Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-11-07
Current Notes.

Current Notes.
Snow down east already.
Lima, O., has board of trade.
The horse distemper is decreasing.
Another new hotel at Loeg Branch.
Another victory for the Cuban patri-
OTIS.
Affairs are rather mixed on the Rio
Grande.
There is big elephant in Tennessee.
Poultry are having the cholera in
Iowa.
The Sun publishes additional glow
ing accounts of gold discoveries in
Westchester county.
The Arizona Indians have averaged
one white mans scalp each week Tor
ten years past.
Sewing machines with a breezy fan
attached for summer use is the very
latest.
November in England this year has
opened with protracted rain storm.
Potatoes in Maine are selling for 30
cents a bushel, which won't pay Tor
cultivation.
Pickpockets are plenty on the New
York Central railroad, according to the
Albany papers.
There are 1853 unlicensed liquor shops
in New London, Conn.
There are five female practising ply
sicians in Binghamton, n. y.
A California cold in the head is said
to be the most obstinate thing in the
State.
Chicago is supplied with daily papers,
having now twclye-eight English, three
German and one Scandinavian.
California. with more wheat than She
knows what to do with, Is preparing to
raise more next year than she raised
this.
The St. Louis Republican claims to
have 1.-The handsOmest and most COM
plete newspaper Office in the world.
The Chicago papers are discussing the
propriety of abolishing- street railroads
in that city.
Titusvillians think that their new
pavement on Main street would make
an excellent pattern for pantaloons.
Talk about the ingenuity Of women m
devsing new fashions.
1t is a great mistake for prima donna
to come to this country and leave her
husband behind her, as the extra duty
it imposes upon newspaper critics sends
many of them to an early grave.
Saginaw is getting its second crop OF
solar salt grown this season. This sec
ond growth of seasoning is. said 10 yield
even more to the acre than the first cut
ting, and the ground wasn't very well
MANFRED either.
"Of all the rcverses experienced by
me" said a penuriOus Crosius, dwelling
| in a fashionable avenue. the only one
! that gave me satisfaction was my dis
covery that l could reverse paper shirt
collars.
What is the difference between man
/ who keeps dogs and one who has nine
/ walking sticks? Answer: One owns
CANNES, and the other nine canes. As
/ far as being a nuisance is concerned,
there is no difference when they walk in
the street.
Somebody has recently invented very
valuable trunk It is made with an
outside covering of cast iron. lined with
/ nitrO-glyce rinc. and when it is thrown
from a railroad car or a baggage wagon
this outside covering is torn to pieces,
and the baggage smaShor is blown into
very small fragments,
Monticello. New York, is the latest
to have 'indignatiOn" because Mrs.
Charity Lifts was acquitted of the charge
of poisoning her husband. As she had
been imprisoned for over year the ju-
! nv thought that Charity had suffered
long, and they would be kind to her.
4 down east editor writes rs follow,
about what he knows of farming
Now is the time to harvest bean poles.
to save them from the late frOs+s. They
should be taken up carefully to preserve
/ the sprouts for the next season growth.
Bean poles have done better this season
than potatoes.
Two Young men of Port Huron saw &
dead body floating down the St. Clair d
few mornings ago. They straightway
manned a boat and went in pursuit Of it
and after a long pull found that it was q
straw eftigy some graceless scamp hal
set afoat. They have agreed never Il
attempt to secure a floating dead mar
again.
Detroit, Mich. sends off more fine GU
tobacco than any other city in th'
Union.
They have amhitary companyof Mex
leans in San Francisco called the Juarel
guards.
The State Of Nebraska is building
penitentiary at Lincoln that viii accom-
modate 800 boarders.
| One thousand dollars fine or impris
onment for a year is the penalty fo
betting on elections in Illinois.
An Indiana poet has been sent to the
penitentiary for three years for what {
Western paper calls 'plagiairzing {
horse"
Samuel 4. Gaylord, a well know
banker of st. Louis, undertook to shakt
off this mortal coil the other day b.
shooting himself. 1t was a bad failure
A handsome young brunette at Mar
settles, France. recently assassinated he
lover because he refused to buy her
gold watch, and the jury acquitted her
Talk about California Fair.
The farmers of Long Island admi
that they have no causes for complaint
which is something wonderful. Thei
crops are all in, and every description i:
above the average yield.
1t is currently believed in the diplo
matte world that Count d Aruim ha
not ceased his applications to Berlin fo
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