Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-01

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which fuse is attached. The bag i
then put into the woodchuck's hole som,
two or three feet, with the other end o
fuse projecting from the hole, which i
then filled in and carefully tampod witt
earth. If the burrow has other opening
these must also be closed The fuse i
then lighted, Il dull explosion follows, ant
poor chucky is never heard from again
being probably unable to breathe the ali
in his narrow house after the burning Of
the powder.-N T. Farmer.
New potatoes are among the luxu-
ries Of the season at Charleston.
= Ice cream and strawberries are a
drug in the streets of Montgomery, Ala.
= In Rhode Island the Providence
Journal says, eve sell and drink more
liquors than thrice the value of our rail
road property every year
= Gen. Sherman, in writing to friend
in Columbus, Ohio, says of the Kansas
hotels, that their price is three dollars
a day, board and lodging extra"
At Portland on Thursday Miss Hen
rietta Erskins was accidentally, and pro-
badly fatally, wounded by the discharge
of pistol which young man named
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toss was taking from his pocket.
- lawsuit in Iowa, about the own
ership of a calf worth SIS, has cost each
of the parties $780, The expenses of
the trials borne by the public amount to
about the same sum.
- Senator Fowler is receiving numer-
our kuklux Khan letters, threatening his
life unless he votes for acquitting the
President, 1t is rumored that he is some
what alarmed by the threats.
1t is not generally known that
slightly-roasteda and ground coffee, placed
on warm surface, such, for instance, as
fire shovel, will neutralize vapors of
ammonia and sulphuretted hydrogen.
A recent writer gives the secret by
which any one can become as rich as
VIM. b. Astor of New York. It's this.
inherit twenty millions, do as he has
done, and you will soon have eighty mil
lions of dollars.
- The Chinese have wheelbarrow in
common use which is an improvement on
our barrow. The wheel is in the middle
1t Is not uncommon to see a sail set on
this wagon, and, if the wind is fair. thew
can make six miles an hour easy.
The democrats carried the Chicago
municipal election, Tuesday, and elected
their candidates for judge and clerk of
the recorders court by about 500 major.
lty. The council stands twenty republi-
cans to twelve democrats.
- During a recent "run on a saw
lngs bank in New York, about one mil
lion of dollars was withdrawn by depos.
itors, who thus lost three months interest.
In some instances parties had their mon.
ey taken from them by pickpockets.
An English nobleman lately refused
to deliver letter to one of his servant
girls, because it was directed to her as
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" Miss So-and-So. He thought it was
not proper that aservant girl should have
" Miss prefixed to her name.
= brute at Middletown named John
Irwin beat his wife, Thursday NIGHT he
cause she had bought new bonnet and
then threw the bonnet into the fire. The
poor woman fled from the house and the
next morning her dead body was found
washed ashore some miles below on tho
river
- There is young man attending
college in Albion, Mich, whose heart i
IN his right side. He has been examined
'y several of the most noted physicians
If New York and Washington, who all
lgree that such is the case. This is the
econd case on record of the kind.
A novel article, which, combines
beauty with utility, is ridingwhip for
aides use, in the butt of which a pretty
an lies secreted, until required for use j
When it is brought out and spread as if nv |
magic, and is as quickly returned to. its t
lace, when no one would suspect any, |,
hing but an ordifiary whip !
A jury has given William II. Belk.
zap register of deeds of ROCKINGHAM
ounty, N H., 5000 damages for being 4
LEGALLY rejected from the cars of the +
'oston and Maine railroad, while holdino S
return ticket which the superintendent
mltted to instruct his conductors TO hon
on the day after its date, as had been p
tipulated :
A rather funny incident occurred in
ne superior count, at New York We'd