Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-13
Odds and Ends.

the operators arrested.
There is a new name for lynch law in
Kansas. They call it "rude justice"
There is much rudeness cut West.
s "A negro waiter in Washington
saloon revenged himself on his employer
by poisoning the sugar served TO GUS
toners.
"A fellow in Oswsgo, N. Y, won fifty
cents by eating Ss buckwheat cakes in
ten minutes q
A Germ an SaCdnf predicts that the
Suez Canal will be perfectly useless IN
less than two years.
A Massachusetts, church has had the
same deacon forty years, and he regards
himself good for forty more.
Some important reforms in the re-
ligious establishment of Jamaica have
been effected. -
"A steamboat hand, while handling
sixty torpedoes, at Memphis, Tenn, ex-
ploaed them, tearing him into fragments,
The Schoharie county bank In Sco-
harie village, n. Y, was robbed Wednes-
day morning of $4,000, by burglars.
1T cost a New Yorker three hundred
QOllafs 10 UoA tIo ears oi MS Cooh, oot o|
was satisfied. r- s- --..ee1,
"A young man of % aud gushing
young thing of SO were married at Hill
ingby, CT, the other day 4
A Chicago Judge has decided thai
the penalty for beating child to death is
one years imprisonment.
Love is better than Il pair Of specta.
cles to make every thing greater which is
seen through it. .- ..
A Providence paper made Geo. VIM
Curtis speak of Greeley and dishonest
officials" Instead of greedy, DC"
Coupon bonds valued at $120,000
were lost or stolen in Jersey City on
Christmas day. aE-
Miss jeff, of Elizabeth, New Jersey,
| is one hundred and four years old. Per-
haps she would ewn now to being an old
maid. ..s= ..e-.
Mrs. DIR. Byrne, of Mobile, lady 63
years of age. is giving literary readings
in Montgomery, Ala.
Last week mackerel, weighing four
pounds and two ounces, was caught by
Provincetown fisherman.
Paine of Wisconsin and Wood and
Cox of New York are said to be the
noisiest men in Congress. r.sr
Father Hyacinthe's successor as
preacher at Notre Dame is a Dominican
named Father Montsabre.
/ "A man at Calvert, Texas, was robbed
of everything but his boots and neck-tie.
He felt like the morning star.
i Prof VIM A Packard of Dartmouth
/ n ~, I'D fo1 all
to the Latin Professorship of Princeton
College.
Father Hyacinthe went home when
he did for the very prosy reason that he
had spent all his money.
Near Peterboro, n. H, a man was
feeding circular saw and fed it five of
his fingers before he found out his mis-
take.
Most of the German critics pronounce
Whittier the greatest living American
poet.
The king of Siam has been writing q
very pretty letter to an American lady
who was formerly missionary.
IL "A 16 year-old boy in Worcester
county, Mass, did a mans work for a
mans pay and died.
The grand duke of Tuscany has writ
ten book on Job, which promises to
make as much of sensation as Remains
work on Christ.
1 The army quartermasters furnish the
soldiers with $4,000 dollars worth of to-
bacco every month.
The empI ess of France spent 5000
per day in seeing Sicily, and her average
expenses in her recent trip were S12,00
daily.
Andrew McMakin, :he Philadelphia
Bonner of 90 years ago, and editor of the
Saturday Courier, died last week.
Actresses fond of showing their shape
will shun Omaha in the future. The leg
drama is prohibited in that city.
"A governess, advertising for situa-
tion, says that "she is a perfect mistress
of her own tongue p
"A man at Savannah, Ga, was killed
by falling head first into hogshead of
molasses "'Tis sweet to die &c. Il
The first ten locomotives ever built
in Russia have just beer completed at
Coionna, near Moscow.
They have a Chinese Sunday school
ia Oregon, where the Celestials are taught
theology and English.
"A gay and dashing daughter of 2. T.
Barnum is said TO have eloped from heEa
husband not long since.
"A Richmond man has made quite
fortune out of MAIDSTONE. He charges
seventeen dollars for single application.
-Four Mormon prophets have returned
from visit to Georgia with one hundred
converts
"A Chinese god of stone was found
nicely packed in chest of tea by Chi
eago restaurant keeper, the other day.
There are seven thousand inmates in
the county infirmaries of Ohio. OF this
number one thousand are under twelve
years of age.
The wife of DIR. Patterson, of Dun
cannon, Columbia county, Ohio, gave
birth few days since, to four bouncing
boys, one of whom has since died.
Paris makes little watches no bigger
than a three cent piece, but the price is
5000.
"A New Hampshire ex-convict pub
fishes newspaper card, thanking the
prison officials for courtesies received.
Horrible dictn A woman in Chicago
recently seized a man, and before he could
secure assistance, married him.
"A Texas negro, who married Wild
ow, attempted TO vote on thcr certificate
of her first husband.
The Oneida Community has eo-op-
erative laundry, which does washing at
20 cents dozen.
The present high price of butter is
attributed to the use of the piano, instead
of the churn, among farmers daughters.
-Ninety-six pounds of wild honey
were recently taken from q single tree In