Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-07-08

liable and agreeable than her former sit
uation.
- While excavating the cellar for a
new church in Iowa, a valuable vein Of
iron ore was struck, when the trustees
concluded to put up with their old meet
ing house while longer.
- The Houston (Texas) Union pub
fishes the following receipt i" To make
strong, cheap ley, take a barrel of cistern
water and dozen old Democratic
newspapers, mix well together, and stir
with ramrod for fifteen minutes"
A New England girl who had been
sought and won through letters by man
in Nedeva, whom she had never seen,
paid him visit over the Pacific Rail-
road and rejected him at once, because he
was "such little spud of fellow"
- There was never before such activ-
ity in railroad building in this country
as at the present moment. 1t is estima-
ted that from $4,000 to 10000 miles of
road are now in the hands Of construct
ors, representing nearly thousand mil
lions of capital
- 1t is said that specllativ young
lady of Indiana has already accumulated
stock of two hundred correspondents,
and has the pleasing alternative of living
on her principal, 50 to speak, by marry
ing them seriatim with two hundred di-
vorces, or deriving an annual income
from an equal number of branches of
promise.
- Lewis Kennedy, the double muir
derer, was executed at New Kent Court
House, Maryland, Friday morning.
When the drop fell the moose gave way
and Kennedy fell to the ground, his neck
being badly injured. He walked upon
the platform a second time, when the
drop gain fell, and after long prolong-
ed struggle, Kennedy died.
4 cavalry officer on the Plains re-
ported, not long since, having attacked
warlike party of eighteen Indians and
killed sixteen of them but as was the
usual custom, the surviving Indians had
carried the dead off the field and escaped
with them.
49, a lunatic in a New England town
was discovered one day last week at the
grave of his father in the cemetery, hav-
ing dug to the coffin. He had the lid
open, and was calling on the old man to
get up, telling him he had laid there long
enough.
- The Helena (Montana) Herald, re-
porting a recent interview between Sher-
idan and Piegan delegation, says the
warriors looked upon the General with
as much disdain as did the ancient Scyth-
ians once upon Alexander the Great, on
account of his small stature, and that
probably they would be as much mis-
taken in the fight,
- Texas is ahead, and Washington's
body servant is nowhere. Texas reports
that negro woman died in that state On
the 7th inst. who was one hundred and
thirty-three years old, (born in 1877 /
who was (only) "one of the oldest in
habitants ofTexas," and who was form
erly servant of Gen. Washington's
mother"
- a religious fanatic entered room
full of fallen women in Detroit ON the
10th inst, without invitation and kneel-
ing on the floor, commenced to pray for
the unfortunates. Not desiring his de-
votional services, the females rolled him
out of doors. He picked himself up.
and rushing back, struck out vigorously
with the carnal weapons of nature in
style that would have done credit to the
prize-ring. Having by such knock-down
arguments cleared space, he again !
knelt down and finished his prayer. The !
astonished suffers by this development of
muscular Christianity, subdued into ST.
lence, heard themselves described and
their cases stated in prayer, with plain
ness beftting the occasion.