Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-06-21
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notices in Kansas.
jeff. Davis was GO years old on the
Sd day of June. lie was born in Todd
county, Ky.
A Philadelphia street organst, who
was lately arrested, was found to carry
$500 in greenbacks in a belt around his
body.
- The death of prominent citizen Of
St. Louis is reported to have occurred
from cancer on the nose" caused by the
pressure of his spectacles.'
- A Pennsylvania has paid fine of
$50 for putting his arm around a lady's
waist without saying " by your leave"
A negro called Old Rube" was
voted for in Cairo, ILL.,, on Tuesday last,
for circuit judge, in opposition to Col. Oh
ney, and he received nearly 200 demo-
cratic votes.
New wheat is coming into Charles
ton, S. c., quite freely, and the prevailing
price is $3.50 bushel, though holders of
early crops of prime are asking more.
"A man in Cairo, running against a
barber pole the other night, pulled out his
pocket book, threw it down and ran, sup
posing he was attacked by robber.
Edmond About says, there are two
things in this worll which man does not
often find away from home: the first is
good soup; the second is disinterested
love-
- The New York market is liter rally
glutted with strawberries from Jersey, and
the wholesale price is down to II and Is
cents quart. There is an immense crop
of strawberries this year.
- Niagara correspondent says there
were thirty odd brides there one day last
week. 1t is supposed their lords had fled
appalled, by the awful expense attending
a visit to that popular resort.
- An elderly lady at Wayne, Mich,
while walking in her garden last Sun day.
was stung in the ball of her eye by hon.
ey bee. She screamed and fell back, and
died in Ten minutes after receiving the in
jury.
A gentleman of Louisville, Ky,
whose wife died of cholera, has sued the
city for $4,000 damages, claiming that
the disease was contracted because of the
uncleanliness and impurity of the city.
A couple of Detroit clergymen have
procured a tent capable of seating four
hundred persons, which they propose 20
move from place to place In the worst
quarters of the city, for the purpose Of
attracting those who will not attend church.
Services will be held in the tent regularly,
but Wal Hot NC SoHAiSu " any particular
denomination.
= During a recent wedding in church
in village near Troy, N. Y, when the
clergyman asked if anybody knew any
reason why the ceremony should not pro-
coed, a woman rose in the audience and
forbade the bans on the ground that the
groom had promised to marry her when
her husband died. The clergyman decid-
ed that she had no right to look so far
ahead, and went on with the performance.
- The republican state convention of
Louisiana, met on Tuesday at New Or
leans, in the Mechanics Institute, where
the July massacre occurred. Chas. Smith |
was elected president. The convention
will reorganize the state central commit
tee, and adopt platform for the pending
canvass. Gen. Sheridan will issue in |
few days an order protecting all parties in
the peaceful prosecution of the campaign |
throughout the state.
- The Pennsylvania democratic con-
vention in its resolutions declared the es-
Enlistment of negro seffrage in any state
by federal power a usurpation and out
rage, and threatened resistance to the last
TO any attempt so 10 establish it in Penn
sylvania, and reproached the republican
Congress with failing 10 redeem its pledges
by passing the tariff bill of the last ses-
sion. A resolution of thanks 10 Gen.
Sheridan was introduced, but was ruled
out of order.