Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-04-23

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of the house had occasion to move it, and
taking hold of it discovered that there
was something suspicious about the con-
tents. The hired man was called and
upon taking hold of it discovered that it
contained man. He quickly stepped
into an adjoining room, and returning
with revolver, motioned the family to
stand aside, and at once proceeded to fire
three shots into it. A piercing shrek is
sued from it, and on ripping off the COW
ering, a man with large bowie knife
and revolver clinched in his hands,
was found weltering in his blood. Two
of the shots had proved fatal, The
neighbors were alarmed, but no traces of
the peddler who left the precious pack
could be found.-Joliet, Ill.,, Signal.
= The Grand Jury of Caroline Coun-
ty, Md, have indicted q negro woman
for witchcraft.
A mean pun-for man to lay hold
of lady's black hair; and apologize by
saying he thought he was pulling belle
knob.
About seven hundred men are now
at work on the Hoosac Tunnel, and one
hundred and fifty more will soon be adj
ded.
- A sign in Pittsfeld, Mass, which
until recently read as follows: Cobling
done her." has been changed to read as
follows; "maid and repaired"
= The Illinois Legislature has passed
an act authorizing wives to receive,
use and possess their own earnings" free
from the interference of their husbands
The young ladies of Gotham are
now adopting the role of "sweet simple
ity," and appear at balls and parties in
short muslin dresses without ornaments
of any kind.
1t is now law in New York that
any man who will keep and maintain a
public watering trough on the highway
shall have an abatement of SO from his
taxes.
- Somebody down east has invented
new plan for cheap boarding. One Of
the boarders mesmerizes the rest, then
eats hearty meal-the mesmerized be-
ng satisfied from sympathy.
A prominent business man of Port
land, who settled with his creditors few
years since at discount, in consequence
of losses at the South, has recently paid
up all discounts then made.
- West Tennessee rejoices at the tide
of immigration now setting in. One
town recently received an addition to
its population of two hundred persons
from Pennsylvania.
-" My son." said an anxious father,
"what makes you use that nasty tobac-
co !" The boy, declining to consider the
question in the spirit in which it was ask,
ed, replied, "To get the juice
One of the articles in the Barnsta-
BILE, Mass, town meeting warrant is to
know if the town will appropriate sum
OF money for the transportation of the
scholars to and from their schools"
"A scientific gentleman at Ports.
mouth, n. H., whose wife had been out
of health for several years, analysed the
tea she drank and found that the color.
ing material was gypsum and Prussian
blue.
The great African traveller, DR.
Livingstone, has again been heard from.
According to late advices, he had left
Zanzibar, the capital of the empire Of
the same name in South Africa, and ex.
pected 10 reach Cairo by land.
= The late John Minor Bolts had q
signet ring made of filings from the old
independence bell in Philadelphia, and
at his death bequeathed it to General
Grant, to whom it has just been duly
presented.
A Texas paper reports that two men
were found hanging to tree in the neigh.
borhood of Brennan few DAYS since
One of them was known, and the 9th
er, negro, was not, but no one could
guess why they had been lynched.
= Fitchburg has voted to appropriate
$4,000 for a soldiers monument. $40.
600 of which is to be raised by taxation
the present year. The structure is TO he
a granite tower 100 feet high in the ear
| ly decorated character of English gothic
The King of Greece, in recent
trip through his provinces, was thrown
into deep river by the stumbling Of
his horse. He very coolly swan to the
shore, mounted his horse again and rode
on, just as a man, not king, would
have done.
The physicians of Buchanan Mich