Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-03
In General.

The horse plague has appeared in Bal
timore.
Chicago doesn't like the milk it gets.
1t prefers the udder kind.
Sunset Cox and Brick Pomeroy visited
Lake Tahoe, California, together, last
week.
Ex-Indian Commissioner Parker will
return to his former profession of civil en-
gineering. ..... a.....
A sleeping child at st. Louis recently
killed bis little beafellow by rolling over
and lying on bis face.
An unpoetical youth described his
faneee's hair as frizzled in front, and
fricaseed and scrambled at the back.
Those prime comedians Joe Jefferson
and William Warren are rusticsting to-
gether at the formers farm in Hobokep,
N
4 magnificent sword purchased by
| French citizens of New York was sent to
Gen. Uhrich, the defender of Strasburg.
When the Chicago city fathers go off
on a summer vacation, the Journal unfili-
ally remarks upon the departure of four
scalawag aldermen" "a.
Cornell university is trying to get Prof
Moses Colt Tyler away from the universe
| ty of Michigan, and he is now at Ithaca
looking over the ground.
Sir Charles L. Young, Bart, hes
brought forward another of his plays,
which is called "Charms," and which will
be presented at a special morning perfor-
nance at the Queens Theatre on the Goth
of July.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Paul are now
performing at the National Standard
Theatre in London. The double headed
nightingale-a two-headed girl" is also
on exhibition there, together with Miss
Anna Swan the Nova Scotia giantess.
News come from Affghanistsn that Yo-
koob Khan still holds Herst, and it will
be defended as long as Yokoob can. A
Chicago paper says this Herat is likely t.
be captured, however, as the opposition
chief is great terrier in that region.
An spotheeary in New York state has
/ been successfully sued for damages by
man to whose wife he sold laudsnum as a
| beverage. That is right. If wives get
pay for drunken husbands, husbands also
have right to what they loose by opium
ed wives.
Rev. ]. Burlingame, father of the late
Minister Burlingame, is visiting his old
home at Aurora, Ill. whence he emigrated
to California in 1S49, and is to settle per-
manently i'll Cook county, Ill. He has
been pioneer missionary Of the Metho-
dist church for 80 years.
a Disguised editor, who never studied
French, says it is "the ton" now 10 call
the Pequot house. near New London, the
Pdqu0 house, and that be has heard the
old frigate Sabine, called by very fashion
able ladies the Sau5een.
Mrs. Bloomer, the originator Of the
costume for women which still bears her
name, and one of the pioneers in the
woman's rights movement, ii now living
quietly in a rising Iowa town, engaged in
attending 10 large family and flourish
ing farm.
On the arrival of the Polaris at ST.
Johns, Newfoundland, Capt. Hall and bis
company were received by the governors
secretary and several prominent members
of the Legislature. A banquet was given
at the governors mansion, where many
cordial wishes were expressed for the
welfare and success of the explorers.
1t is said that one of the Emperor
Williams grievous snnoysnces is, that
Bismarck always beats him playing chess.
The emperor believes himself irst-rsts
player, and yet nearly every body check
mates him after 20 or 30 moves. The de-
feet of bis game is reported 10 be that be
doesn't know how 10 use bis castles.
One of the heaviest operators among
the San Francisco capitalists ia Alvinza
Hayward. Three years ago he was re-
pUted to be worth $4,000, 900, when by
series of disastrous epeeulatiops he Lost
100000. But by bold sDd skillful
operation in Crown Point stock he has
realized in the past three months over
$2,OO0000.
Baron Louis L3mme married Miss E.
la Throckmorton at the residence Of the
bride In New York a few days since. The
bride wore suit of pale, gray silk, ele-
gantlY trimmed with lace. She had
bonnet of white lace trimmed with Orange
blossoms, and surmounted by q jewelled
aigrette. The couple are spending sea-
son at Newport.
There IL mischief abroad. A prominent
citizen of Memphis was asked the other
day at Saratoga, whether there would he
any sequel to the recent sleeping car adj
venture Of Mr.. J-ff-rs-n D-v,s; and his
answer was tbis-.Wby, Mr.. II. is a blood
ed fellow, and will have 10 shoot Davis.
He can't live in Memphis or Nashville If
he don't
A new speculation hes been started in
Englsnd. Men take ont policies Of life
insurance and then put them up at pub
lie auction. A man in Liverpool lately
realized $4,000 upon the policy of
tradesman, which be had bought for ! $50.
The brakeman was so obliging as TO die
two days after the policy came into pos
session of the Spectator.
Carrier pigeons, like the navy, are not
to created suddenly. They have to be
trained in very particular manner, and
accustomed by degrees to fly back TO their
homes from distance of ten or twenty
miles, then from greater distance, and
so on, till at last they find their way safe
" over space of one hundred and two
hundred miles.
The Vienna press circulates the follow
ing SAYING, imputed to King Victor EN-
manuel, directed, by means Of his repre-
sentative, to the Pope: 81 have not besi-
tated to pass the Rubicon for the sake Of
Italy, but even for Italy shall never pass
the Tiber." The significance of this dec
laration IL frue lies in the fact that the