Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-06
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Name gioatS over an enormous turkey
crop.
Oysters whose beds are rocky are the
best.
Lilies are among our exports to Eu-
rope.
Canton, O., has new $4,000 Bap-
fist church.
In Shreveport, Louisiana, but two
ministers are left.
A fire patrol is. to be established at
Troy, n. Y.
A Long Island florist has fifteen acres
in gladioluses.
a map of the bed of the Hartford
river is being prepared
A valuable slate quarry has been
opened at Kingsbury, Me.
A Connecticut father has christened
his daughter Glycerine.
A new orphan asylum at New Haven
has been commenced.
A sign in Cincinnati reads, ''White
washing Taken inn Hear"
Nearly all the Aldermen in Houston,
| Texas, can read and write.
The latest converts to Fistiana in Min
nesota are two blind boxers.
Bangor, Me-, is said TO be the happy
possessor of several roulette tables.
The net debts of the new city of
Boston will be in the vicinity Of $780,
100000.
A fashionable young man in Boston
must have three blue silk night gowns.
The breadth of ground sown TO win
ter wheat throughout the West is unus-
ually large.
A ship-yard at Chester, Pa, employs
100 men and pays out for wages Sl7,-
600 weekly.
1t is said that three-ffths of the farm
| ers of Iowa and Kansas burn tallow
candles yet.
A curious fact in natural history. i'm
portant to tea planters, has been discov-
! cred, namely, that locusts will not eat
tea-leaves.
| Travellers on a western railroad are in
formed that ''no gentleman will occupy
more than one seat at time unless he
be twins"
Barnum has several sick bears and
toothless lions trained TO escape from
their keepers and roam at large for adj
yertising purposes.
The Hon. Charles Francis Adams is
the latest addition to the list of life
members of the Boston Mercantile Lii
brary Association.
A Portage City bank didn't want a
farmer woman to draw out her 5000,
but she drew out revolver and then
drew out her money.
A Kansas City thief claims that he
was forced by the spirits to enter house
and take away silver teapot, and the
jury acquitted him.
A man at Princeton college nails his
slippers on the wall four feet high and
then all he has to do of an evening is
to wheel an easy chair up in front of
them.
A petition is in circulation among ship
owners. praying Congress TO repeal the
new shipping law of the United States
or at least to modify it in many impor-
tant particulars.
The Boston street railroad companies
have issued an order requiring conduc-
tors to collect all front platform fares
outside. without opening the front door
and chilling the inside passengers.
A New Hampshire state prison con-
Wet has discovered new way to COM
nit suicide. He took sand paper and
sweet oil, and it polished his manners to
fatal degree.
A Bourbon paper says that the back
bone of the democratic party is still
strengthening. We suppose that ii is
stiffenins % SO that the final breaking
may he more complete.
The man who will Invent cheap irri-
cation viii be one of the main benefac-
tors of the race. The man who will
convince farmers of the full benefit of
drainage will be another.
A Missouri clergyman was lately
called npOn to marry fourteen couples in
one day. and his fees amounted 10 fifty
pounds of dried apples, and a due bill
for eighteen bushels of bnckwheat.
Within the past ten years the taste
of the American people for ornamental
/ metal work has grown go rapidly that
an extensive branch Of industry has
been developed 70 meet the constantly
increasing demand.
The seals Of Alaska are become very
domestic One Traveller asserts that they
followed him about like tame dogs, and
there was special citizen of the tribe
who shed tears when the traveller bid
him farewell.
a fashionable authority says that s'the
true woman of ton will endeavor, this
fall, by the grace and simplicity of her
attire. to show that her husband has
. neither robbed bank nor been the
leader of a ring.
The monument in honor of the men,
bers Of the 14th Rhode Island regiment
who died on Dutch island, which was
ordered by the General Assembly at its
last January session, has been finished
and is in place.
To secure banks from defaIcatiOn it is
suggested that every cashier should an
nually have an enforced vacation of two
weeks with the president or some other
competent person not likely to be in col
! fusion with him, in charge of his books
! Chicago wants to have the next
worlds fair there SIN the first place,
!, saws the Boston Post, sit isn't certain
, that the next world will have fair, and
, in the second place. those who'd be
! likely to attend it wiz prefer more pi-
2 ons town in which to celebrate.
A London photographer advertises as
, | follows in consequence of the daily
. / Increase of accidents by railway, the
public are earnestly requested to call at
!, the studios of the Blank School of Pho
!, Biography, to have their portraits taken.
i that they may have some memenio OF
. departed friends.
, The st. Louis republican puts it 10
/ this way IAN English jury brought
in the following verdict in criminal
case: Guilty, with some little doubt
p as to whether he is the man. The Po-
! | land committees verdict was, Not gull
I ", though there is no doubt that these
a were the men.
OF our one hundred State exchanges,
$ saws the Indianapolis Times, only sixty
: three have thus far sadly notified their
j readers of the fact that
"Fhe melancholy days have come,
The saddest Of the year.
!, A Cayuga county, n. J., man sends