Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-30

Ward Beecher.
- Somebody tells Of an Indian who !
seeing a gentleman with wig and specta-
cles exclaimed in amazement; Him two
scalp, him four eyes, by gollyl'
- Two baseball players at Usage,
Mitchell county, Ia, ran together with such
force, the other day, as TO break the jaw
of one and the nose of the other, and in
tlict several lesser injuries, all to catch a
fly ball.
- The only unfsvorable reports OF the
wheat harvest come from Minnesota,
where the dry and hot weather has consid-
erably injured the crop. Corn and oats
however look finely and promise an album
dant yield.
- There will be no fifteen cent curren-
cy notes issued, but the ten-centers will be
retired as soon as possible, when the spe-
Gle will have to come out, as the fiye-cent
pieces have done.
- The loss by the rot Of the Ohio
grapes this year, will not be so great as
was expected. Only the Catawbas have
suffered at all, and the Isabellas and Del
wares are fully as good as usual.
- The horse Dexter has trotted a mile
in two minutes, seventeepeand one-fourth
seconds. Having thus made the best time
on record, Mr.. Bonner, of the New York
Ledger bought the horse, paying $4,000
for him.
The republican county convention of
Jefferson county, Ohio Edwin NJ. STAN
toms native county,, which met last week,
passed resolutions denouncing the presi-
dent for superseding Mr. Stanton, and NOM
mating the latter for the presidency.
= Wednesday of last week was poor
day for Chicago. 1t only offers the sui
eide of girl of ill-fame at hearing a false
story of the death of her seducer and
lover; the discovery OF two cases Of in
fanticide; the mysterious disappearance Of
Lathrop Wright; the burning of Rev. DIR.
Eddy's barn and three others on Indiana
avenue; and the beginning OF breach OF
promise case by Samantha Proctor against
Ira T. Mum, damages 100000.
- Rattlesnakes are very plenty this
year in some parts of Connecticut. Some
haymakers in Huntsville killed five in one
meadow. A horse was bitten by one and
died within "a hours.
= A quarrel about the price Of glass
of whisky, in Lebanon, Kentucky, on
Sunday, resulted in the death of Messrs.
Graham and Hughes. The latter receiv-
ell four pistol shots. and Graham was
stabbed in seven places.
- An intelligent dog had one leg cut
off by the cars at Newbnryport, the other
day, and picked the discovered member up
with his mouth and carried it home to his
master. The latter at once summoned a
surgeon, and had the limb amputated hold
Ing the dog in his arms while the opera
ton was being performed, and talking 10
him as though he were child. The dog
is now as lively and happy as ever, on
three legs.
- An afflicted editor, who is troubled
with hand organs under the window, longs
for the evil days" mentioned in Ecclesi-
astes, when the graders shall cease be-
cause they are few" and .the sound of
the grinding shall be low
- French local papers give curious
account of the result of sinking an artesian
well in the department of Aude, near Mar
bonne. When the depth of $50 feet had
been attained, stream of carburetted hy-
drogen gas rushed up the tube, which, be-
ing lighted, has continued to burn steadily
with red flame. Along with this gas
water flows, which is stated 10 be extreme
" bitter and cold.
Wheaton's Ointment is an old and
well tried remedy, which keeps constant
| ly increasing in popularity as its merits
become known. 1t has been before the
public for more than sixty years, and is
universally acknowledged to be the most
certain and speedy cure ever discovered
for Salt Rheum, Ulcers, Chilblains, Tet-
ter. Pimples Blotches, and all eruptions of
the skin, while it is sure cure for the
Itch. and will eradicate the most obstinate
cases in forty-eisht hours.