Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-03
General Items.

-Guizot is writing memoir of Bro.
glie.
Colorado has as many daily papeps as
New Hampshire. D.. ~ a
Kate Bateman is i'll and will recruit
her health by another trip to Europe.
The daughters of Gems. Sherman,
Cox and Butler are not allowed to dance
the German"
--Anson Burlingame's father, Joel Bur.
lingame, is still living in Dunton, Cook
county, Ill.
The fifteenth amendment having been
adopted, the Anti-Slavery Standard drops
the adjective from its title.
w. j. Linton has class of girls
learning to engrave on wood at Cooper
institute, and gays they are doing well,
despite recent slur of the Tribune
Primes Pierre Bonaparte was once
driving to the races when his harness
broke and he had to stop at saddler's
shop, where he was enamored of the
saddler's daughter. He placed her at
school, from which she emerged grace
full and intelligent girl, and then he mar
ried her.
Gen. North, ex-surveyor general OF
Nevada, proposes to populate the Pacific
coast with colonies of 100 families from
the East, each head of family being re-
quired to pay in $1,000 with which to buy
site. Gen. North founded in this way
the town of Mortified, Mimi, which now
has a population of over 1000. 4
The New York Nation is responsible
for the following: "What do you think ~
said one to another, after Fechter's first
performance here, "of the prince of Dem
mark" WE'LL" was the reply, "a very
lively piece of acting; but it is hard to
tell whether it is Hamlet playing Ruy
Bias or Ruy Bias playing Hamlet"
The polite authorities of Constantine
pie, at the suggestion of Tahir Bey, have
added three women to the detective force.
These women have already done good SER
vice in detecting delinquents of their sex,
and have been the means of bringing to
Justice murderer whom the police had
in vain tried to discover. ..
w. II. Hurlbut writes to the New
York World: wherever the response
bility may rest for the criminal publica-
ton of Mrs. Stoves Byron story, it was
earnestly repudiated in London by MIR.
Fields, of whom am told, by an eminent
artist now in Rome, that he declared the
tale should never have appeared in the
Atlantic had he been in America at the
time of its publication"
A London bank clerk was standing
by a counter, the other day, with nearly
$56, 900 in his bill case, which lay open,
covered by his hands and chained to his
body. A stranger touched him and dir
ected his attention to something on the
floor. He stopped to pick it up and when
he rose the money was gone from the bill
case. A reward of $4,000 has been offered
for the expert thief.
-Disraeli, the head of the tory party,
is becoming complimentary to this coun-
try. In recent speech he said English.
men should be "glad to admit and proud
to remember, that it can never be said OF
the American republic that it for a mo.
ment tolerated, sanctioned or encouraged
the Fenian conspiracy" and that the con-
duct of this government throughout the
whole Fenian business had been 'marke d
by spirit of order and the utmost politi.
cal integrity"
John Robinson's circus met with q
singular experience recently in Florida
A keeper attempted to ford a neck OF
Chattahoochee swamp with his animals
but the alligators swarmed in overwhelm.
ing numbers and ate up a camel, a colt
and two dogs, during the passage. The
elephant, another camel and and another
horse fought fercely aud escaped. The
battle between the brutes and the alliga.
tors and among the alligators themselves
for the prey was awful. Of. M........
-Thurlow Weed says that he was
summoned to Washington by Mr.. Lincoln
in February, 1868, and was asked by him
to raise $4,000, which the government
must have for a special war purpose, but
could take from no existing appropria.
ton The president gave him sheet Of
paper with these words: THE matters
spoke to you about are import mt, aud
hope you will not neglect them. A. LIN
COLIN" Weed thereupon went back Il
New York and got Is men to subscribe
the required sum under Mr.. Lincoln,
name, and forwarded the money. Among
the signers were Marshall O. Roberts, A
T. Stewart, and Vanderbilt. $3.50
Europe is laughing at the shame o
the London Times over the conduct of tn,
provincial mayors Of England. iThes'
officials had hand in the reception o
the king of Belgium at London, ant
lately went over to Belgium to return TIL
visit, to the number of l45 with thei
families. Many of them carried thei
municipal trappings, of medieval an
!, tiquity and great bulk, so that all tn
{ rolling stock of Brussels was required t
\ transport them from the depot. The kin,
& was actually compelled to move into
: larger palace to get room to entertain hi
+ guests and even then he had not room t
give them banquet all together, and tn
ladies were invited to the opera while thei
lords we're taking dinner The Times j
I very angry, and soolds the civic dignita
ries roundly.
n Jim Lane in his glory would sit a
Il the table d'hote boiling puff paste an,
,tshovsling down incredible loads Of nut
and raisins in at Of abstraction, withou