Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-05

Vallejo, Cal, wants the future Pacific
Coast Navy Yard.
There are 900 pupils studying Ger
man in the Cincinnati schools.
4 Swedish woman at Holmes City
MINI, has suicided by eating match
heads.
Gen. James Craig of st. Joseph, is an.
other candidate for the vacant Missouri
Senatorship.
jeff Davis has commenced his public
career again by leoturing TO Sabbath
school in Jackson, Miss.
Bowen smoethed the departure of Til.
ton from the Independent by the gift of q
$500 stem-windiug gold watch.
"Grace Greenwood" joins in McCreery's
appeal to pay Gen. Lees widow the valua-
ton of the Arlington estate.
At the battle of Gravelotte, trumpeter
was killed by ball which went in at the
mouth of his instrument.
The grand jury at New York has in.
dicted the elevated railway as an illegal,
imperfect and hazardous nuisance.
Lorillard the tobacconist has just paid
$500 fine for ten days non-attendance as
United States petit juror in New York
May Bellard of La Crosse, Wis, took a
hot brick to bed with her to warm her
feet, and burned up $4,000 house by Sc
doing.
The Troy Times exculpates the MUIR
dered Kittle of Stephentown, n. Y, from
the charge of causing Asa's blindness,
which removes the presumed palliation OF
Asa's crime.
A Hebrew circumciser of noted skill in
Cincinnati, within the last twenty years
has operated upon over 1000 of the pos.
terity of Abraham. His business has
largely increased of late years.
A Michigan creature brntally beat his
spirited horse few days ago, and the en-.
ragged animal finally kicked him in the
face and killed him. And the Michigan
papers call this terrible accident"
A facetious young gentleman from Gin
cinnati received the charge of shot gun
in return for his courtesy in calling an
Indiana farmer up in the night to advise
him to take in his chimney, as it was
freezing weather.
The Labrador fisheries were nearly en-
tire failures, last season. The catch was
not within a third of what it was in the
previous, and the result is that several
hundred families of fishermen arerendered
destitute for the winter.
A speaker at a recent Sunday school
convention at Vincennes related how 6
cruel parent forbade his daughter to 90 tc
church. and how he took every bit of hel
clothing and locked it up in a trunk, but
she went nevertheless. Didn't she have
even fig leaf
They vary the nursery hymn out in
Salt Lake thus
Dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God has made them so
And Brigham's priests will growl and tight,
And rob and murder too.
A new garter has just come out. It il
heavy round elastic chain, much the
style of the heavy gold chains upon which
lockets are worn, and has hook and eve
to it. Gold garter clasps, with the lady's
monogram on, form part of her trousseau
nowadays, and these have been gotten ny
with view to novelty.
"A hohoou Mou, WIN Wituuoius ulh
name, keeps annoying charitable inst.
tuition by sending $4,000 donations unde
cover of darkness, in violation of the law
Detectives are working the case up, ant
he can't go UNPUBLISHED. We know o
several benevolent concerns that would
like to be annoyed in the same way.
A. s. Wood, member of the Mississippi
Legislature from Yazoo county, commit
ted suicide, last week, in his room at tn.
jackson insane asylum, where he had beer
patient for some months; hanging him
self by towel from the topmost iron bal
of the window. He was a native of Yer
mont, 36 years old, and insanity wa
hereditary in the family.
The French are drawing on old ant
young men for their new armies. Boy
of 16 to 20 are enrolled, and exemption
are rarely allowed to the old and infirn
men. At Boulogne, those who had pre-