Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-29
In General.

NscuOIaIs
Bishop Simpson ia better, and will get
we'll.
The gospel of peace suits John Bull best
now, and he is rapidly cutting down the
number of his red coats in Canada.
Since the rain of Sunday at Boston and
the storm of Sunday night on the Sound,
Fisk, Jr., is known at New York as James
the Baptist.
A little girl in New Jersey was recently
so mortified at having TO wear copper
toed shoes that she escaped the rude gaze
of the world by sinking herself in a mill
pond.
Land along the st. John river, Fla,
brings, in some cases, as high price as
$500 an acre. This is not surprising, as
it costs $3.50 an acre to clear it and get it
fit to live upon.
Rochefort and Cluseret had made ar
rangements to come to New York when
the Commune burst up, and the former
had secured place on weekly paper at
good salary.
While spring at Desert, Utah, was
being cleaned out, recently, two year
old heifer was found standing erect and
almost entirely petrifed. The stony ami
NAL now graces the Mormon museum.
Arthur Kendall, deserter from our
navy, is the son of an Englishman of
wealth and reputation. Some time ago
he returned to the parental roof, and now
he has been arrested by his father for
burglary and extensive theft.
A gentleman at Albion, n. Y, sent in
succession three begging letters for Ten
nyson's autograph. The first two went
unnoticed, but the last was too much for
the bard 70 Withstand, and he replied
ASK me no more. A. Tennyson.'
An excursion has been planned from
Memphis, to extend 5000 miles, reaching
st. Paul on the north, Boston on the east,
including Niagara Falls, the White
Mountains and Long Branch, the cost of
a ticket for the round trip being but $50.
Two elopements of mixed character
occurred recently in Prince Edward coun-
ty, Va. 81. G. Owen, a white man, clan
destinely departed with q hegress to love.
and daughter of Elijah Casson departed
with one of her fathers black farm hands.
The war, to which we contributed Gov.
Andrew, settled it that the English LAM
gusge should be spoken only by freemen.
The commission, to which we have con-
tributed Judge Hoar, settled it that it
shall be spoken only by friends Robert
s. Rantoul.
William Taylor of Scott county, Va,
lost his wife a few weeks ago, and has
tried vainly ever since to get another help
meet to take the care of five small child
rem off his shoulders. Falling in that, he
jumped the whole thing by blowing his
brains out.
A London stableman has been arrested
for benefting fashionable society at the
expense of the dumb animals. In other
words he did large trade in the chignon
market, but made too many switches
among the tails of gentlemen's horses
with which be had to deal.
Six young men of Cohocton, n. Y, who
several months ago assumed that Miss
Carrie Dawson, a school teacher, had been
improperly intimate with married man,
and virtuously stripped, tarred and feath-
cred her, have just been sentenced TO six
months in the county penitentisry.
A bug called the pieris ropse, and
which was recently imported from Eu'
rope, is damaging, to the amount Of many
thousands of dollars, the farm gardens OF
Long leland. He is a prolific little an.
imal, and each patriarch can see 10000 Of
his descendants playing around him al
the end of every season.
A woman in Memphis, Tenn, recently
got into a fight with her husband, and
while in the act of throwing pop bottle
at him, hit lighted lamp suspended
| from the ceiling, and emptied the burn
| ing fluid all over her, which, in spite of
his msgnanimous efforts to prevent it, in
jured her SO badly that she died.
The seventeen year loeusts, which the
Arabs still consider the svengipg armies
of the Deity, are dangerous enemies 10
man as well as to bis property. Although
they are not aggressive, except in self
defense, quite a number of serious, and
two or three fatal cases of poisoning
from their sting have been reported since
their invasion of this country.
A large company of capitalists is form
ing to introduce grain dryers throughout
the West, which will put the crops in
proper condition to keep pure and sweet,
whether stored, shipped abroad or milled
at home. This will enable farmers to
put their wheat into market as soon as
gathered, thus securing better prices.
Twenty five hundred women arrested
in Paris for incendisrism and other
crimes, instead of being hung arc TO be
sent to the French penal colony of New
| Caledonia in the South Pacific. Where
upon the Tribune grimly remarks: "The
addition of so great a number of French
women will probably produce a marked
and permanent effect upon it's inhabi-
tants."
The Stuyvesant pear tree in New York,
which was knocked down by truck, q
year or two since, after standing the shock
of nearly two centuries, is succeeded by
a sprout from the original root, which has
grown to nearly the size of its parent, in
spite of having to contend against a good
many trucks.
DR. 'Comins of New York has arranged
in his yard cat trap, which nabs every
unsuspecting feline that trespasses in that
vicinity, whence they are only released
for execution. One of the doctors friends
reported him to the high souled Bergh the
other day, and he now knows what it il
to be Gagged himself
/ TAME FIsH.-We often hear wonder
full accounts of the tanning of various ami
mails by man, some of which, Judging by
their nature and characteristics when il
a wild state, it would seem to be almost
impossible to approach with any such
view but the most wonderful account OF
the tanning process we have seen comes
from England, where on piece of pro-
perty consisting of an amphitheatre about