Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1865-02-10

the little fellows disbursements.
- Abou; forty-fve tons of mail matter
daily pass through the general post Office
in New York.
- A hOrse-dealer, describing used up
horse, said he looked as if he had been
editing daily newspaper"
- The tide of emancipation is setting
in very strongly in Kentucky. She will
soon follow the lead of Maryland and Mis-
souri,.
- The Jamaica leather company de-
clared dividend Of thirty per cent. last
year, and they are going 10 build new
buildings and increase their capital this
year.
- The last issue Of the Vermont State
bonds have all been sold at good prices,
and there will be no more put on the mar
ket for some time TO come.
- Gen. Grant rs negotiating with the
rebels for an exchange of prisoners, at the
rate Of 5000 per month, which is as fast
as they can deliver them.
- Five citizens of Chicago have been
arrested. charged with aiding rebel prison.
ers to escape from camp Douglas. The
evidence against them is said to be con-
elusive.
The value Of the coal mined in the
State Of Pennsylvania last year was $780,
100000; Of iron, SS7, 100000 of crude
petroleum, S24, zoo, o0o-total SAG, 90o,.
900.
- The Hon. Jacob Vanatta, democrat,
has written letter in favor of the ratif-
cation, by the New Jersey Legislature, o:
the Constitutional Amendment abolishing
Slavery.
The Delaware legislature has elected
Willard Salisbury fdemocrat)to the Uni
ted States Senate for another term. Ssals-
bury had 10 votes, and E. G. Bradford
(republican) had 10 votes.
- An enterprising man in Dryden. n.
Y, had the misfortune to lose his wife on
Sunday; on Monday he married his
servant girl; on Tuesday they attended
thesfuneral Of the deceased together, the
new wife wearing the old ones clothes.
A bookseller in Philadelphia lately
received an order from the country for
the book SO much talked about, called In
a Garden" He sent what was desired
Tennyson's Enoch Arden"
A young lady was recently cured of
palpitation of the heart, by young doctor,
in the most natural way imaginable. He
held one of her hands in his, put his arm
round her waist, and whispered something
in her left year,
- An election for member Of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, in place Of Mr..
Reed, deceased, was held on the oath ult.
in Washington and Beaver Counties. j.
Nj. Welsss, Union, Was chosen by large
majority in Washington County the vote
was: Welch, 1926 f. Brady, Jr., Dem
ocrat, 1854; majority for Welsh, Gil !;
and in Beaver he had about 600 majority.
- The plan is now generally adopted
in Gen. Grants army, when burying the
dead 10 place in the grave with the body a
sealed bottle, containing paper on which
is written the name and other particulars.
concerning the deceased.
- The democrats remark that no mem
Der of Congress who has been reelected
voted against the amendment. Only the
dead politicians resisted il, thus the fulfill
ing the scripture" Let the dead bury
their dead"
- The mode Of treatment praciiced by
the native Chinese and the English officers
in China for the smallpox is to rub the
chest with eroton oil and tartaric ointment
when the preceding fever is at its hight,
and just before the eruption appears. That
causes the whole of the eruption to appear
on the chest, and relieves the other parts of
the body.
- Gen. George III. Thomas has done
himself great honor by declining money
testimonial planned by his friends at Gin
cinna,i. He advises that the money be
given to disabled soldiers and the widows
and orphans of soldiers. He prefers as
his reward, he says, the appreciation OF
the government and the people,
- In Nieoudro, on the gulf of Venice,
shocks of earthquake have been daily felt
during the last seven months, and 10 these
have been lately added subterranean noises,
and it is feared that a volcano is about 10
burst forth there. The people are leaving
the place.
Pennsylvania thus estimates the value
of her mineral products for 1864: 1900
lions of coal, $50, 100000; 100000 tons of
iron, s37 100000; 100000 barrels Of
petroleum., s24 200. 600; total, sl4S, 9O0,-
600. The entire mineral product of the
whole country for last year was nearly
S300,00o.0Oo.