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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13
NARROWING SITUATION For A BEAR.

NARROWING SITUATION For A BEAR.
Out in Porcupine Valley, Nevada, a
big cinnamon bear came down to the
station building, from the mountains,
about the middle of the afternoon, dur
ing furry of snow, and got after some
young hogs that were running about the
barn, some 200 yards from the house.
The sudden appearance of bruin created
great commotion in the barnyard-the
hogs boohing and snorting and the fowls
cackling at great rate, The noise at
tracted the attention of the men at the
station, and going toward the barn, they
saw the bear in full chase and close upon
the heels of a porker. Finding the bear
close upon him, the hog lodged behind
harrow that was leaning against the
side of the barn, when bruin ran his
head through the harrow up to his shout
ders in vain attempt to reach the frigh-
tened pig. The pig darted from its COW
er, and the BEAR In pulling to withdraw
his head, was caught in the side of one
of his jaws by tie sharp point of the
harrow teeth. The bear began pulling
to free himself, when down came The
harrow, and being turned tooth side
down, the fastening process was most sub.
stantially finished, as not only the tooth
that was in the jaw was forced into the
ground, but all the rest were similarly
fastened and bruin mos: effectually trap
ed. Seeing and comprehending the sit
uation, Thomas Rand, keeper of the sta
ton, ran TO a wood pile, seized an axe
and with few blows soon dispatched thu
varmint. The bear weighed nearly 4o(
pounds dressed,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

NEUROLOGY OF VERMoNT.-The Rut-
land Herald names an unusual number
of eminent Vermonters who have de-
parted this life during the year just
closed. Among them we notice, Hon.
Aaron Loveland of Norwich, Arson By
ington of Charlotte, Hon. Edward Ayles-
worth of Arlington, Gov. P. 7. Wash
burn of Woodstock, Hon. Dugald Stew
art of Middlebury, Hon. Augustus Burt
of Highgate, Hon. John Spaulding of
Montpelier, Hon. William Clapp of St.
Adams, Rev. Leland Howard of Rutland,
Hon. Lawrence Brainerdo of St. Adams,
Prof. Leonard Marsh, Gen. D. w. c.
Clarke and Hon. Job Lyman of Bur-
lington, Hon. j. K. Hyde of Sudbury,
Hon. Henry Keyes of Newbury, Rev.
Charles Walker, d. D., of Pittsford, and
Hon, Edwin Hammond of Middlebury
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

A New York MYSTERY. The New
York papers of yesterday contain men
ZION OF mystery which presents some
unusual features even for that crime
stained city. Some time ago, we are
told, German living in Hoboken was
standing, late in the evening, at the end
Of the ferry-boat on her passage from
New York. When she arrived he passed
through the cabin and found ladies
morocco reticulc, which he Kept for three
weeks, expecting to hearthrough the pa
pers of claimant. At the expiration
of that time he took it to the Police
Superintendent of New York. when il
was found to contain $4,000 worth OF
bonds, S160 in greenbacks, a ladies' gold
watch and chain, and piece of note pa.
per on which was written: 81 have wait.
ed and waited, until / have lost all hope
and am heart-broken; therefore fare
well, dear Henry.-ELIzA 2" Las
Monday afternoon the body OF a woman
with handsome features, and magnificent
black hair, was found of the Elysiar
Fields, much injured by the floating ice
She was dressed in black alpaca, and
clothes were marked NJ. P. 1t is surmis
ed that she jumped off the beat on which
| the reticule was found.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

The DRoUGHT.-The drouth is more
frightful oil over New Hampshire thar
it was in autumn. The deep wells are
giving out /; the ponds and lakes used as
reservoirs for mill privileges are lower
than ever. Power has given out on most
of the small streams. If rain or melt.
ed snow does not furnish supply soon,
the mills will quickly run on short time,
or not at all. Melted snow would rapid
ly fllthe Observation-Disclosures Mirror
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

WILD GAME SURPLANTING THE SET.
TIERS IN CALIFoRNIA.-The Sacrament
to Union says; ain 184S and 1S49
deer and grizzly bear were very abund-
ant in the Sierra Nevada mountains and
ia the foothills. No billy country in
the world had more Of these two species
of game. 1t was not uncommon to find
as low down as Georgetown, Placerville,
Murphey's and even Bear Mountain
(thirty-ive miles east of Stockton), half
a dozen grizzlies in band and dozen
deer in herd. But from 1851 to 1862
the presence of the miners, with their
Obstructive rifles, thinned out the deer
and bear so that it was rare sight to
see one of either species anywhere in the
placer belt. From 1868 to the present
day the mines have become too thinly
populated by miners that game has great
ly increased, and now, from every other
placer district, we hear that deer are
plenty and bear returning from the high
er mountains to where acorns and other
food are more abundant. This is good
news for the hunters, but not reassuring
as to the present condition of the mining
countries, or the immediate future of the
state. When these game animals begin
to reappear in country once densely in
habited, we may be sure there is some.
thing radically wrong in the social and
political management.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

In Concord, N H., on the 25th ult.
four year old mare that had Just been
harnessed at the stable of Mr.. F. w.
Thompson, made bolt out of doors and
clearing herself from the sleigh disap-
peared up gulley, and though almost
instant search was instituted, she was
not found until the 9TH inst, when she
was deserted beneath some evergreen
trees in Pembroke, where she had sub
sisted for thirteen days, having displaced
her headstall by browsing from the trees.
She had lost one hundred pounds in
flesh.
Frank Robinson of Chesterfield.
Mass, who married a wife, several weeks
ago, recently deserted her on the fiimsy
pretext that she wasn't stylish enough
for him, taking every article of furniture
from the house and leaving her sitting on
the floor. The Chesterfield Youngsters
rallied to ride him out of town on rail,
but he'made quick time out of the back
door, and escaped the mob, though they
discovered the ruse and made hot pur.
suit.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

How TEXAS WOMAN PERSUADED
HER HUSBAND TO GO HoME.-A CORES
pendent of the Denton Monitor says a
handsome, dashing woman rode into
village in that region, a few days ago,
aud, alighting from her horse, went rapid
ly to drinking saloon, where a nun Der
of sovereigns were having high time"
She singled out the finest looking man in
the crowd, and, walking up to him,
seized him by the arm aud ordered him
to put down the glass which he was about
to drain. He dashed down the glass and
rushed away; the lady followed, and
finally cornered hin in the billiard room.
She told him in "a firm, determined voice.
that the place he was in and the course
he was pursuing would not answer for
her husband; that he was wasting her
property, and she 1uld no longer con-
sent to be disgraced and impoverished
by him. She demanded his pistol. He
refused. She took it from him, cooked
it and presented it at him, and told him
he must leave or die. He concluded tC
leave. She marched him out as a prison,
er of war to where his horse was hitched
ordered him to mount, and in few min
utes the two were leaving town, the wife
riding in the rear of her captured lord
with his six shooter in her hand Gal
veston Ieras) .Nesus.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

Our GROWTH IN WEALTH. We are
constructing railroads more rapidly than
at any period prior to the close of our
late civil war. We estimate at ten
thousand miles the extension of our net
work of railroads in 1870, at cost in
Guiding equipment, of not less then three
hundred millions of dollars. We en-
larged our cities in that year by not less
than one hundred thousand houses, cost
ing an average of at least five thousand
dollars each, making an aggregate out
lay of five hundred millions of dollars.
If the improvement of buildings, farms,
increase of stock, &C., in the rural dis
tricts, may be fairly estimated a. an
equal amount, weare increasing in wealth
and productive capacity at rate unpar-
alleled by any other country, whether of
the New or of the Old World. Tribune.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

ticle under the apove~ nemnrk-
ing on the frequency Of cases OF sponta-
neous combustion, it cannot help think
ing that the people are becoming more
careless than formerly, or else they are
ignorant of the nature and the causes Of
this kind Of combustion, which differs
from ordinary burning only in that the
oxidation--the union of the combustible
substance with the oxygen Of the airs
mora gradual The decay Of animal
and vegetable substance is process OF
this kind. Thus, when log of wood
rots in the forest, it is as really burned
up as when it blazes on an old-fashioned
fireplace. The heat is the same, and
the products of the combustion-carbon-
ic acid and water-are the same; the
only difference being in the rapidity OF
the process which makes the heat per-
ceptible in the one case, and impercepti-
BILE to the ordinary perception in the 9TH
er. The rusting of metals is another OF
slow combustion, heat being generated in
this process as in that of decay; and if
the rusting is made sufficientlyirapid the
rise of temperature is readily detected.
An instance in corroboration of this as
sertion, which occurred in England dur
ing the manufacture of submarine
cable, is given. A portion of cable wire
placed in tanks filled with water, rusted
SO rapidly that the temperature rose in
four days from Go to 79o and would
have rose even higher had the wire not
been cooled by pouring on water. In
this case, remarks the Journal the heat
set free caused the oxidation to go faster
and faster; and this is what occurs in
spontaneous combustion, which is sim ly
rapid combustion developed gradually
from slow combustion" Oily rags used
by painters, and cotton waste used for
| wiping machinery are common sources
of such combustion "When," says the
Journal, "such substances have become
saturated with oil, if they happen to be
thrown into heap. the oil begins to oxi.
ize slowly; but the heat produced makes
the oxidation more and more rapid, un'
til the mass bursts into fame. Oil.
that oxidize readily, like cotton-seed oil
are especially liable to take fire. Oh
split on dry saw-dust has been known tc
ignite in the same way" Hay, cotton
tow, fax, hemp, rags, leaves, spent-tan
straw in manure heapes, ETC., when stack
ed in quantities in damp state, tax
! fire spontaneously, the oxidation bein
that Of incipient decay or fermentio
promoted by the dampness and the COZ
fined heat accumulating, until it is su
fcient to cause rapid combustion. Pu
verified charcoal, prepared for maxim
gunpowder, and stored in heaps, ha
been known to ignite, when neither dam
nor oily. The Journal thinks it doub
full whether grain or seeds Of any kin
are liable to spontaneous combustion
though several French savants came,
the conclusion that barn had caugl
FIRE from spontaneous ignition of dam
oats stored therein. However that ma,
be, the Journal thinks it evident frol
the facts given that many fires, invol
ing great destruction of property, ha,
been the result of spontaneous combu
ton; and that it is probable that mar
conhagrations ascribed to incendiaris
have really owed their origin to the san
cause.-Boston Journal
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

Political outrages in the South have
been reported quite frequently of late
mainly the fruit of improper reconstruc-
ton during the administration of An
drew johnson. The rebel element still
lives there in various places and as often
as opportunity offers, and in fact most
when it does not offer, shows the hydra
head of treason and secession.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13
Wilmington N. G. elected threntira
republican ticket at their city seciiop
last Monday

Wilmington N. G. elected thcsntire
republican ticket at their city sectiop
last Monday,
AN Indiana journal is trying to pro,
mote pedestrian exercise among the stu.
dents of the State by urging law to
prohibit the sale Of liquor within three
miles of any institution of learning.
"A mallard duck was lately shot at
Castroville, Cal, and in its craw were
several particles of gold. If they had
only let the creature live, il would prob,
ably be laying golden eggs by this.
A western clergyman, in recon.
mending friend for a situation, says
He is perfectly human, aud has made
some of the ablest mistakes tn ever
were made, showing in their happening
and in their correcting hopeful, con-
scious and growing manhood"
"A family of children in Indiana,
whenever hunter invades their fathers
farm, skirmish the fields in front of him,
and when he fires one Of the children
falls, pretending to be hit by stray
shot. Nimrod fees, and the juveniles
pickup mess of squirrels
"A few days since two little children
of james b. Palmer OF Durham, N. H.,
were horribly burned, in the absence Of
their mother. who found the girl, foul
years old, with her clothes completely
consumed, and the boy, two years old
with the back of his clothing burned of
The eldest died in twelve hours, and tn
younger's recovery is in doubt
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

WILLIAM III. SEWARD Hon. Will
liam H. Seward, now travelling in for
eign land, Japan, is suffering from COM
plete paralysis of both arms, SO that he
is deprived OF the use of them. He still
continues his journey and proposes to ex-
tend it to India, and on his way home
will visit the capital of Russia.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

Gov. Perham of Maine, in his message
to the legislature strongly recommends
biennial sessions and elections, whereby
the people Of the state could devote less
time to politics, and give more to the de-
yelopment Of the resources Of the State
and their own interests.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13


the 500 train tonight, being in the ex-
press car at the time when the attack
was made on me, engaged in footing up
the weights on the bills; just as the train
got under way, man about my size,
having on dark clothes but no overcoat
and who wore heavy moustache, jump
ed on the car, through the south door,
which was open at the time when he
obtained sure footing. he drew a pistol
and fred at me across the car, the ball
striking me in the neck, and l fell to the
floor; the man then came up, bent oyer
me as l lay on the floor and fred again
twice, the powder burning my face; l
became unconcious and do not remem-
Der anything until was found on the
Greenbush side; the affair occurred on
the Albany side of the ..dra w-bridge =
could recognize the man if saw him
again"
In addition to the above we learn that
Halpine was still alive last Monday
The Express Co., have offered a reward
of $4,000, and the Mayor of the city
and Gov. Hoffman have increased the
reward offered.
Halpine was soldier and has wife
and one child. On Saturday evening
he conversed some as though he thought
he should recover, but at first his wounds
were generally considered fatal.
The Springfield Republican has the
following 1t is the order of the ex-
press company to have the express mess
enger close his door before starting; but
at this time the north door was left op-
en- to rid the car of smoke from the stove
which wouldn't "draw," perhaps because
the funnel had been tempered with by the
robbers, of whom there were evidently
two, if not three. Through the open
door the assassin sprang saying to Hal
/ pine, "Hulloa, Woodward, how are your
Woodward being the messenger who
alternated with Halpine. On seeming tc
discover his mistake, he said, II thought
it was Woodward's night on adding
that he used to be messenger on tn,
road, and asking to ride to East Albany
Halpine questioned him closely anC
granted the desired permission. n,
sooner had the train started out than tn
stranger shut the door and fred at Hal
pine, bringing him to the floor, and thel
placing the pistol to his head so clos
that the powder burned Halpine's cheek
fred twice more. Halpine was uncor
cious for portion of the time occupie
by the train in passing over the bridge
and the robber secured the keys and roll
bed the safe of $4,000, besides $1,000 i
non-negotiable bonds. With this plur
der, smaller than it would have been o
almost any other night, the robber e.
capped, when the train left the east en-
of the bridge, and was probably met b
a man who had been seen walking bac
and forth as if waiting for somebody
A man in light buggy, drawn by
gray horse, was also seen near by, an
on the arrival of the train the three di
appeared. Halpine, who is % years oil,
has worked four years for the America
Merchants Union express company, b
ing for some time in their employ at IL
depot in this city.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

The night editor of a daily paper
wrote this head line to one of his cable
dispatches: 1.-The British lion shaking
his name" He was unable to eat his
breakfast next morning when he found
the printers version of the matter staring
him in the face thus: "The British lion
skating in Maine"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

WANTED.-An active, wide-awake
person, male or female, in every neigh.
borhood in the United States to work
for us. Good pay in cash. Work can
be done at leisure hours. Write for par.
ticulars to
j. b. GOULD, Fishkill, n. Y.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

A TILT.-There was tilt on San Do
mingo in the House on Tuesday, Gen.
Butler sustained the joint resolution in
reference to that subject, and opposed
Mr.. Ambler's amendment that the pas
sage of the resolution should not be con-
strue1 to commit the government in ia
vor of annexation, but that its adoption
would only operate to kill investigation.
Mr.. Davis asked if the subject would
not stand debate. Mr.. Butler replied
that it would stand debate even from
false friends. Mr.. Bingham of Ohio
favored the resolution and opposed the
amendment.
AT the conclusion Of Mr. Bingham's
remarks Mr.. Garfield of Ohio proposed
an extension Of time allowed for discus
sion to fifteen minutes.
Mr.. Butler OF Massachusetts OBJ
ject.
Mr.. Garfield: Listen tothe gentleman
who cracks the whip Directing to debate.
(Excitement.)
Mr. Butler: And listen to the man
whose back smarts. Uaughter.)
After further remarks by Messrs. Kel
logg and Poland in favor of the resolu.
tion and against the amendment. Mr.
Orth closed the debate in favor of tn,
resolution.
Mr.. Ambler's amendment declarin,
that nothing in the resolution was to b.
construed as committing Government t,
the annexation of Dominica was adopte,
by 106 to 76.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13
BELLOWS FALLS, JAN. 10, 1871

A new apportionment bill was in
troduced in the Honse on Monday. by
it Vermont and New Hampshire both
loose one member.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13


The EMBERs OF SEcEssIoN.-The
embers of Secession still slumber in the
South, and not unfrequently burst forth
like the following from the Montgomery,
<Ala.) Advertiser
eve indulge the hope that the time is
fast approaching when the South and
the West with the Middle States, shall
assume the government Of the country
under the forms of the Constitution, to
continue for fifty years to come, and
when New England, if it shall presume
to show its radical head. shall be put to
the edge Of the syord without the slight
est conjunction"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13

THIRD IN. H.) DIsrRIcT.-The re-
publican convention for the third N. H.
district at Lebanon, on Thursday of last
week was fully attended, and resulted in
the nomination of Gen. Griffin of Keene
by handsome majority on the first bal
lot, as follows a1
Whole number of votes 226
Necessary to choice ia
Col. A. Fl. Bellows of Walpole had 8
Col. J. s. Walker of Claremont, 10
Capt. G. Pike of Cornish, &c
Hon. L. w. Barton of Newport, 81
Mai. Gen. S. G. Griffin of Keene, Ia
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-13
THE WOUNDS INFLICTED

were three in number, the first one being
in the neck, the ball entering the right
side and passing directly through to the
left side where it was found and extract
ed. This wound is severe and painful,
though not dangerous, the jaw or the left
side being badly injured. The second
wound is just below the right eye, the
ball entering just below the angle of the
eye, passing backward and slightly down.
wards, lodging in the back of the throat
at the base of the skull, causing copious
bleeding into the mouth, nearly choking
the wounded man. The third ball enter
ed the right ear in the direction of the
ear-tube, fracturing the external auditory
process, and lodging in the base of the
skull on the left side, being the most dan
gerous, and likely to prove fatal in conse-
quence of its proximity to the base Of
the brain.
| STATEMENT OF THE WOUNDED MAN.
My name is Thomas A. Halpine;
am twenty-eight years of age, and re-
side at No. 213 Jay street in Albany :
have been in the employment of the
American and Merchants Union Elk.
press Companies nearly four years run
on the Albany and Boston railroad route
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-03-09
Petroleum as Fuel.

The question of utilizing crude petro-
leum for the purposes Of fuel, which has
attracted the attention of many scien-
tifc and practical men ever since the
discovery of that article, seems at last to
be in fair way of solution. A series of
remarkable experiments have hitherto
been tried to utilize the immense heat
producing power of petroleum, and
three different plans were tested by the
Navy Department in 1867. These, how
ever, all brought petroleum into direct
contact with fire, and were therefore
fraught with much danger as we'll as
many chemical difficulties.
The great aim, therefore, was to dis
cover a process whereby the tendency
to carbonization should be overcome.
This difficulty has been done away
with. .. .. ....
The apparatus consists of q cylinder,
like small locomotive boiler set on end,
with small cylinder within it, the in
tervening space being filled with petro-
leum. The smaller cylinder is filed
with six hundred small copper tubes,
and through these the superheated steam
passes, producing vapor from the oil
that fills the interstices between the
tubes. This vaporized oil rises through
layer of prepared sponge, and just at
the point of exit is mixed with super
heated steam in any required proper
ton, thus producing hydrocarbon gas
This gas passes through iron tubes to
the point where the fuel is needed, and
is there burned, very much like common
gas. In the case which was shown the
kiln was filed with stone, and in very
short time after the fire was lighted the
heat was more intense than can be ex-
pressed by comparison. All this time
the fire was under perfect control, and
by simple turn of screw the combus-
ton was made more or less intense. The
experiment was varied by admitting a
greater or less proportion of steam into
the pipes, so that in some cases the fire
was fed with fifty per cent. or more of
water, and the remainder of vaporized
Chicago Erening Mail.