Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-25
Gleanings and Gossip.
Iowa has an access of COWS.

Deer are tame and plenty in Wisconsin.
A castor-oil mill does a good business
at Alton, Ill.
Bolivia is excited over new and rich sill
yer mines.
Nebraska City is just excited over its
first elopement.
Bierstadt, the artist, is summering at
Long Branch.
White cranes abound in the White
River at Indianapolis.
Philadelphia boasts Of the agility of its
young women swimmers.
Chinese farm laborers in Arkansas give
complete satisfaction.
Prairie chickens are unusually abund-
ant in Nebraska, this season.
Philadelphia's 30 silk factories employ
1900 operatives and $1,5O000O capital
Corinne, Utah, proposes to run its new
opera house, now building, with home
talent.
Dan Rice. the Snowman, has given
Nashville $4,000 toward house for fallen
women.
The latest style of photograph albums
has musical box inserted in the corner
of the cover
San Francisco has three woman wood
engravers, who are skillful workers and
well patronized.
| Vigo county, Ind, with population OF
10000, has an average of 20 applications
a week for divorce.
Florida cotton growers have largely
substituted the raising of uplands instead
of sea island cotton this year.
Troy boasts of a woman sharpshooter
who can hit the bulls eye of target ev-
cry shot at 40 rods.
An Indiana paper tells of a monster
frog, weighing 300 pounds, recently taken
from q stream in that State.
An Indiana man had fainting fit the
other evening, while his marriage cere-
mony was going on, and he died very soon
after.
Brick Pomeroy promptly reads Mont
gomery Blair out of the Democratic par
ty, for suggesting Chase as the next Pres
ident.
The Due de Gramont has Scottish
wife, daughter of the late Mr.. Mackinnon,
member of Parliament, and head of the
clan.
Nilsson will be accompanied in her
American tour by Henry Vieuxtemps,
who is generally considered the finest vi
olinist in the world.
Matilda Clarendon, some years ago a
favorite actress in this country, is about
to reappear on the operate stage, after a
long study abroad.
A Cincinnati wag produced a startling
commotion in a beer garden of that city
the other evening, by bribing the band to
play the Marseillaise.
Ger. John G. Brown, President of the
late constitutional convention in Tennes-
see. ia a prominent candidate for the con-
servative nomination for Governor.
New York Germans nave ,4lreua, .ri--
ed $4,000 for the aid of the wounded
aud suffering among their fellow country.
= men by reason of the present war.
Kansas wants the Chinese to come to
that state and engage in silk manufac-
rure, in which industry it thinks it could
proftably employ a million of them.
The Withdrawal of the British troops
|
the discontiuuance of the noon day gun,
= which has been fired every day since
u 1912.
e w. S. Godbe the rebellious Mormon,
> has sued Brigham Young for money,
which he lent him some time ago. and
which Brigham refuses to pay, since
:, Coolies apostaey.
d Maltese and Cashmere goats success
FULLY take the place of cows at Olatho,
X, giving a gallon q day of the richest
, milk, which ia said to be equal to the
= cream of a cows milk.
/ An ambitious English artist wants tc
Q build an immense national mausoleum
n large enough for the interment of 2000,-
u 600 bodies, beside which St. Paups would
sink into in.ignifcance.
/ The Dickens Bolton feud at Memphi.
is estimated to have already cost at least
/ S15O,OOO in law suits, not to speak of tbs
D numerous murders and attempted muir
0 ders which have resulted from it.
A woman in London attempted to cure
I her child of whooping. cough by repeated
. doses of spiders, with such poor success:
that the child was almost dead, wher
e she finally carried it to hospital.
Corrine, Utah, complains that it has tc
pay the same prices now for many of its
commodities as six years ago, when gold
= was 1870, and mules furnished the only
r means of transportation west of the Mis-.
S souri,.
A passage from Central Park: Whit
tiers barefoot boy-"O golly! What q
/ shame for that old cuss to chuck the
S stump of his cigar into the lake, stead OF
. droppin' it where a Teller could pick il
t up~
: The commissioner of pensions at Wash
a ington decides that where women clerks
0 are deputized to perform the duties Of
g pension agents, their sex does not dis
r qualify them from administering the ne
/ cessary oaths and affidavits.
= The war cries with which Paris re
S sounded, two or three weeks ago, are said
/ TO have cost the imperial government 500,
e 900 day, nearly all of them coming from
bands of roughs, whom the project O.
Y police hired for the purpose.
o Death did not discharge the indebted
. ness of Chieagoan, who applied, couple
S of wears ago, for the benefit of the bank
S rupt act. but died before the matter wa
: settled, the United States District Cour
r. deciding, the other day, that as he haC
y failed before his death to take the pre-
scribed debtors oath, the discharge asked
. for by his attorney could not be granted
n Louisville tells of singular phenome
D non which occurred in that city about l.
5 o'clock, Tuesday night, the stars shining
Q brightly at the same time that fog pre-
: vailed, SO dense, that the clothing of per
= sons walking the streets was wet a
:. thoroughly as if they were passing
= through a shower.
|. Gen. Count Moltke has become NOR
: tacitarn than ever, and, as this is wei
known, scarcely ybody ever speaks t
! him, but every one waits until he speaks