Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-03-20


- hundred and fifty million pounds
of tobacco have managed to escape tax
alton the past year.
There are forty-six boys now in the
Reform School at Waterbury, larger
number than at any time heretofore.
- Gen. Grant attends a Methodist
church regularly and gave $4,000 to-
wards Wesleyan chapel in Washington.
= Soap berries, about the size of whor-
tleberries, grow in Alaska in profusion,
and are used by the inhabitants as an
article of food.
- The lower house of the Minnesota
legislature has voted to leave capital
punishment for murder at the discretion
of the jury.
The ladies of Pennsylvania town
gave what they called graveyard
hop" the other day. 1t was a bali for
the benefit of the cemetery fund.
When it was telegraphed to western
places that I'D Interim Thomas had sued
Stanton for $4,000, the papers out there
thought it was mistake, and that $3.50
was meant.
= Of AGA towns in New York in which
local elections were recently held the re-
publicans carry 284 and the democrats
1870. Last year the republicans carried
1927 and the democrats 1877.
We have been told the Tribune was
mostly edited by -Irishmen now. This
may account for its announcement that
"Mrs. Kemble's Saturday morning read
ing will begin at two p. NJ
Prof. LOOMS of Yale College says
that this has been the coolest winter in
New Haven of any in the last ninety
years, except that of 1866, whose mean
temperature was one degree over
The Lewiston Journal says gentle
man of that city, long troubled with dys-
pepsia, has been cured by drinking cold
water from the Androscoggin river, in
stead of impure water from well.
- Two intelligent sportsmen" in
England put their damp gunpowder in
an oven to dry, and sat drinking ale near
the stove until an explosion took place,
killing them and wounding many others.
A number of leading citizens of New
Haven, Conn.,, have united to put check
upon the outrage of illegal voting at the
coming election. They give notice that
all frauds will be dealt with in the future
according to law.
= John A. Brooks, a member of the
Kentucky Legislature, has resigned.
Mr.. Brooks was elected by democratic
majority of between 600 and 700, and in
his letter of resignation declared his de-
termination to act with the republican
party.
= John Bratcher, of Mount Pleasant
Iowa, got drunk, went home late, laid
down before the fireplace, rolled into the
fire, burned both legs half off, and had
to be aroused by other persons before he
knew what had been going on.
/ An intelligent lad of six summers
the son of down east senator, recently
visited the insane asylum at Augusta
Me-, and told his inquiring father on hi.
return that they were making speeche,
: just like the Legislature
The Lynchburg (Va.) News think.
the result of the New Hampshire election
is "rather incompatible with the idea SC
seduously inculcated by the Democrat,
press of an immense revolution in the
popular mind against the radical party ;
The repub lican papers of Connect
cut are entreating the democratic mana
gers to import to that state C. C. Burr
Henry Clay Dean, Montgomery Blair
Brick Pomeroy, and the remainder of the
copperhead crew who canvassed New
Hampshire so successfully for them.