Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-13
To be Taken with Coffee.

Hens never wear anything on their
feet, except when the farmers wife
drives them out of the garden. Then
they are always do0'd.
The lonely, melancholy man who
wanders about st. Louis in painful fits
of abstraction, with his eyes riyeted on
the earth, was once one of the biggest
bubbles on the top of a great tidal wave.
He is B. Gratz Brown
Ii is said that Dayton, O.. spends an
nually 81, 900, 900 for whisky In her bar
rooms, and but S462, 900 for flour. DAY.
ton is said to be one of those misguided
cities which would rather starve to death
than to remain sober two hours and
half.
The artificial butter machine going in
San Francisco is equal to six tons of
bogus butter day. There is one farm
with 5000 cows on IL in California that
makes ton of butter a day; but the
milk of the living COW is thus nothing
by the side of the suet of the dead steer.
The power of love is again illustrated
in the case of Miss Catherine Oates, of
Cornwall, England, who travelled all
the way to Toulumne County, Cal, to
wed the lover she hadn't seen for eight
years, and found him married to a Mexi-
can ranchero's daughter, and the father
of only five children.
An Alabama jury of eight whites and
four negroes, none of whom knew the
first letter of the alphabet, are reported
as sitting on the case of cotton claim
for some Eve hundred dollars, and re-
turning verdict of manslaughter. The
foreman explained that they first intend
ed to say murder, but as no one was
killed, they afterwards modified their
verdict.
Time works wonders. In the good
old days folks were put in the stocks for
/ punishment, and their speculations, we
| doubt not, were always unsatisfactory.
But in these later years folks go into
stocks just for the fun of the thing, and
the excitement of specializing is an ele-
ment of attraction, however severe the
| punishment.
Governor Hendricks explains to Gin
/ cinnati Enquirer man that the Indiana
| Liberals voted for him, and he did not
| feel at liberty to 90 into Ohio and stump
for Allen when there was Liberal can
! didate in the field He might have adj
ded that neither Thurman nor Allen had
ever raised finger to help him.
1t takes six medical colleges in full
| blast to turn out doctors fast enough to
| keep the population of Cincinnati with
| in the modest limits of ambition. They
/ do it effectually, however, and wheneY-
er a reckless person from abroad visits
| the place with an idea of settling down
| to crowd the natives, they just show
| him around among these colleges, and he
| is always ready to leave the next morn
ing.
A young gentleman in Augusta, Me-,
| lately made an evening call upon young
| lady, and got rather stability treated. 1t
was getting along toward nine o'clock,
| when the young lady inquired the time
of evening. Five minutes to nine,
was the reply. "How long viii it take
! You to 90 home 2" Five minutes, /
should judge" 'Then," said the young
lady, ''if you start now you will get
| home just at nine o'clock"
The latest joke circulated in reference
| TO the size of Rhode Island is the asser-
ton that if the firm of A. & w. Sprague
should be dissolved, the other Rhode
Islanders would be admitted into the
firm of Brown s. Ives.
A dispatch from Gilroy. California,
| says vigilance committee has been
| formed there for the purpose of Kidding
| the town of thieves and Migrants.
| They paid visit to dance houses and
Informed the proprietors that they must
| close their places or the vigilanfes would
| do it for them. They then went to nu-
merous saloons and called on such men
| as they wished TO leave town. Some
| nine or ten men were escorted about
| four miles beyond the city limits, and
! still others have been notified to leave
| Immediately.
The question of Bible reading in the
| public schools was revived at Cincinnati,
the other day, by report of the com
mittee on moral instruction declaring
/ the exercise a failure. The board re-
| commended the incubation of honesty,
| amiability and all those good things,
and suggested that the works of Plato,
/ Cicero, Addison, etc, be placed in every
| school, and that singing and the reading
| of moral selections be among the exer-
cises. Friday night they would have
| distinguished by a recitation of the Col
den Verse of Pythagoras.
A man in Kentucky, all alive and
well, recently saw a statement Of his
own death in newspaper. He did not
| so much resent the general statement as
the inaccuracy of the details; and so he
| wrote to the editor: SRI notice few
| errors in the obituary of myself which
| appeared in your paper of Wednesday
| last. / was born in Greenup county,
not Caldwell, and my retirement from
business in 1860 was not owing to i'll
health, but TO a little trouble | had in
connection with horse. The cause Of
ma death ands not smallpox. Please
make correction, for which l inclose so
cents.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
| says the railway works in Costa Rica
| take large body of laborers from ia
| maica, and new trade has sprung up.
| An enterprlsiDg captain advertised for
women, and forty presented themselves,
| in the belief that, as laundresses, they
! might do we'll On arrival at Liman
bay, they were not permitted to leave
the steamer, until one by one some man
! came on board and selected one of the
| women, as his fancy dictated, and, pay
ing down S75 in gold, was permitted to
take her ashore. AT the time of the
| latest dispatches, there was but one of
| the forty women on board who had not
| found a purchaser. The captain of the
| schooner, having got 5000 passage
money for three days journey, is proba-
bly, preparing for another trip.
The Supreme Court at Belfast adj
ienrned Thursday until Monday. when
the Gordon trial will commence. In the
| last case tried, the jury could not come
to verdict and they were kept out all
night They managed to pass away the
time by singing and having a good time
generally. They came into court Thurs
| day morning reporting failed TO agree,
standing nine for acquittal and three for
| conviction. Judge Dickersen repri-
manded them severely, saying in the
course of his remarks that ''the result is
not surprising after the leyity displayed
| in the jury room, which is deserving of
the seyercst reproof." He then dis
charged them for the term for misbe-
havior and ordered the raising of new
! Jury, venires for which will be imme-