Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-29
News Items.

hall.
The strike of the Albany ooopers has
ended.
Nebraska calls herself the Middle
West"
Cape May has more mosquitoes than
guests.
New Jersey has put the dog tax at
$3.50 per dog.
HOp-picking in Genesoe county is near
ly over.
The digtillatiOn of peppermint is going
on at Lyons.
The population of Oregon is estimated
at 100000.
Ohio has oil portraits of its sixteen Gov
errors.
San Francisco's last sensation is a white
hearse.
Oakfeld, Wisconsin, makes apple grow
ing specially.
Churchville, Monroe Co, Is to have a
new academy.
Squirrels are plentiful in Genesee
county this year.
The population of Oshkosh, Wis, Is
found to be 1868.
The prospects of the Lake Erie grape
crop are excellent.
A country church in England has q
duchess as an org 4nist.
Flies are killing crows in Erie, so ter
TRIBE are their bites.
Chicago will open ia w0man's medical
college In the fall.
An Indian woman in Philadelphia
claims to be 100 years old.
There is q colored boy in the freshmen
class of Yale College.
Potato speculators have begun the fall
campaign at Albany.
A Mr.. Leach of Auburn, has-a squash
! five feet in diameter.
Poughkeepsie has ten bakers and fifty
| two lager beer saloons.
Some of the omnibus routes Of London
are fourteen miles long.
Only eighteen persons died of small
pox in all Ireland last year
Cobleskill is to have some manufactur-
ing establishments soon.
The Notifications encireliug Paris ere
nineteen miles in extent.
Marion Co, Ala, has eight hundred
manageable young ladies.
The water off the south side Of Long
Island is alive with mackereL
California supplies annually some g.
100000 pounds Of quicksilver.
Glen's Falls shows a calf with two
heads, eight heads and three tsils.
Extensive Inallable iron works are soen
to be started in HOosick Falls.
A Vermont marble company has sent a
block of statuary marble TO Italy.
A statistician estimates that weeds cost
Ireland nearly $60OOO00 year.
Whitehall has several large vineyards,
yielding many bushels Of grapes.
The Shakers of Groveland are drying
300 bushels of green sweet corn.
Newburyport, Ness, is to have the OBJ
struetions in It's harbor removed.
The Peterson family reunion at Xenia,
O., consisted Of 325 participants.
Connecticut cider mills are overrun
jersey City is said TO have the largest
sugar refinery in the United States.
The streets of Farmingdale, l. l., are
to be lighted with kerosene lamps.
The rate of city taxation in Boston this
year, will be $3.50 on the thousand.
Syracuseans are still agitating them
selves over the water-works question.
A Philadelphia paper finds that the
city ate 5000 more beeves than last year.
One Rochester firm claim that It's sales
for the year will amount to Sl,J00,000.
Kansas, that cloimed half million
population, the census only allows 400
900.
Over forty Amusement troupes will
leave New York on fall and winter tours.
There are twenty-five Americans hold
ing office under the Kbedive of Egypt.
The fire in the peat swsmps in Hart
land, Niagara Co, has been extiDguished.
Fifteen thousand miles of railroad are
now under contract in the United States.
The Milwaukee Sentinel establishment
was sold last week for the sum of $4,000.
The Iowa wheat crop embraces 2,OO0,-
900 acres, and will yield 100000 bush
els.
Lemons are extensively raised in lower
California. and yield about $1,000 an acre
A Frenchman has thirteen acres of
peoples growing at Lower Lake, Lake Co.
Cal
1t is estimated that kerosene causes
twelve fatal accidents daily in the United
States.
The German Sanitary Committee of
San Francisco have RENTED $4,000 10
Berlin.
The Globe FIouring Mills. at Troy.
were destroyed by fire on the Sd inst; loss
$4,000
A region of salt ten miles square, COW
ering the ground, has beenfonnd in New
Mexico.
Oskaloosa is building a new Union
School building, costing $4,000, TO seat
$50 pupils.
Four thousand dollars are to be ez-
pended in improving the normal school
at Brockport.
Over 100000 sacks Of wheat have been
shipped from San Francisco to Crest
Britain.
The total annual trade of Cuba and
Porto Rico ranges about S300,000.O00 in
times of peace.
The Roman Catholic Christian Brothers
of New York have 10000 children under
The actual value of the piers aud bulk
heads of New York city is nearly twenty
millions of dollars
Cheyenne, W. T., has a population Of
4 900. and has built FIVE churches since
its origin, three years ago.
The patrons of husbsndry in Missou-
ri have side degree into which they in