Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-31
miscellaneous Items.

That expensive protege of the Tam
many Ring, the Metropolitan Hotel, in
New York, will be opened next week.
The War Department has no advice'
of the death of Gen. Crook, and does mo-
believe that the Apaches have his scalp al
reported.
"A fire in Sedalia, Mo, on Friday, de-
stroyed three business houses on Ohio
street. Lose, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
The Duluth canal was opened on Fri
day. The large steam-propeller Norman
passed from the city to the bay.
"A conflict took place between the po
lice and populace in Rome, on Friday
during which one person was killed and
two wounded.
Louis Scriman, q gunsmith, of Mem
phis, while cleaning a pistol on Saturday,
accidentally shot himself through the
heart, and died instantly.
Mr.. F. Glynn, retired wealthy mer-
chant, cut his throat and died in his cham
Der on Friday evening, at his residence in
Ssckett street, Brooklyn.
George Williams, keeper of saloon
in Greenbusb, New York, has been arrest
ed, charged with setting fire to his own
premises on Friday night.
1t is estimated that the receipts of
cotton in Memphis will amount to SIS, 700
bales by the first of September, placing
that city third in rank in the cotton
market.
AT d fire on Second street, in Chicago,
on Saturday, in the house of Jacob Rib
skate, Mrs Ribskate was burned to death,
and Jacob Ribskate and child fatally
burned.
The United States steamer Frolio.
formerly the A. D. Vance, captured off
Wilmington, by blockaders, is being fit
ted up for the flag ship of the post admir-
al at New York.
Andrew Zimmerman, a wealthy resi-
dent of Milwaukee, who had just re-
turned from tour in Europe, dropped
dead at the house offs friend in Brooklyn,
on Saturday.
1t is positively announced that the
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will
meet tho Emperor William at SAlzbourg,
Upper Austria, at an early day.
"A young child of DR.. Wood, dent
list of Albany, drank carbonate of zinc
from a phial on the Doctors table in his
office, and died on Saturday.
line of the Atlantic and Gulf and Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile railroads.
The telegraph wires are down and no
trains ran on Saturday.
During tn, heavy th&nder storms in
New York on Friday and Saturday, light
ming struck in seven or eight places. A
man and woman, near Hoboken, were
killed by lightning.
T. Jacob Lansing, treasurer of Christ's
Church, in New York, is defaulter to
the amount of six thousand dollars, and
perhaps much more. Lansing is mer-
chant and hitherto of good reputation.
An accident occurred on Sunday on
the Schuylkill andsSusquehanna railroad,
near Forge station. The train ran over
three cows, upsetting the cars. Mrs.
Jackson of Duncannon was injured.
Mrs. Lizzie Smith, formerly Mrs.
Seeley, of Albany, and we'll known
Throughout the Eastern States, committed
suicide in San Francisco on Sunday, in
consequence of domestic difficulties.
Joseph Baxter, who served two terms
in the Ohio penitentiary, was arrested in
st. Louis on Saturday night, for robbing
a United States express messenger in
Missouri, six years ago, of $4,000.
George S. Cobb of Atlanta was ar.
rested at the Grand Central Hotel in
New York, on Friday, for the larceney of
$4,000 from the Southern Express Com.
psny, at Atlanta, Ga, on the 25th of last
May.
-Paterlck Egan, ighthonse-keeper at
Fort Pulaski and Tybee, Ca, endsavored
to reach Oyster Bank lighthouse during
the fearful gale of Tuesday, to light it. |
The boat was swamped, and he, with his
two sons persisted.
The body of James Slinery, of Mat
tewan, N. T., was found on the Harlem
track on Sunday near Millerton,
with his head entirely cut off. One hun.
dred dollars which was on his person the
night previous is missing.
The crop reports from Arkansas are
not SO favorable. In some localities cot
Ton, owing to dry weather, has begun
worms. 1t is reported in some
If the Red River counties that the corn
crop is very promising.