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

Miscellaneous. ..t...
Judge Brady refuses toqHash the in
dictments against Tweed. N.-.........
| The Jersey peaches are. getting ripe,
| Wen take the sunny side of one, please.
Boston Post. -"- ..-... ..-.. -
The Michigan wheat crop will be bet
ter than was expected, but not quite up
to the average. ...... .... ...
The potato bug is among the recent
distinguished arrivals in Western Massa-
ehuSetts. -..... ...--. -.-.-..-
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend has re-
tired from the editorship of the st. Louis
Times. ......-. ...... ..-..s.
The Astor Library has now reached
more than one hundred and fifty thousand
| volumes. --.-ts.e -....~ ...--.-t 49,.
Duncan D. Templeton, of New York,
who shot his wife, having been granted
a new trial, has been admitted to bail in
$500. ......I..
Ii is reported that Texas troops a
| short time since attacked q party of
Mexican raiders, killing II, and recap
tured 750 head of cattle.
The gradating class at the Minnesota
State Normal School, at the recent com
mencement. wore cheap print dresses.
Sensible girls.
Carlist dispatches from Spain say that
in an engagement on June 21 the Alton
sist General Iona was worsted with a
loss of twelve hundred men, and retreat
ed to Arduna. ....s. .#.t..
Thursday was the anniversary of the
abduction of Charlie Ross, The Phila-
delphia Press observed the event in q
tWo-column editorial ......-.
An Illinois grocer says he would
rather have the power to tell good egg
from bad one than to be President of
the United States. ...-..-. ..- .
Count Hoyosprinzenstein, who has
just been appointed Minister of Austria
to the United States, has a big name
to rely on Rah for Hoyosprinzen-
stein. ..........
Three young men in Milton county,
Georgia, on June Both, while in a field
threshlng wheat, were struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
The entire village of Meridilp, JET
ferson county, Nebraska, was recently
destroyed by q tornado, and the viii
lage of Alexandria badly damaged.
A dispatch from Hamilton, Ont. says
the trotter '@Kitty Mills died Friday of
congestion of the lungs. Her owner
10 ltya1 hor of sS00 0l0 -..s.. .----s..
Private adgiees from the Black Hills
expedition, show that the Investigations
are proving the country to be richer in
gold than has heretofore been supposed.
one death and two new cases Of yellow
fever, Friday. The present indications
of the atmosphere, etc, are unfayor-
able. ...l ."..
The estimated destruction of property
by the inundations in the southwestern
portion of France amounts to 300, 000,-
600 francs. The number of persons
who persisted is estimated ut 1900.
President MacMahon continues his tour
through the inundated district.
The various banks at Bowling Green,
Kentucky, have placed 100 needle guns
in the hands of various persons in that
place, with ten rounds Of ammunition
each, to be used to guard the banks
against the James and Younger broth |
ers, whose presence in the vicinity is
strongly suspected. .....-.s...
Alexander Hamilton, ex-Treasucer of |
Jersey City, indicted for imbezzling
$45, 900 in bonds and $33, 600 in money,
pleaded guilty in the Hudson Court of !
sessions Friday, and was sentenced to |
three years IN the State Prison and |
81 900 fine. Suit is now pending |
against the bondsmen for the anaount
embezzled.
Under an arrangement with the cred,
itors, the Grant Locomotive Works, at
Patterson, N. j., will resume operations
next Tuesday, employing two or three
hundred men for two or three months |
to compile two of the Russian l0comO-
lives, and to undertake thereafter any |
new work they may offer. The works
will be still under the management of
D.B Grant.
The builders have nearly completed
the Floating Hospital for the st.
John Guild, of New York. 1t is 920 |
feet long, 80 feet beam, and 10 feet
deep. The lower cabin is TO be fitted
up as dining room, capable of accom-
1000 people at breakfast,
dinner and supper. 1t has numerous
apartments requisite for hospital. aud
the general arrangements are excellent
1t is intended for children.