Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-07-27

Mr.. Teachout was rescued from the clutch
es of the ferocious beast. II then made
off with broken leg received in the en-
counter. 1t was then attacked by five
dogs, fighting them with great fury, whip
ping them in a few moments, then ran in
a door yard, where twas killed by stone
thrown by young lady.
- Counterfeit $50 bills on the First
National bank of Portland ave in circu-
lation.
- Blackberries are drug in the mar
ket at Petersburg, Va, at twenty-five
cents peck.
- A snake measuring fourteen feet and
seven inches recently crawled into house
in Galveston, Texas, and swallowed q leg
of mutton.
- In an old family bible in Connecti-
cut the record of a birth is entered in this
wise: " Elizabeth Jones, born on the goth
of November, 1885, according to the best
of her recollection'
- Anonymous circulars are being sent
to the Union men of Louisiana, warning
them that longer TO remain in that State
than given period viii subject them to
the danger of assassination. General
/ Sheridan is endeavoring to ferret out the
authors.
The Southern journals are earnestly
urging their Northern democratic friends
to change their party name, as its identl-
fication with the cause Of rebellion has
rendered it so odious to the mass of North
ern people as to render it incapable here
after of political victory.
A grocer in Portland, after several
persons had labored all night with success,
to save his house from the late fire,
charged his clerk with the price of four
bottles Of hop-beer and some lemons and
sugar, with which be treated the savers
of his employers property. By univer-
sal vote he is the meanest man in Maine.
The ST. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer says
that old steambort-men declare that the
signs of the past four or five seasons point
to the permanent drying up of the Missis-
sippi river, reducing it from a stream nav
: isablo fol- the largest boats the whole sea-
son, to one of uncertain navigation like
the Missouri.
- The New Constitution of North Car
DINA provides that No person shall de-
ny the being of Almighty God, or the di-
vine authority of both the Old and New
Testaments, or who shall hold religious
opinions incompatible with the freedom
and safety of the State shall be capable
of holding any office or place of trust or
profit in any civil department of the
State"
- Herr Louis Staab, formerly teacher
of music in St. Louis, took out protection
papers during the war to escape the SER
vice. A little while ago he went to Eu-
rope. There he applied to the American
Consul for protection papers as an Amer
lean citizen, but the latter being posted.
Staab could not get the protection of the
stars and stripes, so he had TO enter the
Prussian army and fight for fatherland.
/ - The Armenia On. " Times tells the
best story yet concerning recent freaks of
lightning: A person, whose name it did
| not learn, was sitting in an open shop door
when, apparently, two flashes met direct
ly over his head, and passed down his
body, nearly stripping him of his clothes,
and threw his shoes some feet in the air
r Strange to say he was not killed, but only
/ received slight damage.
i = The Portland Star tells the story OIL
$ a man in that city removing the ruins Of
d his house and finding his cooking stove
:, from the oven Of which popped the cal
I with her fur slightly singed. When the
building fell, the bricks and rubbish had
: covered the stove so as to protect it from
the heat. 1t was taken out uniniured-
the only piece of household furniture re-
. naming.
= An Unlocking fellow was asked how
he could account for Natures forming him
so ugly. Nature was NOT fo bIon,a - sold
!. he, for when was two months of age
was considered the handsomest child in
the neighborhood, but my nurse to revenge
herself upon my parents for some fancied
injury at her hands, one day Strapped me
array for another boy, belonging to a
friend Of hers, whose child was rather
plain looking"
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