Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-01-16


cheers fairly rent the air, and must have
spread dsmay and terror amongst the rebel
hosts.
The AGE OF MAN.-Few men die Of
age. Almost all persons die Of disappoint-
ment, passional, mental, or bodily toll, or
accident. The passions kill men some-
times even suddenly. The common ex-
preston, "choked with passion" has little
ez aggeration in it, for even though not
suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten lie.
Strong bodied men often die young-weak
men live longer than the strong, for the
strong use their strength, and The weak
have none to use. The latter take care Of
themselves the former do not. As it is
With the body, SO it is with the mind and
temper. The strong are apt to break, or,
like the candle, run; the weak burn out.
The inferior animals which live temperate
lives have generally their prescribed term
of years. The Horse lives twenty-five
years the OK fifteen or twenty the lion
about twenty the hog, ten or twelve; the
rabbit eight the Guinea pig six or seven.
The numbers all bear proportion to the
time the animal takes to grow to its full
size. But man, of all animals, is the one
that seldom comes up to the average. He
ought to live hundred years. according to
III ,bxci o1or g.. -
are one hundred but instead of that ha
scarcely reaches an average Of four times
the growing period. The reason is obvious
man is not only the most irregular and the
most Incorporate, but the most laborious
and hard-worked of all animals. He is
always the most irritable of all animals, and
there is reason to believe, though we can
not tell what an animal secretly feels, that,
more than any other animal, man cherishes
wrath to keep it warm, and consumes him
self with the lire of his own reflection.
HIGH PRIcED.-We have seen receipt
taken by Gov. John Hancock of Massachus-
etts in 1888, showing that he paid $50 for
two packs of playing cards to be used at a
ball given by him at Concert Hall, corner
of Court street, which at that time was his
property.
The Portland Argus has had sight of
receipt which reads as follows -
"PoRLLAND, Feb. 9Th, 1881.
Received os Mrs. Ellis Grsely, by hands
of Joseph Insraham, seven hundred and
len dollars, in full for one quarter beef said
Greely had of me.
JAMES LEACH"
BY the date it will be seen that this busi-
ness transaction was in the closing years Of
the American Revolution. The payment
undoubtedly was made in the deprecated
paper currency of the colonies at that time.
boston Journal.
SECEssIoNIsTs IN New YoRK.--The
Newark Adrert,ser publishes this in the
shape Of letter from New York: 1t is
wonderful to see and hear the impudence of
certain Southern secesh men and women.
who have sought New York for society and
protection. AT one of the large up-town
hotels an Alabamian and his wife and child
have been boarding for months. He is
represented as actively engaged with some
New York house in sending goods to Nassau,
from thence to run into rebel ports. No
doubt he is a spy here and furnishes the
rebels with all kinds of Information. Both
himself and wife make the most insulting
remarks in the hotel, and she teaches her
child TO run out her tongue at the servant
girls and call them Lincoln's slaves. One
of them slapped the little imp the other
day. and tie passionate and insolent father.
meeting her on the stairs, threatened TO
throw her over the bannister. The girl,
with noble independence. dared him to a.
tempt such an outrage, when he struck ber
violently in the face twice. Some gentle-
men have interested themselves in the mat
ter. and probably you viii see some news.
paper Developments when the trial comes on.