Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-02-07
- Edmund Kirke" is now in an in
snrance office in New York.

- Edmund Kirke" is now in an in
snrance office in New York.
The total value of the marine losses
of United States property for the month
of January just past was 81, 4S9,700.
Out west, instead of asking a man
"What will you drink" they now say,
Nominate your poison"
The population of London, is $685.
935. Three hundred and eight children
are born in the city every day, and 1913
persons die there.
IT. P. Finefrock, the democrat.whom
Gen auckland defeated for Congress in
the ninth Ohio district in 1885, has Just
withdrawn from the Methodist church
at Fremont, because colored couple
were admitted iH a
A girl presenting herself for sit
uation at house "where no Irish need
apply" in answer to the question where
she came from, said "Sure, couldn't
We persave by me accint that its French
/ amp"
- lady in st. Louis called at
newspaper Office last week to inquire
about the Angola disaster, of which she
had just heard. and was horror struck at
finding the name of her own daughter,
Mary Freeman, as one of the victims.
There were ten failures reported in
New York, last week, tws of which were
in large wholesale houses. The liabili-
ties averaged $4,000 per firm. Among
country merchants there were 107 fail
ures, the aggregate liabilities of which
were $535,00O.
The latest joke on the New York
convention was resoIu-
ton, introduced into the Legislature,
Wednesday, that whereas, the Aeade-
my of Music is now burned, and no other
place of amusement remains to divert
the people of Albany, therefore the con-
stitutional convention be authorized to
charge an admission fee for entrance to
its councils.
Nailandigham, smarting under his
iefeat for the United States Senate
zones out in the last number of his pa
yer at Dayton, Ohio, with sharp and
utter article, charging the recent defeat
II the democrats in the eighth congress
onal district upon Pendleton and the
doption of his greenback policy, and
redlcting that the republicans will carry
he state next fall by 10000 majority.
A hen was started on her travels
n the 4th of July last from Syracuse.
\. T., and has since been in nearly ey-
ry city in the West, as far as St. Paups,
linn. Thence she has been returned to
'ew England and having already tray
lied more than $4,000 miles, is still be-
lg passed along" 1t is perhaps need
ess to say that she was sent out as Joke
mong the agents of the several express
A terrible tragedy has occurred in
'alifornia. A gentleman made lady a
resent of a pair of pistols, and after sew
raj trials of skill they concluded the
'rms OF duel They took their posi-
on, fired at the word, and to the terror
the lady the gentleman fell. She
rev herself frantieally upon the CORPSE
and kissing it with every emo
ON Of endearment. Under such magic
influences the gentleman revived, and
'se unhurt from the ground, and-and
and they are to be married.
: In Tahaa, one of the Society Islands
&c Siamese twins are paralleled. Two
rls, infants, as yet, are united at the
P, but are otherwise physically sepa.
tie. The sympathy between them is
ID to be extraordinary. The king and
leen have adopted them and lately re-
sed to part with them long enough to
rry them to Tahiti to be photographed.
Extraordinary pains are taken to pre- !
rves their lives.
= John Beatty, fatherof Gen. Beatty
new Ohio Congressman, was a soap
d candle maker of New London. Irish
nerous and genial. He once arrested
young fellow countryman in his en-
y Tor stealing box of candles, and p
wing testified that they were worth 81
very penny of it, the Judge sentenced
boy to whipping in addition to a fine
e poor fellow began to cry; Beatty,s 4
IS moistened. He sprang to his feet
SAID to the court, Phase, your hon.
that was my retail price, but as he C
k the whole box, / can afford to call
three dollars and quarter - The
ing lrishman was not whipped.
Mrs. Frederick Seward is at present W
ering from the bite of pet squirrel
? was in the habit of amusing him