Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-07-10

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= The St. Louis (MoD police commits
sioners have asked Col. Fem, chief Of
police, to resign because he insists on on
forcing the Sunday law against the wish
es of the Germans.
= Gen. Packard, Just nominated by
the republicans to succeed Speaker Col.
fax, is SO years old, and his commission
as brigadier was dated on the day of the
assault on Vicksburg.
= An old salt, sitting on a Gloucester
wharf the other day, very soberly re-
marked: al began the world with moth
ing, and have held my own ever since"
A terse and suggestive biography.
- Heretofore the democrats have OBJ
jected to the republican party on the
ground that it was sectional-that it had
no members in the South. Now they
complain that it has moro members in
the South than it ought to have.
They have received in Portland,
Me-, the largest sweet potato ever raised
ON the island of Cuba. This monster
weighs forty pounds, is twenty-four inches
long, nine inches in diameter and twen-
ty-nine inchsHin circumference.
An explosion of cannon during a So
lutte at New Brunswick, N. j., Saturday
evening, killed. returned Union soldier
named F. j. Pence. He leaves a widow
and four Children, for whose relief $500
were Immediately raised, and measures
taxed to purchase them house.
- The profane swearers who abound
in the New York Central park, to the
great annoyance Of respectable people,
are being followed up by the authorities,
and, on Wednesday, three of them were
put under bonds for good behavior for
six months.
The supreme court Of Virginia has
reversed the decision of the lower court,
in the case of III. B. Clafflin q Co. of
New York against the Richmond firm Of
Steinbock d Co., and decided that the
attachment against the latter for S48,-
600 is on good ground, and must stand.
- The annual report of a small and
poor crop comes from the Delaware
peach orchards, just as the fruit begins
to come into market. The estimate is
one-tourth of the usual yield, but there
will probably be just as many peaches
as ever when they are gathered.
Wheat turned a sharp corner at
Chicago, Wednesday, and during ten
minutes in the afternoon the price fell
from 1920 to 1885 per bushel, and it
was utterly impossible to effect sales on
any terms. The spectators will proba-
bly, clear 100000 net profit out of the
operation.
= Two in&gnant impeachers went
through trainon which Senator Hen
derson was knorn to be, not long since
to pick it out. They finally settled upon
one with "a treacherous face" as GER
tainly the "rereant senator" A gen
tleman sitting opposite, who had laughed
with them oyer their discovery, was SEN
ator Henderson himself, who tells the
story, and the treacherous face belonged
to General Sam Cary of Ohio, who does
not enjoy the alecdote.
= The Husband of lady who was
lost on the 'teamer Evening Star,
has petitioned Congress for the issue of
duplicates of sil ton-forty United States
bonds, which she had in her possession
at the time of her death, and of which
he gives the numbers. The mysterious
fact connected nth the affair is that the
treasurer at New York lately
redeemed the ,oupon of one of these
bonds for Marc, 1867, and the congress
sional committe on claims propose to
wait an explanation before passing du-
olicates.
A little gill, five years of age, the
daughter of Mr.. Frank Brown
If Sanbornton Bridge, N. H., was burn
ID to death in that place on Saturday.
She was firing India crackers in COMPANY
With some other children when her cloth
ng accidently took fire, and before assis-
ance could be rendered she was SO badly
INJURED that, after three hours of intense
death came to her relief. She
vas an interesting child, and the sad
went cast a gloon over the entire village
where she lived. st
The late Gov. j. A. Andrews, of Massa-
'husetts, uttered the following noble SEN
tlments short time before his death;
" know not What record of sin NAV
await me in another world, but this /
know: l was never mean enough to de-
'pise any man because he was ignorant.
nor because he was poor, nor because he
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