Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-29
GIeauiDgs and Gossip.
2nssia ha. 100000 nobl.s.

I AAAHeA~ Asd DD'sogD A-@Dt'rs
Kansas City l. to have a 100000 opera
house.
Louisville Is to become port of entry
October l.
Secretary Cox has left Washington for
a fortnight's vacation.
A lodge Of eolored Masons has Just been
organized in Orange, \. J.
St. Anthony Mimi saw-mill= have
turned out 7OO00,00O feet of lumber this
season.
Spurgeon says he qlorie- in the love OF
God and the hatred Of the Saturday Re
view.
Belgian immigrants are constantly ar
irving in Wisconsin, and settling in
Brown county. q
John G. SAKE has sold his Albany resi-
deuce and will build 3 handsome home al
Brooklyn.
Twenty car loads of Ala-lza furs wers
recently -hippad through from San Fran
cisco TO New York.
A dramatizstion Of Wilkie Collin
MAN and Wlfy" is now playing at the
Fifth avenue theater il New York.
Freight and passenger agents from all
parts of the country are taking an ex Guy
sion over the Pacific railroad.
The coal miners strike in Clay county,
Ind, has ended, and the miners have gone
to work on their own terms.
Minister Washburne has issued 10000
passes to Germans leaving Paris since the
order bsuishiug them appeared.
a large needle factory is about to be e-.
tahli-hed in Newark, which will turn on,
100000 self-threading needles per day.
The Palais Royal, a new place of enter
tainment, capable If holding 700 persons,
has recently been opened in London.
The smoke from the burning woods IN
/ Canada has rendered navigation on Like
! Ontario difficult and dangerous, partlou-
larry at night.
| A perfect petriied seal was tx, umet,
,,.- ths5 Csgs, EsyrrI nina near Wad-wo~th.
Nevada, at point 1000 feet above tn
! level of the Pacific.
Andrew johnson Is charged with the
authorship of the resolutions Of demo-
Ecratic meeting held recently at his houa
in Gfeenville, Tenn.
Among the killed at Worth was a sou Of
Robert Houdin. the well known sleighs-
of-hand performer, who was a captain ia
the French Z5uaves.
The opera house at Springfield. Ill, j..
/ to be rented for the use of the uef-
| Legislature, as the I'D hall win be
small for the larger number Of memb.r-
Navigation on the Delaware aud HUI.
son canal has been completely closed, orr
/ ing to the scarcity of water, and a18-.
/ 5000 men are thus thrown out Of emp.ar.
ment.
Next year viii be the thousaudth anl.
/ versary of the ascension Of the E1gli-a
throne by Alfred the Great, and tie En-
lish are already planning celebration.
the event.
The 37O sonvicts in the New 7s--y
State Prison 81 Trenton, turn out -.8
pair OF shos daily, and their wcrknaa.
! ship Is so good that many persons Cra.
their shoes made by them.
The announcement is made in diploma
tic circles OF the early marriage OF Senor
/ Roberts, the Spanish minister al Vas
ington, to Mis- Terry, an accomplish .
New York lady.
TIE Catholics Of Sycamore, II, AT tL-- +.
( approaching fair, propose To settle The .-
portant question, "Who is the best l-'
yer il DrKAlb county" by the votes
/ the visitors.
One farmer IN Peru, Ill, has lost
! head of cattle and another 90 by -
! Texas cattle fever, which was brou--
into the neighborhood last spring Big
drove of 800 Texas cattle.
\ well known theatrical manager ia
Of firing up q steamer as a theatre, 10 g..
up and down the Hudson river, and g.T
perform ancss at the various towns al,
villages on Its banks.
Oliver Williams, colored preacher
Kentucky, was taken out of his hous
and hung, one evening last week, by
mob of twenty men, who whipped anoth
negro named Tom Bronson.
The liquor dealers of Monmouth, II, ?
who had their fluids poured out reesL1y
by the city authorities, have sued q
mayor aud aldermen for $4,000 damag-
aud preferred charges OF riot beside.
Owing to the drouth the feeding Por
of the Delaware and Hudson canal
Sullivan county, Pa. are nearly dry, q
posing acres of pickerel and other ti-h
the mud and shallow water, and pep
are shoyeliug them out by wagon loads
A man in Iowa recently had bis tEa
year old son arrested for stealing, and y
ON examination it appeared that ll' ''-
Uffense consisted in the plucking ana '-
ing of four lunches of his fathers gfai
without obtaining permission.
The Illinois pcohibitionists have No.
mated j. V. Farwell for Congres-man
large, but this nomination can have A
| effect on the result. Gen. Logan
elected in 1853 by majority OF ~
and the democrats can scarcely oVef''
that with the aid of this diversion
a singular phenomenon occurred !.
i small section of country around D.
| Greek Pittsylvania county, Va, last We
Rom a small cloud, which hung Ike
dark spot in a clear sky, the rain deso5l
ed for hours IN a perfect sluice, the ei
in little while becoming a vast anu
ging river.
A nepbew of the king Of Glass and
presunptiye TO the throne OF that
\ dom, which lies on the western coz
Africa. is the last addition TO the
lecturers for the coming season.
become quite well acquainted VIZ
Fnglisb language, and his subject
the customs. institutions and barp~
of his native land.