Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-25

country, with 126,775 members.
Prairie chickens cannot be legally kill
ed in Illinois till August 10.
Minnesota's latest sensation is a white
Jury with a colored foreman.
The buckwheat crop in southern New
York is unusually promising.
The corn crop in Kansas promises to be
larger this year than ever before.
Wisconsin is going crazy over the
location of it's proposed insane asylum,
Bethlehem, Pa, is protected against
fires by hand engine built IN l69o.
The Delaware crop of peaches this
season is estimated at 1,a50,00O baskets.
There were seventy five brides at din
ner at one Niagara hotel the other day.
About $4,000 have been raised to-
ward the Stonewall Jackson monument
fund,
A oolored base ball club of Washing
ton ia about to make a tour of the coun-
try.
Florida boasts that its average MONDAY
temperature during July was only "a de-
grees.
Within the last ten years Nova Sco-
tia has produced nearly $4,4eO,000 wor IN
of gold.
Eastern Episcopalians have recently
raised $4,000 to build church in Salt
Lake City.
Baltimore is said to have ga large and
respectable colored Democratic organiza-
ton"
Rockford. ILL.,, has manufactory which
turns out 5000 dozen gloves and mittens
annually.
During the present European war, Ger
mans are crying for larger glasses as wei
as lager bier.
The corn and fruit crops in Tennessee,
this season, will largely exceed those OF
any former year.
The colored Methodists of Illinois are
holding State camp meeting at Oak
Ridge this week.
Two hundred bsles of silk recently
passed through Omaha, shipped direct
from China to London.
Minnesota farmers complain of almost
daily showers, which prevent the harvest
ing of the grain crop.
Sweden has 4,172, $50 population, a Gde-
crease of %, sol in two years.
London is the hottest and Liverpool the
coolest city in England.
China claims to have had life insurance
companies 5000 years ago.
Salmon are incomparably more numer-
Gus in Scotland than in Norway.
The cable connecting France with AL
geria has been successfully laid.
Prussia, France and Italy have all been
buying horses in Ireland lately.
Several failures of stock brokers in
Liverpool and Manchester are announced.
The Goodwood Cup was won by Sir J.
Hawley's b. C, Siderolite, four years old.
England reioices in the abolition of
turnpike gates and bars across the high
ways.
Sir William Ferguson, Bart, has been
elected President Of the Royal College of
Surgeons.
The Assembly Rooms at Reading, Eng
land, were destroyed by fire on Sunday
night, July 31st.
A Feast of Roses was held recently at
Darmstadt, and prizes were conferred by
the Grand Duke.
The British Museum library contains
1000, 900 volumes, and is doubling itself
every fifteen years.
Swords and Spears are the names of a
couple of editors, who do up the war
news for Vicksburg paper
A flagstaff 1876 feet high and weighing
10000 pounds, has just been raised at the
st. Louis fair grounds.
Since the introduction of artificial ice
machines into New Orleans the price OF
ice has fallen one-half
Brigham Young was one of the contri-
tors TO the exhibition of textile fabrics,
Indianapolis, last week.
| A Western preacher condemns croquet
IS ''deleterious to the moral and spiritual
aterosts of the church
An enterprising Westerner is training
an elk, which he proposes to enter in the
horse races at the Kansas State fair.
A lady at Saratoga appeared at one o
the hops wearing necklace of sapphirel
and diamonds valued at $4,000
The Iowa papers were said to show {
, marked improvement in two days after
the editors started on their excursion.
A couple of Pennsylvapians, who arr
both go years old, are about to pitol
quoits for the championship Of th
country.
Many of the cooks at the large hotel
at Saratoga, Newport, and other place
: receive from $4,000 TO $4,000 for tn
season,
: Twelve young babies died at one hote
this summer from cholera infantum.
t Over thirty publishers, aud $6,00O,OO
capital are employed in the publishing 0
5 Sunday School literature in this country
There are ponds in Hartford County
f Conn., where the drouth has the effect o
increasing the depth of water by severa
s feet.
Scott County, KY, boasts of hen tina
\ is nursing pup, which she shelters am
scratches for to the neglect of her owl
offspring.
The authorities of Dubuque, lows
have shot dog which had saved fou
10 human beings from drowning. The &C
was done for five cents reward.
- A Western editor, demoralized by th
IL heat, says that st SO degrees in the after
II noon the thermometer indicated twenty
&c five minutes past two o'clock.
o The "dead weight" of railroad train
Il in the way of engine, fuel, water, car.
Il etc, is from 300 to 800 lbs. for eac
i passenger, even in well-filled train
v A watch given by Washington to Mr..
= Curtis shortly after their betrothal, j
y now on sale in Newark, New Jersey, TO
eleven thousand dollars, and the peopl
. propose to buy it for Westinghouse Head
quarters in that city.
\ The ''Chaucer Society" of England ex
poets to complete its edition of that poe
;. in about ten years.
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