Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-30
Gleanings and Gossip.

Gleanings and Gossip.
w Gilmore Simms is to have mon
ument. @
The Bible-in-school question is agitat-
ing New Zealand.
"A Pennsylvania avoids paying his
board bill by marrying his boarding mis-
tress.
Somebody proposes meeting OF the
descendants of the signers of the Declare |
ton, July A, 1876.
-Pouyer- Quertier, the eminent French
protectionist, got only seven-franc audi |
ence recently at Dion. .... IT,
Old Paul de Kock is again on the
| Partisan stage and Figaro defends him
| from the charge of immortality.
Copies of Guido's Beatrice Cenci and
of Raphaefs Holy Family brought 1901
each at New York, last week.
Congressman E. I'll. Moore of the fif-
teenth Ohio district, native of Worces-
ter county, Mass, declines renomina-
ton.
Meade, the sculptor, has already
shipped to this country plaster cast of
his model of Lincoln, TO be cast in bronze
at Chicopee
The late Clarence Willard bequeathed
$4,000 to the Troy, N. " Y. M. @. A.,
and to various other public purposes $19,-
900.
"A Lutheran church at Watert own.
Wis. was recently the scene of an &C.
couchement during service, but the new
conner was so quiet that the ministf II kept
on his sermon, unsuspicious of the
unspiritual "new birth in his CT Ingrega-
ton.
The royal observatory of Ems land has
received about 60 offers of individual as
sistance in the observation of the next
eclipse. Probably two expeditions will
be formed, one to Sicily and one to Spain.
hoping to have fair weather in one place
or the other.
Bishop Heber's widow, who has Just
died, was a niece of Sir William Jones.
the orientalist, and after her husbands
death married a Corfote nobleman, Con mt
Valmasachi. The bishop was the author
of the missionary hymn, From Green
lands Icy Mountains"
The San Francisco Bulletin uraes
the building of second branch along the
Pacific railroad for freight, as the best So
luton of the problem of transportation.
slow trains being very much less exp an.
sive than swift, and equally service .able
fer tho hulk ef ranorohandiAe.
The Indianapolis Journal, the leadino
repu blioan paper of Indiana. has been
sold by Douglas & Conner to Messrs
Hasselman, Fishback and II alloway. the
first of the three assuming the business
management; Mr.. Fishbs ok, who il a
brother of the leading rnanager of the
St Louis Democrat, bei'Ig the editor. and
; Mr.. Holloway the assistant.
The San Francisco Knights of Pv.
thias, while on steamboat excursion,
the other day, found their steamboat
| drifting, with the officer at the wheel and
| the engineer both drunk and the boilers
in Il critical condition. They took charge
OF the vessel themselves, and finally came
| safe into port.
Sing Pc Yu Long, formerly grand ad.
mlral OF the Chinese navy, from which he
was dismissed by the Emperor for dis
; obedience in the opium war, died recently
as common laborer on the California
and Oregon railroad. His fellow-country-
men got up an imposing funeral in his
honor.
MIR. Greene Smith, the only son of
Gerrit Smith, who is an ardent natura-
list, has been lecturing at Cornell uni
versity with great success. He sails from
New York next Tuesday, with Prof. Hartt
OF Cornell and thirteen of his students, to
make a scientific tour of six months in
Brazil.
Troy had, last week, thoroughly
Mcfarland trial, except chat Judge Hoge-
boom failed to act the part of Recorder
, Hackett. Cosier had fatally stabbed
Reardon for seducing his wife, Mrs Cosier
and Reardon at the time of their amour
being both inmates of that we'll known
house of fashionable free-love, the county
Jail. Cosier had freely declared, after the
stabbing, that he intended to have killed
his victim, and was defended, first, on the
ground of "justifable homicide" second,
on that of emotional insanity" Judge
Hogeboom secuted the first idea, and con-
fined the insanity plea to cases in which
the full knowledge of the guilty connec-
ton burst suddenly upon the injured par
; ty and produced an immediate and unpre-
meditated assault. The jury. ON Satur-
day, stood ten to two for conviction, and,
being sent out again, returned him guilty
of murder in the second degree. He was
sentenced to four years.
San Francisco is just beginning to
notice that while Broderick sleeps nnder
a monument, Gen. Baker, the here of
Balls Bluff, lies beside him unepitaphed.
Denmark has "maiden assurance
company" with which father NAV de-
posit money which shall bear four per
cent interest to his daughter during her
minority, higher rate after she is Is end
an increase at various other periods of her
life. We have plenty of "maiden assur-
ance" in this country, but it isn't char
tered so as to be very profitable.
Emile de Girardin, the Partisan
journalist, now that he is appointed to the
Senate, wishes to sell his paper, La
Liberte, which has been the best in Paris
for five years. He claims to have new
idea every day, at the same hour, and
does all his thinking at fixed time. de-
voting fifteen minutes daily to it. He is
a short, big-headed man, near-sighted,
clumsy, and probably the wittiest iourna-
list in Europe, the particular friend of
Jerome Bonaparte, although less radical
in everything than his crony.
i Experiments were recently made at
| Washington to prove how greatly the ex-
pansive influence of solar heat has damag-
ed the dome of the capital. A long plum
line was fastened to the under side OF the
ceiling of the rotunda. and extended to
the stone pavement below The plummet
described daily an elliptical curve, of
which the longest diameter was from
east to west, and amounted in hot, sunny
, days to four or five inches. Prof Henry
of the Smithsonian Institute remarks in
regard to this, .. By molecular action of
this kind, perpetually continued, time,
| the slow but sure destroyer, levels to the
ground the loftiest monuments Of human
lpride."