Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-11
News Condenser.
Rochester is to have a new opera house

Michigan has 10000 scholars.
The Illinois river is extremely low.
Boston claims population Of 270,O00:
California has Chinese lawyer.
Lake Michigan is two feet higher than
usual.
Rock salt is manufactured at Augusta,
Me-
Chautauqua county, n Y, is troubled
With thieves.
Yellow Springs, Ohio, is to have
newspaper.
Ohio has three hundred and three news
papers.
Bufalonians want to spoil the Terrace
for depot.
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has uniformed
its fremen.
Sewing girls can earn two dollars day
In Colorado.
The fruit jar works at Lookport make
5000 jars daily.
Old hay is plenty and cheap in Maine;
new, half crop.
KansaaEhas twelve hundred miles of
railroad in operation.
Murrain prevails among cattle in some
parts of Alabama.
Grasshoppers are troubling the crops
In Erie county.
Cleveland, Ohio, is proposing to have
free public baths.
The New Orleans Weekly Picayune is
In its thirtieth year.
| A double-headed calf is ON exhibition
at Grand Rapids.
The paper mill at Westfield is nearly
ready for operation.
Battle Creek, Mich, is to have a new
post-office building.
Bangor, Me-, was visited by severe
frost on the 7th inst.
The yield of Irish potatoes is very large
In Texas this year.
Thursday is to be cheese market day at
| Fulton, Osvvopo Co.
California will add tea 10 the list of
marketable productions.
Centralia, Ill, promises 100000 boxes
of peaches this year.
The town of Tully, Onondaga Co., has
population of 444.
A school for ''darning" has been opened
in Montgomery, Ala.
Tennessee has reduced its poll tax from
1926 to fifty cents.
The Syracuse post office sold IL, 800 two
cent stamps in one day.
Pickpockets and state-room robbers
abound on the Troy boats.
The grasshoppers have taken to their
wings and left Salt Lake.
A fruit preserving house is now being
erected at Gasport.
The Erie and lateral canals give employ
ment to 10000 men.
Three hundred and forty boys are at
the Ohio Reform Farm.
The estate of the late Jerome Bonaparte
amounts to $250,000.
Atlantic City, Iowa, has let a contract
for $4,000 shool-house.
The propeller James Fisk, Jr., has just
| been launched at Buffalo.
Police Superintendent Jourdan has con-
oluded not to resign.
The foundry at Mayville, Chautauqua
| Co., is soon to be rebuilt.
San Francisco now gets Sierra Nevada
ice at two cents pound.
Batavia is to have new carriage manu-
featuring establishment.
| fairfield, Mass, realizes 1915, 900 an
nually from it's tobacco crop.
| Inc asrIo-lt.ra1 Fair at ST. Louie
devotes $4,000 to cotton prizes.
In the United States are about four
thousand liquor distilleries.
Renting dresses for parties is paving
business in New York city.
Missouri River is to have a new bridge
at Hannibal $50 feet long.
Young ladies have been employed as
clerks in the Boston post-office.
The Albany police are sending all lazy
loungers 10 the Penitentiary.
Shade trees in GAINESVILLE, Wis, are
dying from the effects of the drought.
Near Oconomowoe, Wis, fire is destroy
ing timber and fences extensively.
More than one thousand bushels of
cherries have been shipped from Lyons.
At Eatonton, Ga, a cabbage head four
feet across has been raised this year.
Flint, Mich, has another valuable
mineral well, and bath house building
There are 100000 sets of corsets i'm
ported into the United States annually.
About $4,000 worth of condensed
milk was exported from New York last
year.
One of the larger openings observed in |
the sun is 1877 900 miles in circumference.
The Air Line Railroad between New
Haven and Middletowp, Conn, is COM
pleted.
The mills at Cohoes are all running on
full time, and some are working over
time.
Business at Niagara Falls, it is said, is
not as lively as usual at this part of the
season.
Auburn expects to receive coal from
Pennsylvania direct by the Southern Gen.
trail.
The Normal School at Fredonia, N Y,
graduated fifteen pupils at the end of the
first year.
The State University of Minnesota had
y12, 1853 acres of land, of which 62, 1853
have been sold.
The Third Avenue Railroad Co., Newt
York, lost three hundred horses by the
heat on the 18th inst.
Buffalo interdicts hand-organs.
CARE OF HORSES LEGs.-Few men
who handle horses give proper attention
% the feet and legs. Especially is this
the case on the farms. Much time is spent