Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-13
Current Items.

-Barnum is going to Cuba.
Mario has not committed suicide.
Smith is not in the Iowa Legislature.
Chicago divorces last year were 1876.
Sam Francisco has more boys than it
can feed.
New York has a poisoned candy sem
sation.
New York has street car that
doesn't need rails.
The Rev. Mr.. Murray has an enquir-
ing mind.
lis it not time TO Stowe away the By
ron controversy
-Englishmen are admiring the intri-
cate machines for voting by ballot.
Maurice Sand is going to New York
to write letters for the paris Presse.
A Cincinnati vagrant made himself
very unpleasant by dying in street car,
New Years day.
-Ristori says she never "anathema,
tized the climate of the United States"
Dana calls Mrs Stoves book "a Fail
ure to Vindicate Mrs. Harriet Beecher
| Stowe"
Paris fears a revolution because a
lady of notoriety has named her new baby
Marie Antoinette.
Father Hyacinthe's successor draws
only 25 per cent. of the money which
flowed in upon the others oratory.
"A Cincinnati genius has invented a
machine by which a performer on the
| a ok
the piano.
A swindled rustic punched the head
of gift jeweler in New York, the other
day, aud the police didn't interfere.
Notation is to introduce a bill in the
| French Senate, making the attendance of
physicians in the nighttime compulsory.
"A certain gentleman who ended his
call by going down stairs considerable
faster then he went up, couldn't say his
visit was bootless.
There is frequent complaint of the
| i'll manners of street-car conductors, but
little is said of the boorishness of passen-
gers, which is often exhibited.
--Appleton's Journal pictures Yale Col
| lege in its last number, and announces the
new Dickens story as one of its attrac-
| tions for the year.
A Kansas City clergyman stopped
his sermon the other Sunday, and came
out in front of the church to marry an
unfortunate couple on horseback.
"A Memphis negro complains that a
"sure shot" bug poison is not what it
claims to be. He took some to end his
life, and still survives.
"A young man in Cincinnati contin-
ued his New Years revel until late in the
morning, and was found the next day
with one boot only sticking out above the
water of cistarn in his back yard.
Astounding news comes from New
Orleans. The chemists who examined
the milk purchased from several dealers
in the city reported that it was all pure.
New Orleans, having become har.
dened to yellow fever, doesn't mind small.
pox. The corpse of victim of the latter
disease was left unburied for three DAYS
In populous quarter last week.
We see it stated that John Bull is
now Illustrating upon kangaroo sausages.
Is this only the better to enable him to
"jump" the Alabama claims?
Scotland, too, has its heart broken.
An Edinburgh tanner stayed drunk SO
long that he passed his wedding day, and
forgot all about it when he got sober.
Thereupon his betrothed sued him for
breach Of promise, and recovered $4,000.
Another passenger murder has been
committed on . New Jersey railroad. An
old man couldn't find his ticket soon
enough for the conductor, who thereupon,
being in hurry, put him of the train.
de fell between the wheels under the
cars, and both legs were crushed.