Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-22
Random lettings.

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Wilkie Collins, having recovered from
his collie. meditates an interviewing tour
of the United States very shortly.
Prof. Nordinskiold of Stockholm is one
month ahead of Captain Hall in an Arc.
tic expedition, and will probably secure
the North Pole and sail away with it be-
fore that officer gets there.
Jim Fisk, Jr., finding military and
dramatic cares combined too much fol-
him. will relinquish the latter, and his
opera house will be opened in the fall I'M
der the management of John Cole.
The largest block of marble ever quar-
ried in this country has just reached New
York from San Francisco, for the new
Central park fountain. The slab will be
II feet square all cut, weighs 70 tons and
cost $4,000
Joseph Medill of Chicago has purchased
sugar plantation of 1900 acres and 600
hegsheads capacity, near Brashear City,
La, for $4,000. He has heard good
deal about the lordly planters in days
agone, and wants to know how it is him
self
Col. William LETTERS, the marshal OF
Clarkton, Mo, in spite of the fact that he
was confederate officer in the late war,
has been driven from his home by kuklux,
and forced to settle in Cape Girardeau,
because he felt disposed to accept the
situation.
While a militia regiment was march
ing across a bridge at Waterford, n. Y,
recently, a little boy was crowded into
the canal. The Lieutenant-C Colonel, who
showed that he deserved his epaulettes,
jum ped in, with sword, spurs, and all,
and brought him safely to land.
A Milwaukeean has invented process
to prevent the fraud of altering checks,
by making the amount of the draft in
water mark on the paper. Thus check
of $85 drawn on paper having the water
mark 100 upon it, cannot be changed to
any higher sum without instant detee.
tion.
A trial for contempt of court has re-
Gently been in progress against New
York man, because during the two years
that he has been confined in the Ludlow
street Jail for swindling, his jailer has
taken him daily into the arena of Wall
street speculations, and he has grown rich
all the time.
Mrs Moore is Of the stuff heroes are
made of. Recently at Nashville, when her
son fell down well, "a feet deep, she
neither tainted or screamed, but instantly
swung herself down "hand over hand"
caught the child with her feet, drew her.
self and son all the way up again, and
then, woman-like, spanked the boy for
falling in.
Several years ago, q Virginia planter
gave one of his slaves, likely boy, his
freedom. After the war the planter re-
moved to Oregon, and recently he has re-
ceved from the negro, as token of re-
membrance and gratitude, the right to
m an ufactura and sell in the Pacific states
a patent window fastener invented by
him.
S. T. Bachelor of Rockport, Ind, died
recently very suddenly. Unfortunate for
Mrs. Bachelor, whose first husband also
died very suddenly, he was grand master
of a lodge of Masons, and the fraternity,
saying "Can these things be-" dug him up
and found neat leaven of stryehnine in
his stomach, which his wife is now in
Jail to explain.
The boosted courtesy of the South was
lately shown up at public teachers
meeting at New Orleans. A Miss Morris
whose name was on the programme to
speak had just finished, when scion Of
the first families arose and from notes be
had taken, ridiculed her opinions, and
mimicked her popularity of voice until
he drove her weeping from the stage.
The family of Henry Kirkham of Hi
nois while eating supper, recently, were
lifted bodily from their seats by globe
of fire which came rushing through The
air and burst with fearful defamation be
fore their door. No on had seen the
strange visitor in its passage and no trace:
of it could be found afterwards. Proba
bly, the angel Gabriel on tour of inspec
ton.
According to all address recently ISSUED
! by the association of German brewers IL
the United States, the late war was no
one of races, but q contest between tn
heslth-giviug lager beer and enervatins
absinthe, in which the former was victo
rious. Of course. And then. when the tes
was over, absinthe run riot in fire ant
blood, while lager flowed only for cement
ing the empire.
The rich vein of block coal recent,
discovered in Illinois has been essaye'
and found to contain less ashes than an
thracite 1t Lies further down than an.
other vein thus found, and the reason
why it was never discovered before is tina
biologists and scientific pretenders hav
denied the existence of any coal below tn
two foot vein, on the theory that wha
they do not know does not exist.
An Alabama planter several-years az
satisfed that the vitality of the cotto
plant was destroyed only by frost, trie
an experiment with a single plant. Th
second year he picked eight hundre
, pounds from it. Last year it yielde
: twelve hundred and ninety-three pound
of lint cotton. 1t is now twenty-five fee
. high and promises as much as three bale
of cotton. At this rate man with
. acre of land can become independentl