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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

- The meanest railroad in the coun
try is thus described: at ballasts its bed
with sand, it starts with jerk and stops
with jam, and hires the smallest con
ductor it can find to save carrying
weight"
"A young man living at Bavon Cho-
cahonla, La, while out fishing on the
seashore, recently, was struck on the an
kles by the tail of stingaree, and so
affected that both feet had to be ampu-
tated
An ebony Demosthenes in Alabama
got off this exordium recently: "Feller
citizens, eff | had been eatin' dried ap-
pies for a mont, l couldn't feel more
swelled up dan | am dis mint wild pride
and vanity at seem such full tendance
har this evenin.''
Another American belle, the daugh-
ter of leading New York merchant. is
to marry at the United States legation
in London, as Italian nobleman. Hap
Ply is she if her noble husband does not
turn out to be retired organ-grinder.
= Timidity is bad thing to run
locomotive with. An Erie railway en-
gineer at Port Jervis, N. Y, where so
many casualties take place, lately jump
ed from his engine to escape threatened
collision; by the promptness of the fire
man the collision was proven ted, but the
engineer received broken neck, diving
almost instantly.
The Davenport "a printers seized
circus and menagerie the other day.
for not paying its bills, and now each
editor is the happy owner of swine
ophalus, or giasticutus, or hippopotaie-
mise, or an Alaskan sea lion. When
subscribers rage, and a man comes in
and wants to know who wrote that arti-
Gle" the editor unchains his menagerie.
and the insulted fellow has a sudden call
to "see man" elsewhere.
A Mrs. Chume was re GENTLY taken
Ill with small pox at CINCINNATI, O., and
taken to the hospital. BY some unac-
countable means the number of the ward
or room Of young German girl, who
was suffering with the same disease. was
substituted for that of Mrs. Chume. Mrs
Chume's son, calling to inquire each day.
was told the lady was growing worse,
aud was at last informed that she was
dead. He sent costly burial case to
the hospital, and when the funeral took
place he and his friends followed the
corpse to the grave. A few days after
ward he was very much a. tonished to see
his mother walk in, perfectly we'll, sur
prised and offended that her son had new.
er come to ask for her.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

Another week Of disasters and horrors.
They include the loss of nearly hun
dred lives and more than that number
wounded. The greatest and most disas.
trous of these slaughters were in Massa.
chusetts and Alabama and both seem to
have occurred from want of care. The
boiler of the Ocean Wave was rotten
and had been known to be unsafe for a
year, and yet an excursion party of two
hundred persons was allowed upon it
only to be killed on its decks or blown
into the river.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

The exposure of the financial thievine
of the Tammany ring in New York city
is having much effect. Many of the
leading democrats, including Horatic
Seymour, have denounced the corruption
of their democratic allies of the city
while the German democrats have taken
formal action against the ring and de.
clare in emphatic terms that they will
support it no longer. With the Ger
mans arrayed against them on one side,
and the Irish on the other and the coun
try democrats in the centre, Tammany is
at present in very Strengthened circum-
stances.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
: Miss Maria Giddinrs. dannhtor

- Miss Maria Giddings, daughter o.
Joshua II. Giddings, died at the resi-
dence of Congressman Julian, in Center
vile, Ind, On Thursday, after long i'll
ness ofcousumption. Her remains were
taken to Ashtabula county, Ohio.
- The World pronounces the new
Government loan a fiat failure. This
is not a singular opinion for a paper
that defends Connolly's fnancierina
which has increased the debt of New
York million each month for the last
two years and half.
Gen. Noyes, Republican candidate
for Governor in Ohio, does not believe
in universal amnesty. In his openin g
campaign speech, last week. he said tb at
men like Davis, Stephens and Toombs
who accept nothing" should not be
permitted to hold office while glorying
in their treason. Aud he is right.
Since his respite, Foster, the muir
derer of Avery d. Putnam in New
York horse car, has eaten voraciously,
and is said to be the gayest man in the
prison. 1t is also said that never since
his arrest has he expressed one word of
sorrow over the death of his unoffending
victim.
- During Senator Mortons speech at
the soldiers reunion at Winchester, Mo-,
last week, he had occasion to call upon
those present who had lost near rela-
tive or friend in the late war to manifest
it by raising hand Instantly thou
sand arose. and with his own uplifted
also he eloquenlly adjured them to cher
ish the Government in memory of the
lost ones. The effect was thrilling.
"A singular fatality surrounds Mag.
ara Falls, as no less than eight per-
sons have this year been swept over to a
terrible grave. The latest instance oc-
Cured last Wednesday, when two men
attempting to cross near Navy Island
at midnight were carried down the eur.
rent and made the awful leap. One OF
the bodies has been found, and pieces of
the boat have been picked up.
The Macon { Ca. Telegraph egards
slavery as "a system sanctioned by the
Great Jehovah himself, under which our
fathers pro epered so much, and we're
universally recognized as the noblest
type of the human race" And the Tel
egraph is a Democratic paperl The
Boston Young Mems Democratic Club |
IN their late address, say slavery is dead
and every true Democrat will thank God. |
And they, too, are Democrats
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
GERRITr SMITH ON GRANT.-G

GERRITT SMITH ON GRANT. Gerritt
Smith deprecates any Republican insen-
sibility to the merits of President Grant,
saying: "If he who confessedly did more
than any other man to save our country
in the perils of war, and whose great in
tuence in peace has all gone to make that
peace more perfect and more blessed,
cannot be made OR next President, what
Republican can beS Manifestly, either
he or the democratic candidate will be
our next President; and if the demo
cratic candidate shall be, and shall repre-
sent and be a specimen of the bad, very
bad, Democratic party, what then can
save our country from ruin?"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

"A far Western lady, who was moi
posted in history, aud who had forgotten
her geography, asked friend who was
going to Utah to bring her a couple Of
Mormons for her Aquarium.
"A live rattlesnake, on its way by
express to Cornell University, got out Of
its box in the Elmira depot on Saturday
afternoon, and was discovered coilel
ready to spring. After careful skirmish-
ing, it was killed by the messenger, who
had been left in ignorance Of the charae-
ter of his freight.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

The New DEPARTURE.-Al the dem
ocratic papers at Petersburg, Va, in.
dorse the ''new departure" and one OF
them, The Progress, touches up A. III.
Stephens as follows:
"All the democratic papers of Peters
burg, Va, indorse the so-called "new
departure" The Progress says eff
the flood had occurred in the time of
Mr.. Alexander Ii. Stephens, we verify
believe that during the thirty ninth day 3
rain, he would have been seen astride of
the ridge. pole of the Atlanta Sun office,
holding faded umbrella over mis- head,
drawing up his diminutive legs to keep
them out of the surges, and calmly ind-
eating a ten-eolumn editorial to the PEG.
pie of the late confederacy, to prove that
the shower was null and void, and the
flood matter to be resisted at the ballot
box; and, no doubt, people would have
been found in Georgia, who would have
stigmanized Noah's ark as new depart
ure, and have hazarded both life and
soul on the faded umbrella and ponder
GUS editorial of poor little Mr.. Stephens.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

A VIVID IMAGINATIoN.--D During one
of the hot days last week lady arrived
In Saratoga, put up alta downtown hotel
and was assigned her room, in which
was chimney. The night being rather
warm, she just managed to live through
it, and in the morning informed the room
clerk that she would like to be removed
to another apartment, as the one she had
tarried in over night was Gas hot as an
oven, caused by the roasting chimney"
The clerk smiled to himself and prom
ised that she should have the first room
that was vacated" Ia day or two the
atmosphere became somewhat chilly, and
remained so for brief time, and num-
Der of rooms became vacant. Wishing
to fulfill his promise, the accommodating
room-clerk informed her of the fact.
She returned an answer to the effect that
she would not part with the room for
all the world, as the heat from the chin
ney took off the chill during the damp
weather" Upon the hall boy returning
to the office and stating her answer,
hearty laugh was enjoyed. as there had
been no fire in the chimney since the
house was built. So mucn for a vivid
Imagination
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
8rlluws falls Jimes,
BELLOWS FALLS, SEPT, l. 1871.

The population Of the United States
and territories has been footed up at
Washington and amounts to 80, 555, 9S3,
or in round numbers thirty.eight and a
half millions.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
Steamer Wrecked.
TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED.

The steamer Lodona, was caught in a
gale off the Florida coast and wrecked.
Twenty of her crew were lost, and the
shore for thirty miles is strewn with
the cargo. Several other banks and brigs
were disabled and two men drowned.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
A Terrible Railroad Slaughter.
30 PERSONS KILLED AND OVER FORTY
WOUNDED.

81 PERSONS KILLED AND OVER FORT
WOUNDED.
A terrible and appalling railroad &C
cident happened on Saturday evening
on the eastern railroad, about five mile
out of Boston, at Revere station, OF bet
ter known as North Chelsea. The &C
commodation train for Beverly started
from Boston behind time, and just aftel
leaving the station at Revere the Port
land lightning express overlook it, tele
scoping the rear car and killing 80 pas
sengers, besides wounding between AZ
and 90 more. The car was crowded with
people, every seat being occupied and
many standing in the aisle. In among
these the locomotive rushed quick as a
flash, just as the Beverly train had start.
ed, mangling and killing in the most
trightful manner. But this is not the
only, and perhaps not the worst visitor
the unfortunate passengers had. Stimuli
taneously with the collision the head-cap
of the boiler was broken, and in an in
slant the wretched sufferers were shroud-
ed in cloud of kissing steam and del
uged with boiling water, which brought
instant death to many of the wounded,
and will prove fatal to others who had
probably not been otherwise injured
The lamps spilled their contents, but the
fire here was undoubtedly extinguished,
temporarily by the water and steam
The other cars were soon enveloped i'll
flames, but the passengers made their es-
cape. The work of rescuing the victims
was at once commenced, and physicians
and surgeons soon arrived from Chelsea,
Charlestown and Boston. Chief of Po-
lice Savage, of Boston dispatched a de-
tail of police with stretchers to the scene
Of the accident. The Frost hose COM
pany, which had justreturned from an ex-
curslon were promptly on heground, hav-
ing seen the fire burning the cars. Dozens
of poor creatures were jammed with the
wood and iron work, and could not get
out. The ak was applied vigorously and
soon a rope was applied to the sides of
the car and all the remaining framework
was pulled asunder. The dead and man
gled bodies were taken out carefully and
speedily and placed on the platform or
In the depot. Some were pinned with
splinters, some had arms and legs broken,
while others were mangled beyond rec
ognition. The majority of the dead
were apparently free from bruises, but
thepeeling skin and deathly pallor which
overspread the flesh told plainly that
steam and scalding water had been fright
full and effective agents of death.
The cause of this frightful disaster is
not yet clear-as usual-but there ap-
pears to be criminal blunder somewhere
between the engineers and conductors of
the two trains.
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

IA Hay ~ E,N,GsAGED the BUTTER of several =,
me BESI DAIRIES in this vicinity and nj, s N
nr;es Jar for any one. that wish. at BIZ
IF. WOODS.
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
STATEMENT OF CHAs. T. STORY,

From the Boston Journal we copy a
portion of the statement of Charles T.
Story. After saying that the train was
late he says:
1t was a quarter to eight o'clock
when the train came in which was to 90
out again. A grand rush was made for
seats, and they were filled so quick that
we were in the first passenger car, the
third from the rear, near the door. |
sat IN the seat with gentleman whom |
supposed to be season ticket-hoJder
from the fact that the conductor merely
nodded TO him when he took up the tick.
cts. | held my little girl in my arms,
and my wife sat in the seat directly be.
hind me with another lady whom did
not know. The aisles of the cars were
all crowded. When we reached Somer.
vile there was stop, and the whistle
sounded. ltwas something unusual, and
created good deal Of excitement in the
car. The windows we're all showed up,
and the passengers looked out The con-
ductor who was taking up tickets, called
out, Please keep your seats; there is no
dangerp The woman who was sitting
with my wife appeared a good deal
troubled, and said, There is something
wrong about the train. know there is
something going to happen. Just after
we left Somerville the gentleman in the
seat with me put bis head out of the win.
dow and said, The express train is be-
hind us; can see it, The passengers
all seemed to feel nervous, as if they had
some premonition of what was coming.
We made the regular stop at Revere.
and had just got under way, moving very
slowly, when the crash came. Although
the window was open, ! did not hear the
whistle. The shock threw down some
who we're standing in the aisle, and also
threw my child out of my arms. 1 al
ways supposed in collision of the kind
the blow came like a thunderclap and
was over, but here it was long, grind
ing crash, lasting, it seemed to me, fully
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
SCENES AND INCIDENTS.

AS usual thieves and roughs were soon
on the ground of the disaster and sever
al cases of robbery of the dead and
wounded are reported. A wounded man
who had been taken from the wreck and
laid upon the platform tainted, and
while those in charge of him went for a
stretcher, he was robbed of his pocket
book, containing over one hundred dol
lars.
On Sunday thousands of people flock
ed to the scene, including the relatives
and friends of the killed and injured.
Some were busy scratching in the gravel
and earth where the accident happened,
and among the relics found was lady's
gold watch partially melted. Among
those killed are Rev. DIR. Gannett, uni
tartan of Boston, and DIR. Mason, pas
tor of the Baptist church at Cambridge
port, Mass.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
= MONDAY weddings, English fash
on, will be in order next season.

= MONDAY weddings, English fash
ion, will be in order next season.
- DIR. Mason, Cambridgeport, Mass,
who was among the killed, was Baptist
clergyman of note and greatly beloved
by his congregation.
= The favorite fur for next winter
will be chinchilla Russian and Alaska
sables. Ermine and mink are entirely
out of fashion,
- James Croker, an insane man at
Chicago, was recently arrested and fined
$50 for attempting his own life That
is move in the right direction, but
nothing but the Irishman's plan to make
suicide capital offense will ever stop
its prevalence.
One of the leading woman suffrag-
lists in Cheyenne, w. T., the wife of a
prominent citizen, has been creating a
sensation by promenading the city smok-
ing cigar in company with the mayor.
Husbands say, of course, there is moth
ing really wrong about it, it only sug-
gests what next 2"
An obituary notice in the Philadel-
phia Ledger, few days since, upon
little three-year-old's departure, says,
tearfully =
All within this home i lonalv
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

RUTTER, CHEESE, LARD, PORK
- HAMS. at
WOODS
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
STATEMENT OF MR.. WALKER.

A Mr.. Walker of Salem, says that he
was sitting in the rear car at the time of
the collision, on the same seat with Mrs.
Cheney, who was killed. They knew
the express train was in the rear, but did
not hear the whistle, and the crash was
the first intimation they had of their
danger. He was pressed between the
side of the car and the engine, and es-
capped without injury.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

Darling little Toady" can hardly be
improved for sentiment, but higher spir
itual ground was taken by bereaved
father, recently, who said -
Little Johnnies gone TO Jesus
We can have everything to please US.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
Che Sun.
Che COLLAR 2Egeekly Sun.

CHARLES A. DANA, Editor.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
The 18th has Gone.

RUT 0. f. WOODS will sell Won halter p,,,.
- Of FLOUR for the money than any other n.
IN this Village Try one. just received a carloai
fresh ground. Warranted
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
OTHER INCIDENTS.

A young man named VIM. Coggswell,
who works in the blacksmith shop of
John Lower of Charlestown, was sitting
In the rear car few minutes before the
collision took place, and got up to give
his seat to young lady who was stand
ing In the aisle. He stood leaning
against another seat when the collision
came, the force of which sent him to the
further end of the car, bruising him bad
ly but not seriously. When the dead
were lifted out of the wreck he recoeniz-
ed among the first the body of the one to
whom he had given his seat.
Willie Stocker found himself in
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01

The work Of cure is beginning The vitiated and
mucous deposits in the bowels and in the aInentary
nal are elected The liver like clock. is wound up
hronses from its oridy Tho stomach acts responsyey
and the patient begins 10 feel he Is getting at last
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
CoNsUmpTIoN.
!" EEAvE SO sting nEIrINn. =

The Mandrake Pills composed of one Of Natursi
nobest gittsthe Pedophilum PeltAtum They possess
the oodsearchng, Alternative properties Of eaone
unlike cAlnmel. thew -
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-09-01
A BRAVE BAGGAGE MASTER.

There was one man on the Pullman
train who did stick to his post, and that
was jefferson Rowe, the baggage master.
He sprung to the break in the rear of
baggage car, and while turning it, was
thrown down by the shock, getting both
legs and one arm jammed between the
two platforms. His story is told in the
statement of Mr.. Story.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-12-05

John Cain, Esq, editor of the Rutland
Cmrier, in speaking OF their new Town
Hall, says: Ia "A few months, The Rut-
land Town Hall will be finished. Ii will
accommodate double the number that can
be packed into The Opera Hall. Then
people in town and out OF town can all be
accommodated, aud we hope to see the
seats free to all ON such occasions, and
the people benefited to course Of free
lectures that will induce our young men
to exchange the beer saloons for some
thing more lasting and substantial.
1t is reported that six Tammany Al
dermen nave been counted in by the can
vasscrs in New York
Michael Cusick, held on Suspicion as
the murderer Of Kate Lehan, near Bos-
toa, has been discharged.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-12-05
1EA- 3. III H. - Iaas,

Of the latest stylcsand Of the best sicc which wo
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-12-05
hkN NESS Making
in all its branches.

We intend keeping On hand large ASSORTMENT
If