Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-04-03


tons for observations in the track of the
eclipse.
GEESE AS DfET.-Geese occupy a
conspicuous place in the diet of some
Frenchmen. One-half a million of pies
made from the livers of the birds are
disposed of annually in Paris. That is,
the consumers Of the pate believe them
to be made from the fat liver of the goose,
when in fact substitute of queer des-
cription forms the basis Of more than
two-thirds of the quantity made
- Vallandigham has bought into the
Dayton CO., Ledger, and will be its edi-
tor-in-chief. He has been its main spring
for some time.
- John B. Cough has bad attack of
the hen fever just after his lecture at
Rondont, n. Y, the other evening, and
invested the whole s125 of its proceeds
in hens, paying 500 for five white Dor
kins.
= The Minnesota Legislature has vir-
tually abolished capital punishment by
providing that it cannot be inflicted ex-
cept by the unanimous and special con-
eurrence of the jury.
- Lake Erie is clear of ice and nayi-
cation will be resumed this week. 1t is
many years since navigation opened so
early IN the season, and the ice has dis
appeared without the usual freshet.
The democratic convention of Cook
county, ILL.,, which contains Chicago, on
Saturday elected As delegates to the state
convention and unanimously passed res
alutions favoring Pendleton as its first
choice for the presidency.
The Martyr Vallandigham" doesn't
give up all political hope yet, and his
friends have introduced bill into the
Ohio Legislature, which by reconstruct
ing the congressional district lines, will
make the third all right for Val.
A man in one of the Hartford cot
ton mill opened bale of cotton the 9TH
er day and found wallet containing
$4,000 dollars in Confederate bills. tits
not probable that his income tax will bein-
creased In consequence of this discovery.
= Mr.. Oxenford, the London Times
theatrical critic, declares that he saw rats
drinking out of his water pitcher at the
New York Hotel. Gentlemen in thai
condition more commonly see snakes, but
sometimes it's rats. We shouldn't want
TO tell Of it, though.
= The famine in Tunis and Algiers is
terrible. In the latter country human
beings are killed and eaten. An Arab
woman recently killed her daughter,
twelve years of age, and gave the flesh
to her other children and partook of it
herself. The authorities at once pro
ceeded to the spot, and on entering the
hut found the mother occupied in sailing
the flesh, cut up into pieces, exactly as
is done with pork.
The Madison wisconsin, State
journal says that Bates, who is now car
rying the American flag through the
Southern States, is young and worthless
sort of fellow, and violent Democrat.
During the war he was member of an
artillery company stationed at Washing
ton, but was never engaged in any battle
and saw no service more serious than
drawing his rations and spending his paw
about the capital.
In the darkest days of the Atlantic
telegraph enterprise, friend of Cyrus
Fields bought ten thousand dollars of
stock for a ten dollar bill Mr.. Field |
magnanimously offered to take the stock
at considerable advance. "Well. but
what do you advise me to do, Mr.. Fields"
" lake your stock home," was the reply:
M ~ Wy III louI sile, ana never look /
at it nor think of it till you come to me
for your dividends on it." And that
man is now receiving on his investment
of ten dollars, eight hundred dollars per
annum in gold.
The secret " Klauklux Khan" in
Ienncssee, which some of the democratic
and copperhead papers affect to treat as
joke, and nothing but harmless bur:
Iesque, has meaning and menace enough
IN 1t to call out an article from Gov
Brownlow, in his Knoxville Wing over
his own name in which he denounces tbo
order in the severest terms, and advises
the Union men OF the State to arm Them
'eves and prepare SO defend themselves
At all hazards. Brownlowism i had
enough, but Is better than lawlessness and
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