Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-24
Gleanings.
.eoonia, N. Y, has q gas well.

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Gen. Buell. has taken forty years lease
of Kentucky coal mine.
The crown of England contains 17OO
diamonds, and is valued at $5OO,OOO.
A large cooperative wooden factory has
been established at Provo, Utah.
Nine of the II members of Congress
Just elected from Indiana are lawyers
Patterson, N. j., requires its bootblacks
to be registered, numbered and uni
formed.
The COPYRIGHT of w. r. Wrightons
song of "Sweet Home" was sold recently
at London for $4,000.
Mrs Mary Ellet, mother of Col. Charles
Ellet, the noted engineer, has just died at
Philadelphia, at the age of 81.
The hall of the representatives in the
state capital at Dover, Del, was rented to
a negro minstrel company, the other
night.
John L. Gardiner, newphew of ex-Pre-
sident John Tyler, was the bridegroom at
a fashionable New York wedding, on
Thursday.
The most accomplished shoplifter and
pick-pocket of Omaha, Neb., is said to be
girl who has not yet attained her thir-
teenth year.
A Toledo (O) property owner has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
an advertiser who stuck posters on
handsome new bnilding
John Bacot, the senior fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons of England. of
xyyht oh h,l ol he e. l.
20 years, died recently at the age of 80
years.
The manufacture of boxes for grapes
has become quite a branch of business,
and one firm in western New York has
made over 100000 during the past sea-
son. .
The wholesale oyster business of New
York employs capital of $5,000,0OO and
about $50 vessels are engaged in bringing
oysters from Baltimore and other southern
porte.
Mcfarland instead of being confined in
lunatic asylum, as recently reported, is
living with his brother in New York,
where he was intervied by reporter on
Thursday.
The supreme court of Illinois, consist
ing of Chief Justice Lawrence and Judges
Breese, McAllister, Scott, Sheldon, Thorn
ton and Walker, is now holding its first
session at Chicago.
Nebraska has just finished an insane
asylum, costing $4,000, and is now
building State Houae, to cost $500, 1000,
Penitentiary, to cost 100000, and a
State University, to cost $4,000.
Olivier is living in retirement at Pol
lene near Bella, in Piedmont, and is said
to be preparing for publication work en-
titled "My Ministry of the End of Janu-
ary." The first volume will bear the title
"The Plebisoite," and the second, "The
War
Rev. Thomas K Beecher advertised in
the Elmira N. ~ Adoertiser, on Satnr-
day, that he should speak of political par
ties, men aud measures, on Sunday even
ing, q. the Opera House, and that all per-
sons who are shocked by minister's med
ling with politics wore "warned to keep
away"
That fossil ship in the California desert
is accounted for as the remains of lighter,
built at San Francisco, and transported
on wagon to Fort Yuma, six years ago.
The teams probably lost the road, became
fast in one of the quioksandsi common on
the San Bernardino desert, and remained
to create confusion the scientific minds.
The government clerks in London have
Supply association" which, during the
six months ending with August 81, did
business of over $1,000,O00. After paying
all expenses, including nearly $4,000 as
salaries for the 300 persons employed In
the establishment, the net profits were
over 100000, which goes toward raising
the reserve fund, and reducing the price
of articles at the stores.
In the noted Vanderpool trial now In
progress at Kalamazoo, Mich, there is a
curious dispute between chemical experts.
Prof. Dufield Of Detroit, who analysed
the blood found in the Field-Vanderpool
Bank. said there were human crystals In
it. but Profs Douglass and Rose of Michi-
gan University, declare that the analysis
Of blood cannot distinguish between hui
man CRYSTALS and the blood of other ami
mails.
At New York now, fashionable mar
riages are regularly rehearsed IN the
churches. The entree, the bow, the
oringe, the posture, and the promenade,
are now things of great moment. To be
well drilled in these, the bridal party
meet at the church and go through the
pantomime. The positions to be occupied
are assumed c,the huge trains are put in
position the steps counted oil, so that
there may be no break down when the
ceremony takes place
Ben Haladays Oregon railroad is run
ming now from Portland to Salem, fifty
miles up the Wallamet valley. Miss Liz.
zie Boies, formerly of Hampden county,
was the first woman to ride into Salem on
the cars, side by side with the handsome
and gallant Judge Deadly of the United
States district court of Oregon. The pas
senger fare for this fifty miles we should
cali somewhat steep in the East, being no
less than $3.50, or seven cents mile, but
it will come down by and by we suppose.
The New York Globe, one of the young
err afternoon papers of the great city,
shows vigor and enterprise equal to any
of its contemporaries, and is meeting with
success and prosperity in consequence. 1t
came out on Monday enlarged, printed on
new type, and improved every way, and
is now one of the most complete and in
teresting of the New York evening pa
pers. Mr.. Charles H. Williams, formerly
of Springfield, is the editor and principal
owner, but most of the employees are also
owners of stock in its capital, shares be-
ing placed at the low figure of $40, to en-
able all to have an interest who choose.
Paris is not yet taken, but the pen with
which Bismarck is to sign the treaty OF
peace is already prepared. 1t is made of
massive gold, in imitation of an ordinary
stout goose quill. The quill itself is pol
ished, in order that it may be more con-
veniently handled, but the feather close
" resembles real quill, every fiber being
represented, while the back Of the feather
is thickly studded with brilliants, and
below them counts coronet and Bis
marck's monogram are engraved. Besides
the engraver and maker, two goldsmiths
were engaged on it for five weeks. The
gold employed is of Is carats, and that
,ark ~, bril1ianfa ara sat ia of