Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

miles,, and also the usual ~ per cent. al
lowance for slack in paying out the cable
1920 miles, making the total length of
the cable required to connect San Fran
cisco with the Sandwich Islands, Japan
and China, 9121 miles The committee
on foreign relations unanimously favor
giving the company $500,000 a year for
twenty years instead of giving public
lands.
WALLINGFoRD.-A. p Stafford, Esq,
who has long been an invalid, has just
returned from sojourn of several months
in Jacksonville, Fla, very much improved
in health. He spent some time in Charles
tor, s. O. He represents that city as
being in forlorn condition from its war
experience. s.
Geo. II. Edgerton has opened his
soda fountain at his drug store, and our
good people can freely slake their thirst
there at five cents per capituna.
H. G. Cole has purchased the Mason
ic lot on Central street, of Chapman
Lodge, No. so, for $500, and is intending
to erect thereon an elegant residence for
his future home.
Mrs. Oscar III. Eddy, the kind foster
mother of the little waif found upon the
doorstep, sends US word that she would
| like to have the fact inserted in the HER
AID that, while she is going to do her best
to care for this little one, she does not So
licit any more such. So people in search
of such doorsteps will please look else
where.
e. Martindale has gone to New York
city for new goods.
DR.. E. o. Eddy continues his observa-
tions of the suns spots, and is making
daily diagrams of their appearance.
Standardization Cotton killed a
bear, May IA, caught in a steel trap.
Elisha Cotton found a bear dead in
one of his traps few days ago. The
hide was spoiled.
-Rostoe Cotton, the youngest son OF
Elisha, lad about 10 years old, met with
painful accident on the 18th inst, occa-
stoned by turning melted lead into green
elder stalk with only portion of the pith
removed. The lead discharged with a
loud report, filling the boys face and eyes.
DR.. @ w. Brigham was Immediately
called, and relieved his sufferings by re-
moving the Lead. His eyes and eyelids
are badly blistered, but hopes are enter
tanned that his eyesight is not destroyed.
MANcHEsTER.-The Manchester Jour-
nal with its next issue commences its 10th
volume.
Capt. Mark II. Wooster, of Manches-
ter, has rented frst-class boarding house
at Saratoga Springs, and has removed to
that place.
The appraisal of real estate in Man
chester is $514,
A session of the Legislature was held
at Manchester in 1888, commencing Oct
9, and closing Oct. 25, after session Of
seventeen days.
Sixty of the members of the Congre-
gational church in Manchester are less
than 80 years of age.
BURLINGToN.-The French citizens of
Burlington have formed a Cornet Band,
with VIM Harbour as President.
Several boys were arrested on the
Battery at Burlington on Sunday last, for
playing cards. Several boys in Rutland
ought to be arrested, not only for playing
cards, but for playing ball and marbles
on Sunday.
The list for State taxesin Burlington
is $23.40955. The list in Rutland is
$40, 400 20.
-Wyllys Lyman was the delegate TO
the Constitutional Convention in 1S43.
LITTELL's LIVING AGE, No 1856, for
the week ending May 81, contains among
other articles, The English Bible, from
The Quarterly Review; A Subway in
Central Africa Atheneum; The Parson
of the 10Th century, as shown in Fiction,
Spectator; Philosophers at Play, Macmil-
lan's Magazine; The Crisis in France,
Pail Mall Gazette; Literati and Literatu-
Ii, Britannia; The Poet Moore and His
Wife, Belgravia; Rome in Winter, Tenn
pie Bar; The End of the Paraguayan Ex-
pertinent, Spectator, etc.
The previous weekly number contained
The Cost of Napoleon, Frazer's Maga-
zine; Two Ladies-Two Hours, by Miss
Thaokeray; Moslem and Coptic Antiqui-
ties in Cairo, Golden Hours Count de
Montalembert, Blackwoed's Magazine /;
Dick Mitchell, Argosy; The Jackdaw
Author, st. Paul's; Part VI. of Esrps
Dene, besides short articles and poetry.
The Living Age, besides its usual large
amount of the best literary, scientific,
historical and political matter, is publish
ing two new and very interesting serial
stories, one by Mrs. Oliphant and the 9TH
er by Charles Lever.
To new subscribers, sending IS for the
wear 1870, five numbers of 1869, contain
ing the beginning Of Mrs. Oiiphant's and
Charles Levers serials, ETC., are sent gratis.
The regular subscription price of this GA
page weekly magazine is $S year, for
which it is sent free of postage; or for
$40 any one of the American "a msga-
zines is sent with The Living Age with.
out prepayment Of POSTAGE for a year.
LitteIl & Gay, Boston. are the publishers