Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-29
GIeansngs and Gossip.


lie Grand Lockwood of New York
is dead.
-Strasburg University will reopen in
May.
John II, surratt teaches school in
Maryland.
The Cape Cod folks are spouting
about whale recently seen there.
st. Louis claims an increase of 40
900 in population since the last census.
The King of Greece is hand-in-glove
with boxing experts.
Rock county CWis.) farmers are
now readily disposing of their tobacco
crop at from twelve to fifteen cents per
pound.
-Boucicault has written burlesque,
Offenbach will set it to what he calls
music.
A New Orleans Grand Jury has
presented the street railroad companies
for mismanagement.
"A New Yorkess smoked herself to
death recently. That is to say, she went
to bed with a lighted pipe in her mouth.
Madame Parepa Rosa, it is said, is
soon to have new opera house of her
own III chicago.
The Philadelphia Bulletin continues
to impolitely persist in pressing Gov.
Geary for an explanation of the Evans
fraud,
Rough diamonds are not the only
''roughs' that flourish now in South AT
RIGA. The diamond fields begin to at
tract the rowdy element.
"A filial Detroit negro bought cot
fin and cemetery lot, and then, in order
not to waste his money, undertook to
provide business by dosing his father
with poisoned whisky sling
The Duchesse de Meyrac, who was
run over and instantly killed by a pri-
vate carriage, in Paris, was a young and
beautiful woman. and had been only
four months married.
"A Chicago merchant started, after
Christmas, for San Francisco by the
overland route. He has not yet arrived
out, but when he does get there he will
find a dispatch announcing that his wife
has sued him for desertiOn, obtained q
divorce, and married again.
M. De LONE of Paris, has succeed
ed in constructing an immense balloon
which can be guided in the teeth of the
wind with perfect ease. II is stated
that he made one ascent, recently with
thirteen passengers, and that the trial
was in the highest degree satisfactory.
The amount of snow in the Upper
Mississippi country is greater than for
20 wears. while that portion of country
drained by the Des MOines has alsOa very
large amount above OGumWa. Farm
crs whose corn crops or wood piles are
stored on the low lands are advised to
take the first opportunity to secure their
property and live stock from the pr0ba-
Bile flood this coming spring.
Mansfield is better looking than ey-
or. She is somewhat thinner and as
cOlOrless as marble Time nor trouble
have as yet succeeded in putting a line
on her perfect face Blu in the lovely
ewes there is violet shade of sadness
that seems to tinge her eyelids, and the
small mouth has pleading quiyer when
she speaks of the insults she has re-
cciyed from women, when she has pass
ed out of her door, and which keep her
from taking the exercise necessary for
health-.St Louis Republican.
AS an instance of the dccadcncc of
morals where one would least expect it,
the Rev Robert Collycr has consented
to become a forger for bride of -, 600
offered by the students Of Cornell Uni
yersity. As an eXtenuating circumstance
however, it should be mentioned that he
is only going to forge single horseshoe
for COrnclls behOOf Had he agreed to
make full set for a mare (by mare no
allusiOn is meant to alma matcr) the
case would have been different he
would then he forced to count her feet
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