Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-04-15
- Rents in New York have fllel

ten per cent.
The Merrimack Valley Poultry AS
ISOLATION hold their annual fair at Man
chester, N. H., April 10th and 10th,
1870.
The coffin at a recent New Hamp-
shire funeral was drawn to the grave on
q hand-sled, and the mourners followed
on snow-shoes.
- The mourners at New Zealand
native child's funeral drowned their
grief in couple of hogsheads of ale
and thirty gallons Of spirits. They were
drunk two days.
A four-year old daughter of A. p
Chase of Piermont, n. H., died on Thurs
day from the effects of corrosive subli'
mate, supposed to have been eaten in
common lozenges.
= Elwyn w. Lovejoy Of Lowell, the
other day carelessly threw off his over
coat as he entered the house and ex-
ploded a pistol in the pocket. He will
use crutch for a time.
- The woods around Pittsburg have
lately swarmed with millions of passen-
ger pigeons, calling to mind the focks
of 80 years ago, that used to darken
the sun in their flight, and break down
the trees when at roost.
- Capt. C. Z. Bean, one of the par
ties in recent California duel, was for
merly editor of the Bangor Democrat,
and was so much a democrat that he
joined the rebel army. He went through
the war and duel unframed.
A citizen of Belfast, Me-, discover
ing four skunks foraging in his garden,
slew them all with a hoe. Ever since
though stunned by his neighbors, he
has been regarded as man of distinc.
ton.
- Dickens, in edwin brood" now
publishing in Every Saturday, speaks
of Cloisterham as so Astounding in YES
tiges of monastic graves that the chill
dren grow small salad in the dust of
abbots and abbesses, and make dirt pies
of nuns and friars"
An old American named McCor-
mick recently died in imbecility and
want in Liverpool, who had apparently
been sent to England by his relatives on
a wild goose chase for legacy. The
American consul, during the old mans
took measures to hunt up his
relatives, who lived in Pennsylvania,
but refused to contribute anything for
his relief.
- Hahnemann, the founder of home
opathy, on being consulted by an Eng
lish peer, gave his patient smell from
a small vial and assured him he was
cured What's the bill?' asked the
astonished nobleman. Gone thousand
francs" The visitor pulled out roll
of bank-bills and held them to the doc
tors nose, saying, "Only one smell YOU
are paid.
The negroes voted in nearly all tht
municipal elections in OHIO, last week
In some places the judges shut them out
because the fifteenth amendment proc
lamation had as yet been received onl,
by telegraph, and in others because tbs
proclamation had not been acted upor
by Congress The new citizens vote(
the republican ticket and made no dis
turbance.
A lady recently consulted a physi
clan respecting the discoloration of he
teeth, which she supposed might be ow
ing to some pills which he had prescrib
ed for her. On investigation, the effec
was traced to the tea used at the board
ing-house, which was kept from day t,
day in timed vessel and heated up a
meal times, with the addition of fresl
supply Of the material. The tin having
worn off, left surface of iron, and til
infusion in cooling acted chemically oil
the iron, making tannate or gallate 0
iron. The boarders had been regain,
themselves on ink.