Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-04-16

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is furnished with a dozen or
more frst-class houses to live in.
= Motto Of market gardeners: LET
US have peas"
- At Haverhill, Mass, on Thursday,
William Holland, about Is years of age,
was killed by the accidental discharge Of
a pistol with which he had been firing at
a mark, the ball entering his heart.
"A nap before dinner is better than
one after, but if you want sleep after the
midday meal, sitting posture is better
than reclining one. So says the Her
aid of Health.
- The Portland Argus says that mat
tiers have all been arranged, and the
New England Agricultural Society's and
the Maine State fairs will be jointly held
in Portland in September next,
- The Commercial Bulletin suggests
that the election of Hon. II. L. Dawes,
as Governor Of Mass, would continue
the alphabetical arrangement already
commemorate Andrew, Bullock, Olaf
lin, Dawes.
- There seems to be a decided reac-
ton in feeling against violence and mob
law in the West, and the leading citizens
have resolved that every man shall have
an impartial trial and be punished only
in form of law.
An Iowa paper, intending to tell us
that a prisoner escaped, says: The con
stable and prisoner disagreed as to which
was the best route, and, as the prisoner
has not been heard from since, it is sup
posed that he took the wrong road"
= a large meeting of citizens in sym
pathy with the Cuban revolutionists was
held in Philadelphia on Saturday even
ing, and q resolution was adopted asking
the United States Government to recog-
nize the Cubans as belligerents before the
British Government does so.
An English lady advertised for a
servant, and the first letter received was
to this effect: Mrs. c. D. presents her
compliments to Mrs. A. b., and will
thank her, when she has obtained suit
able servant, to forward the other letters
to the inclosed address, Mrs. C. D. being
in want Of q servant"
= Acknowledgement Hoar is Unita.
rian, Secretary Of the Interior Cox a
Swedenborgian, Secretary of the Navy
Borie Catholic, ex-Secretary of State
Washburne a Unitarian, Secretary Of
State Fish an Episcopalian, and ex-Sec-
rotary Stewart Presbyterian.
= In the Supreme Court at Chicago,
on the 31st ult., decision was rendered
against the Chicago Railway Company
for personal damages amounting to S4
800. The Court held that if companies
permit cars to be overloaded, the passen.
gers are not responsible for damages re-
sultlng from standing on the platform
"A good story is told by the Rich
mond Dispatch. A colored soldier af
hXed his mark to an application for back
pay and bounty. While the claim wa,
passing through the department he learn
ed to write, and signed his name to thC
additional papers subsequently, required
The Red Tape Bureau declared the lat
ter signature to be forgery.
Two boys in Reading, Penn, saw
picture of man hanging in an illustra
ted paper. and began to play " hang" b,
putting rope on some framework out
side their house. The older of the tive
boys first tried it, and after him the 9th
er put the rope around his neck. The
Older now walked off, and when the
mother came upon the scene the Young.
ers face was black and blue, Life WA:
not quite extinct.
{ A dying pickpocket confessed to .
Catholic priest, few days ago, the theft
Of a poeketbook from lady in Wash.
lngton horse-car, committed in 1865
The lady was at the time guest of See.
rotary McCulloch, and note in the wal.
iet gave the thief the address. He in
sisted upon making restitution of the
money, $50, and the sum was sent by the
priest from a remote spot in the West TO
MI McCulloch, and forwarded by him
to the nWner in fq,;n..-