Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-10-06
GIeanings and Gossip.
Philadelphia spends 100000 year
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for 100000 barrels of beer.
Kentucky's sweet potato crop, this year
is the largest ever raised.
A Wisconsin judge recently fined him.
self dollar for hardness at court.
The most popular physician at St.
Petersburg is woman-Madam Snslotf.
A woman at La Crosse, Wis, recently
drowned her two children, took poison
herself, and then set fire to her house.
The lager beer bre vers of New York
have formed a trade union for the pur-
pose of securing an increase OF wages.
Several large coal mines in the Schuyl-
kill region have been suspended on ac-
count of a lack of water for the boilers.
The Chicago board of education has
adopted rule prohibiting teachers from,
receiving presents from their pupils, on
penalty of dismissal from service.
German labor takes the preference OF
all other in Texas, and in the Galveston
market their cotton commands a cent per
pound over others, in consequence of care
full handling.
4 Kentucky peddler, while entering
the yard of man in Montgomery coun-
ty, few days ago, was attacked by a
mastiff, which sprang upon his neck and
strangled him to death.
An Indiana convict who escaped from
jail, recently, returned voluntarily in
about a week, saying that he felt mean AS
soon as he got out, and wished himself
back where he rightfuly belonged.
A church in Yokohama, Japan, talked
of raising money for the purchase of an
organ by lottery, but public sentiment
revolted against the project, and the gov
eminent prohibited the enterprise.
Cabbages are a total failure this year in
the vicinity of Toronto, Canada, having
been destroyed by green caterpillar, and
several cattle have died from eating cab
bages impregnated by the worm.
The woods of Passiac' county, N. J., are
reported to be infested by a Bengal tiger,
which is supposed to have escaped from a
circus, and large parties are securing the
woods in search of the brute.
The business women of New Orleans re-
Gently held an indignation meeting, and
to rent no more boxes in the post
office until decent entrance way to the
building shall be provided for them.
The society of Mexican veterans in San
Francisco celebrated, on the 18th, the gath
of the capture of the City of
Mexico, elected Gen. Halleck president,
and made General Sherman an honorary
A New York Frenchman, who had be-
come insane from the recent reverses of
the armies of his native country, commit
ted suicide on Friday by leaping from
the roof of house to the ground, dis
lance of so feet.
At the recent democratic convention in
Delaware county, Ia, women were nomi-
mated by acclamation for the offices of re
corder of deeds and superintendent of
and woman was nominated as
one of the three supervisors.
The exports of hops from this country
during the last year were 16,356,631
pounds, tho value of which was $2,5l7,
784. As two pounds of hops are used to
1 barrel of beer, the quantity exported
was sufficient for over 100000 barrels.
The most fashionable marriages now-a-
lays are the simplest. Several have oc-
,urred lately in which there were neither
nor groomsmen, cards, recep-
lions or display.
At the recent Methodist Conference at
Cedar Falls, Ia, a resolution was intro
luced declaring that it is true Methodigm
10 oppose woman suffrage Two hundred
ministers voted on the question, and the
'esolution was laid on the table by a small
An adventurer who left for California %
years ago with little more than enough
money to obtain a storage passage, on
ais death in the latter country, not long
100, left 100000 worth of property for
among poor relatives at Ron
1out, n. Y, and 100000 for his servants.
During the visit of circus at Fort Ed
ward, N. Y, last month, a young alligator
escaped from its cage and hid under the
drift wood in the Hudson. Efforts to
capture it have hitherto failed, while
ducks and goslins are becoming very
scarce in that neighborhood.
A petrified human body OF colossal pro-
portions was recently discovered on the
right bank of the Detroit river, and ira
dition among the residents of the neigh
borhood connects the body with that OF q
giant, who was murdered for his money
abous twenty years ago, near the city OF
Wyandotta.
A young and beautiful girl Jumped
from an elevation OF fourteen feet, into the
river at Buffalo, few days since, for the
purpose Of ending her life, but after com
ing in contact with the water and mud,
she so far changed her mind TO be glad
to seize pole extended to her by boat
man.
Cincinnati is boasting of the notable
events already down on its programe for
the month of October, which include the
industrial exposition, the southern com
mercial convention, the Green Line ex-
curaion, the meeting of the free religious
association, the national schuetzenfest,
the prison reform convention, the meeting
of the Irish benevolent union and meet
ing of the synod of Cincinnati.
Although it is true that milwaukee,
shipped, last year, nearly half million
more bushels of wheat than Chicago, the
latter city destroys the claim of Mitwan-
kee to be the largest grain market III the
world. by showing that Chicago shipped
some two and half million more ,rrels
of fur than her Wisconsin, rival, which
red Bce to wheat would put her some six
million bushels ahead of Milwaukee.
In the battle of Metz the soldiers of a
Prussian regiment, as protection against
the continual showers of bullets that the
enemy poured upon them, fastened their
knapsaGks across their chests. After the
battle many of them discovered that these
tactics saved their lives, as they found in
them no small number Of bullets, which,
instead of striking them in the breast, had
only entered their calfskin cuirasses.
During the week ending with the 23d
five murders were committed in Chicago
or its immediate vicinity. The last wa.
that of Clement 7. Barber, foreman of one
of the dredges at work on the canal in the
southwestern part of the city, whose
body was found in the canal, Friday
morning, with the head terribly mutilat