Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-22
GIeanings and Gossip.

Caterpillers are destroying hundreds ct
acres of cabbages on Long Island.
A Dubuque Ia.) reporter was cowhided
by woman, last week, for slander.
A couple of Terre Haute 1nd.) gard
ners have sold 381, 900 cucumbers this
season.
The younger SON Of Mr. Gladstone is a
curate, attached to one of the churches in
Lambeth, London.
The mammoth cave has been visited by
more people this season than tor number
of years past.
A woman has carried off the $500 prize
offered for the best managed farm in Ok
fordshire. England.
The Victoria (Australia) Parliament,
during its recent session, abolished all
state aid to religion.
Isaac Cremieux, the new French Minis
ter of Justice, is president of the Israelite
Alliance at Paris.
A large number of horse cars were ship
ped from New York to Buenos Ayres, S.
A, last week.
Mrs Scott-Siddons is playing Elizabeth
in Tom Taylor's "Twixt AK and
Crown" at Woods museum in New York.
A Berlin paper published, the other
day, pretended dispatch from 81. Hsie-
ma, stating that rooms were being put in
order there for expected guests.
James W. Marshall, one of the several
original discoveries of gold in California,
who is 70 years old and very poor, is
writing book on his experiences.
A man was fatally stabbed at the
Methodist camp meeting at Milesburg,
Pa, last week, by a rough with whom he
was demonstrating for riotous conduct
Omaha promises to become as famous
for sef-packing as Cincinnati Is for pork
packing. One firm in Omaha intends 10
pack 10000 head OF cattle this season.
A Patterson *. j. couple were mar
ried, the other day, but, the morning
after the wedding, the groom disappeared,
and nothing has since been seen or heard
of him.
John Morrissey has purchased a piece
of ground opposite the Clarendon Hotel
at Saratoga, and intends 10 build upon it
large hotel perhaps before next sumner
During a recent thunder storm IN Min
nesots, lightning Is reported TO have
struck the ground and bored hole shout
eight inches In diameter and over twenty
feet deep.
William S. Lincoln, the ex member OF
Congress who wss caued recently ST
Washington by james Segar, another eE-
member. only escaped a fracture OF the
skull by the wig that he wore.
Col. James Monroe, who died at New
York last week. at the age OF II, ws- a
nephew of President Monroe, and had
been a member of the State Legislature
and a representative in Congress.
Sir Denis lie Marchant, who has been
clerk of the British House of Commons Tor
twenty years, l. about 10 retire, and Will
probably be succeeded by Sir Erskine
May, the first assistant clerk.
The English church pays its % bishops
an annual salary of $3.50, ,500-an average
of about $2S,O00 each, the highest salary
being that OF the archbishop Of Canter-
bury, which is S75 600 a year.
Napoleos is reported TO have said, dur
ing the height Of his power a. Emperor Of
France, that he had a presentim' nj that
be would end his day. in Cbespside, Lon
don, where be formerly resided.
a German of Shsler, Pa, walked eff
from the porch of the hotel where be was
boarding. in a fit Of somasmbulisIB, the
other night, and fell hesdlong 70 the
ground, distance of twenty feet, killing
him instantly.
C6l. James B. Marshall. who was recent
ly killed at Memphis, by falling from a
second story window, was a brother Of
Marshall of Louisville, and
had been connected with a number of
newspapers in the South.
The Eastern Star, or Ladies' Masonic
degree, is rapidly spreading in the north
western States. Mississippi las slresdy
seven chapters, and Missouri three, while
on the Pacific coast there are in Californis
two chapters and in Washington one.
An Irishwoman living near jackson.
Mich, while engaged in hanging out her
the other day, was bitten in the
face by potato bug which she brushed
,f the line. Her face Immediately com
nenced to swell, and she rapidly grew
worse, and died after three days OF sgory.
A Cleveland firm has contracted TO
build series of bridges over the Mobile
River and a couple Of bayous. not far
from Mobile, for the Mobile and Mohtgom-
cry Railroad, which will be about 21OO
ieet long, and cost nearly 100000. There
will be five draws in the succession Of
bridges.
Donald Dinnie, the Scottish champion
lthlete, who is now in this country. was
BORN at Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, in 1885,
md commenced his career as an athlete IN
857 He is six feet and one inch in
height, weighs 210 pounds and Is 4Gl
inches round the chest. He has taken
,ver 1900 prizes, 62 silver medals and one
yold medal.
The democrats of Nebraska have put Ia
nomination the following state ticket
Governor, John II. Croxton of Ofoe Sec
etary of state, Peran England Of Lsncas-
er treasurer, Jacob Vallery, Sr., OF C4-s
of public instruction, A
{. Conkling of Burt state prison inspec-
or, Richard Brown Of Columbus sttor-
ley general, William II Morgan Of Dodge
member of Congress, George b. Lake Of
Douglas.
On Sunday afternoon, o little girl,
hree years old, named Cecilia Arthur,
While passing through a shed IN the rear
f her fathers house, in ST. Louie, acci-
entIy pulled over piece of wire railing,
uch as is used in surrounding counting
Iouse desks, and the edge OF the iron
,res-ing against her throat wedged her
against large desk In this
osition she remained nearly half an bour
Sithout the power 10 call for relief, when
be was found by her mother strspgled 10
cath.
A Portsmouth N. H. womsn, in re-
ponse TO the questions of the census
sker, returned seven as the number OF
er children, and rather noDplussed the
allant official by telling him 70 count
ne more for the next week The
bashed Joseph" declined. on the
round that be couldn't decide in ad-
ance how to class the expected hu-
nan.
Mrs. Weleh, of New York. doesnt be-