Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-06-08

Sing On. Y. prison, has just died from
the effects of blow by John Reddy, 9
fellow prisoner.
Mr.. Thomas Dewitt, a Virginia Ststt
officer of prominence, blew his brains
out in Richmond the other day: be-
preston caused him to Dewitt. - -Boat0z'
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Albert Brown, who, last August, out.
ragged and afterward cut the throat ot
Cora Greenleaf, aged five years, was sez'
ecuted at T0nawanda. Pa, Thursday .
Lightning killed three people in dif'
ferent houses in the northern. portion q
Delaware, on Tuesday night, and 9
heavy rain did considerable. damage, 3
George r. DeHaven was fatally
stabbed at Ogdensbrlrg, N vi Wednss!
day, by man named Ferguson, and the
latter was also badly stabbed after being
arrested, by a friend. Of DeHayen. s. s. =.
/: A resolution eoagratuiating the Pre-
bytcrian churches of Canada. upon ~
Union recently conshalnlated, was vot.G
down in the diocesan synod at. QueLed,
Thursday. The bishop: enj6ined The.
cieray tu refuse to marry ali who decline
to go to church TO be married @..:.. i.
Dispatches from Brownsville, Texas,
state that Gen. Cortiaa has been 81.
rested and placed under guard by Ca.
Manuel Parrat, of the Mexican regular
cavalry, Cortina's police have been arr
rested, diSarmed and imprisoned. Thete
is great excitement in MatamoEas, aad
trouble is anticipated. zs',. i,
A bill was filed in the Court of Com
mon Pleas at Philadelphia, Thursdaf,
charging Alexander and Erwin, conf
Dental clerks of Henry c.. Nor
ris, bankrupt proprietor of the
Southwark iron company, with
drawing $4,000 from its capital
in the past four years, and with total
Indebtedness TO the establishment of
$142, 900. <--.. -..... ~. ..s.
There is considerable excitement in in-
circles at Boston over the diff
Guilty between the national board of fire
and the Bostoa companies,
The Manufacturers Fire and Marine
Company having been expelled from the
national board for refusing to open its
books for examination by the supervis-
ing agent, all the seeding companies
have made like refusal and it is sup
posed will be dealt with in the same
manner. A lively insurance war would
seem to be on the tapis.
An engine is said to have been invent
ed in Paris which is driven by the alter
nate expansion and contraction of oil in
cylinders, the liquid being gexpanded and
contracted by alternate streams of hot
and cold water. How the inventor pro-
7ides for economy of heat and meets the
oss of momentum which must result
rom the want of instantaneous action
IN the part of his primary forces is not
stated
The latest story of Russian extrava-
yance over an actress is told of Nine.
Iudic, the bouffe singer, who is 10. be
losed a six weeks season in st. Pefe.s
,urg, and it is calculated that the profits |
# it were sufficient, if invested, to in |
ure her an income of 16, 900 francs a |
-ear the rest of her life. At her last |
she received a suite of dia-
nonds worth 10000 francs; a dart for
he head dress in brilliants, with a
apphire as large as a pigeons egg, val
led at so, 900 francs, and a diamond |
bracelet worth 80, 900 francs.
Ferdinand, ex-Emperor of Austria,
who has just died at Prague, was never
N Emperor other than in name. The
Id Minister Metternich bound him
lightly in swathing bands; and from
hat day Fedinand was a mere puppet,
Who made motions rs the Minister
pulled the strings. Ever sickly and i'm
,ecile, he was moreover completely un-
Ter the government of the slipper His
.Onsort (Aun Caroline, Princess of Sar-
Iinia, to whom he was married in 1881 |
md his sister-in- law, the Archduchess
sophia, held powerful sway over his
weak mind. Influences scarcely less
powerful were exercised over the EN-
,eror by one of the ladies in waiting,
Catherine Cibbai. She was a favorite
With Ferdinand for two especial rea-
ons; she could play with him on the
,iano-the only thing he himself could
10 tolerably well; and in his epileptic
its no person attended him with such
eal and success as this lady. 1t was
he ArchduChess Sophia who elected her
from the throne and
,laCed thereon her own son.