Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-03-16

above any other name.
The counties Of Cayuga and St Lawrence
the residences respectively Of Senators
Seward and King, went unanimously repub-
lcaa, for the first time in the township cleo.
tionS this spring.
One of the inmates Of the northern Ohio
/ lunatic asylum, former coal merchant in
/ Cleveland, has manifested u remarkable
adroilnsss in escaping from the institution
despite the utmost precaution of his keep
ers First, with set of false teeth taken
| from his own mouth he sawed a hole through
the floor and escaped by means of it; being
captured, he secreted pin, With which in
significant instrument he picked the lock of
his door and again escaped and third
time he secretcd a small brass ling in his
hair, and with This cut through The window
sash aud shutter, escaping thence 10 the
ground by u rope made of his led clothes
All but his pantaloons and shirt had been
taken away from him, but even with this
mcager apparel, (his feet being muflled up
in portions of the bed clothes,) he managed
to get off several miles.
The wife of George Helper of Fisher
vile, N. H., got up in her sleep few
nights since, and passed out of the house
and jumped or fell into well forty feet
deep, containing about two feet of water.
She had long been fearful that some of
her children would fall into the well, and
had frequently dreamed about it and had
prrbably dreamed on this night Of such an
accident, and went to their supposed rescue.
She escaped with few slight bruises.
a slave named Louis, the properly of a
Mrs. Ganiit of Charleston, who had hired
him to the State bank, was lately tried for
stealing some of the bills and forging the
names of the officers. His counsel, in adj
hitting his guilt, produced evidences of
former good behavior, and upon this ground
claimed the leniency of the court. This
was awarded in the following merciful YER
diet: Four months solitary confinement,
with twelve lashes on the first Monday OF
each month, and at the expiration of that
time the owner TO have the privilege of re-
moving him from the state, not to return ;
upon failure 10 do which the negro was to
be confined three years.
A jury in Texas lately acquitted man
on the charge of horse-slealng. although the
crime was clearly proven against him, sim
ply because he stole the horse to elope with
his sweetheart, who was present in court
during the trial, and waiting to marry him
if acquitted. The jurors had probably all
been in love themselves, at one period or
another of their lives, and there was not
perhaps one of them but what would have
done the same thing, in their younger days,
if they couldn't have got their wives with
out.
A loving couple in Memphis, Tenn, were
last week taking carriage ride in one of
the principal streets in that city, when they
CHANGED 10 meet Judge Hill, who was riding
lelsurely along upon favorite donkey.
They at once accosted him, and requested
him to unite them in the bonds OF wedlock.
lie acceded to the proposition, and without
dismounting performed the ceremony, max
ing the occupants Of the vehicle one, and
having for witnesses, the mule and two or
three persons who were passing at the time.
The origin Of the term 'eat humble pie"
was In this wise: When the English forests
were stocked with deer, and venson pastry
was commonly seen on the tables of the
wealthy, the inferior and refuse portions
of the deer { termed the umbles "
were generally appropriated by the poor,
who made them into pie hence tumble
PIE became suggestive of poverty, and
was afterwards applied 10 degradation of
other kinds.
The Providence Journal suggests to the
democratic presses of this Stale that per-
haps they can make some political capital
out OF the cattle disease. If the man who
lost the first COW was republican case
can be made out without difficulty, and it
would work up as handsomely as the cord
waincrs' strike.
The Esquimaux now in New York is
named Cudlouchdchdue- bunch of con-
sonants that must puzzle German. He
is hive feet eight inches in hight, rather
good looking, with straight black hair and
curling whskers, but no beard-nature
having omitted that appendage from the
Esqulmaux, who would seem TO need il
most. lie arrived at New York in De-
cemoer, having come expressly to see the
country and counirymen of DIR. Kane. and
rather likes life in New York.
Scene between two politicians the other
day:
Il IL bet my soul that Seward will never
be PRESIDENT" proposed a rampant half-and-
halt.
That's TOO small stakes, " replied the 9th |