Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27
News.

Senator Sumner has invented new
--"ridiculousity."
The Cardinal Papal Zouavss, whose
terms of enlistment have expired, will re-
turn to Canada Immediately after Holy
Week.
"A convention of peanut and rice
growers has met at Wilmington, N. c.,
in order to memorilize Congress for q
protective tariff.
-Highwaymen in the streets of San
Francisco lasso their victims. Their OBJ
jeot is to confne his arms while they ego
through him."
= Some one has made the calculation
chat the bishops attending the Ecumeni-
Zeal Council will die at the average rate of
O one fortnight.
} The "can-can" has been suppressed
bySshe Cincinnati authorities, and "Shoo-
ely" has taken its place.
Two Milwaukee new-sboys saved
C$1300 from their profits last year, and
bought home for their parents.
= O "A Cincinnati igenius has invented a
machine by which a performer on the
violin or flute can accompany himself on
piano.
They get coal in Elmira at the fol-
lowing prices: lump and large egg, $4,-
So; small egg, 1926 stove $3.50 chest
nut IS.
"A man in Mystic, Ct, has paid the
State one dollar, for calling a neighbor ga
COMPOUNDED mutton-heud."
"A reformatory school for fast youths
sons of wealthy people-has been in ex-
istenoe in France since 1855.
"A "wealthy American" who recently
married an aristocratic young lady of Mi
Ian, turns out to be a rowing journeyman
barber.
"A boy named Young was drowned in
Needham, Mass, and the boys uncle,
while attempting his rescue, was also
drowned.
Citizens of Illinois are petitioniug
the Constitutional Convention to frame
clause prohibiting the placing of Masonic
emblems on public buildings
Q In Italy, when an actress has her
benefit, it is the custom TO shower upon
her brightly colored papers containing
poems in her honor.
1.-The grow tn of Mobile is noted by
the Tribune of that city. The present
population is estimated at more than fifty
thousand.
. The London Directory for 1870, con-
D tains the names of 800 Browns, 900
Joneses, while the Smiths, Smyths and
Smythes number 1,600 strong.
o-Some New Jerseyites have ohurtered
passenger steamer for an excursion to
Virginia to inspect the agricultural adj
vantages of that region.
r.. a.
has lost three wives by death and twp by
their running away from him, has just
entered upon his sixth attempt TO SECURE
matrimonial bliss.
james Buchanan appointed VIM. b.
Read his literary executor, and left him
money to publish his biography. In view
Oof recent developments, inquiries are
omade respecting the present condition of
the work.
@ French invalids and old gentlemen
n without company are provided with
amusements, IN which one hand is en-
gagged against the other thus. whatever
0the result the individual il always GER
tain Of half victory with never a more
grievous ohagrin than half defeat.
The weather WAS 80 mild in Oregon
during the last week in November that
o Strawberries and peas were ripening, black
berries in bloom, oak buds bursting into
leaf, and fresh pork spelling.
"A special agent of the Post-office De-
partment. recently found in one of the
Boston hotels some four hundred letters,
sent to guests of the house during the
o past year, and which have remained I'M
caleb for "up to the present time. They
. will be returned TO the writer's through
the Dead Letter Office.
Olive Logan. aud Noy q OF the One
ida community, are engaged in a piquant
controversy on the subject OF female
dress Noyes likens the fair Olives lux
uriaift "bend" toon patent ohurn, while
sha insists that the feminine communists
make ''tongs" Of themselves.
John j. Cisco, for many years United
States Treasurer at New York, and de.
scEbed az mot old, but of mature year,
hes recently married also Rev. Dir. Cox
father of Bishop Cox.
The British Post-offioe Department
made $23,000,000 net profit last year
while ours event behind $5,000,000 Nc
fraSnking in England. The Queen, even
who may write letter by another hand
must put her own head on it to send it by
mail.
Count Couldeck, the Partisan artist
who is 1O5 years old, is painting picture
entitled "Absinthe,' in which vase Of
the liquor is represented with a skeleton
floating on the lace.
you ought to acquire the faculty OF
being at home in the best society,"" said a
fashionable aunt to an honest nephew. II
mmsge that easy enough responded the
nephew, "by staying at home with my
wife and children" rgs $50