Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-08
News Condenser.


The "dog-days" proper ended on the
10Th.
The Dresden art gallery has $500 paint
ings.
Page county, Iowa, has 10000 acres of
corn.
The English hay crop is below the me-
dunn.
A clover field is rare thing in North
| Carolina.
The coal beds of Illinois are about to
be developed.
A castor oil mill does good business
at Alton, Ill.
Yale College last year spent $1647.27
above its income.
Black squirrels are plenty in the noun
tains of Ulster Co., n. Y.
New York city has $4,000 children at
tending public schools.
Little Rock, Ark, estimates its popula-
ton at $4,000.
Holland has sent 1900 volunteers to
serve in the Papal army.
The peach crop in the vicinity of Buffa-
10 is small this year.
A new agricultural society is being or
ganized in Potsdam, n. Y.
The State dam at Carthage has been
thoroughly repaired
The canal swing bridge at Rochester is
perfectly successful.
Queen Victoria invites guests to break
fast at o'clock P. NJ.
Hancock Co., Ill.,, has 1900 acres of
grapes under cultivation.
Poughkeepsie has ten bakers and fifty
two lager beer saloons.
winona, Mimi, has population of
1000 and the State Fair.
Akron, O., pays lady principal of the
high school $4,000 year.
Columbus, Ga, has about 10000 in
habitants, Augusta some 1900.
A Bangor, Me, family cherishes the
ancestral umbrella of 1920.
A couple of fat women ran race in
Albany for wine supper.
New Orleans has smallpox instead of
yellow fever this season.
Hay crop in Oswego county, N. Y, is
very light; hay, $l4 to SIS per ton.
Orleans county, n. Y, suffered losses of
100000 to $4,000 in the recent storm.
The drouth of water still continues in
the streams about Auburn.
The Lutherans make one of the largest
denominations in America.
: A man was stung entirely out of his
! senses by bees in Maysville, Ky.
Muskegon (Mich.) projects a town clock
upon its new court house.
Alphonse Karr defines dyspepsia as the
, remorse tf guilty stomach.
Near Fort Wipgate, New Mexico, is a
field of corn of about 200 acres.
} A fresh discovery of diamonds has been
2 made in Victoria, Australia.
The admissions to the Illinois State
Lunatic Asylum average six day.
By the laws of Tennessee drunkness is
made legal cause of divorce.
e Auburn, n. Y, underwriters offer $500
? reward for the detection of incendiaries.
The fall term of the st. Lawrence Uni
: versity will begin September 1st.
p The chief of the Astor House kitchen
T receives salary of about $4,000.
A Miss Eliza Jennings has been lately
made bank director in Garfield, o.
Y The population of the village of Yon-
t kers, by the present census, is 1868.
t st. GATHERINGS, Canada, has girl eight
e years of age, who weighs 1913 pounds.
: A -threshing machine is in opera
. ton in Livonia, Livingston county.
g Philadelphia's silk factories employ
e 1900 operatives and S1,5OO,O0O capital
Lead ore has been discovered mile
i i and ahalf north of New Albany, Ind.
Thirty school-houses have been built in
A Neosho county, Kansas, the past year.
n A new $4,000 organ has just been pu.
s up in the First Baptist church, Elmira, N
Ii 7.
One hundred and fourteen new build
: ings are being put up in Hornellsville
- N. Y.
d The new $500 legal-tender notes are
d to bear a vignette of John Quincy AID