Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-11

no prospect of the termination of the
trial, has died in disgust
Cornetist Levy has made an engage
ment with Alexis and is to go to St
Petersburg at 10000 francs the season.
Brigham Young is said to be hidden
In Utah gorge, and the Government
troops are trying to make him disgorge.
A Louisyillian is trying to make hog
OF himself by eating fourteen pigs feet
for breakfast daily.
Brookline people object to the annexa-
ton of their town to Boston, for fear
| Gilmore will cover it with his Grand
| Coliseum.
The trees opposite the Granary Bury
ing Ground look more melancholy than
the tombstones near them.
Now 'sTweed has surrendered" him.
| self, it would be mercy if the news
papers would surrender him, also
The new Mayor of Chicago is making
war upon the gamblers. They say he
doesn't IDEAL" fairly with them,
A youngster who lost himself in Min
nesota woods had his life saved by an in
telligent dog who piloted him home
John A. Jackson, the American artist,
who is at present residing in Florence,
has just completed the model of his
'sMusidora.'
The tenacity of bad habits is well il
| lustrated by the case of Mr.. Kellogg of
Wisconsin, who has chewed tobacco
without cessation for eighty-three years.
A Connecticut paper tolls of lawyer
who chung out his single" for whole
| year in that State, and had but one case
in all that time, and that was a case of
inf1ammatory rhumatism.
The ''new departurists" are now vari-
ously denominated 'passiveists, thumb
suckers" ''possum Democrats" polly
wogs," shady -sides, '1ay-law- and chaw-
poke Democrats, " ''tadpoles," etc.
The Georgia papers are beginning to
protest against the custom of carrying
pistols Homicides are becoming fear
fully numerous in that State-the result
of whisky and pistols conjoined.
Geo. Hudson, the railway king" for
merly welded an immense influence, but
his death attracted so little notice that
even mention of it was not sent to this
country by cable.
A fourteen-year-old Louisville girl,
who was convicted of larceny, felt her
disgrace so keenly that she tried to kill
herself by swallowing a large quantity
of powdered glass.
The French Assembly was lately
thrown into tumult by one of its men,
bers exclaiming that the committee of
pardons was a committee of assassins. .
Mr.. Garrison says that when he first
knew Whittier, the poet, he was assist
ing his father on the farm, but neglects
to tell us that the poet, though a law
yer by profession, hon0rably held a seat
on the bench.
A horrible story comes from Montreal
where the dead body of a woman was
found partially eaten by rats, while the
remainder of the family were lying
around helplessly inebriatcd.
The Princess Margwerita is immensely
popular at Rome. When she drives
abroad, the people follow her with ac-
CARNATIONS, and shouts of 'Regino,
A large apple fell from the balcony Of
a San Francisco theater upon the bald
head of a visitor in the dress circle, and
thence bounded into the ochcstra and
fractured a fiddle.
A thaw has succeeded the late cold
snap in Paris, and now, according to the
Opinion NationaIe, 1--WE must take our
shoes in our hands andt up our trOus-
ers as far as our knees to cross the hid
eOus mixture of black snow and other
filth.
The hall of the Smithsonian Institute
at Washington, which was burned a few
years ago, has been entirely rebuilt and
will be devoted to a museum OF fossils.
A good many interesting specimens
might be obtained around Washington
just now.
All England is in state of wonder
ment over the absurd statement Of a
Partisan correspondent, who says that
the late Lord Chesterfield, who was a
fine boxer, once fought with Tom Say
ers, the conflict resulting in a 'draW,"
after forty minutes mutual pounding.
The Chicagoans had a great time over
Alexis. They watched him at his devO-
tons, on his promenades and at his meals
with unremitting attention. Small boys
logged his footsteps and made frantic at
tempts to secure the discarded stumps of .
Imperial cigarettes Faces of beauty
peered at him from every window He
was piloted assiduously over the city.
and admired the ruins greatly, but dis
liked the atmosphere and the payements.
A poor wretch in Paterson went from
house to house on Christmas day trying
to sell tumbler. A charitable lady pur-
chased it for five cents and procured his
address. Visiting him shortly after
wards, the Christmas dinner Of the poor
man, his wife and children was found to
be five cent loaf of bread purchased
with the proceeds of the sale Of the tum-
bier The lady went round among her
friends, andein a little time the house
was well warmed a good dinner was
provided clothes were given to the in
mates and a months rent was paid in ad-
vance. Surely Il merry Christmas for
that poor family Newark 1dr.