Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-04-19

-Ex-confederate Judah p. Benjamin is
practicing law at London.
- An irreverent joker has discovered
that bald head is like heaven because
there will be no fasting or dying there.
- AT republican meeting, at Athens,
Tenn, colored man named Rev. A. +.
Anderson followed Horace Maynard in an
effective speech.
- The foxes in the Shenandoah valley
are dying of mysterious and strange dis
ease, supposed to be caused by eating the
bodies of dead soldiers.
A republican convention at Memphis,
Tenn, on Wednesday, was about equally
composed of whites and negroes, and one
Of the latter was vice-president.
- Fort Wayne, Ind, which used to be
good for thousand democratic majority,
has come down $50, and one more assault
by the republicans will carry it.
- The Unionists have elected the may
or of Louisville, Ky, beating the demo-
cratic candidate by over 200 votes. Last
summer the democrats had about the same
majority.
A French physician is curing his
patients who are suffering from debility
and reduced and enfeebled blood, by giving
them the fresh warm blood of chickens,
ducks and other fowl.
- The majority in favor of conven-
ton to admit rebels to the franchise, and
to disfranchise the colored men of Mary
land, is 7l81 so far, and will be increased
by returns yet to come in.
The children in a Chicago school
being asked to give text of Scripture
which forbids a man to have two wives,
one of them promptly replied, " No man
can serve two masters"
- The evidence of a case on trial at
New York showed that coffee manufac-
turing firm in that city, used black lead,
sand and rockstone to give gloss and
weight to their production.
- Theirs closed his recent great speech
in the French chambers against the poll
cy of the emperor with the comprehensive
declaration There is not one single
I blunder left the government to commit"
A Yankee captain was caught in the
jaws of whale, but WIS finally rescued,
badly wounded. On being asked what he
thought while in that situation, he replied
81 thought he would make about forty
| barrels"
- The French government has issued
orders to every theater in Paris during the
exhibition no piece shall be acted which
might wound the feelings of foreign visi
tors. One has already been forbidden to
present play entitled, The American
War;" lest it might hurt some sensitive
soul
- An injunction was granted on Tues
day last, by Judge Smalley, in Vermont,
in behalf of the Cahoon Manufacturing
Company, against several dealers in lamps,
for selling without license hinge lamp
burners. 1t is important that all dealers
should know that such burners are patent.
ed, and that the patent was recently de.
cided by Judge Clifford, in Massachusetts
to be good and valid.
- Miss Blanche Butler, daughter OF
the general, is Gazetted as the belle O
Washington, next winter, and she is sale
to be not only pretty but sensible. 1t i,
not generally known. but it is true, never
theless, that Gen. Butler married an act
ress, superior lady, with whom he hal
lived in the greatest happiness and con
cord. In his domestic relations, if not il
all his political views, Gen. Butler is .
model for all men.
The Home Journal says: "Peopl
generally do not know that some ladie,
wear false lips, made of pink India rub
Der, which are attached to thin lips in
manner which defies detection, and which
give pretty pouting appearance to thu
mouth. There is way to test lips which
may appear doubtful, but many ladie
might object to the operation, unless i
were performed by very near relatives.
A young soldier named William II
Brown is now living at Des Moines la
who fell into the hands of the euerill
Quantrell, in 1864, and with four comrade
was shot and left for dead on the field c
execution. Fifteen balls entered differer
portions of his body, but none proved faia
and after remaining dashed to tree fo
three days and nights he was discovere
and relieved and by almost miracle ha
recovered. Before his capture by Quar
trell. Brown was shot three times, and c
the eighteen balls which have been lodge
in bis body fourteen still remain there.