Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-24
News Items.

Virginia is raising silk.
| Chicago has 10000 Indians
Russians are trying to raise tea.
-Galena, ILL.,, is hopelessly bankrupt
Paris has nineteen comic papers.
Texas has ratified the 18th amend
ment.
London has 1852 ,543 paupers.
There are 500 drinking places ii
Troy.
There are 5000 Chinese in San Fran
cisco.
The Prusslan King favors the death
penalty.
-Philadelphia has an Anti Woman's
Rights Society. ...
Terra Haute, Ind, wants to be the
National Capital.
Fat dogs are worth SO per dog in
Texas since the Chinese went there.
Mobile is eating sparingly of straw
berries at 50 quart.
"A gold dollar has been found inside
of squirrel shot in Ohio.
"A Texas beef-condensing factory
packs whole bullock in underground
can.
Newark is going to have $500, 900
park. ,
Gold has been discovered on Big
Creek, Indiana.
Texas has strawberries four inches in
circumference.
Butter and hogs nhaarer IN DUs-
ton than in Vermont.
A fifty-four pound turkey is the pride
and joy of Montgomery, Ala.
The gold beads Of our grandmothers
are once more fashionable.
"A blind tight rope walker has been
performing at Opelousas, La.
The rice crop of the Sandwich Islands
has been destroyed by rats.
An average of about one hanging per
week takes place in the United States.
San Francisco Is the tenth city in the
United States in point Of population.
Three Cases of relapsiny fever occur
red in Brooklyn yesterday.
Unmarried men are excluded from
juries in Illinois when breach OF promise
cases are on trial.
AT recent fox hunt in the Isle of
Wight several persons followed the
hounds on bycicles.
Charlotte, N. c., lights it's streets on
Sunday nights only
Street loafers in Lynchburg, Va, are
sent to the chain-gang.
Ohio proposes to give $4,000 for a
monument of Gen. Harrison.
The latest woman in Philadelphia
keeps q lager beer saloon and weighs 600,
Bucks county Pa, it is said, fur
nishes most of the cigars smoked in Phila-
delphia. lea.
"A Western paper suggests the head
of "Ante-nuptial Divorces" for broken en-
gagements
Theresa has refused an offer of $70,-
900 francs and expenses, for a six months
engagement in the United States.
Some one tells of Washington girl
who wouldn't waltz with Prince Arthur,
on principle. That was prince he had
never heard of
The Prussian House is to vote by
electricity. The machine allows no dodg-
ing, for it shows to all the House which
way each member votes
The Yale students are to have foot
race ut the CLOSE of the term, Ia show that
he who reads Iuust run ..
"A Cincinnati confidence man paid his
board bills for several weeks by counting
the landlady. but defaulted just before
the promised wedding. ....,
The subject of DR.. Mary Walkers
lecture before the Senate is supposed to
b. either Pathology ar P,rrt- he-iam
\ sp'rifuei medium II N. York has
declared that ''Shop Fly was composed
by Byron ghost, aud dedicated to H,,r-
riet Beecber Stowe. ......s .... ....r
The Council of Sandusky, O., hpsi-
tates TO pay the bill of clergyman for
preaching the funeral sermon of a negro
VIM aASA Va PpA' hc sum VI
So so was considered too high.
The clerk of the Alabama Legisla-
ture thinks of asking more pay, 1t cuts
into his salary quite heavily to subsidize
a schoolmaster to revise his photography
"A servant girl in Troy, in the habit
of pilfering her employers liquor, drank
bug poison by mistake the other day
and, ashamed to confess her mistake, met
the fate of the bugs. -
An Illinois woman, who wanted to
/ go to.a masquerade party as Mary Queen
of Scots, looked through the Bible tc
ascertain how the character was dressed
There is 10 feet of water on the ba,
4 at Pass-a-fOutre, at the mouth of the
Mississippi, and the dredge boat "Essa
! yons" will have the bar entirely opened
in a few weeks.
/ "A North Carolina editor complain,
i that certain New York danseuse makes
more with her heels than he does with hi
head. Doubtless they IRE the better edu
Gated. f