Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-25

By putting bottles of brandy inside
turkeys, and then freezing the turkeys,
brisk smuggling business was carried
on near Ogdensburg during the holiday
season
In the chronological report of local
events of last year, the Aurora (Ind J
Independent cruelty publishes that on
December 2, ssBeecher calls Lawrence
burg sneaking village"
About three o'clock on yesterday af-
ternoon our Robert Collyer could have
been seen riding on an express wagon on
Wabash avenue, and looking sjust as
happy as a big sunffower. - chicago
Times.
A reader writes to the Baltimore
Sun ''that he takes no stock in the new
women's club. >" He says the old wo-
mans club is enough for him, and fire.
quently almost too much.
Among the literary people who make
their winter homes in Washington, are
Mrs. Southworth, Mrs. Ann Stephens,
Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, Mrs. Mary
A. Dennison, and Mrs Harriet Prescott
Spofford..
The adulteration of silk goods with
other fibres, is easily detected by drop
ping a little hydrochloric acid on a sam
pie, when, if pure silk, hole will be
made; if impure, the threads left will
indicate the nature and extent of the
adulteration.
Mrs. Harvey Bowen, of Pine Island,
Mimi, has lately received letter from
friend in Canada, informing her that
there was about one hundred and twenty
five million dollars worth of real estate
to be distributed among the descendants
| of her great grandfather
There is letter held for postage in
the Evansville, H., post-Office, bearing
the following inscription:
.'Charles Augustus, the web-footed scrub,
To whom this letter must go,
Is chopping cOrdwood for his grub,
In Silver City, Idaho"
dad" the patriarch of Cincinnati
newsboys, has just died of consumption,
at the age of "a, after fifteen years of
active service. He was highly respect
ed by the younger members of his pro-
fession, who watched with him tenderly
during his last illness, and raised money
enough to give him decent burial.
A new safe has been invented which
makes things very unpleasant for burg
/ lctlo. liz w ais dlC llllCI W I'LL St4AIJON-
der in such manner that the blows of
a sledge or the cutting of chisel in the
attempt to rob the safe will ignite the
| powder, blow off the outer crust, ami
hilate the burglar, and leave the contents
of the safe uninjured.
A bright little fellow while skating at
Lake View, n. j., broke through the ice,
and was in imminent peril of drowning.
Realizing his danger, he coOlly shouted
out as he was disappearing, the street
and number of his residence. FOrtu-
nately he was rescued, and his friends
justly have great hopes of him.
An ingenious scoundreI recently cheat
ed a Southport (Ct.) bank out of 800
by asking for change for a 800 bill, re-
ceiving it, and then asking. in an off
hand sort of way. well, amt you go
ing to give me that bill 2" The cashier
unwittingly gave him the bill, and was
too busy to find out his mistake until af-
ter the swindlcr had left.
The governor of Florida in his mes
sage says that State has seven hundred
miles of sea coast, prolific of oysters,
fish and turtle almost beyond parallel,
with bays and inlets, and inland naviga-
BILE waters of an equal extent, which Of
fer the richest inducements to enterprise
and capital, if properly protected by
| law.