Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-07-24

community.
= 1t has been ascertained that tape
worms may be propagated by impure
water as well as by unclean pork.
One of Horatio Seymour's sisters is
the wife Of Roscoe. Conkling, the repub-
lican senator from New York.
- Chicago claims to have nearly
doubled its population in three years.
The number of inhabitants is now esti-
mated at $4,000.
- Wisconsin wool of this years crop
is coming to market in large quantities,
and sells readily at Milwaukee at from
80 to 373 cents per pound.
Only two men, Horace Greeley and
George Ripley, are connected with the
editorial department of the Tribune that
were there five years ago.
- The funeral of an old lady who was
recently buried. in jackson, Michigan,
was attended by two of her sons from the
house Of correction in Detroit, anda third
from the State Prison-all under guard.
- A gentleman accosted a friend
when the thermometer indicated 50 in the
shade -" suppose you are bound to the
store?" NO." replied the gentleman,
wipingh his forehead, " I am leaking home
ward"
A Chicago court has just given a
verdict of $1,000 damages against two
parties who, by false pretenses, enticed
delinquent creditor at Elkhorn, Wis, to
come to that city, when they served a
judgment upon him and thurst him into
Jail.
Extensive preparations are being
made at Chicago for the exhibition of
wool and woollen goods on the first week
in August, under the auspices of the
woollen manufacturers association of the
North west. Trade sales of the samples
exhibited will be held at the close of the
exhibition.
= The hot weather and the decrease
OF about twenty minutes in the length of
the days suggests to a waggish CORES
pondent of the Waltham Press as CON-
panion-piece to the old adage, As the
days begin to lengthen," &C., the follow
ing; C. As the days begin to shorten, the
heat begins to hotten."
James Z. Scott, convict in the |
state prison at jackson, Mich, who had |
labored out thirteen years of fifteen
years sentence, for the crime of man
slaughter, made an attempt to escape ON
Monday, but was shot by the guard and
wounded. He escaped last
but was recaptured.
- j. B. Woodruff, the editor of the
Cincinnati (O.) Daily Times, who died
IF sunstroke, last week, was the gentle
nan who had difficulty with Gov.
8rownlow, in Nashville, a couple of years
lgo. Brownlow approached him with a
copy of the morning paper on which
Woodruff was engaged, and asked, in a
nenacing tone, odd you write this ar
icle ?" " Yes" said Woodruff, putting
pistol to Brownlow's button hole, al
i'd, what hive you to say about it?"
3rownlow had "merely asked for infor-
nation"
James McCarroll, editor of the Fe-
ian Volunteer at Buffalo, N. Y. has in
rs possession court-dress of Marie An
oinette, which is undoubtedly genuine,
nd which is attracting much attention.
Is superb brocade silk, elaborately
with an immense train Of
ne same rich material, and was recently
urehased of Rev. c. Z. Robertson of
ialone, N. T., administrator of the es.
lite OF the late Rev. Eleazer Williams
nc reputed son of Marie Antoinette If
as originally obtained by an attache of
le American embassy at Paris, for Mrs
'dward Clarke of Northampton, who
resented it to Mr.. Williams, she being
MY convinced that he was the genuine
auphln that he claimed IN he