Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-05-27

NiStoiy.
- The Good Templars have made the
landlord at West Pawlet stop selling
rum, and he has shut up his hotel.
- 1t is said the Brothers Aguero, re-
Gently captured by the Spaniards and
garroted at Havana, were very young
men, boys in fact, and one of them leit
school in Troy, N. Y. only few months
ago, to join the patriot ranks.
A Scandinavian preacher in Hi
nois occupies three hours in the delivery
of sermon. Recently his congregation
passed resolution that he should close
has sermons at one o'clock, but at his ur-
gent solicitation it was extended to two.
- The congregation ut a church in
Madison, Ga, were startled on Sunday
week by colored man trying to cut his
throat with jack-knife. The would be
suicide said he was driven TO the act by
inordinate length of the sermon.
- The expenditures of the war de-
partment were cut down last week to an
extent equaling nearly 100000 per an
mum by the discharge Of clerks.
An exchange, which wishes to avoid
slang, delicately advises its beligerent
neighbor to initiate the example of the
rivulet in time of drought"
- A Mr.. Brown at st. Louis, who re-
Gently celebrated his golden wedding,
remembers when the site of that city
was secretly transferred to the possession
os the French by the Spaniards in 1904.
1t may interest banana buyers to
hear that two huge tarantulas were found
in bunch of the fruit at Memphis the
other day. The bite of the tarantula is
very yenomous.
A practical man died not long ago
in Devonshire, England. Almost with
his last breath he enjoined upon his wife
and daughter to have the funeral process
sion leave the house at an early hour,
that they might get back in time to milk
the cows.
- Gen. Boynton of Augusta, Me. had
bullet extracted from his hip recently,
which he received in the battle of Dru-
RVS Bluff. The ball had moved seven
inches from the point of entrance, and
was deep seated. 1t had produced great
suffering for six years.
- New York papers give the history
of rascal who had succeeded in mar
rying six wives in short period of time
. His victims all moved in good society
Q some of them being possessed of consid
: cradle property.
: = The extension of the Connection
and Passumpic Rivers Railroad from
!: Newport, VT, to the connection with tn
t Grand Trunk, will be opened July /, anc
t will make direct route from New Yorl
: to Quebec, seventy miles nearer than b,
! any other line.
While the three robbers of tn
= Lime Rock Bank were awaiting their re
moval in the lookup at Rockland the,
!, were waited upon by an agent of pa
:, tent safe, who wanted them to give
l certificate that has kind of safe was bur
glar proof! The culprits thought .ht
. agent man of rare enterprise, but fell
, compelled to refuse his modest request
A fool hardy young man named
: Webb, a compositor in the Plattsburgl
Sentinel Office, recently climbed the spirt
of new church in Piattsburgh, 1856 fee
above the level of the street, and bal
e anced himself on surface little more
than an inch in diameter.
- There is felon in the Maine State
I Prison named John Hale, who has spent
more than half his life within the wall,
: of prison, and says he shall be satisfied
If be can die on the back of a stolen
, horse. His term of service expires Oct
8 10, 1872
|, The young people of Salisbury hav,
! organized society called "Green Mour
tain Society" No. 1, the object of which
: is opposition to the sinfu, and urgentl
manly habits of swearing, lying, steal
ing, using tobacco and drinking intox
eating liquors. A good field for thi
kind of missionary work will be founc
nearly everywhere.
"A man named Ross at work in thu
Iron Works in Rutland, had a marrow
escape recently. He was polishing
piece of steel on an emery wheel reyoly
: ing at a high rate of speed, when tn,
wheel broke and piece of it just graz
: ing bis head flew through the window
Had the piece hit Mr.. Ross, it would
have killed him instantly.
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