Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-20
In Gene raI.
The Bible is free in Spain.
A Chicago firm Is Good 6 knott.

The Bible is free in Spain.
A Chicago firm Is Good & knott.
Du Chaillu is lesturing in New York.
Ministers are said to be the longest
lived men.
Memphis is miserable with myriads of
mosquitoes.
The Sutro tunnel at Virginia city, Ne
vada, is in 1916 feet.
The wine given the Prussian soldiers
costs fifteen cents a bottle.
Quebec derives $4,000 annual revenue
from chimney-sweeping.
A postmaster by the name of Goodale
when he is in hurry signs it Xxx.
Queen Victoria has more Mohammedan
subjects than the Sultan of Turkey.
Cinnamon are engaged in the mushroom
trade along the San Joaquin, California.
Brigham Young has ordered daily
prayers by the Utah clergy against the
grasshopper this summer.
A man has just paid $50 to a New
York steamship company for tho passage
of dog aoress the ocean,
A Western paper is responsible for the
statement that Missourian has the name
of Severe Frost.
John Young, conductor on the Hud-
son River Railroad. has travelled 1885,
600 mile s, and he's Young yet
admiral" Semmes opens a course in
Mobile with lecture on THE Three De-
oi+ive Naval Battles of Antiquity"
A Londoner has published an historical
drama, in four acts, with the significant
title, The Mutual Scourges; or, France
and Her Neighbors."
A Philadelphia paper says that ritual.
ism has sustained a check in that city in
the election of low church vestries at the
resent parish meetings.
A number of cotton planters have turn
ed their attention to sugar in Louisiana.
1t is estimated that the crop will give
100000 hogsheads this season.
The Columbus, Ca, merchants paid
taxes on sales to the amount of 81 500 900
during the year 1860 The books for 1870
show $4,0OO,O00 worth of goods sold.
If Brigham Young wore an additional
W6tu Ou LIS hhb SlhAo ne tOst ii W1I6
or mother-in-law, it is estimated that he
would have to have hat tweuty-seven
feet high.
George w. Curtis, Robert B. Minturn
(son and successor to the Robert B. Min
turp), and General Barlow, all three,
have married daughters Of the well-known
Francis Shaw, and sisters of the gallant
Colonel Shaw, who fell fighting at the
head of his negro troops in front of Fort
Wagner, Charleston, s. G.
DR.. Karl Heinrich Schultz Sohultzen-
stein of Berlin, one of the most eminent
botanists of Germany, died on the 23d
ult. Although in his I'D year, he was
remarkably active, and was lecturer on
physiology as well as on botany in the
University of Berlin, with which he had
been connected since 1929. e4
The May number of the Overland
Monthly will print paper on the famous
Yellowstone River expedition of last wear
through the wilds of Montana Territory.
furnished by Walter Trumbull, the Oldest
son Of Senator Trumbull, who lives at the
capital of the Territory, and was a mem.
Der of the expedition.
Mr.. Edwin M. Bacon, who has been
for nearly two years assistant editor of
the New York Times, will withdraw from
that paper on the first of May. We do
not know that he intends to connect him.
self with any other journal, but Mr.. Ba.
cons experience in the profession, and his
Jealous performance of, and love for, its
duties, will hardly permit him to remain
long unemployed. III health, superinduced
by overwork, is the cause of his resigna.
tion.-Gdzette.
The rigid observance of old English
rules in the South Carolina courts and
neglect of the same on the part of Mr..
Pstigru, gave rise to the following pas.
sage:
I "Mr. Petigru," said the Judge, "You
have on light coat. You can't speak"
Petigru replied: "May it please the
Bench, conform strictly TO the law. Let
me illustrate; the law says that the bar.
rister shall wear black gown and coat
and your thinks that means black
coat 2"
"Yee." said the Judge.
"Well, the law ALEC says the sheriff
shall wear cooked hat and sword. Does
your honor hold that the sword must be
cooked a. well as the hatw