Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-01-19

Gov. Swan Of Maryland, the owner
of the farm on the Virginia shore Of the
Potomac, on which the battle Of Balls
Bluff was fought, has written patriotic
letter to Col. Moore, Superintendent Of
Military Cemeteries, donating the site for
cemetery on which the Union men who
fell have been inferred. Col. Moore had
intended placing flag staff in the center
of the cemetery, but the people of the Vi
entity say that they do not want to have
the stars and stripes flying there.
On Sunday last, while party of
nineteen boys were skating on the st.
Lawrence river, near Osdensburg. the
whole field Of ice separated from the
shore and began to move down the river.
When the boys discovered that they were
carried off they set up terrible yelling,
and attracted the attention VI Mr.. Joseph
King, who procured boat and hurried 10
their rescue, and by taking three trips
succeeded in saving them all.
A f 4
VIM. Lloyd Garrison has stopped
his Liberator. He bids cheerful fare.
well to his readers, says the object for
which the Liberaior has so long contended
has been accomplished in the abolition Of
slavery, and now, as Vice President Of the
Freedmen's Aid Commission, he is devot-
ing his energies to the elevation Of the
race for whose emancipation he has 90 long
and zealously labored.
AT the time of Senator Douglas de-
cease, his estate was so encountered that
!, i, was believed that there would be moth
ing left for his family. During the war,
however. the price of real estate in Chica-
go, which belonged to him, apprecia ted SO
in value, that its sale has paid all Of the
debts and left his family handsome CON-
petence. e
"A young man named Julius Merritt
of Cambria, Michigan, accidentally sho
and killed himself on Friday night, while
!, blowing into the muzzle of his gun. Mr.
Frink, a neighbor, aged about sixty years
!, who WAS sent for, was so overcome by the
occurrence that he dropped dead at thu
!. Just before he reached the scene of tn,
accident.
An inhuman brute living at Alban,
i locked bis wife, who is nearly sevent,
6. years old, into her room Sunday morning
a and kept her there until Monday after
noon without fire or food. When discov
!. cred the poor old creature could hardl,
stand or speak, and her hands we're frog
en-.
vs. = Last Friday night, Jan. 10th, tn
n wife of John Kussendul, Of Caldwell, N
,f j., arose from her bed, where she had BEEF
X confined for some time by illness, AM
a climbed to The summit Of mountain, iron
n which she walked off. She was discover
l. ed al its foot in her night clothes frozen 4
a. death.
d The Florida Legislature has electe
d Mr.. Call and Provisional Governor VIII
v liam Marvin. United States Senator, owe
two Rebel generals. Gov. Marvin wa
elected, for the short term, on the mint
r balloting. Both the Senators elect al
n. rived at Savannah on Jan. 6, en- route I
II Washington.
lie "A lady principal of school in q
Z. advertisement in Philadelphia paper
l. mentioned her female assistant and tn
h. areputation for teaching which she bears
but the printer left out the " which" .
the advertisement went forth, commendin
a the lady's reputation for teaching 81
T. bears"
- -Ex-Gov. Kirkwood Of Iowa has bee
elected, by the Legislature of that Stais
United States Senator to gil the unex
~ PRED fern. As his successor for tn
ID long term, commencing March 4, 1857
the Secretary of the Interior, the Hor
r James Harlan, has been elected.
o. - The sale Of pews in Rev. II. "
Beecher's Church this year, amounted
u s29 ,436, nearly three thousand dollar
more than last year. This. with the rents
$I2,l5S makes the pew income S4l,oS.
" Four hundred dollars was the highest SUI
a. paid for choice.
Tee Hartford Press says: A rag
p ged little fellow was seen skating on on
Of our ponds lately without shoes or stock
ings; his skates being strapped on his bar
nd feet, who said il was jolly good fun, sn
that his feet were warm enough it he kef
on skating. 81 ~ s.
IT. The Canada farmers along the BOZ
der have sent large number Of cattle u
rd to Vermont, in anticipation Of the termln'
@ ton of the reciprocity treaty. In the '
entity of Derby all the farm yards a
W. ,e.~,lo,aI,, 6llad ~ ith cattle awaiting 81