Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-03
Review of the Week.

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And Maland passed through, with his sprit-bride.
Review of the Week.
On Sunday afternoon at half past one
o'clock terrible accident occurred in
New York harbor, the full particulars of
which have previously been given. A
Staten Island ferry boat exploded killing
and wounding 170 people. The scenes
in the harbor were horrible and sickening.
There has been an earthquake in one
of the PHILIPPINE Islands by which more
than two hundred persons were swallowed
up.-It is becoming known to the English
that the Germans know ell about the con-
dition and character of their ports and
coasts, and also the strengthen weakness
of their ships. No doubt there are
thousands of German spies in Great Brit
ain, many of whom hold responsible
places It was so in France, and nothing
contributed more to the successes of the
German armies than the knowledge thus
obtained They knew the strength of
every piggery and henroost in Eastern
France, aud robbed them in the most in
telligent manner possible. The English
shomld catch few of those Germans who
are spying their land, and hang every
man Hans of 'em. If the law can't
touch the rasoals, let the English
"Americauize" themselves a little more,
and dispose of them la mode de Lynch.
Daniel Drew ia worth S37 100000.
What man to draw upon How fat be
will cat up by-and-by! One would like
| to be in at the death-in his will, we
mean.-.An amiable fellow in New York at
rioters sympathizing meeting, suggest
ed that Gov Hoffman should be hung on
lamp post Probably he had some
friend sent to the penitentiary by Recor-
der Hoffman for helping to hang colored
men on lamp-posts in 1868. and so he is
aching in his bones for "vengeance. -
Mrs Wharton had suffered from epilepsy
just before her imprisonment Her friends
are constant in their attentions and are
confident of her innocence. Her deugh-
ter remains with her all the time. A sis-
ter-in-law of hers is very hard upon her,
insinuatiug that she poisoned her (the
sister.in-law's) husband ADD child.-Wolf-
borough in New Hampshire, had the hon.
or of being extensively shaken up by the
earthquake of the Goth. There were
eight shocks experienced there, and
twenty cbinneys were laid low for the
benefit of masons, and stone walls
did not stand so firmly az that wall,
probably Virginia fence. from
which Stonewall Jackson got his
name for all time, The interior
of houses were a little disturbed, too
and altogether. Marlborough can lay
claim to earthquake honora, "a becomes
her name, but. we suppose, it ia the gem
eral sentiment of her people that they
have had enough of such distinction, and
would prefer obscurity to that kind Of
notoriety which comes from danger that
approaches to the limits of destruction.
Yet they had another shaking on the
24th.-The peach crop will be larger than
it has been in number of years. 10000
) crates arrived in New York Saturday
from one locality. - They are making
preparations in Paris to receive ex-Pres-
ident johnson. l. Andy going thither
to look after that other "lost cause, that
of the Commune ?-The Persian famine
is spoken Of in terrible terms-and now
| fho soEo of 60 hos
to augment the horrors under which
Iraun is suffering. Persia is a very diff
cult country to assist, and it is possible
that most of the inhabitants will perish.
Humanity can't wait long for food. "Eat
or die !" is a sentence from which there
can be no appeal. That godlike creature,
man, must stuff or starve.-M. Theirs
will not permit III. Favre te retire from
the French Ministry-The Communist
prisoners are to be tried in patches.
Eighteen will be the number of each bak-
ing by the court martial. The trials be-
gan Monday-The last title given by re-
port to Bismarck is that of Duke of Lux
embourg. This must be rather annoying
to the French, who had set down Lux
embourg for one ortheir own dishes. Had
they had that Duke of Luxembourg to
command their armies who fought and
won at Steinkrk and Landen, they would
not have been in their present condition, ).
paving the Germans such vast sums of
money for the trouble they have had in
conquering them.-They have a grand
cat show in London to which the Duke of
Sutherland contributed Scotch wildcat.
We believe the Duke is the representa-
} tive of the Mountain Cats, and hence him.
self in Mo7tr ar Chat, the Great Cat. He
should add himself to the show.-Para,
in Brazil, has succeeded to Buenos Ayres
as the yellow fever's hunting-ground.
The ravages of the disease are great
and the disease seems to be getting north
quite fast-Nineteen Haytiens have been
arrested on the charge of cannibalism.
They are all Observation-Disclosures, and go
for the largest liberty,-including the
i liberty of eating their brethren, fraternity
and death being their motto. Like Abou
ben Adem, they desire to be written of as
those who love their fellow men-A
contemporary says: "Lewenhoeck tells us
of an insect seen with the microscope, of
which only twenty-ssven millions would