Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-31

-Woodhull & Claain, the women
brokers of New York, were taken IN to
the extent of about $1,000 by altered
checks on Friday.
Real estate has fallen 20 per cent. in
San Francisco and California within a
year-the healthiest token possible OF flu
ture prosperity.
-Ex-Gov. Letcher OF Virginia is en-
deavoring TO raise $4,000 for monu-
ment to Stonewall Jackson. and calls the
project national one.
-Kuklux terrorism is driving the col
ored people from middle and west Ten
nessee. 1t is calculated that 600 families
have left Rutherford county alone
The fortune-tellers are making money
out of the mystery surrounding the City
of Boston. 1t is an ill-wind indeed, but
it seems to blow somebody good
The Pennsylvania Legislature is con-
sidering bill requiring all engineers OF
steam engines to submit to official exam
nation for certificates of competency.
A San Francisco Judge tempered JUS
tice with mercy by fining girl TWEEN
ty-five cents for stealing, and then rails
ing $50 for her from sympathising
spectators.
Godlove S. Orth having declined to be a
candidate for reelection in the Lafayette
Ind.) district, it is probable that Gen.
Lew Wallace will be his successor in the
next Congress.
Willard Fillmore is among the pro-
testants against the passage of measures
by the New York Legislature to cripple
the society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals.
The New York Central railroad depot
on Green Island, at Troy, will be moved
this spring to the foot of Adams street in
that city, and united with the Hudson
River railroad depot.
Though the Judiciary committee re-
ports that Gen. Ames is ineligible as
United States senator from Mississippi,
by reason of non-residence, the senators
will probably vote him in. Reason-he
is on "our side"
"A Natchez negro has exhumed an
iron bound box of coin and ornaments
which is supposed to have been buried by
fernando de Soto in 1910. The coins are
Spanish, dated from 1450 to 1880, and are
thought to be worth $4,000.
-"Almont," for fifty years the country
seat of the late Robert G. Livingston, was
Isold at auction last week, to Gen. Van
Allen, for s74,500. The property is stu
ated on the Hudson river, in the town OF
Red Hook, and contains about 400 acres,
and is acknowledged to be one of the
finest country seats in the United States.
The Wheeling I1atelligencer objects to
having James Riley Weaver, Bishop
Simpsons new son-in-law and consul at
Antwerp, credited to West Virginia, when
he is only and purely a Pennsylvania
that slept in Morganbero, w. Va, few
nights, Just long enough to enable him to
date his application for office from that
State.
The railroad between California and
Oregon is being pushed forward with
great energy from both ends Ben Hol-
laday is working south from Portland and
means to finish to Albany, so miles, this
year, and the Central Pacific is building
north from Sacramento, will open to
Chico, almost 100 miles, early this
season, and be done to Red Bluffs by
1871.
People must be earthquake-proof,
says San Francisco paper. Buildings
are make earthquake-proof--w not men,
women and children The earthquake
| is a permanent institution on the coast.
1t will come, like the dry season, like the
wet season. not so punctually, but quite
as certainly. People prepare their build
| ings for it, but not themselves.
The white folks turn the cold shout
der to cadet-selling Whittmore in his
South Carolina district but the colored
brothers stand resolutely by him, and
will probably secure his return to Con-
gress. Whittmore said he regretted what
| no had done Init Was not ashamed of it.
fine distinction that the African mind
is quick to applaud. What will Congress
say to him when he returns with re-
election? That it will not receive him
We hope so.
Rev. S. S. Walls, who, few weeks
ago, murdered Miss Lambert in Indi-
ana and sent home her body to her parents,
recently escaped from Jail where he was
waiting his trial. The officers, thinking
he had gone home, went to his house in
Van Vert county, O., to search for him.
| After shooting fierce dog in the yard,
they demanded admittance with loud
raps on the door, and forced an entrance.
Mrs. Walls was badly frightened by the
appearance of fierce men with revolvers,
and, after giving premature birth to a
child, relapsed into very critical state.
The neighborhood is much excited against
the officers.
A New York correspondent tells the
following tough story: "At some of the
balls which have recently been given,
special Accommodations were made for
ladies accompanied with babies. The
other night party of young men by
some means obtained admission TO the
baby department of the ball, and set
themselves to work at changing the
babies. No less than fifty infants, be-
tween the ages of four months and fou,
years, were changed in as many seconds,
and the party made their escape just as
the anxious mothers, fresh from the tri-
umphs of the German, were making their
way to the nursery to visit and refresh
their 'toootsy wootsies' Such scene as
took place The walls of the cherubim
rose above the swell of the orchestra, but
L am glad to be able to add that the
proper babies found their proper mothers
in good time"
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