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

Louisville, and isn't having very good
time. His limbs are badly swollen, and
he is afraid to row nights, as he gets
shot at, probably by some one who has
bet against him.
There were rumors of fan attempt at
'scorner" in the whisky market at Lou
isville, last Wednesday night, but an
item in the next mornings issue of the
Courier-Journal explained it. Editor
Watterson had returned from Europe,
and the boys in the Office had been CIV
ing him little reception.
The intellect has only one failing,
which, to be sure, is very considerable
one; it has no conscience. Napoleon is
the readiest instance of this. 1t his
heart had borne any proportion to his
brain he had been one of the greatest
men in all history.
1t is said that the balcony of the
Knickerbocker Club House on Fifth av-
enue, New York, has been padded to
enable members to rest their heads on
their hands without rubbing the skin off
their elbows. This is very thoughtful
improvement.
The editor of an interior paper having
read about the Genius of Liberty having
six toes on the genuine $500 United
States bill and only five on the counter
felt, rushed to his money safe to see if
his $500 bills were all right. His Genius
of Liberty, toes and all, was men est
and so were his $500 bills. He was
thus spared the labor of a close inspcc-
ton.
The receipts of McVicker's theater,
Chicago, for the past ten months, aver
aged $1,000 per week, or 81 900 for
each performance. 1t is said that no
place in the country has ever taken an
equal amount of money in the same
length of time. Chicago not only paid
$500, 900 to this establishment in less
than year, but also supported three
other places of amusement, all of which
have had prosperous seasons.
A war drum found at the mouth of
Captain Jacks cave was made of small
box about two feet in length, eighteen
inches in width, and one foot in depth.
The bottom and cover being removed, a
fresh OK hide was drawn tightly over
each side and securely fastened with
thongs of the same. On drying, the
hide shrank, and the result was rude
and sonorous drum, the only one pos
sessed by the Modocs.
A young lady just from Europe re-
marked to veteran politician the other
day: 'Its of very little consequence,
she said, ''what kind of men you send
out as foreign ministers. The thing of
real importance is, they should have the
right kind of wives. Any man can sign
a treaty suppose, if you tell him what
kind of treaty it must be. But all his
social relations with the nations to which
you send him will depend on his wife.
In the trial of woman of New York
for cruelty exposing an infant to death,
the fact was disclosed by the testimony
that themother was dress maker named
Mary Cotton, who is now travelling with
Barnum's show as the wonderful "Cir-
cassian Girl" She farmed out the in
FAINT to the prisoner soon after its birth,
that she might accept of this profitable
engagement.
Miss Muhlbach says, apropos of the
match between the Duke of Edinburgh
and the daughter of the Russian Emper-
or: 'The poor young Grand Duchess,
who, as is well known, only short time
ago declared to her mother, while weep
ing, that she would rather die than re-
nounce the man she loves, has had to
submit to live and wed another; and in
a similar way the young Duke of Edin-
burgh, who formerly asserted that he
would ever remain a bachelor, had to
give up his determination to remain
single.
El-Mansur was preaching one day at
Damascus, and said 80 we peoplel it is
incumbent upon you to give praise to
the Most High, that He has given me to
reign over you. For, verify, since | be-
gan to reign over you, he has taken away
the plague which had come among you. "
But a certain Arab cried out to him, ''Of
truth Allah is too merciful to give us
both thee and the plague at one time!'
But let us not forget Buffers useful
ness. He was instrumental in breaking
up the late Democratic party, because
he was such a dough-face that even the
rank and file repudiated him; and he has
lived to be the most perfect representa-
tive of all the faults of the Republican
party, making a political character SO
repulsive and sickening that every hon
est Republican stands aghast and Won
ders what could have blinded him for
few years past We should dislike to
see Butler as the political figure-head of
our good ship of State, but that is mat
ter of secondary consequence. What
we most desire is that majority of our
fellow-citizens become alive to the dan
gers of that corrupt and centralizing
tendency in our government, of which
Ben Butler is only a particularly offens-
i've exponent.--BOStO71 Herald.