Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-08-12

- The German paper in Burlington,
Iowa, floats a Prussian flag over its of
fee
= A little Iowa boy memorized 400
Bible verses, but died of brain fever be-
fore he could use them.
The Pennington, (Me, Chronicle
says the corn and grain are utterly ruin
ed from the effects of the drouth in some
sections of the upper parts of Franklin
county.
- A swarm of bees entered the Or
thodox church at Gloucester on Sunday
afternoon, seriously annoying many of
the congregation and causing considera-
BILE commotion.
Metz, the headquarters of the French
army of the Rhine, is one hundred sew
enty miles from Paris Troops can there
fore reach it from the capital, by rail
road, in about FIVE hours.
The cottage of Helmbold, the
druggist, at Long Branch, was robbed,
Friday night, of $4,000 worth diamonds.
A guest at one of the hotels met SINH
lar loss to the amount of several thou
sand dollars.
= A terrible earthquake lately visit
ed the shores of the gulf of Corinth.
The towns of Amphiroa and Galazida,
and several villages were destroyed.
Many persons were killed and wounded,
and the inhabitants are left in state of
great restitution.
= The rentes" the daily rise and
fall of which are noted in the financial
kilograms from Paris, are the French
funded debt, the holders of which are
styled renters. The Government issues
no bonds, but accepts loans from the peo-
pie, entering them upon its ledgers and
paying specified rate of interest.
= Madame of Schleswig calls her last
a grand daughter of Victoria, Victoria
Louisa Sophie (take courage) Augusta
Amelia (most through Helena. When
she was baptized, two sets of prelates
"spelle6 " each other in working of
the blessed little youngsters name.
- The other day farmer in the vi
entity of Norwich, CT, who had extern
sively used the fly paper of the period
collected couple Of pounds of dead flies,
and as an experiment gave them to his
hens for food. The next day he had II
pounds of dead chickens on his hands.
- The Albany Journal relates the
sad story of a young lady, nineteen years
old, beautiful and accomplished, who,
some years ago, became enamored Ct a
young man who suddenly deserted her and
married another girl. She took to drink
and has just gone to the penitentiary fol
six months
Every French soldier carries piece
of canvas about five feet long and four
wide, and stick when two or three
pieces of canvas are Joined together they
form shelter when six are bnilt ur
they constitute tent closed at both ends
The French soldier is thus for his house
accommodation independent of baggage
animals.
= The Portland Advertiser says tina;
in Fryeburg, Me-, day or two since
two cows came together on the banks Of
the Saco. They hooked and pushed and
twisted until they got their horns locked
when one of them went over the bank
and broke her neck, and of course drage-
ed the other too, both going into the wa
ter, the living one only to be held down
by the deao one till drowned.
- Cincinnati woman, who had full
ly made up her mind to commit suicide,
provided herself with quantity of OPT
UNI, revolver, double barrelled gun, a
pistol and razor, and commenced opera
tons. To her disgust she had proceeded
no further then to take dose of opium
and shoot herself once, when she was ar
rested
Olive Logan is a little deaf. AT
Madison, while at the hotel, she was
called on by numerous admirers of the
sterner sex. They had been talking
about children and branehed off into
talking about peoples ages. Postmaster
heyes asked Olive how many children
she had. Eighteen she replied.
thinking he had asked her age.
A eleven year old girl at Corintb
Me, manages moving machine with all
the ease of a born farmer. The present
year she prepared the ground, planted
the seed, and now has quarter acre of
as line corn growing as can be found in
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