Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-26
rIeauIugs and Gossip.


cred, lately, at Cornwall, Canada, 200
feet above the level of the sea.
When they excavate in Denver, Col,
they "pan out" the earth, and serve up q
neat "color" Of "placer gold"
The Newark Adgeytiser comes out
strong ia favor of Mr.. Frelinghuysen as
United States Senator from that State.
A schoolmaster in Bucyrus, o., was
stabbed mortally few days ago by boy
whom he hap expelled for misconduct.
Frederick Douglas has pleased the New
York Tribune by coming out for high
t,riff, in his paper, the NeD National IRA,
~ Washington.
The Knusas Paeif Railway Company
have sold in two years 10000 acres OF
land for 100000. A hundred persons
from northern Illinois have located as the
Military Colony" on Walnut Greek, Col.
A sealed can Of oysters careiessly left
on the embers in store at Lexington,
mendous force, bursting the CRATE to
atoms, shaking the house, and severely
iniuriug bystander.
William n Byers, editor of the Rocky
Mountain NeaoS at Denver, Col, was en-
tertained at a banquet given by the Chi
o4ao editors, in the latter city, Friday
night, and speeches we're made by Gov.
Bross and others.
The Salt Lake theatre is actually I'M
popular. Built by the Mormon people,
Brigham Young consumes all its revenues,
and renders it obnoxious by banishing all
actors from the stage who do not folly
support him.
The Louisville Courier-JournsI advises
ofiioe.seekers that it will charge for the
insertion of recommendations of candi-
dates, as they are mere private business
speoulations of no possible public interest
This is a step ahead of Southern usage.
Helen, daughter of the great DIR. Chal-
mers, is devoting her life to the good of
the degraded poor of Edinburg. She
dw6lls among them, in low-roofed build
ing on a street crowded with drunkenness
AM misery. Her influence is something
marvellous.
Gustave Freytag, the German novelist
aud liberal, is about to start a newspaper,
ia Neueu Reich, haying retired from the
editorship of the Grenzboten in copse-
4uence of an attempt on the part of his
publisher to introduce his own religious
opinions into the paper.
Major Meriwether of Memphis, Tenn,
proposes new method of extending mu-
nicipal aid to railroads; by making the
sum advanced an equalized stock subscrip-
ton, each taxpayer to receive certificates
C g. H.
pays Tor this purpose.
Mrs. Lincoln is now in London, where
she will place her son Tad" at school,
and then join her friend, the wife of
Bishop Simpson, at Rome. A correspond
ent rather oontradictorily describes her as
reduced in flesh and impaired in health,
yet seemingly completely rejuvenated."
An Ohio man who passed around
plate at a religious meeting for contribu-
the money, has been acquitted of stealing
by jury of the vicinage on the ground
that he was the greatest heather they
knew, and therefore justly entitled to the
money
The plaintiffs cause in a suit to recover
on an insurance policy, a moot case in the
university at Ann Arbor, Mich, last Tues
day, was argued by Miss Mary Kilgore.
Payment had been refused on the ground
of the suicide of the insured, bat Miss
Kilgore won the decision in an able and
exhaustive plea. ....
The democratic Brooklyn Eagle, with
uncommon sense, says of the Hastings
Brooks controversy in Congress, that the
= IL % off a
GRAFTON ago has no bearing on the present
question, which is simply,-"Did Mr..
Brooks make money by supporting rail-
road grants in Congress"
Greenland got the news of the probable
outbreak of war between France and
Prussia at the visit of an American ship,
September 12, and unless by accident,
they will hear nothing further of the war
nntil next summer. That is almost the
spot Cowper sighed for, "where rumor OF
oppression or deceit shall never reach"
The Post of Chicago has invented new
historic and geographic fact OF much ia
terest, about Pennsylvania. 1t says Co
yode was born Gin Westmoreland County
that part of the Keystone State that
was wrenched from Connecticut after the
revolution" The general superstition has
been that Pennsy lvania was one of the
original thirteen, and that the area of
Connecticut was much less extensive
McConnellsville, o., revels in another
sensation. 1t is believed that a couple of
youug men, brothers, named Siegler, who
died OF singular ailment, were poisoned
10 prevent them from divulging the names
Of parties who have been committing de-
predations in that community for several
years past, information of which they OBJ
tanned by overhearing a conversation be-
tween some Of the parties.
In a Washington theatre, Gen. Garfield
was so excited over the sleep.walking of
Janauschek as Lady Macbeth, that he We
bemently grasped the back of the chair
before him, and with it a portion of the
eurls belonging to an elaborate chignon.
The consequence was that when the fair
owner, at the end of the scene, threw for
ward her head, the whole structure came
tumbling down, curls, braids, hair-pins
and ALL
An Z. 4. ", newhew of President Mon
roe and bearing the same name, who in
1858 threw up his commission as captain
in the United States navy and became a
Jesuit priest, preached as such in Wash
ington, the other day, and was actually
made the subject of special dispatches be-
cause he prophesied that the Pope would
soon be restored to temporal power. This
shows the Judgment of your sensational
specialist.
An Irish doctor IN Auburn, w T., is
said to have invented the desideratum in
motive engines, veritable iron horse.
The machine does not go on wheels, but
walks like a horse, on four legs, which
rises eight inches and make a forward
move of eighteen at every revolution of
center shaft which works them. The
shaft is ten feet long, the legs five feet
apart, it preserves its balance on uneven
ground, can go up and down heavy
grades, work on hard or soft ground. turn
round within its own length, rav, re,
and travel anywhere from three ~ tif'e.u
miles an hour. 1t is moved by self.
supplying chemical power, of certain al
kalies and acids, which the doctor him.