Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-05-24

one which they capture, and then drown
ing them. About thirty are sacrificed
daily.
A. L. Stewart & Co., of New York,
offer part of their recent dry goods i'm
portations at auction, which shows that
they rather meet the present market than
take less later in the season.
A party of West Virginia sportsmen,
whose dogs killed eighty sheep and moth.
ing else, have paid 5000 and took the
carcasscs.
- An extra six feet of snow fell, the
middle of April, on the track of the Pacific
railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains
in California.
The Queen of Belgium proposes to
have crown for the first time, and the
jeweller is making it of 40 pearls, 40 large
brilliants and 5000 small ones, all set in
gold to resemble coronal of flames,
and TO weigh less than half pound.
- Stewart & Co., of New York have
created stir in trade and feminine
circles by going into the bonnet business
and proposing to sell Paris hats" that
the milliners have charged $50 and $40
for, at $40 to 10. The profits will I'M
doubtedly be abundant at the lower
| figures.
- Two little boys left Dayton, Ohio
few days ago with their bows and
arrows, to hunt grizzly bears in the
Rocky Mountains. They got six miles
on their way before they were overtaken
and when found were shooting a,
some calves by the side of the road for
practice.
Moses A. Hawkes. has been arrest
ed at st. Paul, for the murder of his
wife, that he might get the insurance
on her life. The murder was committed
more than year ago, and was supposed
at the time to have been accidental.
The St. Louis police arrest the
loafers who throng the street corners to
insult ladies, by using one of their number
as decoy, clad in female apparel. The
experiment has proved very successful,
and the Chicago papers want it introduc-
ed into that city, where it is greatly need
ed.
-Xhe latest horticultural device is
that Of removing the stones from fruits
by a process of gradual reduction, by ex-
tracing the pith from shoots and grating
them on stocks, and their own branches,
for successive seasons. The experiment
has been perfectly successful with the
Malaga grape.
A Wisconsin man eloped with a
neighbours wife, but on going to the hotel
breakfast table in Chicago, where such
congenial spirits most do congregate, was
filled with CONSERVATION at seeing his
own wife with the man whose domestic
peace he thought he had wrecked forever.
After consultation each escorted his own
lawful wife back to his deserted hearth
stone.
- The Pennsylvania oil wells are at
their lowest ebb, and the whole product
of the state is estimated at less than 5000 |
barrels daily. Oil stocks are also going
down out of sight, and at Philadelphia,
the other day, 1000 shares, which once
brought a premium and represented an ag-
gregate of $4,000, were sold for $40.
james L. Homer of Bengal, Mich,
lately married woman TO escape a breach
of promise suit for 5000, and then was i'm
mediately sued for $4,000 wages due an
other female with whome he has lived for
the last seventeen years, and who is the
mother of his six children.
= While flour is going up butter isn't,
as an Attica IN r. farmer knows, who
lately sold large quantity for 20 cents,
for which he had refused 45.
A young lady "a years old is living
at Hickman, ILL.,, who for the last twelve
years has slept necessarily, except two
waking intervals Of few minutes each
during each "a hours. when nourisbment
is given her. She never manifests pain.
and has grown and developed like persons
in ordinary health.
- Maine is offering inducements for
The building of railroads and manufacture
ing establishments. Towns and cities
contribute to the roads and exempt man.
capital from taxation for ten
years. The State has appointed COM
mission to survey the State and report
upon its rivers, mines, timber, and soil.
A gentleman being asked by a cler-
gyman why he did not attend the evening
prayer meetings, said he could not leave
the children. "What have yon no SER
vantsf' YES" he replied, "we have
two servants who keep the house and
board us, but we are allowed few priv;.