Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-18
Latest News Items.

Ior the murder OF John Kinney, resulted
on Friday in verdict of not guilty. The
jury were out twenty seven hours.
DR.. ]. F. Townsend on Friday re-.
covered $500 from the Seventh Avenue
Railroad Company, New York, for in.
juries received by falling from the plat.
form of one of their cars in 1865.
John R. Griffith cashier of Talbot,
Patterson & Co., wholesale grocers OF
Indianapolis, Ind, was arrested on Thurs.
day for defalcation of $4,000.
Thomas Hines, wife and child were
drowned near Dubuque, Iowa, on Wednes.
day. 50.
james Stewart, formerly colonel of
the 10th Illinois Regiment, was arrested
in Kansas City on Wednesday, charged
with having absconded with $1,000 from
the quartermaster's department at Gal
weston, last March.
j. Fred Thompson, who was arrested
on Thursday, at Indianapolis, Ind, for
forgery on the Second National Bank, was
released for want of evidence establishing
his identity.
While four high school children were
taking sail at Chicopee, Mass, on Fri.
day, the boat parted and three of them,
Arad Southworth, Kate Hunter and Min
ME White, were drowned.
A fire at Parkersburgh, West Vir.
ginia on Friday, destroyed Burch's sash
factory, the Peterborough -four mills, and
number of tenement houses, Loss,
about $4,000; partially insured.
The taxpayers convention in South
Carolina is assisting the credit of the
State.
-Drs. Gray and Vandsrpool who, by
appointment of Gov. Hoffman, on We'd
nesday made thorough examination of
the bodily and mental condition of Ed
ward 81. Rulof, have submitted report
that in their Judgment he is in sound
physical health and entirely sane.
The reported attempt to throw the
Erie train from the track near Deposit is
untrue.
Six buildings includiugs the principal
stores of the town of San Bernidine, Cali
fornia, were burned on the 9Th.
Gov. Jewell has made the following
appointments on his staff: Adjutant- Gen
eral, Samuel E. Merwin, jr., of New Ha-
ven; Quartermaster-G General, Leonard A.
Dickinson of Hartford; Paymaster-G Gen.
eral, Amos ]. Beers of New Haven; Hen.
ry f. Burton is appointed Executive Sec
rotary.
One of the first families of Nashville
is aggrieved because the only son, Kirk
man McNairy, has aarried a girl who
was variety actress. and has had a vari-
ETY. of names and a variety of husbands,
heretofore.
-Ex Collector Bailey of New York, it
is known, has settled down in Monteve.
dio. His wife joined him in his exile a
short time ago.
General Sheridan and Forsythe, Mrs
Lincoln and Tad, reached New York on
the Russia, on Wednesday. Collector
Murphy, Postmaster Jones and others,
went down to the bay to welcome the
General, giving him an enthusiastic
greeting.
column OF Spanish troops in Cuba re-
Gently routed band of insurgents COM
posed of negroes coming from Cinco Viii
lus, killing thirteen and capturing four
prisoners.
Mercantile failures and great distress
are reported from Louisiana and Texas
n consequence of the low price of cotton.
Rev. ]. B. Fulton of fremont Temple,
Boston, made speech before the South
srn Baptist Convention at st. Louis on
Friday, urging the union of Northern and
Southern Bsptists.