Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-03-01

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= Three inches Of red snow lately fell
in Switzerland.
A little girl has died at Albany, N.
T., from eating green-colored candy.
- Greenwood cemetery, New York,
was opened twenty-seven years ago, and
there have been $4,000 persons inferred
in it.
A man in Berlin, Prussia, is report
ed to have lain insensible for seven days,
in consequence of going to sleep with a
cigar in his mouth.
= Suits of breach of promise of mar
riage are not common in France, as the
judges always rule that, up to the last mo-
ment, the parties should be free to
"change their minds" and so do not de-
cree damages except where deception has
been used.
A colored girl, once slave, was
placed on the witness stand in a Detroit
court, the other day, and mounting the
highest portion of the box, she told the
court TO go ahead wild de SALE" evident
ly thinking of the scenes of her earlier
days.
- With regard to the officers Of the
10th Congress, it is stated that there will
be no opposition in the Republican party
to Colfax for Speaker, Mr.. Mcpherson
for Clerk, Ordway for Sergeant-at Arms,
and Given for Postmaster.
- Only $4,000 has been raised in
New York for the starving South, and yet
New York had thousands of sympathisers
with the South when it was in rebellion,
Says the Tribune Let US resolve that
at least 100000 shall be contributed this
week by our city. Let us not be shamed
by ST. Louis, hich has given Sl26,000."
- The blue birds were hopping about
merrily in the early part of the week in
some parts of Connecticut, and the frogs
had begun to croak near Portland, Maine.
Since then both win have cleaned the
knowledge that their demonstrations were
premature.
Some "master coins" being samples
of all the coins made in the United States,
have been struck at the Philadelphia
mint for the Paris exhibition. Wouldn't
it be well 10 exhibit them in this country !?
Most people have entirely forgotten how
the United States coins look.
A burglar was convicted at Brooklyn
recently on the circumstantial evidence of
revenue stamp. He had left the cover
of match box on the premises, and he
had in his pocket at the time Of arrest the
box itself; attached to which was the torn
fragments of revenue stamp. On plac-
ing the cover on the box the broken edges
of the stamp fitted exactly, and on this
proof the prisoner goes TO the penitentiary
for ten years.
The Presbyterans OF Tennessee re-
Gently held an assembly in Memphis and
declared that they had no hesitation in
affirming that the views and opinions Of
Southern Christians on the subject of sla-
very have neither been revolutionized nor
even modified by the events of the past
six years" Interesting old Bourbonsl
1t is stated that Joel b. Thompson,
now confined in the Troy Jail on an in
dictment for the murder of Thomas II.
Bailey, few weeks since, was married
to young lady residing in Troy, at the
Jail on Friday last. This is what may be
called sunshine under adversely.
AN Incorporate German at Colum-
bus, Ind, was lately found dead in his
shop, his lips entirely burned awag, leav-
ing a CHASTITY hole, his tongue charred 10
crisp. His nose was also burned, as if
by fire coming out of his nostrils, and his
clothes were still burning when found
No other part of the body save the air
passages was burned. Physicians who
examined the body pronounce it clear
case Of spontaneous combustion. 1t is
supposed that the fire was communicated
by attempting to light a cigar.
DISTRIBuTIoNS.-we would call attention to the op