
discovered by a Madras government Off
cial. 1t contains larger per eentage of
quinine than any other species yet anal
yzed
The British government has decided
to employ women as telegraph operators
not exclusively, bue SO far as they can be
made equally available with members of
| of the sterner sex. ----... H.
Cen Beauregard has patented and will
put in operation in New Orleans, sys-
| 10, Is ofr hxyT of
rope worked by steam engines.
Mrs. Olivia Lynn, who is now resid-
ing in Fayette county, Penn, is 106 years
old. She has lived to see her children of
the fifth generation, the whole number of
| Lynnets being now 259.
Somebody complains OF the teacher
of private school in Rochester, that he
shakes the boys until their. tongues pro-
trude from their mouths and their eyes
start from their sockets.
1t is positively stated that the Queen
of England is soon to give up all active
participation in public affairs, and sub
NIT the question to Parliament of appoint
ing regent.
Some people in Lafayatte Co.,
who had not forgotten the bitterness of
war times, took a noted bushwhacker
named Bill Childs, the other day, and
hung him to the rafters of his own barn.
"A young lady in Chicago married
handsome man named Mckee, who said
he was rich, after three weeks acquaint-
ance. He deserted her on the fourth day
of wedlock, turning out to be a sailor.
R. S. Hefin, member of Congress
from Alabama, was found in his room al
most suffocated by gas. When brought
to, he said he ''tried to pinch the light
out, but found that somebody had stolen
the wick"
Twenty years ago two acres of tobac-
co were raised in the town of Hatfield,
Mass. Now the number of acres planted
is between seven and eight hundred,
yielding an aggregate product of 1,100,-
600 pounds. This at % cents per pound
would yield an annual income of S275,-
600.
The Cracow convent scandal has been
the subject of trial in one of the courts
of that city. The present and late supe-
riors of the convent have been tried and
acquitted of the charge of having illegally
and cruelty imprisoned and otherwise
maltreated the nun Barbara Ubryk The
defence was that Sister Ubryk was luna
tic.
For the encouragement of the growth
of forest trees on the Western prairies, il
has been proposed in Congress to give an
additional quarter section of prairie land
to ever settler who shall plant and keep
in healthy growth a grove of trees of not
less than twenty acres, each acre to con-
tain not less than two hundred trees.
1t has been discovered that the cane,
in which production the South is extreme
" rich, can be made into paper pulp by
merely beating up the steam blown fibre
in water, without boiling or chemicals, and
works are already in progress at Whining
ton and Norfolk for this manufacture.
The wives of Thomas Carnochan and
Michael Fitzpatrick of Newton, n. y,
engaged in prize fight recently, the stake
being a barrel of whiskey. The scene
was witnessed by crowd of s'roughs."
The degraded women fought Ike furies
for forty minutes, when the Fitzpatrick
faction was victorious.
The Tennessee legislature is asked,
by petition, to make drunkenness mis-
demeanor, punishable with Imprisonment.
Drunkards are getting up a counter-petl-
ton, claiming that the headaches they
have the next day are punishment enough.
Its told of a teacher in New Orleans,
that having discovered loaded pistol in
the possession of scholar one day last
week, he threw it into the fire, and when
the barrels of the revolver began to ca
plode rushed from his chair and frantically
attempted te throw himself from the
window, but was prevented by two or
three bolder members of the school, who
had stood their ground during the racket.