Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-12
Miscellaneous Hems.

London is showed up.
Lake Superior is free from ice.
Detroit will soon Seebach.
-Sandusky's Jail is empty.
-Jubal Early is dangerously i'll.
Five steamers burned at New Or
leans.
AT Berlin was made the first tin ware
in America.
Indiana proposes new State House.
1t costs New York $4,000 day for
eggs. .
Chicago made 81 ,966 arrests in 1870.
Indiana brags some over 10Oo-pound
hog.
There are 1000 doctors in the Unit.
ed States.
The crop of buffalo skins this year is
immense.
Wisconsin is arrogant over 115O
pounds Of pork in one carcase.
Omaha milks Buffalo COW daily
and gets very sweet milk.
"A Milwaukee baby drank quart of
ink the other day.
The girls of North Carolina chew tar
and beeswax.
Rabbits sell for five cents piece in
Columbus, o.
"A saltwater, MINI, hunter estimates
that he has killed with his rife 1900
deer.
Louisiana farmers are going into the
opium trade.
Victor Emmanuel intends to drain
the Roman campagns.
The long drought in California is be-
ginning to create some anxiety for the
crops.
The use of telegraph poles is sold to
bill posters in New Orleans for SO for
each pole.
"A Richmond alderman is accused of
climbing lamp-post to avoid the rats.
The insurgents in Uruguay have
faken the city of Monteyideo by surprise
"A Portland man sues a barber for
$4,000 damages for cutting off his nous
tache.
The Dakota Legislature rejects wo-
man suffrage by a vote of sixteen to seven.
One thousand five hundred and sew
enty-four registered letters were stolen
last year.
Boston is threatened With a water
famine and great caution is enjoined on
consumers.
"A Cedar Falls Iowa) physician re-
ceived five cents from thoughtful pa
tient the other day for removing an alb
scess.
"A company has been formed in Chi
cago to drain the Kankakee msr-hes in
northern Indiana, a tract of 100000
acres.
Sen Joaquin county, California, is
well adapted to raising cotton, and one
farm has three hundred acres planted
with it.
Great Britain has one-third of the
entire commerce of the globe. France
about one-ffth, and the United States
one-ninth.
An Ohio town INDUCED IN a grand
rathunt the other day, and IL SIG of the
gentle critters yielded up their sweetest
lives.
The recovery of Jonathan CrandalI,
the Westerly, r. l., bank watchman who
was shot by burglars, last week, is now
considered probable. All trace of the
gang has been lost.
During the wild excitement of q
watch meeting al Providence, Il. l., Satur-
day night, Mrs. Sarah Gibson, colored
woman. fell In fit and expired almost
Instantly.
"A member of Mr. Beeeher's church
in Brooklyn has just given $4,000 to es-
tablish ''the Beecher leetureship" in Yale
theological seminary. Mr.. Beecher is to
give the first course.
Hartford, Conn, paid SOS, ,S25.55 for
amusemeDts in 1S90-an increase of S2l,-
26755 over 1869. The largest amount
received for single performance was at
the Nilsson concert, S425O.
The last patent for inside boot soles
imbeds a generous supply of goose fea-
theirs between flannel top and water
proof bottom sole.
The Venango Pa papers call for the
of an establishment in Frank
lin where young girls are in training for
the 'femsle minstrel" business.
Prairie chickens in Illinois are very
this season, and afford immense
sport to the hunters. Large numbers of
them are killed by flying against tele-
graph wires.
An Iowa postmaster put all his
stamps, and $500 in money, into his stove
oven for safe keeping. OF course he for
got it, and his next meal proved most
one.
Fifteen men in Lamor, Mo, were
poisoned nigh to death by eating back
wheat cakes, recently, the cause being
deadly nightshade berries ground mp
with the wheat.