Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-10
All Sorts.

-Brownlow's son says his father is
getting well. ... nd, ...r.......
Equal rights at the refreshment
tables of Washington receptions are not
looked upon with favor.
Motto for the Brighamite Mormons
of Utah" Not for Joseph"
-Dewesse is sad because he charged
only $500 for that appointment.
Lizzie Boynton is to stump Posey
county, Ind, for woman suffrage. Lizzie
is posey herself 30 rsr--
Americans are the champion skaters
on the aristocratic $50 pond in the Paris
Bots. .. .,-..-....- ...
New Orleans gets along very well
without gas. The Legislature is in ses-
sion. ....a
John LaMountain, the aeronaut, has
made his last ascension. After Al years
of getting up in the world, he died poor,
The mean temperature Of Florida is
69.52, but our mean temperature beats
that all to pieces.
Flora Mills, of sweet IL, has gone
to the Illinois penitentiary for five years.
She is a burglaress, and was rapidly
opening new field of labor for woman.
-Rochefort's last threat is, that if the
Project persists in maintaining the usual
prison rules regarding correspondence,
ETC., in his case, he shall "see himself
compelled to abstain for the future from
fulfilling his duties as Deputy and jour
nalist." g.. $1,000. .......-
Troy has developed the latest thing
in weddings. Man and woman stand up
alone before looking glass, join hands,
and +" in the presence of those Witnesses"
agree to take each other for husband and
wife,
Mrs. DIR. Mary Walker, doesn't have
a pleasant time of it, altogether, in New
Orleans She has now been arrested for
wearing male clothing, and discharged
with the warning that every time she ap-
peared in the street in that costume she
would be locked up. ....
--School-boys in Nevada dig holes
about their play ground, fifteen feet deep,
by way of practice in the profession Of
their fathers. The other day two of them
struck a ledge of gold-bearing quartz, and
thousand feet was ''located,"
right through the school house.
"A Virginiau set an alarm bell in con
nection with his corn-crib, for prudential
reasons, and the other night was awakened
by its clang. He quietly slipped down
and hit predatory head that be found
inside, going back to bed. The next
dead negro was found on the
corn heap. szsg gr .-a. s....
AN impecunious fellow in Troy
mixes little strychnine in tumbler, sets
it beside the bed and then lies down and
groans. The boarders rush in, doctor
comes and stomach-pumps him for while,
then the benevolent make up subscrip-
ton for him, he gets free glass of bran
dy, and goes off cured to mix his poison
again when his money gives out.
AT a nobby children's ball in New
York, where the ages ranged from two TO
fourteen years, the little things were
decked out In the pufs, paniers and frills
Of their elders, with powdered or dla-
mond- busted hair and solitaire diamonds.
The bow babies retired TO smoke between
the dances, and offered each other re-
freshment from half-pint pocket fasks-of
Did rye.
One of the greatest atrocities was the
destruction of the valuable library of Mr..
Stevens by the negro janitor of build
ng in New York where the books were
stored for safety. This fellow tore out
he leaves and sold them for waste paper,
leaving the covers. Many of the vol
anes were unique and cannot be replaced,
and the whole amount destroyed is val
ned at $4,000.
Chicago boasts, among her fragrant
successes, an infantile impostor. A bright
Eyed, neatly dressed little girl accosts the
on public street with, Oh!
'ir, I've lost my way, I want to get to-,
md she names street long way of.
Suddenly thought seems to strike her
{ Can't. you give me six cents to pay my,
ar fare 4" The device rarely fails to OBJ
ain the money, and her father, who walks
IN the opposite side of the street and col
ects from time to time, is becoming rich.
"A little school boy out West presented
lis teacher the following note from home
san excuse foe tardiness: "Bahy cross
Biscuit to Bake had no Baken powders
he dog upeet the coffee-pot the cat licked