Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-08-24
A five footed frog has been caught

A five footed frog has been caught
in Rutland.
- Butter in Philadelphia is selling at
y-fve cents pound.
- Perfect integrity and properly
cooked beef-st eak are rare.
President Roberts has called Fenian
Congress, TO meet at Troy Sept 4.
- The doctors in Syracuse, N. Y, have
challenged the printers to match game
Of ball.
- Thirty insurance companies in New
York have paid s1.335, 200, losses by the
Portland fire.
- The deaths from cholera in London
during the week ending August ] /, num-
bered 1868.
- General Buffers family are living in
tents at Gloucester while their new house
is building.
A very rich gold vein has been
found in California by man who was
digging cellar.
- Mineral specimens from all the Pa
cifc States and Territories will be sent to
the Paris Exposition.
Mrs. Lincoln has presented the walk
ing-stick commonly used by her late hus-
band to Frederick Douglass.
- Mr.. Morgan Smith, colored tragedian,
commenced an engagement at Birming-
ham theatre, England, on the 9th.
A live turtle was received in Roch-
ester by mail on the 9th inst, the stamp
and address being pasted on his shell.
- The following volunteer toast was
offered by lady in Springfield, Mass. -
Spruce old bachelors, the evergreens of
society
- The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens has
been renominated for Congress unani-
mously by the Union Convention of Lam
caster, Penn.
- An editor says he can't remember
having told wholesome truth without
diminishing bis subscription list or maxi
ing an enemy, and he therefore proposes
to retire from the editorial business.
- At celebration of marriage, a
large number of young ladies present, the
minister said, Z" Those wishing to be joined
in the holy bonds of wedlock will please
stand up and nearly all the young ladies
, arose.
-" Mike, why don't you fire at those
5 ducks! Don't you see you have got the
e whole flock before your gum" al know
a ! had, but you see when gets good aim
i at one, two or three Others will swim right
It 'twixt it and me-"
S A man came home drunk on a cold
|, night, and vomited in basket containing
It gosins, which his wife bad placed before
n the fire, upon seeing which, he exclaimed
" /" Goodness gracious, wife when did i
h swallow them things p
- Twenty years since. Mr.. Charles
Baeder, of Philadelphia, failed, and com.
promised with his creditors, receiving a
legal discharge. A few days since he in
vited his old creditors to dine with him,
and paid each one the full amount of III.
Indebtedness.
A Saratoga correspondent says: "In
consequence of the quarrel existing be-
e tween Morrissey and the hctelkeepers,
s the former intends to erect in SARATOGA the
h largest hotel in America. 1t will cost
o 100000. To punish the Lelands and
e other hotel keepers, the rates of board
k are to be fixedat 81 per day instead of SIS,
/ the present price,"
: The associated press of this country
re propose 10 spend Sl25,O0O a year for
III Euro9eon news by the Atlantic cable
$ They viii have two dispatches day
Il made up in London at 8 A. NJ. and q
= 2. NJ, which will be the same respeciivelv
y as 10 P. NJ. and 10 A. NJ, New York
Is time, and reach here in season for morn.