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

Downing Ofeen, NY, mas oufAiars pieu-
ty.
Above par-Nilsson's notes.
A shoat race is among the attractions
of Tennessee Fair. - s.f..... ..--
A Chicago expressman stole corpse
which he was hired to carry from one
depot to another.
Montana is beginning to harvest the
new crop of ice.
One of the Boston papers last week,
though little varieg ated was all Hughes.
Kerosene is the popular hair oil with
Mary land amendments.
Josh Hart is making a success of the
New York Globe theatre.
Bateman is trying to revive opera d0afe,
with Offenbach as chef dOrcheStTe
The Gaul of bitterness-France.
Another trapezist has come to grief.
This one fell thirty feet in New Orleans.
DR. Pabst, the historian, was killed at
Mars /, Tour.
Weston, the walkist, has had to "shell
out" in his match with Cobb.
Chicago feels "undone" without a Chi
nese laundry.
A son of the Hon. George H. Peudleton
is one of the defenders of Paris.
Alton, Ill, fears that neighboring
cave is the haunt of robbers.
Miss Mcdowell, of Scott County, Iowa.
thinks Gilman Whites refusal to marry
her has damaged her $4,000, and is trying
to m Ike twelve men say so.
A Texas paper brags of crawtish near
" two feet long and no old that it is GOV
cred all over with moss.
The fact of a Cincinnati bartender car
rying silver dollar in his pocket save
hig lite the other day when an unpleasant
man stabbed him.
The New York German Fair has ar
autograph of Beethoven and lock of hi,
hair among the curioritiCs offered for sale
Those Mississippi steamers, the Lee
and NatchtZ, are again striving TO SEE
which can make Cairo or the moon first
The Natchez is ahead this time.
The quails il Indiana get beastly
drunk on pokeberry juice, and are kiIlec
with sticks i'll great numbers.
Why should common soldier who ha
been in the ranks a long time be afraid t,
meet An excise officer Because he's
private stil!.
The night cars en- the Philadelphi,
street railroads charge ten cents fare arc
dispense with conductors.
A Jealous wife in San Frsnoisco rubbed
cayenne pepper in the eyes of woman
to whom her husband had shown atten
tion.
NIssop'y agent wanted $1,000 tor
sjre!e eel cert in Albany. Nilsson is
li'tjc der.
Tty "divcrce without publicity" law.
}tre Of Chicago are to be stopped from
adrlrlisi"g their bN~iness, by the Judges
\ pap,l hull is locked for which shal,
dissolve the Ecumtuichl Council on the
ground that there is 10 place where il
can be held
Mazzini Is in Florence and will go tc
Rome.
A despatch to the Secretary of War
says that on investigation it can not be
nscertained that there j. any truth i'll the
reported seizure Of the st. Clair canal by
the Canadians.
A lot of the solid men of Boston" are
involved in the largest smuggling opera
ton ever brought to light in that city,
the frauds amounting to nearly quarter
of miiiicn of dollars. The allegation is
that in the year 1869 large quantities of
liquors were struggled, which certain
merchants received concealed and sold.
The gale of Tuesday was very disss-
trous to the shipping at OswegO and
several vessels were driven ashore. At
Cleveland three vessels went ashore and
became total wrecks, and a least six lives
were lost. A Kingston (Canada) dispatch
reports quite number of wrecks on Lake
Ontario.
A runaway lumber Car on the Erie
railroad, last week, made hundred miles
an hour on a down grade, and was only
chekeked by rise and a switch, in time
to save an express train.
Robert Wild. of Iowa. allow his
chagrin at railroad route being run two
mill fir, IA a town he had bought and laid
out, TO INDUCE suicidal shooting.
A lately enfranchised in Illinois was 60
Indignant at his rights to a free railroad
ride being disregarded that he laid a tie
across the track. He was gobbled before
the next train came along.
As the conduct of Paris led TO the siege
of Troy, so the conduct of IrOiS led to The
siege of Paris; the tr0is being Bismarck,
King William and Napoleon.
The fighting around Mercy-le- Haut was
80 fierce few weeks since that its name
became a by-word, and men thanking
each other for lights to their cigars added
ale Haut" TO the customary "meri."
Bernard Eckle, out West, started out
to shoot pigeons. He brought down a
little girl, which is considered
a pretty good shot, in Illinois
Hon. William B Mann, for whom a
warrant was issued by the Mayor, as &C.
cessory TO the shooting of John Nolen, at
the meeting of the Return Judges in
on Thursday last, was taken
before Judge Allison on writ of habeas
corpus, and after full hearing was I'M
discharged.
"A man giving his name as Maxwell
Walker, of New 7 ork, is under arrest in
Salem, Mass, ON suspicion of being Moran,
the murderer of Officer Packard in
Stoughton.
We ndell Phillips delivered an elo-
quent address in the Fraternity Course of
Lectures at the Music Hall in Boston on
Tuesday evening. His subject was ''The
Political Issues OF the Commonwealth
TeIegraphic Notes.