Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-17
News and Otherwise.

News and Otherwise.
The Joint owners of house in Paris,
ILL.,, failing to agree on the matter of re-
moving it, the one who desired removal
sawed the house exactly in halves, and
carried off his share in triumph.
"A man in Ohio put one end of gun
barrel in the fire and looked down the
muzzle to see if it was loaded. A -coro-
ner's jury decided that his suspicious
were correct.
"A lecturer recently said, referring to
the change of name women experience
when married, that there was something
sublime in immolating a proud patro-
Pontifex marries Peter Pipes.
"A Roumanian perfect, being at an
evening party recently at Bucharest, took
occasion to pop the question to the daugh-
ter of his host. The young lady refused
to marry him, and he Immediately shot
her dead. He was arrested.
An Edinburgh tanner stayed drunk
so long that he passed his wedding day,
and forgot all about ii when he got sober.
Thereupen his betrothed sued him for
breach of promise and recovered $4,000.
"A Roman correspondent notes the
exploits of two English "misses," who,
mounted on the benches above the kneel-
ing multitude, surveyed with their opers
glasses the Pope as he pronounced The
benediction in the Council.
Two men were caught on a bridge On
the West Wisconsin railroad the other
day by a train. One of them jumped
distance of 80 feet, the other was knocked
off. Neither of them was dangerously
injured.
Miss Leclercq, who accompanied
fletcher to this country and plays with
him at Niblo's, is said to resemble Queen
Victoria. as that monarch appeared in her
earlier days.
Almost one of the last political
squibs of the lamented Prentice was the
following: at is understood that Butler
would have been a candidate for the
Spanish throne if the crown jewels hand
already been stolen"
"A bill has been introduced into the
New York Legislature to sell the Sing
Sing prison and locate elsewhere. The
property owned by the State there would
sell for enough TO purchase a thousand
acres of land and build much better
prison in a much better locality.
james w Marshall, who first dis
covered gold in California, at Suffers
mill. is. still alive. He is now living at
a place called Kelsey's Diggings, in Edo
RADIO county. He is upward of % years
of age, and is so reduced in circumstance
that, though feeble, he is compelled to
work for his board and clothes.
Robert Jenkins and Mollie Morgan
two of the recently married colored style
of Nashville, sent around their wedding
cards by liyeried footman, who rode IN
hack and bore the precious bits Of past
board on a silver tray.
"A correspondent says that bo'h
Houses of the Iowa Legislature opened
their sessions without a semblance or
sign of religious worship" One honor
able Senator is said TO have remarked
that "prayer was not necessary, except
for the Democratic members, and they
were not worth it."
North Falmouth is a model village.
There is but a single church in the place
and that is of the Congregational order
| But what is notable, every family In the
place attends church, and worships with
that church. 1t is doubtful if another
such village can be found.
In has been discovered that the cane,
in which production the South is ex-
! tremely rich, can be made into paper
pulp by merely beating up the steam
| blown fibre in water, without boiling or
chemicals, and works are already in pro
! nd fNl for
manufacture.
"A modern writer gives the following
enumeration of the different things e.
pressed by the female eye: "The glare
the sheer, the invitation, the defiance, the
denial, the consent, the glance of love, the
fash of rage, the sparkling of hope, the
lauguishment of sOftness, the squint q
suspicion. the FIRE of jealousy, and the
lustre of pleasure"
| A San Francisco reporter, in the pro
cess of interviewing a menagerie the
other day, offered peanut TO a cinnamon
bear, who imedistely chewed his hand to
sausage meat.
"A new sopori6e. khswn as choral
hydrat, discovered by Or i.aibreich o.
Berlin, Is exciting the attention OF the
medical faculty Given in doses OF fifteen
/ grains il induces sleep of three or four
/ hour~ duration. 1t does not destroy the
| apperit'. and Is not accompanied 10y ire
usual consequences of morphia.
The committee of the Alabama House
II of Representatives on enrolled bills re-
Gently reported in favor of employing
scholar To overlook, correct the spelling
and make good grammar of all the bill
Il introduced in the House before the bills
were brought up on second reading
"A Jew over in Galicia has murdered
his son because he persisted in having
Christian girl for his wife. In order 70
pacify his mother the father representa-
the murder as a religious sacrifice, ana
they passed the evening of the bloody da!
in prayer.
Two brave youths fought a due
about lady in the woods near Halits1,,
n. S., a few days ago. When the wora
was given, both fred. One bullet STRUCK
a tree, behind which one of the seconds
was standing; this was about forty-hFs
degrees out of range. Both heroes ran
away as soon as the first shots were fired
leaving the seconds in possession Of tie
ground.
4 "A raw Jonathan who had been gsl-
ing at garden in the vicinity Of NeS
York, in which were several marble star
utes, exclaimed: Just see what waste
Here's no less than six scare crows in tbs
little ten foot patch, and any one on en-
would keep the crows from five acre
lot"
NUMBERING ACROSS THE LAKE.-Ihe
Plattsburg Republican, says: |From lnt