Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-15
All Sorts.

Senator Morrill, OF Maine is aick at his
home.
Unbeatable people-the Phlegmish.
Indiana girls go to meeting in ox-carts.
4 White Sulphur Springs brags of 500
} guests yet.
Minister Thornton is visiting Canada.
\ Kokoma boys play euchreS on theesside-
walk.
Jimtown is an Ohio village.
Troy girls generally enoase their con-
tinutions in No. 5's
New Orleans boasts a brick and coal
throwing ghost.
An Albanian, so years old, is under
arrest for shooting somebody.
/ Coriuth, Miss, had brick house, but
it is burned down now. The people
wouldn't stand it.
Something to chalk down-the price of
milk
Fall openings"-The coal holes on the
sidewalks.
The Berlin wool market is reported
fat That's crewel
A Washington suicide climbed tree,
fixed his head in the fork of limb and
swung off.
st Louis is jubilant over three prize
fights in one day.
A Chicago woman wants a divorce be-
cause her husband won't support her and
talks free love.
His uniform makes Changarnier look
ten years younger.
The woods in Canada seem to be hay
ing an 'all fired bad time of it."
Ottawa pays $40 head for bears-not
80 for bare heads.
A Vienna manufacturer prints hand.
kerchiefs with maps of the seat of war.
The Marquis of Sligo has made a sly
go to Chicago.
A bad policy-One that has run out.
They call fellow who paid his board
with a spurious check ga check man" in
San Francisco.
John Smith is in trouble again. He
shot man in Georgia, this time.
A Pittsburg constable and hackman
fought mill, on Sunday, for dollar q
side.
Potato diggings are fashionable female
soirees in Indiana.
Henry Ames, of Clyde, Ohio, set his
aims high. He has five wives.
Hope its true that Mrs. John Wood will
soon return to the American stage.
Gen. Fitzpatrick lately delivered an ad-
benefit of free public schools. 1t was a
complete success.
1t is estimated that the cotton crop this
year will exceed that of last by more than
half million of bales.
The number of farmers in the United
States has increased rapidly during the
past five years; so have the manufao-
turers.
The New York Times thinks Bismarck
is preparing to attack England. His apies
treaties and newspapers are all in oper-
alton.
The Germans refuse their own war
Ionn, but take nearly a thousand millions
of United States bonds. This shows any
thing but confidence in their own Gov
eminent.
Gov. Bullock, Of Georgia, recommends
the establishment of a college for negroes
at Milledgville, and bill to perfect it has
already been proposed.
A Connecticut youth writes home from
a camp-meeting that "the tables are load
ed with viands all have plenty to eat
and are waited upon by the sirens, whose
voices are charmingly sweet"
Two friends, some years married and
widely separated, lately exchanged tele-
grams, thus !: Ito. All well. We
have two pairs of twins. How is that for
high ?" "To-. We have three little
girls. Three of a kind beats pair.
4 Responding Western paper "dosen't
take much stock in this base ball folly,
but hopes all who en- pray will remem-
Der the Elyria sports in their morning
and evening devotions. Their eagerness
to give and accept challenges, before learn
ing how to play the game, is bringing the
town into disrepute."
Aware of the Crisis.-Sergeant Muck
lewham, (more in sorrow than anger } |
Halt! o man hummer three, I wunner |
tae see ye! Hoo can We think Foreign
Powers can ever respect ye, if ye wuli
persist in steppin' threa inches less than
the regulation"
It is said that Susan B. Anthony, who |
ia to lecture again this winter, will have
her lecture published in pamphlet form.
Such as do not wish to hear her deliver it |
can purchase the whole thing for 10 cents.
We predict that the book will meet with
q large sale in view of the fearful alterna-
tive.
A Central New Yorker refused his wife
money to set up as doctor, and just be-
cause in her disappointment she Knocked |
man down with steel strap, threw all
the dinner dishes and knives at her hus-
band, chased farmer with an axe, and |
chopped off young mans fngere, the |
unreasonable fellow takes divorce.
The difference between Napoleon and
the Tribune is, that the former has com
mon sense, and the latter hasa HOBBY. |
This difference is so wide that it is non
sense to suppose it can he bridged. Clear
", Napoleon, crowned or discrowned, |
must bear the malediction of our great
contemporary.
It is decided by the official organ at
Berlin, that the whole Prussian force OPP
posed to the French at Saarbruck consist
ed Of but one battalion and three squad
rons of horsemen, under the command of
Lieut.. Col. Won Pestel. Doubtless il
Pestel had had some mortars, he would |
have completely pulverized his adver-
saries
A wise old darkey in the southern part
of Kentucky came to his old master
the day before the late election, and said
he: mars John, [ wants to vote the
Democratic ticket. The fac is, [ think
de niggers ought to split up anyhow. I'll
we goes an votes Democrat, the Radicals
say we is ungrateful, an then the League
fiues us five dollars an warns u.s. If we
votes Radical. de Ku Klux III git us shore
| wants to divide like, 50 as to make it de
intrust Of bof parties to treat us kin an
friendly" That darkay 10 q stotaonap