Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-14


with barely the assistance of servant
The object of his solicitude and devo-
ton day by day became more feeble
He scarcely left her bedside. Sleep be-
came stranger to his eyes, and even !
food was put away by him. But even
such devotion could not turn the pene- !
trating barb of death, and finally the !
ewes of the sufferer closed forever upon
the fearful face ever above her, and her
hand grew cold and rigid in death while
yet in the warm clasp of his to whom 1t
was so shortly to be given in life and love.
- Waterhouse Hawkins, the distin-
guished English naturalist, thinks that
the fossil footprints in the Connecticut
Valley sandstones are those of marsupi-
al animals, like kangaroos, and not those
of birds, as President Hitchcock believ
ed, during his early investigations. DIR.
Hitchcock's later opinions, however,
tended toward the conclusion which Mr..
Hawkins, by the aid of more numerous
and clearly-defned facts, has reached.
- The fact that there are no Hebrew,
as there are no Quaker beggars. is owing
to the peculiar and systematic arrange
ments made by these sects for taking
care Of their poor. Each Jewish syna-
gogue has committee of the most re-
spectacle members, whose business it is
to become acquainted with the condition
of every Hebrew in their district, and, if
necessary, to afford assistance.
- Not long ago a man named Brock
inridge visited St. Paul, Minnesota, and
all the Democrats made haste to pay
their respects to him under the impress
sion that he was the ex-rebel general
They were greatly disappointed to learn
that they had made mistake, and were
absolutely disguised when they found
that the gentleman had never even been
in the Confederate army.
- The election held at Cumberland,
Maryland, yesterday, resulted in the sue
cess of Mr.. Lowe, the republican candi-
date for Mayor, by "a majority. The
republicans also elected two Of the sly.
Councilmen. The vote was the largest
ever polled, and the result shows very
handsome republican gain, as Horatio
Seymour received about 800 majority in
the city last November.
The brilliant aurora borealis seen
here on the 10Th of April excited great
attention in England. At Greenwich,
at an altitude of IS degrees, waves OF
light seemed to rise and break like the
foam of waves running over a sandy
shore. The display is said to have been
as magnificent as any in Northern lati.
tudes.
- The community of Mishawaka,
Ind, are excited over the condition of a
young German girl who has been tel
weeks in a trance, with occasional lucid
intervals, during which, it is said, she
makes startling revelations The doctor
in charge pronounces it catalepsy.
AT Shawsno, Wisconsin, is sup
posed to be the largest heap Of logs evel
made. 1t is a closely packed mass o
logs one hundred rods long, ten rod,
wide and seventy-fve feet high, and j.
estimated to contain more than eighty
million feet.
= In Alabama, the Montgomery higt
school is held in the old auction mart Of
Fitz and Frazier, shareholders. Theil
sign is still over the door. Several o
the present pupils have been sold at auc
ton in what is now their school-room.
: Mrs. Tefts lately died at Elgin, Ill.
from trichinosis; and microscopic ex
animation Of a portion of muscle from
her body disclosed thirty thousand living
parasites to the cubic inch
- Four ladies are to be appointed al
a salary Of $1,000 each to search ladies
arriving at New York from foreign
ports. Over 740 applications have al
ready been made for the positions.
= The official vote of the Michigan
election of Justice of tie Supreme
Court shows a majority for Thomas NJ.
Cooley Republican, over D. Darwin
Hughes of 30,819.
Chicago boasts Of having received
in one week weight of pork greater
than the weight of the entire human
population of the city.