Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-07-12
= The fastest time by a running horse

ne iastest hihc W i""ni"S "o'SS,
on record, was lately made at Geneva, ILL.,,
quarter OF mile in 10 seconds.
- The marble for the new post-oilice
at Portland will be furnished by the North
Middlbury Marble Company of Middle
bury, vi. This company is composed
largely of Boston capitalists. Their mar
BILE is of fine grain, compact and durable
mostly beautifully variegated.
The Southern mail service restored
as before the war, went into operation on
Monday. and includes about 1000 routes,
and is as completely under contract with
responsible parties as at any former time.
= Pineapples made from turnips, in
Paris, are said to be delicious the turnips
are saturated with an appropriate syrup,
which coniectioners know very well how
to manufacture the pineapple "is des-
| tined to become a success"
- The New York street cars are re-
sorted to after midnight by drunken men
who sit or lie and ride back and forth till
moruing or the drunk is worn out, and pay
the drivers an extra fee for the privilege.
- Among the matrimonial advertise
men;s, lately noticed in New York Jour
nal, was one for husband having a Ro.
man nose with strong religious tendencies"
A barrel of new beer, in cellar at
Lockport, burst few days since, hosting
the keeper, an Irish woman, TO the ceiling,
demolishing everything in range. The
lady picked herself up and mildly re-
marked, Och, bad luck to the man that put
the tospedy in the barrel.
A young man called at the City
Clerks office 10 New Bedford day or
two since, and asked for death war;
rant The astounded clerk assured him
| that he dealt in no such documents.
"Well," said the fellow, give me a mar
riage certificate; it amounts to the same
thing" The Mercury hopes that youth
will catch Tartar.
A swindler has been doing" the
ladies of Albany out of various small
sums by selling them worthless plant,
saturated with delicious perfume, for the
seeming of garments. To add to the cru
city Of the sell, the villain has selected
the odorously named skunk's cabbage, of
which he sells small pieces at from fifty
cents to 50 piece.
= An absurd eanard, imported from
Paris, is going the rounds of our papers,
about the carbonic acid gas from the flow
ers of an acacia tree" locust? p rem
dering man insensible while attempting
to saw off limb. 1t may be useful in
csutioning people against sleeping with
flowers in close room, but such an oc-
currence in the open air is none the less
an impos-ibility.
- Butler Evans, the leading Shaker at
Lebanon, N. Y. says that he foresaw
trouble, a few weeks before Mr. Lineoln's
death, and wrote to him to come and stay
among the Shakers few weeks. The
letter is now on file in the state DEPART
ment, and had the invitation been accepted
Mr., Lincoln would not have been MUIR
| dered.
The cause of the death of the Arch
| duchess Matilda, of Austria. affianced to the
heir of the Italian throne, has TRANSFERRED,
She was smoking cigarette in her parlor
and when some one came in she hastily
put it behind her, and her dress, which
was of light material, caught fire, and she
was burned to death.
- jeff. Davis is reported TO have late
ly expressed the wish that she could dsap
pear from the view of men and pass the
remnant of his life in some seclusion
where none but his personal friends could
find him." Let him go to Sitka.
= A Detroit burglar, after lately rum
maging through house occupied only by
lady and her daughter, entered their
chamber, frightened them with display
of his pistol into keeping quiet, and at the
request of one of the ladies brought a
glass of water to her bedside. He then
sat down by the window, lighted cigar,
and engaging the ladies in very civil and
polite, but on their part most unwilling
conversation until daylight was breaking,
departed quietly with his plumber.
The Texas Republican State Conyen-
ton adjourned Friday. after adopting the
principles of the national republican par
ty, iEdorsing The civil rights bill and all
the reconstruction acts of Congre s. They
thank Sheridan for the way in which he
has performed his duties, and declare the
state officers hostile TO reconstruction.
The memorial by citizens of Con-
necticut, charging fraud on William II.
Barnum, the democratic member of Con.
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