Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-28


Iowa College las been set on ia ls,,-
by Tire exploits 81 a party Is .swoe+ c,;5
unaer9r sdua.es," who wsj,,4d TX M
one day. Some Of tire bo.s ubo live H..
Omaha sro Walking hack from their vaca.
ton at home, aistauos of two hundr.5
linilla
-Ku-akahe Tsra AeJag sHa a~s.
lstadyin4 ~ kst-eT- fs.,-se, II = ...-
la-t week o. l-.@. g-5,'., y the .yr -. %
he Stood at tee he'd II ts. =.alog g..
tihc class, and was Pal Dar3 Eai-.
There were thirteen q hiscouatry,n5s "A
his funeral.
Tho Northern Indiana confere4. Of
| the Methodist church has been inve-tigs.
| ting the relations of Rev DR.. kinaan aud
girl named Carrie Dunnine. There
was a strong effort TO allow Kim n L.
withdraw from the ministry, but the COZ.
ference refused to do So, and will try
him.
The Montreal Witness charges the
present Fenian excitement on Sir George
Cartier, the representative in the Cana
| dian government Of the French and Cath.
/ olics. He desires that no force shall be
sent to Red river, and has got up the
present excitement as a counter-irritant
Two children of S. B. Coulter Of
Loudonville, o., were playing upon some
wheat in the loft of their fathers eleva-
tar, the other day, when the gate below
was opened suddenly, drawing them
down and covering them with 1000 bush
els of grain. They were both dead when
taken out
"A recent celestial stabbing affray in
San Francisco was thus explained by one
of the participants: "One man he hap
got cousin, cousin hap muchee money,
one man, all same white man, wantee
cousin die. He no die, he try kille be.
No good, too many men try stoppee be,
policee come, all gone"
Two New Workers recently in Frisco
resolved to test the famed facility of that
city in crowd gathering. Standing on a
conspicuous street corner, they gazed in
tently toward heaven and the telegraph
wires and voceiferously discussed an i'm
aginary phenomenon above them. The
crowd came to time punctually.
Emigration to Kansas was never more
active than this spring. A month ago,
according to the Leavenworth Times,
| thousand emigrants a day reached the
State; now they are coming at the rate Of
$500 day. The increase in population
by this influx alone will be between one
and two hundred thousand in 1870.
AT noon, April IA, Cincinnati was
hotter than any other place in the United
States, the thermometer being n degrees,
while Key West reported "a degree, and
Havana 70 degrees. The explanation Is.
probably, that Dozn Piatt's Washington
| letter to the Commercial, about Theodore
Tilton, the Independent, ard big Ira
Kelly, had just arrived. It was sitting
hot and must have changed the local at-
mosphere at least ten degrees.
The son of Henry Wolf, of Com
merce, No, boy Of eight years. last
week, during the absence OF his parents
shot his little sister, aged three years. for
disobeying some of his childish Commands
He then dragged her body into the wood.
and covered it with bougbs, whittier j.
was tracked by the mother following tlt
blood marks. His father had been v1t
to beat the boy cruelty, and had drive
all reason and feeling out of him
The preference for everything French
which so long characterized the Russians.
and was considered among them the ui-
terion of culture, Is beginning TO give way
to liking for England and the English
The English language is gaining ground
in well-educated families, and English
women are chiefly sought as BONES and
governessez, and English pieces are be-
coming the fashion in the private tbea-i-
Gals of st. Petersburg. Sport and hunt
ing are already the favorite arnusemeuts
4 of the rich Russian mobiles, and societies
for the prevention of cruelty to animals
are generally patronized.