Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-07-26

Tribune and himself by his crotchcts but
the public so believe in him, in spite Of
his anqucstionable vagaries, that his bare
statement to-day carries more weight
than that Of any man in America.
- A newly married couple from New
York, who had been visiting some relatives
near Fentonville, Mich were being driven
in to take the cars few days ago. When
within short distance of the railroad
crossing they discovered the train rapidly
approaching. The team was urged fer
ward at fearful rate and the track near
ly reached when the bride became so much
alarmed at the almost certain destruction
awaiting them that she sprang from the
carriage. The momentum received from
the flying team threw her off her feet, and
she fell directly across the track, while the
ponderous engine was drawing fearfully
near. With admirable presence of mind,
she, instead of attempting to, rise up,
threw her body round parallel with the
track, and rolled off to one side, and safe
ly rolled out of the way. Picking herself
up, she started for the depot, some thirty
rods distant, and arrived there in time to
take the train.
- The Springfield Republican says that
Mr.. j. A. Whipple of Boston, has the
largest, and is one Of the most successful
photographers in the United States.
- The Dayton (Ohio) Enquirer, VAL
landigham's organ, has disappeared from
inability to live.
A policeman in Albany used to car
ry in the pocketa quantity of snuff to
throw into The face and eyes Of a fractions
prisoner. BY this means the officer
avoided the necessity of using his locust.
- The Macon (Ga.,) Telegraph is in
formed that the statistics at Milledgville
show the alarming aggregate of 10000
paupers in the State of Georgia.
A young girl in Philadelphia who
had sulphuric acid thrown in her face sev-
eral months since by an unprincipled
scoundrel, has become insane in conse-
quence.
Two kilograms in cipher, were sen.
from New Orleans Sunday morning, July
6, to the French Emperor and one of his
Ministers, at a cost Of $4,000. 1t is sup
posed to refer to the murder of Maximil-
ian.
What brought you to prison my col
ored friend ?p 1.-TWO constables sah."
" Yes, but / mean had intemperance any
thing to do with it 2" f" Yes, sab, dey was
both of EN- drunk"
- An officer at Buffalo hailed fellow
on the street, having some hoop-skirts,
which he suspected were stolen. The
rogue threw one over the officers head,
and made his escape.
A water-spout 25 feet high appeared
on the Susquehanna River at Binghamton
ON Tuesday. 1t moved about $50 rods.
The water at the top fell inside, adding to
the volume of the mass.
Billiard tables are hereafter to be used
in the British army, 100000 in gold hav-
ing recently been appropriated by Parlia-
ment to supply these tables to the army
officers in the various barracks throughout
the world.
The radical negroes in Tennessee
carry banners with notices that are very
suggestive. One displayed at Franklin
the other day was inscribed, " Remember
Fort Pillow when you go to the polls" and
another was, the radicals build school
houses and the conservatives burn them"
- Since 1857 the Yicksburg Republi-
can has had nine editors. Of these, five
were shot or stabbed to death, one drown
ed himself, one was severely wounded, one
died of yellow fever, and one was sent to
prison for libel This shows the extreme
risks of editorial life in the South.
-Privates Horace O'Greeley and Miles
OReily, have been respectively selected |
as orator and poet for the opening of the |
American Institlte at New York, Sept.
Both have accepted and each will "speak
his piece"
A gang of thieves have, for two
months past, been operating on the line of
the railway from New Albany to Chicago.
and ihave committed more than 20 bold
thus far escaping detection and
arrest.
- Great damage was done in Agawam
Mass, by the hail storm on Tuesday night
last. Fields of corn, potatoes and sore-
hum were utterly ruined, and Dir. David
Winslow had four valuable Spanish me-
'ino sheep killed.
- Recently Milwaukee police officer :
vas detailed to take an insane man to an {