Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-11
Matters and Things.

An imperial ukase has been issued, re-
curing six men out of every 1000 in
habitants of Russia, including the Pol
ish provinces, to be drafted into the
army.
A Chicago merchant, being wroth
with the Post Office Department be-
cause they put so little mucilage on
stamps nowadays, has, after deliberation,
taken a most original and effective re-
venge. He has his Otfice-bOy place all
stamps on his correspondence i'll the up
per left-hand corner of the envelope, and
every afternoon he goes to the post of
flee to gloat with rapture over the pro-
fame agony of the stamping-clerk.
A Xenia co. Sunday school lecturer,
lately, while discoursing on the Prodi-
gal Son, sketched upon the blackboard
the return of the wasteful youth to his
fathers mansion. Animated by q gen.
erous desire to smite the intellects and
move the feelings of his audience, this
ingenious person drew the Prodigal hur-
rying rapidly home with a nice new
Russia-leather bag in his hand and a
beautiful silk umbrella under his arm.
1t is said that this touching illustration
of suffering remorse filed all eyes with
tears.
The following are the numbers of hogs
killed by the following cities yearly:
ST, Louis, 100000
Cincinnati, $4,000
New York, l,OOO,OOO
Chicago 1880
Boston, 800, 600
Kentucky petitions Congress to pro-
hibit the manufacture of whiskey in the
Territories. Probably Bourbon County
desires this as a measure of protection
for her pet industry for temperance
revival in Kentucky would be phe-
nomenon that the human mind would
find it difficult to compass.
Sc Koo Tswen Choo is the national
encyclopedia of China. The pocket
edition numbers 100, 1000 volumes.
The newspapers of Boston are think
ing about the propriety of presenting to
the three clerks of wards who are the
first to make their returns of the result
of the city election, three massive gold
goblets. A leather medal of buffalo
hide with an appropriate inscription will
be presented to the clerk who is last to
report.
A Frenchman is going to issue daily
paper printed in French, English, Ger
man, Italian and Russian, and he will
make it lively for his enemies.
A Covington girl lent her shawl to an
invalid gentleman riding in a stage. and
when he handed it back there was
$500 greenback pinned to the shawl.
In describing trial at court, a New
Orleans reporter says of the defendants:
During the recital both demons oc-
casionally smiled in hellish, sarcastic
way"
The GongregGtionaljSt, after growing
at printers blunders, says: sit is as
much as a sentiments life is worth to
travel from New York to Chicago.
Mr.. Beecher says he "admires flute
in the unskilled hands of learner, es-
pecially if far enough off"
There is no excuse for young men to
loaf around corners, when for ten cents
one can buy either "The Headless
Scalper, or the Suicides Son ;" ''The
Prairie Pirate, or the Fire Fiends
Friend )" ''The Murderer's Mother, or
the Southern Scalper, or ''The Maniac
Murderer, or the Curse of the Caribbean.
VERMONT AND MASSACHUSETTS The
terms on which the Fitchburg railroad
company has offered to lease this road
are stated as follows: For the first two
years the lessee is to pay 4 per cent. per
annum on the capital stock of the Yer
mont s. Massachusetts, for the next two
years 5 per cent, and thereafter per
cent. The Vermont 81 Massachusetts |
road, which forms part of the direct |
line from Boston to the Hoosac Tunnel,
owns line Sc miles long from Fitch !
burg, Mass, west to Greenfield, with a
branch from Greenfield to Turner's |
Falls, % miles, and branch from
CIRCUITS Corners to Brattleboro, VT, 214
miles. This last branch is now operated
by the Central Vermont Company, hav-
ing been leased for Is years to the Rut-
and Railroad Company. The Vermont
& Massachusetts Company has also been
operating the Troy 81 Greenfield road,
from Greenfield to the Hoosac Tunnel,
30 miles, which is owned by the State
If Massachusetts. BY the last report
he capital stock was $2,860,000, and
here was funded debt of 5000, 900.
The annual interest on the bonds is $751;
100, and at 6 per cent. the dividend on
he stock would be $171, 900, making
he whole rent $229, 100.