Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-17
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alsd CUlOIcu mctbAbB a 1ch
ago, worthy brother whose pie
ceeded his learning, rather astonia
hearers by quoting during an exhoz.
from "de 'pistle OBJ st. Paul to De
dams" He meant to say "St. Pa
the Corinthians"
"A man loved by beautiful g.
tuous woman, says George Sand, &
talisman that renders him invulnz
every one feels that such a ones Iii
higher value than that of Others.
"A Red Hook n. " youngst=
selling a dressed cats carcass 10 the IL
of Miles Brizee, which they cooks.
ate for dinner, has been tried and sz
ed to three months in the penitentar
his deviltry.
AN English enthusiast Il soLei.
funds for an exploration of M2gzN &
rat, with a view of recovering rel
the ark. His petition is filed in ths
illogical department of the Britis-
scum.
The wife of Bassett RawliIg
North Castor, Va, was recently
dead while sitting in her room, wit
children around her, by some pers1t
fired through the window.
One of the exquisite wonders Of
sea is called the opelet, and is abOn
large as German aster, looking, md
very much like one.
-"Financial irregularities" have
a marked feature of Partisan life The
year. One cashier helped himse.
100000 francs, another to 1850
Both confessed and they were aoquis
Other rogues who took less were n
fortunate, and are adjusting their =
and loss" accounts in prison.
"A young man in Indiana worka
last summer to clear an eighty acre
of land belonging to a young woman
had promised to marry him. VIA,
as the weather began to get cold, be
to claim his reward, she married al,.
fellow who looked on to see the Vi
work all summer.
-Thiers recently confidentially
supposed candidate for the French L
try, "If a portfolio is offered you, g.
it. To be minister is nothing 70
been minister is everything.
Many citizens of Ballston have
up the use of gas on account of The
horbitant charges for poor qualit!
large number of the stores, and s0ns
the hotels, are lighted throughout
kerosene.
Robert Harper, a prominent CIT
of Albany, who was last seen star
near the Watkins House in company
four strangers, last Saturday, has c
been missing. He had large sur
money about him, and foul play Is
pected.
in California slang a geologist
crock sharp a mineralogist 8 @cTy
sharp" a botanist "weed sharp n
ralist "bug sharp" or a "toad shG
A "quartz sharp" is a man who III
stands ores.
Rev. ID. S. Hawley has been exp
from the ministry and membership q
Baptist church in Swanzey, \. H, To-
christian treatment Of his wife, false
and moral weakness.
1t is one of the signs of the T
that English papers are largely take
with accounts of emigration mest-
The working people find it hard TO lir
Great Britain and are seeking homa
distant countries.
"A French woman sues a San FRI
coan for $4,000 damages in havingi-
her to come over here as a goyernessE
declined to receive her when she srrr
-" 10, do you know what is go5l
fieas ?" "Snuff will kill them" rsl
10. "Oh, well, 1 know that, BIZ
wouldn't be good for them" added :
as he INDUCED in chuckle over The
The Pennsylvania coal miners
now established protective union, "
extends over the whole of the coal n
and is controlled by men of great 81
The Minnesota Legislature hG
passed bill to exempt from ATTACH
seed wheat TO the extent of so bus
Such law in New England wouh
empt the whole crop in most cases.
The widow of the late Prof. Al
der Dallas Bache, of the u. S. Coss
vey, who died recently in Philsdss
left most of her property to the Nsr
Academy of Sciences at Washingtc'
The New York gas companies j
dividends varying from 80 to ~
cent. as-the happy results to then'
of their infection of poor gas up1
public.
The damage to wood and lumh
interests on account of the want OF
is very large.
Mrs. Mary Ann Rivers of Lfl
ton, N. Y, who sued her father for 2
der, has been awarded $500 damage
The earnings of the Union 70
railroad, for the six months ending
cember last, amounted to $4,6ll, lol"
The 5000 sewing girls in New. - 4
and Brooklyn, earn on an average ~
week each.
Frank Leslie has strong force
tailed to take pictures of the fss os
funeral pageant for his illustrated P'f
The Kansas House has passed -
authorizing the city of Lawrence 70 -,
e100, 900 Of its bonds in aid Of tne'
university. j,
A California hotel-keeper was
hot dead by one of his guests becsf Il
Ieat was not saved for him at Inc
able.
In England in old times, peoPmn.
'ould not spend five hundred idof az
rear were forbidden by law to wesf