Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-11
News and Gossip.

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Theodore Tilton goes in for Butler
with the same purity of heart and hon
est simplicity of character with which.
he deified Mrs. Woodruff.
Simon Miller the Monee merchant,
who was allowed by Conductor Beane
to arrest him, has given $500 of the
$1,000 reward he received from the rail
road company to the wife of Became.
Jeff Davis recently attended a mas
querade at White Sulphur Springs. He
appeared in his original character as an
unreconstructed female. How history
does repeat itself.
Washington Irving received about
$240, 600 for his literary labors. In that
respect no American author has equalled
him. BayaTd Taylor and Longfellow
have made about $50, 900 each by their
books. A.
Paul de Cassagnac, the noted French
duelist and journalist, who has killed
eighteen men ia duels, and is about to
fight another, II is said will seek refuge
in America from his present unpopular
ity at home. 'n.t.
The internal revenue. bureau office has
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new attempt will be made to force
through that body the passage of a law
for refunding the cotton tax which has
been paid into the treasury. r-.. +.
The bodies of two sisters. Mrs. Ever
EFT and Mrs. Constable have been found
in the ruins of the Alexandria palace,
which was burned few months ago in
London. The ladies disappeared ia.
June and it is supposed that they went
in to view the ruins and were buried by
some falling masonry. f
The lone, clean-handed Congressman
of them all bears the. somewhat renarlSa-
bic name of Gunckel. Heis from the
Ohio Fourth District, and stands alone
in declining to draw his increased ''for-
ward pay" Such stern virtue deserves
eulogy, but who could get eulogistic
over person named Gunckel.?
A man called at one of the Sandy
Hill hotels on Sunday of last week and
wanted drink, and on being told that
the law forbade the sale of liquor, said
that he would pay all damages. "But
who viii go to jail for me?" replied the
proprietor.
A New York paper, in speaking of the
contest between Senators Ames and Al
corn for the governorship of Mississippi,
says that it is the first time that the two
senators from state, both of the same
political party, ever ran against one
another for state Office.
Illinois is divided by the Congrega-
tionalists into six districts, comprising
seventeen counties each; one of them
has just held convention, at which it
was voted to hold a series of institutes,
continuing two days, in each of the
seventeen counties of that district, dur
ing the thirty-foGr consecutive days i'm
mediately preceding Christmas.
There is one way IN which General
Butler can even now escape that fogg-
ing at Worcester, this week, and that
is by not going there at abby taking
time by the forelock, and himself out Of
the canvass. 1.-THE prudent man, as we
are told in Scripture, ''foTseeth evil and
hadetb HGnase[f" If rumors reaching us
last night, from Boston, are trustworthy
this text is just now the subject of Gen.
Buffers daily and nightly medtations,
surprise his friends and enemies by sur
rendering in advance.
The telegraph reports that Mrs.
CampDell ana MIS-. CnamDGrS, or Madi- |
son, Ga, have received notice from
Judah P. Benjamin that they have tal-
len heir to twelve million dollars in
France, and will start Tuesday to claim
their inheritance. The property is in
herited from the estate of Rennaleau
Brigham Young has thirty-two wives,
instead of thirty-six. A reporter could |
find but twenty-five of them recently,
and asked Brigham about the others. |
The prophet said he was always lax in
his mathematics, and occasionally three
or four of his wives would die off or slip
away while he was busy about some
thing, and he really wasn't always able
to account for them.
That honesty is the best policy" may
be eXempliied by the following little in
cident: A man at Belmont, Mo-, sold to
a mill owner saw log, which proved to
be hollow. AS he sold it for sound
log he voluntarily went and gave back
the price, and, hauling it to his own
yard, chopped it up for firewood. In
this operation he found ten So gold