Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-08-25

-Spurgeon is first class power,
Twenty million copies of his sermons
have been issued.
- New York fears the immediate adj
vent of the cholera, and protective
measures are being inaugerated.
= Don't leave your horses unhitched
in the street during fly time. 1t cost a
gentleman sixty dollars last week to re-
pair vehicle which was damaged by a
small fly.
A man in Knox county, Ill.,, has
spells of sleeping from two to seven days
at time, and of course, during these
spells takes no food. When he com es
out he is just as well as ever. He is a
cheap boarder but dear lodger.
If the turtle market is good next
winter Wyandotse, Mich, man will
tilihis pocket. He is now feeding 800 of
them in pen, and the voice of the tur-
tie must be considerably heard from in
that vicinity.
Watering place bellies are languish-
ing for beaux, of which there is a great
scarcity. Each and every feminine arri-
val is looked upon with increasing dis.
gust. Women sit in continuous rows up.
en- the piazzas and parlors like so many
wall flowers. They dancein pairs, prom
enade in couples, and bemoan with one
another.
The funeral of the victims of the
mine explosion at Pittston, Pa, was at
tended at the Odd Fellows cemetery, ON
Thursday afternoon, by over 5000 per
sons. The thirteen bodies we're arranged
IN order before the stand of the clergy,
and the exercises were opened by the
singing of Welsh hymn.
- The new verse maker, author of
"Betsey and | are out, &c, is Will NJ,
Carlton, Cnot Nasty" as before stated,
who is a journalist, and only twenty four
resides at Hillsdale, Mich, seventy miles
west of Toledo, Ohio; is the son of plain
and laboring farmer; was graduated at
Hillsdale college in 1869, and has made
rhymes for years.
Phoebe Cary never married-not,
however, because she was never sought
in marriage. Undoubtedly except for
leaving Alice to fight the battle of life
alone, Phoebe would have married years
ago. A distinguished American divine,
whose name is in all the churches, once
offered her his hand and heart. But her
only possible husband was Alice. She
remained welded to this mate for life
and reclasps her again after death.
The preventers of cruelty to animals
in Georgia, and the lovers Of native mu-
sic, are lifting a voice for the mocking
bird. The young of these birds are in
taken from the nest as soon as
found, and sent to the North or to Eu-
rope, where they sell at high prices, and,
as every brood thus disposed of is with
drawn from production, sensible dimin-
ltion in the number Of these glorious
is noted. The Legislature is
called on for some preventive measure.
The Lords chosen people reside at
Los Angeles, Cal. Lately there fell from
he clouds shower, not of mama but
neat, upon the corn fields in the vicinity.
About this time last year similar show
II iell in Los Nietos, with these differen-
.es: Then it was raw, now it is said to
'e "boiled : then the blades of the stand
ng corn were "drenched with blood"
low they are moistened with kind of
soup.
- A lady, impelled by the demands
# fashion to seek recreation in the coun-
ny during the summer months, writes
'ack despairingly: did you ever revel
the gayeties of half-grown, torpid
illage, where walk to the graveyard
7as the only recreation, and where, if
GU Indignantly refused to walk, you
'ere shudderingly reminded, All, poor
hid, you may have to go there soon'?' ,
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