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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

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for their liberal patronage, trast SsAAn
still merit it. Questions In regard - stylf
promptly and sauaid;y answsrsd.
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| $1,000 REWARD!

ES A reward of One Thousand Dsllar
will bespaids to any physician who
will produce a medicine that will supply the
wants of the people better than the article
known as
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26
EfNothing 10 Stsien " hat arc theJ
Hidingl

The Radical majority in the Sanate
xant GRANT rselected.
They know that grave charges Of cor
fuption in his administration are preya.
lent 2.a.
They know that these charges unrefu
ted win endanger that re election.
They know that if these charges are
undeservcd TRUMBULLs proposed com
,nittee would exhonorate Grant.
They know that such an exhonoration
would contribute more towards GRANTS
reelection, than any other means that
could be proposed.
Yet knowing all this they instantly
and effectually slaughter TRUMBuILs S
proposition.
Can these Senators suppose the peo.
Ole to be such fools that they will not
regard this action as virtual confession
that GRANTS administration is reekine
with corruption, and that these Senators
know it?
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

GB BY united demand of Foreign
Cabinets, the Mikado of Japan is will
ing to open up the entire country to
foreign intercourse, hut tie request must
be 4 united one 10 have effect.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

RThe Delinquent Tax List, pub
lisAed this week, is the largest since the
war. '- s-.'
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

HTbe morning of the Goth inst,
the Thermometer marked 13o below
zero.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

AEThe third trial Of Tom MCGEHAs
il progressing at Dayton, Ohio.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

SThe kentucky Legislature has
elected Hon. TuoNAs c. MCCRErRY U.
S. Senator. lie served short tsrm in
the Senate ard reflected credit on the
State
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

HA Woman named HEEL was bum
ed to death at Columbus, Ohio, Oh the
18th inst One of her little children
had upset lighted lamp, setting its
clothes on fire. The mother caught up
the child to smother the flames, when
her own clothes caught aud resulted in
her death as above stated. The child
was badly burned. but will recover.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

RCeorgstown Ohio, has a small
pox case i'll nearly every family.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26
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My stock of Corsets is unc-
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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

N Senator TlpToN, a good Republi-
can, saws IL believe there 10 corruption,
deep, damning and festcriug,all through
the Administration. This, tight bow.
cr MoRToN calls "a covert attack on the
Administration
If that he ''coyert" attack, an open
one would he right lively reading.
E Before GRANT shall have been
elk months out Of Office he will bs the
most despised mas who ever sat in the
Presidential chair
Mark the prediction.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26
THE NEW MACHINE,

confident that it possesses all the advantages
which experience has shown to be essential
to perfect Sewing Machine. Ika
The principle is the same as in :he cid
Wheeler and IVilson Machine, but changes
have been made which increase its efficiency,
while at the same time less care and skill
are required in its management. Seams are
crossed with ease, The work guided with
scarcely an effort. Nearly double Its former
power, No under tension to manage, Every
joint can bs tightsned as fast as it wears.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26

HENRY II. WEST, Publisher and
Proprietor.
Z
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1871-12-26
MAek SILKS '0s speciality. Dassss,.'

ColOred Silks for Dresses, superior
stock.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
Maple Sugar.

The production Of maple sugar in Yer
mont from 1860 to 1870 shows a large
decrease.
We find the above item in the Rutland
Herald, and so far as the figures of 1860
and 1870, are concerned, are doubtless
correct. but it can hardly do justice to
the State. The amount of sugar made
in Vermont every year depends almost
entirely upon the season, as the farmers
not only usually tap their orchards but
large proportion of them within few
years have greatly increased their tacll-
tiles for making. We average fair or
good season at least once in three years.
The season of 1860 was fair one, if We
remember, while that of last gear was
one of the poorest of our poor seasons
hence the comparison Of those two years
is very unfavorable and shows large
decrease while if the census had been
taken in the spring of 1868 or this spring,
it would have shown a large increase,
and when the new modes of boiling and
evaporating sap now being introduced
become general, the increase in good sea-
sons will be still greater.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
A MICHIGAN storekeener offered

A Michigan storekeeper offered his
apprentice fifty cents if he would drive
away the boot-blacks from the front of
the establishment The youth succeeded
by pouring kerosene on the head of one
of them and setting fire to it; but he
now finds that the fifty cents is hardly
enough to bail him out of Jail.
A New Hampshire editor has been
made the happy recipient of a handsome
boquet of flowers, upon the stem of which
was pinned this legend: " Please accept
these rare 'exhorticks' culled by Rhoda.
Despite all this, the prosaic editor wishes
the " exhorticks " had been dandelion
greens" for which he has partiality.
On the 18th, at Lake Village, n.
H, Miss Fanny Herring, while playing
Jack Sheppard, had her face filled with
gunpowder. The person who was tC
blow Jacks brains out pointed his pistol
too low, thus causing the accident. A
physician did his best to pick out tn,
stuff.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

KU-KLUX AssAssINs IN SOUTH CARO-
LINA.-A party of 100 Ku-Klux visited
Newberry Court House, on Sunday night
for the purpose of killing the republican
county officers. They surrounded the
house of Simeon Young, a colored man,
chairman of the Board of County Com
missioners, threw turpentine balls into
his bedroom, and fired volley through
the window, shooting Young's wife in the
back and his child through the thigh.
They then forced open the door, and, as
they entered, Young fired upon the fore
most, wounding him severely, and then
jumped through the window and ran,
receiving two wounds but making his es-
cape. The Ku-Klux went to the houses
of Trial Justice Long, and David Hail
stock, another County Commissioner, but
they secreted themselves and escaped.
The Probate Judge was warned the night
before, and left the town. The wounded
Ku-Klux was taken off in a buggy, and
left at house four miles from the town,
where he was discovered yesterday by
the Sheriff, arrested, and found to be a
man named Faulkner, well known in
Newberry. He is now in Jail.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
- The post.office department at Wash

- The post-offce department at WASH
ington is tellcitating itself on IN increase
of revenue for the present year of over
100000, and boasts that it will soon
be self-sustaining.
The proprietors Of the Turf, Field
and Farm have had three of the trotting
tracks measured Prospect Park, + eet-
wood and Narragansett-and it is report
ed that all of them have been found to
be short.
- A Bangor editor of undoubted sur
gical attainments, explains that resi-
dent of Harmony, Me-, had "two of his
fingers cut off up to the bone"
An infant was born at Morrow, o.,
last fall with two heads, one body, two
well developed legs and one compound
one with eight toes. The child is still
alive and healthy, meeting only those ills
that all infant flesh is heir to.
A doctor all broken out with the
small pox was caught by an inspector
going the rounds Of the patients at New
York on Thursday, who promptly bore
him off to the hospital, but not till he
had made considerable work for other
doctors probably.
- young lady etat five years, OF
Newport, Rhode Island, was missed by
her fond parents one morning last week
Eventually an earnest search was re.
warded by her discovery, when she was
found to be engaged in the attic building
fire in an old chair forwant of stove
If she had been left five minutes longer,
the maiden would have had the house
on fire to a certainty.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

You DIDN'T KILL Me, DID YE?'-
While train on the Boston & AL
bany railroad was running at speed of
% miles an hour, the other day, on a
short curve between Richmond and State
line, the engineer noticed a man walking
on the track some distance ahead of the
train. He blew the whistle and rang the
bell, but did not seem to attract his at
tention. He then made every endeavor
to stop the train, but all to no avail.
The COW catcher struck the man and
threw him in front of the boiler. and
there he remained until the engineer
stopped the locomotive, when t. e
stranger jumped off and put bis fin
gers to his nose as if to say, You didn't
kill me, did ye" The engineer and fire.
man took it for granted that the man
was dead, and their surprise when they
saw him making up faces at them can be
imagined. 1t was miraculous escape
not once in thousand times would a
person escape death under similar cir.
ances.-Sprinqfleld Republican.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

COUNTERFEIT MoNEY.-TheSt. Johns
bury Caledonian says that while clean
ing out the cellar at Passumpsic recently
Mr.. A. j. Dexter came upon leather
bag which had been buried there, in
which there were $50 counterfeit half
dollars. Most of them were corroded,
and piece eaten out of one side But
those that we're perfect showed dates
from 1927 to 1880. Mr.. Dexter's daugh-
ter first discovered the money, which was
for time the topic of conversation and
gossip in the village-several of the old
er inhabitants remembering when GER
tain ones there we're suspected of deal
ing in bogus money We understand
that many years ago some counterfeit
ers' tools we're found in barn there.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

The KU, KLUx COMMITTEE The Con
gressional Ku-Klux Committee met at
Washington on Friday and adopted the
following:
ResoIued, That for the present a sub
committee Of eight members be appoint
ed to proceed at once with the investiga-
ton, and to continue the same as long as
they deem it expedient, with authority
to take testimony wherever they consider
it advisable, by subcommittee of their
own number, and to report all the testi,
mony by them obtained, to the full com.
mittee, at meeting on the goth of Sep.
TENDER, or at such earlier time as the
subcommittee shall notify the Joint Sc,
lect Committee to meet, at which time
the subcommittee shall visit all such 10.
calities in the South as the committee
first named shall report to be in disturb
ed condition, and such other localities as
the committee may deem necessary.
The following were appointed as the
subcommittee Senator Scott, Chair
man; Senators Poole and Blair, Repre-
tentatives, Poland, Coburn, Stevenson
Beck and Van Trump.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
The Paris Revolt.

INSURGENTS DEFEATED BLOODY WORK.
The news from Paris this week is that
the (Versailles) government troops have
entered Paris, though the communists or
insurgents still continued some fight, till
Tuesday when it ceased, and the complete
suppression of the instruction is an
nounced. The loss Of the communists in
the late fighting has been fearful and ter
rible, and as the government soldiers en-
tered the city, many of their leaders
we're captured and immediately shot
How long this bloody work was to last
remains to be seen.
The heaviest fighting, on Monday,
took place in the Rue Royale, where the
slaughter was terrific. A number Of
women on the communists side who were
engaged in bringing ammunition in their
aprons, were killed by an explosion
Coils Dubois and Moreau, nephews Of
Guizot, who were in command of Yer
sailles troops were killed by an explosion
Of torpedoes. In the Rue St. Honore
at narrow part of the street, opposite
the American legation. barricade wa;
erected which was captured and recapt
ured six different times, being finally
held by the Versailles troops. The
slaughter was sickening, the bayonet be
ing used altogether. In the Place dl
Havre and the Rue d 'Amsterdam fight
ing was afterward continued until nigh
put an end to the struggle.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
The Grafton Bank Robbery.
HONOR AMONG THIEVES.


Our readers will remember the Graf
ton, Mass, bank robbery last fall, and
how the Waterman was seized, gagged
and almost smothered in coal bin, &c.
Detective A. p Squires recently arrested
one of those concerned in the robbery,
and last week another was arrested. The
first arrest was made under singular cir
cumstances, and gives new instance
that thieves cannot trust themselves.
The man arrested proves 20 be a resident
in Worcester county, but connected with
gang of New York city thieves. After
the affair of the robbery had sufficiently
cooled off, he went on to New York to
divide the spols, aud on receiving which
was returning, and at railroad station
in Rhode Island, was got out one side and
suddenly seized by stranger, who charg-
ed him with being one of the Grafton
bank robbers, and instantly put hand
cuffs on him, robbed him of his money,
and then left him "alone in his glory"
The charge of being connected with the
robbery and the hand cuffs was true, and
took the first man down, who very natural
ly supposed himself in the hands of an of
fcer. The "ofiicer however, was only
another New York city rufian, himself
connected with the same robbery, and of
course knew all about the division of the
spoils and then came back on one of their
accessories. The man was found hand
cufed, and told just enough to give a
good clue to the detectives who are still
at work on the case, and last Saturday
Daniel Docherty was brought from New
York to Worcester, and who has already
been recognized as having been seen at
Grafton at the time of the robbery. He
is also recognized by the Waterman as
the one who gagged him. He resisted
arrest at first and did not desist till he
had been shot at by an officer, the ball
grazing his ear and stunning him.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

Look OuT-The Burlington Free
Press says that young man giving the
Italian @ name of O'Mara is obtaining
subscriptions in advance for a volume of
poems which he proposes to getpublished
and deliver in September. He picked
up s15 in one day in Poultney, and
protested to have collected already about
So. What it was going to cost to print
his book, or where the book was to be
done, he did not know. An unpublished
volume by an unknown young man is a
good deal like pig in poke, or rather
like a poke without any pig. Don't buy.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

The new treaty of which we gave par
ticulars last week, it was thought at
Washington would be ratified by the
Senate by large majority, by the mid
die of this week. 1t will then 60 to Eng
land for ratification there, and if adopt
ed will thus be peaceful settlement Of
present differences between this country
and Great Britain.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
Vermont

We copy the following statistic items
from the Rutland Herald:
The population of Vermont has risen
from 3l5, 100 in 1860, to 100000 in
1S70-an increase ofnearly FIVE per cent.
The assessed valuat on of property OF
every description in Vermont shows an
increase of about ten percent.
The wild or forest lands in Vermont
bought under cultivation in the last ten
years, is over three hundred thousand
acres, or over II per cent
The aggregate increase in valuation
on the real estate in Vermont in the last
decade is $4S,000,000, or 81 per cent.
The average price per acre of land
has risen from $33 to $45.
The farm implements in Vermont
have advanced trihe over fifty per
cent.
The production of wheat in Vermont,
for ten years past his increased five per-
cent, in corn over fifteen per cent.
The cultivation oftobacco in Vermont,
of which the production is merely nomi-
nal, shows large increase.
The production of potatoes, hops and
oats in Vermont for the last ten years,
have been about the same as the ten years
previous.
Buckwheat and barley has largely in
creased in production in Vermont for the
last ten years. Rye has decreased.
The production of wool shows nomi-
nal increase, although the number of
sheep has decreased ten per cent.
Horses have decreased three per cent. :;
swine, six per cent; working oxen, near
ly forty per cent. all other cattle, forty
per cent.
Mich cows alone in Vermont, of all
kinds of stock, have increased FIVE per
cent.
The butter product has increased
100000, and cheese has declined 3,000,-
900, pounds.
The figures of the census of Vermont
would show that the increased area of
very much higher-priced farm lands ac-
tually produces less of all the essential
elements of agricultural wealth.
The mountains of Vermont should by
no means be regarded as unfavorable to
the people, but as blessing. Rivulets
and streams of pure water proceed from
them, bringing much to enrich the lower
lands. The mountains serve also to fur
nish timber and fuel for the use of futu e
inhabitants, as well as to ensure protec-
ton from disastrous drouths, often ex-
ptYienced in more level tracts ofterritorv.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

= Most cellars, especially at this time
of the year, contain large amount of
decomposing vegetable matter, in the
form of decaying fruits and vegetables,
which give off their foul and poisonous
gases during the process of decay. This
atmosphere is constantly finding its way
into the dwellings above, often causing
dangerous fevers, and always impairing
the health of its occupants Look after
the cellars.
The Newport On. H. Argus says:
A maple stump, on Mr.. Samuel Grow
ellis farm, yielded, the past season, two
and one-half barrels of sap. 1t was
about two feet in diameter, and shows
no signs of life excepting when tapped.
The wind had blown off the entire top,
and much of the body of the tree; while
theforlorn old stump was left to drop two
and a half barrels of tears for the loss of
! its fair proportions.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

TERRIBLE END OF A FAMILY QUARREL.
"A special dispatch to the Louisville
Courier-Journal, from Owensborough,
KY, says that a farmer named Cain,
while passing through an adjoining farm
belonging to a Mr.. Summers, was shot
at and slightly wounded by Summers.
The latter's wife joined in the attack,
and fired three times, woundiug Cain
twice. Cain then seized an ak, and near
ly split Summers head open Mrs. Sum-
ners was also hit on the head with an AK
and shot in the head and breast with her
husbands pistol, which Cain seized The
two are dying. Cain was shot in the
head, shoulder, and bowels The last
wound will probably prove mortal An
enmity has existed between the men
since Cain fired at Mrs. Summers last
spring. Each had forbidden the other
to pass through their respective farms.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

A couple at Danbuary, Ct, having
carefully considered the question for
twenty-five years, have recently decided
to get married.
= Gipsys in the neighborhood Of
Springfield, Mass, are stealing babies,
and what other articles of portable prop
erty they can lay their hands on.
- One of the prominent clergymen of
the Established Church in England has
declared in favor of disestablishment.
And so the movement gathers Roadway.
Its success is only a question of time.
A Catholic priest of Bridgeport, Ct,
prohibited a parishioner from attending
church recently, because the man had
not contributed "of his abundance" to
some charitable project. The order was
not obeyed, and on Sunday the reverend
father tried to expel the recalcitrant in
dividual. The attempt, however. proved
to be most dismal failure.
Conductor A. c. VIM of the New
York Central railroad put two intoxi-
Gated men off his train at Tonawanda,
Monday night, one of whom, John Col
ter, of Brockport attempted to ra-enter
the car and fell under the wheels. LOSING
both arms and legs He was removed
to hospital and died on Tuesday NOR.
ming. Conductor VIM was arrested 70,
manslaughter, but was discharged after
examination, no blame being attached
to him for the death of Golfer.
= The Savannah News, a Southern
democratsc journal, expresses the follow
ing philosophic opinion of the Ku-Klux
The Ku-Klux organization, or thai
which calls itself the Ku-Klux. is taxing
matters into its own hands, and ouietl,
but firmly deposing obnoxious and in
competent office-holders. The same ar
ticle in which we find the above sentenc,
informs Us that " the School Commission
er of Clarendon District, South Carolina
tcas killed q. e.. quietly but firmly de
posed on Saturday l''
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
a9slluws falls Times,
BELLOWS FALLS, MAY 26, 1871,

1t strikes us that the senate have gone
as far as their dignity has any need,
in relation to newspaper correspondents,
and that the sooner they drop that mat
ter now on their hands, the more dignity
they will have left.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

1t is reported that the Paris insurgents
in their pillage of the city, threatened
to sack the residence of the .. S. Min
lister Washburn, whereupon Bismarck
Immediately notified the communists
that if thay did, the German army OF
occupation near there, would instantly
lombard their city. Good for Bis. /!
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

Noah Austin of Lima, Ind, has
just died of wound received at the bat
tie Of Queenstown, over So years ago.
The wound was made by an ounce ball
which struck him in the face, and lately
liberated itself into his mouth and was
spit out.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
solomon nnder-' Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT The Probate Court in
DIST or WEsTNlNsTER IS. and for said District
SANDERS late of Rockingham in said District.
deceased. GREETING.
NOU are hereby notified that Elias Olcott Admin
istrator Of the estate OF said deceased. will pre-
sent his administration account for allowance at the
session ofsaid Court to be held AT the Inn of NJ. A
Wilder in Saxtons River. in said District the first
Wednesday in June A. ID. ISL. And that said Court
will then and there decide upon the allowance OF
said account and decree distribution of said estate in
the said administrators hands. at which time and
place you can be heard in the premises il you shall
see cause. G. b. EDDY Register
May 9th, ISL, 1921
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26

The news from France is of unusual
Importance this week. The troops OF the
Versailles government have entered Par
is and must soon have the insurgents OF
communists entirely subdued. 1t is not
improbable that this event will be follow
ed by acts of severe punishment if not
of reyenpe