Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-26
Review OF the Week.

lowas Republican maJori'y 10 1o'o00'
Cbolera still RACES in Constantinople.-
Demooracy's ms ority in Texas is 10000,
which they would gladly exchange for
the majority in Iowa.-Pestilence and
famine continues to rage in Persia.-The
area of the Chicago fire exceeds 2,OOO
acres. That of the great fire OF Rome, A.
D. GA, over which Nero didn't fiddle, was
about 1908 acres. That of the great fire
Of London, A. d. 1866 was about 436 acres
Every vote cast in the Mexican Con-
press when the Presidential election took
place, 103 in all, was given to Juarez.
His opponents did not vote.--Kansas has
got into the fire ring.-The price Of tic
kets for the ball to the Grand Duke Alex
is. at New York, is $40. Cheap at the
money, considering how scarce are Grand
Dukes. We wish the figures could be
settled. - California has hot and dry
weather, and fires in tho mountains
E,rtbouake shocks were felt at Augusta
and Wiscasset, (Me) on Thursday after
noon.-A discovery of gold in Winnipeg
ia nnounosd.-Montre, has given $780,
900 in aid of the Chicagoans.-The Jews
Of New York have contributed literally
towards the relief of Chicago.-Eighty'
nine newspaper establishments We're des-
troyed by the fire in Chicago-Lsoonia'
n. Fl. had an earthquake shock at mid
night, last Saturday, October 10Th IL
has become the custom for some parts or
New England to be shocked in October
The accounts published of the fires in
Western woods, and on western prairles,
involving western towns, villages and
farms, show that, as a whole, they are
fully equal in terror and destruotiVenes'
TO the Chicago calamity. After making
allowance for the exageeration that Is
Natural under such visitatious, it is "a
clear as flames can can make it that the
people OF large parts of the Northwest
have been subjected to evils that are with
ont precedent or parallel. Wisconsin
and Michigan bear the weight OF these
evils. though some other States do
not altogether escape. It is assorted that
the fires were not caused by human care
lessness, az was at first supposed to be the
case, but by an electrical tornado, which
DESTROYED everything in its COURSE
course of wind and fire, exceeding any
thing told of the deadly samiel. This,
. however, ia told only of the Wisconsin
fres.-and more than 1900 persons, it ia
added, were burned to death in the torna-
dos track, which was ten miles wide.
The loss Of life through all these fires
must be large, but perhaps the dead are
the most fortunate of the victims, as the
survivors, stripped Of everything even to
their skins, have An iron winter before
them, that must be full of misery, the
the only harvest it can yield. The de-
strnotion OF property was enormous. 1t
ia put at $1OO000,000 in Michigan alone
doubtless a rough estimate, and an ex-
agreration of fearful fact.-Thursday,
Ootober 10Th, was the ninetieth auniver-
sarv Of the surrender of the Anglo Ger
man army and the British fleet under Lord
Corn wallis at Yorktown. to the combined
land and naval forces of America sud
France, commanded by General Wash
ington the Connie dc Roohsmbeau, and
the CJmte do Grasse,-an event that viz
tually closed the war Of the American
Revolution. Ten years more and CEN
tury will have thrown its mists around
the turning military event Of our history.
The same day was the seventh anniVer-
s.ry of General Sheridan's final victory
over General e irly, one of the most bril-
liant and useful successes OF the secession
war. 81 the day is great one in our
acnall, and deserving to be held IN last
iog remen. brsnce,-as it will be.-Charies
O'Conor has been appointed to help the
New York Attorney General do nothing,
that is help bring the Tsmmany Ring
70 instica. That farce is pretty nearly
played cut. Tweed & Co., are likely to
be- too many for the other side, aud t.
ri,g the noses of the ringleaders of their
toos. The only chance there ever can be
for bringing the Ring to the ringholt
,nust he found in Republican victory IN
New York State.