Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-07
News and Notes.


Charlotte Cushman is educating her
four mothcrless nephews. She acts mag
uirently.
Coy. Brown, of Tennessee, has re- |
covered his health sufficiently to be able
attend to his duties.
Two Cleveland girls are making
pedestrian trip up the st. Lawrence,
carrying only satchels.
The wife Of Senator Schurz is men
toned as having inherited $40, 900
from her uncle, lately dead, in Hamburg,
Germany.
John p Hale continues in a COM
Portable condition, but his physician
gives no encouragement for his final re-
coyery.
The latest is that Miss Nellie Grant
{, at work on summer book, to be
called "Sketches from Life at Long
Branch
Miss c. L. Ransom, of Cleveland,
o., has Just finished a full-length pOr-
trait of General George II. Thomas.
There are strong indications that
Mexico, after a comparatively long
period of quiet, will again be agitated by
revolutions.
st. Louis has now been burying
somebody alive, though the impossibility
of finding the victim prevents the giving
of particulars.
Some of the Tennessee papers say
shu Horace Maynard will be the Re
pbfnau candidate for Governor in 1874,
IF he lives and keeps his health.
A Chicago artist has completed
oil
phiIcs clad in a tight-fitting leopard
Skin. Pretty good for Chicago.
More bodies have been discovered
ut the Bender grave yard, and clue
tolhe whereabouts of the Bender family
has been obtained.
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller, the de-
serted wife CT Joaquin, is going to Ore
gon for her children and will settle in
New York for literary labor.
-Ymg Wing is in considerable of a
futtcr to know what he shall do with
his company of Celestials whom he has
brought over here to be educated.
Miss Lockwood, a lady lawyer in
Washington, argued a case against two
learned gentlemen the other day. The
decision was reserved, as the Justice re-
tired with headache.
-Ex-C Congressman James H. Slater,
Of Oregon, says that he received 1920
less back pay than he would have been
entitled to as mileage, and that he in
tends to keep all he got.
The boys of Winchester, Ky, exer-
else their craftsmanship upon the tomb
stones and monuments of the cemetery,
and they can knock out the eye of a
marble angel, or lamb, or other craven
image, almost every time.
The memory of Wilhelm Tell was
honorcd at an Indiana SChutzen Nerein,
recently, by a youth who threw cham
payne bottle at his fathers head, just
grazing his scalp, but spilling all the
champagne.
The New York Commercial says
that one of the guests at a dinner re-
Gently given by the Union League Club,
after eloquently responding to the toast,
Woman, God bless her J" reached home
quite drunk, and had his eye "blacked'
by his wife in moment of emotion.
"A Pennsylvania paper says: Glib
eral Republicanism is not in very Wig
orous condition anywhere in the coun-
try-not even among the stockholders of
the New York Tribune, who have not
received a dividend since the paper be-
came its organ.
A Western paper says "hayseed in
the hair and blue drilling overalls are to
be the prevailing styles for Western poll
TEXANS this fall. 1t is said that the &C
cession to the ranks of farmers for the
last two months from gentlemen that
never before scented clover is something
wonderful"
Some time ago, Mrs. Hattie Monks
ran away from her husband, IN New
York, with his nephew. They returned
10 New York, and, Friday evening, were
discovered by Mr.. Monks. In strug-
gle with her husband the woman was
shot with a pistol, receiving a severe
wound. Thereupon her husbands
nephew drew pistol and shot himself
dead.
Gen. Leggett, of the Pension Office,
'afuses to follow the custom of the other
hoo Is of the Government departments,
and IL. nharge the lady clerks who get
ma mar GsSS The Detroit Tribune thinks
that o2ear,,l,o, W ought to honor Gen. Leg
gett for for his is for it asks, how can wo,
She is to be discharged rom hef si'oa-
ton as soon as she gets hill
The Detroit Post says Starring
new parties in Ohio is becoming legu-
lar business. The one started at Gil, CHI
natl, last year, did not succeed. Meth, 7
did the one previously started by Val
landingham But the ''dead-beat' poll
teans of Ohio keep trying, in the hope
Of striking lucky venture some OF these
days. At least, if they don't win cleo
tons, they have some satisfaction in