Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-16

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ed at Little Falls.
- Numbers Of ladies are becoming
newspaper reporters in New York.
A Richmond negro, who bought his
freedom eighteen years ago, isl now worth
$1,000, and owns the largest livery sta
BILE in Virginia.
A verdict of three thousand dollars
has been obtained in Cincinnati against
telegraph company for its rejection of
message desired to be sent for trading
purposes in competition with the compa-
ny itself.
A Leavenworth editor is in quest of
special attractions for his paper He
says: & What we want for this column
is personalities, as mean as possible
Expense of libel suits to be betrayed by
the writer-funeral expenses by u.s."
A young man of Memphis has APP
peared in st. Louis to claim the reward
of 800 advertised for news of missing
girl. He married her the other day af-
ter a successful elopement.
- In the grave of Casmir the Great,
recently opened in Poland after lapse
of four centuries, the crown and the
sceptre were found in a complete state
of preservation.
- A couple in Savannah met for the
first time on Friday last, courted Satur-
day, were " engaged" Sunday and mar
ried on Monday. The groom is 70 and
the bride Is.
- The bees in Iowa are actually starv-
ing, the continued wet weather depriving
them of their accustomed food. In one
apiary of twenty-five colonies of pure
Italian bees at Marshall, there were prob
ably not ten pounds of honey.
"A bull fight came off in Gofstown,
N. H., on the 7th. Two farmers match
ed their bulls, and the fight was witness
ed by quite crowd. When one had
whipped the other, a fresh bull was trot-
ted out and the fight went on till it was
thought best to separate the animals.
The first practical effort at secession
from the Protestant Episcopal Church
has occurred at Putin Bay, Ohio, where
a parish has renowned the authority of
the Bishop and set up for itself, with
revised Prayer Book, and such other lit
urgical changes as may be considered
necessary.
= The editor of the Wisconsin Banner
says: " Wednesdays mail brought to us
letter addressed Rev., another the
Hon., another COL, one Mr., and
the last Esq On the way to dinner
we accidentally stepped on a woman's
trail, and she addressed us thus: "You
BRUTE"
An oldfarmer from Atkinson, N. H..
was arrested the other day in Lawrence
for putting stones into his load of hay,
brought to market for the purpose of in
creasing its weight. He seems to have
put about 115 pounds of stones into the
load, which he was detected in pulling
out after the hay had been weighed.
Sugar, it is announced, is made from
the common field pumpkin, in Hungary,
where several large factories have been
importation since 1887. The juice Yields
about eighty per cent. of molasses and
four per cent. of sugar. The process is
the same as that by which sugar is ex-
tracted from beets.
- AT the performance of Dora the
other night in a Western city, when
Mary Morrison made her exit to bring
on her little Willie of four years, she was |
shocked to find a lubberly boy of at |
least fourteen, and as he was the only
Willie at hand, on he must go, though |
he was well nigh as big as his mother
The Farmer Allan of the play, being
equal to the emergency, instead of in |
quiring How old are you, my little |
man 7" endeavored to remedy the mat
ter by saying, " How old are you, my |
strapping boy p But he failed for the
boy, who was instructed to say from "to,r
to sir," said it in such course, sepul-
chal tone as to drive the good natured
grandfather to exclaim, +" Forty-sir , You
look it, my boy. You look it - ~