Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-10-27
GIeauings.

Colfax is to become steel axe manu-
facturer.
Philadelphia endorses Nilsson.
Nine, .Catacazy is nearly recovered.
Gen. Sherman has returned to Wash.
ington.
Nilsson has seen q years.
Americas, Ca, is struggling with bur-
glars and the shakes.
Mr.. Ashbury ordered $4,000 worth of
picture from Bradford, the celebrated
marine artist.
Cincinnati boasts burglar in hoops
and other feminine gear.
A Chicago paper wants executions here
after to be in secret, and by ehloroform or
electricity.
An escaped lunatic jumped off a high
bridge, near Oxford, NY, last week, and
was killed.
A Louisville paper, six months estab-
lished, has had four libel suits and duel
80 far.
Vicksburg fears travellers will pass her
by unless her bar-rooms lower their ex-
orbitant prices.
Salt Lake City is to have match fac
tory-the birthstone kind. The other sort
has been running there for some time.
The crops in some parts of Indiana are
nearly ruined by reckless hunters tramp
ing over them in search of chipping birds
and gophers.
A Western Professor is proving cot clu'
sively to himself that Masonry is the iden'
tical chariot" of Revelations.
John Collins, of Throgg's Neck, n. Y,
concluded he had been living long enough
80 he swallowed lot of strychlne. He
didn't live much longer.
An unbleaehed doctress, of st. Louis
gave patient dose composed of lOl III
gradients. Strange to say, he died.
The tomb of William Henry Harrison
in Harrison, Ohio, is a crumbling brick
structure and is a disgrace to the North
west.
Marie Susie, of Nevada, and French,
wants TO wear pants, etc, 10 facilitate her
business. which is in wine.
A Milwaukee youth has gone into
poetry since his failure. His failure was
in trying to make full hand beat four
sevens.
A Missouri paper truthfully remarks
that ''St Louis will now take rank as one
of the fourth cities of the Union"
The Franeo-Prussian war was fought
with knives in Louisville saloon few
nights since. Two men were seriously
perforated.
The hideous Washington monument on
the mud fat near the city of the same
name is to be converted into signal sta
ton.
Moses King. Kauuck of Toledo, was
so unhappy as to fall on three-foot CIR
cular saw. revolving ten times a second
His feet were smputated at the waist and
again just below the hips.
A grand Catholic Fair is being gotten
up in Washington by Mrs. Gen. Sherman
and the ladies of the Diplomatic Corps.
Mrs. Crosby of Iowa, is not only wife
OF a Justice of the Peace, but herself Of
foiates AS constable. She has taking
way with her.
Cincinnati is at half mast. The Yer
million Hose base ballists have been
"warmed" by the short-haired Snowy
Sox of Chicago.
The Union College fresh and soph an,
nual horse chestnut fight has come off
| Ewes in mourning, bruises and cuts was
the result.
A German countess of Westminster
county, n. Y, is making it unpleasant
for deputy sheriff there by accusing him
of robbing here of $4,000 IN gold and
jewels.
A Kansas man whose wife was at tho
point of death made proposals to the ser
want. The dying wife overheard then
and considerably deceased. The wldowoi
and maid servant are one.
Mr.. ISABELLE Of New York, took after
Miss Lacoste so vivsciously, with big
knife, that she jumped out of thlrc
story window and was swept up.
r. Pilgrim and family of Georgia
went on pilgrimage to church, the Other
dav, and some lately enfranchised pill
erims went through the house for $1,000
i They have given up church going.
The lately enfranchised iurymen o.
Virginia are asleep in just four minutes
after taking their seats. Their verdict'
are like their sleep, very sound.
The "war sausage" factory near Berlin
daily converts ten tons of ham and bacon
and twenty tons of peasmeai, piecemea
Into 10000 sausages, by the aid OF lUOI
workmen.
An English professor tells of a well in
formed compatriot who demonstrated thai
America never could amount to much
"having no coal, you know, you know"
Some remarks about the wife of Mr.
Whiteman led that gentleman and Mr.
Robinson to throw dishes at each other
across the table of New York hash dis
pensary, the other morning.
The Rochester Democrat tells of little
boy who "fell into vat of boiling water
and was drowned" 1t was miracle tha
he was not scalded to death.
A San Jose girl has been possessed by
} the spirit of bushwhacker whom hel
father killed. 1t has now left her and oc
cupied her fathers mortal tenement
I. Miller, of Ohio, traded his wife tt
Jim Gregory for watch, then when jim
came to claim his property he filed hin
up with shot. That's no way to use
man.
The ladies in Nashville hotel caugh
popular young man asleep on the sofa
They labelled him Sleeping Beauty,
and placing a large doll in his arms awok
3 him with. peals of merry laughter. Hi
feelings may be imagined.
A small but healthy boy in Illinoi
e flows SO big kite that it took him off hi
feet and on an aerial voyage seventy-fv
feet above the earth. Finally he caugh
. high chimney which he was passin,
: over, and came to mooring.
A Western Cornelia thus maternall
9 addresses her eldest jewel: -" I'M
b daughter, you are now fifteen years @
; age, engaged to be married, and withou
a freckle on your face. have done m
duty"
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