Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-30

Poland prefers the balnly brcezes of
! Washington 10 the nipping ones of YER
mont about these days. .-. o..
Some Kentucky thieve broke into a
church and drank all the wine that had
been prepared for sacramtal purposes.
! They are no better for it.
The Governor of Florida is visiting
in Connecticut. The cyclone was sorry
not to find him at home.
A Lexington paper notes the recent
death of blood mare, the property of
| old John Harper, and the dam of Long
fellow.
New Bedford wants to be noted for
her big beets One of the vegetable va
riety, weighed thirty pounds, for in-
stance. ......s =.
Now that Cloud, the rowist, is dead,
perhaps Somebody else will undertake to
row to New Orleans Sergt Bates for
instance The Duke of Genoa has been
visiting the Mikado. The Celestial po-
tentate took occasion TO remark, 'Me
likee he. .-... .--.. .-.....
We have a good wheat and corn crop,
cotton crop, rice crop, and they will
produce a crop of general prosperity,
notwithstanding the bad crop of railroad
securities.
The Waterford bank robbers who
compounded with the officers of that Ia
stitution, held a banquet in Troy last
week. Success to crime, was drunk
standing. ....r- ...... 49,.
A California lady quietly submitted to
the process of having a couple of cart
ridges extracted from her ear. No one
is afraid to whisper to her now.
The Spanish minister has been inter
viewed on the situation ia Spain. He
believes that the Republic viii survive,
and that it's chief strength lies in the
disgust the people entertain for Carlism.
Bazaine is blamed for not using but
a million of the seventeen million cart
ridges placed at his disposal at Metz.
The Humane Society ought to subscribe
to his defence fund.
A Louisville lady is truly cosmopoli-
tan in her taste. Her first husband was
a Yankee, her second an Italian, her
third Swiss, and her last German.
She likes the German the pest.
An enterprising newspaper in San
Francisco secured the service of some
carrier-pigeons to bring it report OF
the Modoc executions. They flew few
miles in good order and have not been
been heard of since.
Merchants and business men general
" are active and confident. They feel
the temporary pressure, but are not
alarmed-have no apprehension that
the bottom will drop out; they keep
moving nothing is stagnant; in little
while all will be bright and people win
laugh to think they were at all alarmed
about the future.
The Chicago Times summarizes the
present condition of business in that
city as follows The mercantile trade
is found to be generally better than it
was year ago, while .the stock yards
and Board of Trade find themselves in a
rather bad way. The manufacturing
interests of the city continue to with
stand the financial striDgency. The rail-
roads report an increase in the carrying
trade, but lake traffic has nearly come to
astand-still. The city, nevertheless, is
thought to be generally prosperous.
The great destruction of the common
cinchona - Peruvian bark resulting
from increased consumption and demand,
has driven the lazy Peruvians to look
for it in othe' localities. They have
found it among the river sands near
Q eft mountai IS. The genuine, known
heretofore only in lower Peru, is found
to be surpassed by the Bolivian, whose
bark is silver gray, and its leaf ribbed
with bright carmine. 1t has hardly en-
tered into commerce yet, SO difficult is it
to find and bring to market. But one
tree will seed forest.