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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

COLORADO SCENERY entire dis
tance from Denver to the Springs com
prises an endless variety of scenery,
which startles the traveller who sees it
for the first time, however familiar he
may have been with its descriptions.
The weird formations of red sandstone
here first appear on the plains, aud in
the clear atmosphere the foot hills seem
but few miles distant. How deceptiye
distance may be in Colorado must have
been demonstrated to the tourist who ar
rived at Greeley on the 5 P. NJ. train
and announced his intention of taking a
walk to the mountains (seventy miles
distant before supper. When overtaken
oy his comrade on horseback, some FIVE
miles from the town, he was so dispusted
to ind the mountain no nearer than
when he started that be actually refused
to step over one of the small irrigatipg
bitches, saying that in such country it
might expand into river. The scenery
on the Divide " is particularly beauti.
tul at this season, the earth being cover
ed with carpet of Persian device. but
woven in the loom of nature, and tinted
with simple dyes. The deep green OF
the low scrub vale, not over a foot high.
the bright scarlet leaf of the poison ivy,
turned by the early frost, the wild sage
OF gray-bluish green, blending with
the natural tints of the dried yet uncut
grass, made tapestry more beautiful
than the old Gobelin's.
The scenery is not the only attraction
In passing over the f" Divide" The set
tiers house, herds of cattle, irrigating
bitches, flour and saw mills, all prove
that Colorado has made rapid strides
In the past ten years. Then much of her
flour was brought from the East in sacks,
while it is now shipped to New York and
Boston. Not that there is short crop
in the East, but on account of the supe-
riority of Colorado -four. / am told by
practical hosekeepers there that the bread
and cake are always light, and that eyery
edible for which -four is used is made
with half the labor as at the East Cor.
respondent Inter- Ocean.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

A YOUNG HERo.-The following is
but one of many scenes of sorrow and
selfsacrifce, which have been witnessed
in our city. 1t has just come to our mo-
tice. 1t was a family of Ska father
and mother, two sisters and two brothers.
The fever enters their house and all are
stricken down but one little boy Of twelve
years. He alone was left to minister to
them. The mother was called away, and
the little boy was well-nigh broken-heart-
ed. The physician had just called when
the mother died, and turning to the
weeping child, said to him: You must
dry up your tears and go wait upon your
sisters, and don't let them know by your
crying tnat your ma is dead, for it may
hurt them" Brave little fellow He
went instantly and washed his face, and
dried up his tears, and entered the room
where his sick sisters lay. The first
question which was asked him was "How
is mar No tears betrayed the heavy
heart, but choking down his sorrow, with
cheerful tone he answered, "ma is bette r
off now," and the sisters did not find GU
their loss. Noble boy May God spare
your father and sisters. Surely there is
other heroism than that which is on bat
tie fields.-Memlphis Pres6yterian.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

LOST AND FOUND A few weeks ago
brilliant wedding occurred in this city.
A young gentleman now in business in
Boston, though formerly of our city, was
united to one of our Portland bellies.
The happy couple left at once for Boston.
About week after the marriage, the la
dy, whose father is one of the officers of
the steamer John Brooks, plying between
this port aud Boston, went down to the
boat as she lay at the wharf in that city,
to see her father. Busily engaged in
pleasant conversation, she failed to note
the fight Of time, and the boat put for
her trip east before she was aware of it.
of course she became terribly excited on
discovering that she was sailing down
Boston harbor. She flew back to the
cabin; she found her father; her father
tried to find the captain, which, after
little delay, he succeeded in doing.
Meanwhile the boat was moving majes-
tically down past island, fort and reef,
out into the broad bay. When the cap
tain learned the circumstances the boat
had proceeded so far that he deemed it
best to continue on his course, especially
as her father was ON board and could
care for her. That night violent gale
arose and the steamer was obliged to put
into Cape Ann for safety, where she re-
mained throughout the next day. The
lady, however, was not to be persuaded
to remain quietly on board. Her agony
of spirit created such sympathy among
the crew that some of them ventured to
put her ashore in small boat, which Of
fer she gladly accepted. After great
peril the shore was reached, and in
short time she was ON her way to Boston
| where she soon met her somewhat puzzled
and troubled husband. The husband
too, had his share Of anxiety, for when
the wife went to the boat she thought to
return in an hour, and took the key to
their room. Going home, he found the
room locked, and could get no answer to
his call. Naturally alarmed, be broke
open the door and found no trace of his
wife. He then called upon the police,
and the city was searched far and near,
but no wife. In his excitement he tele-
graphed to the mother-in-Iaw living in
this city, and filled that house with the
CONSERVATION that the husband and wife,
out of their home, we're suffering. But
alPs we'll that ends we'll, though the
lady will hereafter leave note when she
visits steamer that is to Portland
Press.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

A GREAT Loss.-A few days after
Dickens death, an Enlishman, deeply
grieved at the event, made a sort of pill
grimage to Gad's Hill, to the home o.
the great novelist. He went into the fa
NOUS Sir John Falstaff inn near at hand
and, in the effusiveness of his honest emo
tions, he could not avoid taking the coun
try waiter into his confidence.
a great loss this of Mr.. Dickens,
said the pilgrim.
"a great lose to US, sir" replied tn,
waiter, shaking his head; he had al
of his ale sent in from this house"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05
Words of Wisdom.

How easy it is to be amiable 10 the
midst of happiness and success ! Mad
anne S,0etchine.
How can nan learn to know himself
BY observation, never but by action
Endeavor to do thy duty and thou shalt
know what is within thee.
Every good picture is the best of ser.
mons and lectures. The sense informs
the soul. Whatever you have, have
beauty.-Sidney Smith.
The world is to me what beautiful
and dumb woman would be; can see
the fair features, but there is not language
to send forth and impart to me the ele.
ment of soul.-Foster.
Those who, from the desire of our per.
fection, have the keenest eye for our
farlts, generally compensate for It by
taking a higher view of our merits than
we deserve. j +. Boyes.
Courage and modesty are the most un.
equivocal of virtues, for they are of o
kind that hypocrisy cannot initiate; they
too, have this quality in common, that
they are expressed by the same color. -
Goethe.
To assign feeling and determination
OF will, as a satisfactory reason for en-
braclng or rejecting this or that opinion
or belief, is of ordinary occurrence, and
sure to obtain the sympathy and the suf
frages of the company. And yet to me
this seems little less rational than to an.
ply the nose to picture and then to de.
eide ON its genuineness by the sense Of
smell. u z. Coleridge.
The laws of nature are just, but terri
BILE. There is no weak mercy in them.
Cause and consequence are inseparable
and inevitable. The elements have no
forbearance. The fire burns, the water
browns, the air consumes, the earth bu-
ries. And perhaps it would be we'll for
our race if the punishment of our crimes
against the laws of men were as inevita-
BILE as the punishment of crimes against
the laws of nature-were man as unerring
in his judgment as nature. re.-Lonqfelloac
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05
A Singular Epitaph.

A Singular Epitaph.
The following epitaph is copied from
tombstone in the burial ground at Mil
ford
CAROLINE
Wife of Calvin Cutter, M. d.
MURDERED BY THE
Baptist Ministry and Baptist Churches
as follows:
Sept. 2S, 1888, aged 39.
She was accused oflying in the Church
meeting by the Rev. ID. B. Pratt and
Dea. Albert Adams was condemned
by the Church unheard. She was reduc-
ed to poverty by Dea. William Wallace.
When an ex parte council was asked of
the Milford Baptist Church, by the ad-
vice of their committee, George Ray
mond, Calvin Averill and Andrew
Hutchinson, they voted not to receive
any communication upon the subject.
The Rev. Mark Carpenter said he thought
as the good old Dea. Pearsons said
:" We have got Cutter down, and it is
best to keep him down." The intention
al and malicious destruction of her char
acter and happiness destroyed her life.
Her last words upon the subject were
"Tell the truth, and the iniquity will
come out"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

Some three years ago in one of our
courts, three men-an Englishmap, a
Scotchman and an Irishman-were found
guilty aud sentenced to be hanged. The
judge told them they could each choose
the tree on which they would prefer to
be executed. The Scotchman promptly
chose an ash tree, and the Enelishmsn
an oak.
Well, Pat, what will you be HING
on I" asked the judge.
If itplesse, yer honor, I'd rather be
hung on the gooseberry BUSH"
"oh," said the judge, that's no. bic
enough"
well thin" replied Pat, -and I'll
wait till it grows"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

At Sunday school concert the other
evening, the following occurred Little
fellow reciting his verse-"I am the
Bread of life" Superintendent (ques-
tioning him, as to his knowledge of the
Bible)-" Who said I am the Bread OF
LifeY" Little fellow in SURPRISE"
said it,"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

An editor once wrote: We have re.
ceived a basket of strawberries from Mr.
Smith, for which he will receive ouI
compliments, some of which are -four
inches in circumference"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

Chicago wants the next worlds fair
held there. "In the first place." SAYS
the Boston Post, it isn't certain that the
next world will have fair, and in the
second place those who'd be likely to at
tend it will prefer more pious town in
which to celebrate"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

A farmer lost gimlet in the woods
near Monticello, Mimi, three years ago,
and the other day cut down an iron.
wood tree; fast in the forks of which be
found-not a gimlet, but three-quarter
inch augerl He is sorry be didn't wait a
year or two longer, as a two inch aueer
was Just what he wanted,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05

The crisis has come" cried a boy,
as he rushed into the house, painting with
excitement from seeing the circus enter
town, and l want a quarter"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05
In the Rough.

The marble was pure and white
Though only block at best,
But the artist, with inward sight,
Looked further than all the rest,
And saw in the hard rough stone.
The loveliest statue the sun shOne on.
So he set to work with care
And chiseled form of grace
A figure divinely fair.
With a tender, beautiful face;
But the blows were hard and fast,
That brought fromithe marble that work at last
So think that human lives
Must bear Gods chisel keen,
If the spirit yearns and strives
For the better life unseen.
For men are only blocks ar best,
Till the chiseling brings out all the rest.
The Con0regdtiondltst
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-05
poftrY.

For the Bellows Falls Times,
Doubts and Fears,
Doubts and fears so sadly staining
The fair robe of righteousness.
Do we think by thus complaining
We shall win brighter dress
When the ohastening hand of sorrow.
Wakes us. from our pleasant sleep.
Bids us earnest wait the morrow.
We must stay awhile TO weep.
Waiting thus, so long we linger,
Fearing conquests TO be won.
That time points with warning finger,
At the work we've left undone,
Doubts and fears oh words of weakness.
Let us to our Master hear
Bear thy TRIALS child, in meekness.
/ will aid thee. do not fear"
PANsY.
New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19
TIE SOLDIERS SYMPATHY.

The E..:8..c.* noted some days si.ce
tie growing cogiia!i:v 9: tie Sec.
tons through the military nagnanimisy
O: the people. The dealt: Of Na:o:
Henry Ewing. Of the s.. Louis
Times. affords touching sample Of
tLis sympathy for g gallant soldier. Here
is what the st. Louis D."oc:'. EepUo-
Ncan paper. says ci az Antagonist il val
and il politics:
The unyarnisi.ed tale Of the young life
that went out yesterday is sufficient 10
make rs subject hero in bette. and !,
h yhey field than heroes are generally made
or heard OF. and he who would add 10 the
sum OF acknowledged virtues and attain.
men.s would mar the picture quite as I!ucn
q: he who would subtrac, troln the genera!
concession.
We cannot SPEAK OF Major Ewing. .ro,:.
personal knowledge, as q soldier: but there
are those who can, and we bu. ye-eeho the
sentiments OF comrades, whose harGshipJ
a..G dancers !e shared. L. say.ig ths. tLe
;..cl.-.-e q. -. i-a-se cannot De .ileG tco
tai; wuen he Is spoAcn Ot FOR the part be
tool. il the great sectional war. He chose
the side which the convictions of education
and association had taught him TO cal the
right, and he lad won his way 10 ho2o.ao.e
New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19
TIE PLEA OF GOOD MOTIVES.

GOOG motives are sometimes like goo.
inte ntions. and run counter to the acts
they suggest. It is not untreGuently tLa
case that Q,ack administers the Wool
reiicine. te.ieving, in his ignorance. It
will cure the patient. This Is called MAJ.
prac tice. and mankind Las az unpleas.-.::
habit OF Furnishing those guilty OF it. :.
plea of good motive il such case would
be incontinently ruled out by any judge
of good standing. Now. when Nh Ogden
asks the court to excuse tine Picryne foC
l:be!in: a perfectly honest man. On the
ground that il was done from motives
founded upon public policy. lie asks too
much. l: character and property may be
destroyed whenever any private Individual
conceiyes that some great public good will
come Of the destruction, there would be an
end to all security. One fanatic would burn
down the Cathedral in tie insane belief
that to check Catholicism is the only
means to save the country. Anotae.
would blow up Christ Church. or the
McGehee Church, Oh the ground that
Professionalism was iniuriug lis country.
One politician would attack the P;coAplas
Office because it published sentiments
which he thought pernicious, and another
patriot would burn the REPUBLICAN office
as his mode Of saving the State. 4 plea
of good motive in any such Case would be
worse than the modern dodge of setting
up emot;ona! insanity as a bar to convic-
tiCn III murder cases.
There car be 70 doabt that the death
or incarceration OF many Of the des-
peradoes tina: infeSt the earth would be
advantageous to the public. But even il
such cases no private hand has license to
wrea.. vengeance. How much less, then,
may an attack be made upon citizen OK
spot.ess reputation. az upright judge,
| man wLo has borne an honorable name il.
this State for more than quarter Of :.
century, under the very thin pretense OF
Of saving the country! 1t is repeatedly
asserted by the counsel for the defense
tina: the article in the P!coyA.e, upon
which TIE complaint is founded. did 10:
mean t. assai! the private character of
!uGc. Hawkins. That be WAS unknown
to the |icay"".. What they intended
has less to do with i: thar
wha: they did. And the lac! tha:
tie Judge was personally unknown
TO tho P;c,j.,c is no reason to jUst;.. the
assertion o: tia: journal tha: he is ei,Ae. as
az official ora man. a "csmpound OF .,cr-
| fdy and perjury" 1t will not DO 70 take
deliberate aiIn &: man. whether Il
| strange: or not, and shoo: Linn. and then
plead yoI. did no: mean to kill him. The
code holds every MAN responsible for TIC
consequences OF his acts, and rresumes
he has sense enough to calculate ordinary
results fyo,. causes. So tina: il makes
little difference what wroNS-doeG c.ay
be thinking OF when he performs a wrong
full act. He is prohibited from taking the
law into his own hands. even to redress
private injury. and has no shadow O.
right to so on a crusade against citizens
Of an opposing political OF religious creed,
under tie specious PIE. that his good mo.
tives. his good intentions. to save his
country warrant his acts Of violence.
New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19

suppose again that be has not been sent
70 the Pen;tentiary for crime. yet
YOU state be has been. How then:
That Is the kind Of case now pending be-
fore the Fourth District Court.
Mr.. Ogden scars very high for al Illus
trat:cn. II attempts to justify the pub
!:ca.:o;. G. tie libel upon Judge Hawkins
by se.:iu; u a good motive:
Suppose he made a publication tladncins
a ma. OF spotiess and umnemi.heI cliarac-
;e: - save the nation. Suppose tiiat he
show. tina. .is only motive was PATRIOTISM,
70 serve his country IA critical moment "t
her history. anu in so doing had hurt the
reputation o: an angel. could he be nela
responsible 70: it,
As there are 10 prece,ients fo- e1tter
branch Of tais impassioned lnterrogatory,
neither the court nor the learned counsel
Ga Tie opposite side was able at tie mo-
ment 70 give satisfactory answer. IN
Fortunately, there is no provision il our
law which authorizes a philanthropic
count.y-save. to immolate the character
Of all honest man under any pretense
whatever. and it is difficult to conceive
hos any honest country could get itself
into such fx as nothing would save 1t
shor. of the blasting Of the spo.iess and
unbierlishel character of q man CT in U--
ing the reputation Of an angel The
Picoi,s.e did not hold q commission to
save the country, even if it had been in peril
at the time: and if it had, it did not pro-
Gee! il the proper manner by assailing
the character of an upright judge and an
honest mar. OF course, no ange! has
been hurt, 10 country has been saved.
But worthy gentleman has been Ebeled,
and appeals 70 tie laws for redress. What
would lave been the fate Of an angel ii he
had unfortunately lighted il New Orleans
las: winter, and uniucIsily cspoused the Re-
pu blican cause. is necessarily a matter OF
conjecture. Our Fusion friends would
ha We done thei: level best to irjure him
beyond question. They would have been
SO intent on saving the country in their
own peculiar way. that they would have
un hesitatingly bespattered his heavenly
robes and wings, just as they dia tle
characters of Judges Lude!ins, Dureii,
Hawkins. Senator Morton, and later n
the season Senator Carpenter himself.
And yet the country would be no aeaca-
salvation than ever. This patent 20 ntry
saving process is one Of the most pa'?aoio
frauds of modern times. So To-; .s :. ;
misguided men engaged in it nine
themselves to the employment: Of aa:-iess
means. they will not be disturbe-i. bs.
they cannot trampie upon the reputation
Of the best citizens of the country with
IMMUNITY. under the notion that the are
accomplishing any great public goo--
How well il is tile sun and NOON
Are paced very high.
That PIE SHINING hand can reach
To pluck them tIom the skv.
II 'twere 70: 50, do believe
That some reforming ass
Would soon attempt to take them dJH1
And light the world with ga..
New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19
ASSISTANCE POLITELY DECLINED,

1t was kind Of NJ. Ogden to offer lis
assistance to the a1le attorneys who are
conducting the case fer Judge Hawkins
before the Fourth Distric. Court. But as
it often happens i'll such cases, the prof
fered service was politely declined by
Jud ye Cooley, who perhaps does not wish
to divide with Mr.. Ogden the credit OF
success. The distinguished counsel for
the lefense called !:.dge Hawkins. the
plaintiff. to the witress stand. but was
y :, with pronu: 90 ection. 20 tbs
Mr Ogden resp ,nde .h.t-
It wa, certainly a sing ,lac course: when
the only desire o. the defendants was to let
MA at: f prove III, his Ow. case !. he could.
so con idell were they of tier 0wa recti-
:ude, willing 20 trust their case IL the
hands of the oiain.i h,.lselt. and met by
o. oc::ol9
Now i tie .'onl; desire Of Defendants y
IN attemptin; to introduce Judge Hawkins
to tic witness stand. "was to let plaintiff
prove ID as owa case" they could have
accomplished tLeif .,enerou. object IN a
much shorter way. - could ak leave
to ele confession c. Judgment. or an
admission Of al. the essential points
,.eauea in the plaintiffs bill of complaint.
Neither Judge Cooley nor Judge Cotton
would have raised any objection to such q
mode of assisting them in thei. profes-
s;ona! duties. Tie last named counselor,
not wishing to be o,.tdone in politeness,
and willing to assist Ir. Ogden in making
OF. the case Of plaintiff, moved later III
the day to strike out all of the defendants
answer excep: the general denial. Per-
haps be offered tha: as substitute for
Mv. = s,;ens plan to help the plaintiff 5
Csc. Whatever may have been his OBJ
ect. his motion was granted by tie court.
New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19

distinction before he sheathed his sword III

distinction before he sheathed his sword in
honorable defeat.
As friend, companion and gentleman. il
these relations-which are. alter all. the
vital ones Of ii.e-he knew neither war ..ov
politics, but only truth and honor.
The Gioj. tRepublican). said.
Yesterday. near sunset. there went ou. !,
life Of grea, hope aH,: promise" Lie .:
useful and honorable ;o:!-a lie 4: many
dutt nero.c acton.
At the commencement Of the war "e re-
bellion. Henry Ewing. like majority ..
the young men Q: the South. entered. n"
Confederate army. and served with gal
!antry and distinction Throughout. the con
test.
These are extracts t.ou. very numerou,
concurrent encomiua1s upon :. good and
gallant man. These are given to testify
that the bitterness, % Well Tough. va is
yielding to the sympathies which peace
and social intercourse have engenae-eG.
New Orleans Republican., 1873-06-19

Tns practice ship Constellation. which
this year cruises alon- TIE ceas: with the
cadet midshipmen or board. ieis her moor
irrs IN the Severn rive. OF: the naval school.
last Thursday. She las OF board about
one hundred middies. @. whom thir'y'one
belong to the first OK highest class. and the
ra.,-s s;ulier OF tie second a,G :livG classes.
y,,e .;cnr.b class is 10: represented on board
A. :. has 10. ye. been o:s.":2ea h.,.aS coz
.osad o. the suecesstu. caa11r''es WHO nave
-.,,,.,c ives for e.-a:i..La. u. :c-
oa,,:......c into the Aca' - Us sH'nmer
,r. y t..- =. IN w.. &c " Iil
- known as the hons cruise. Ne"poE'
being the first stopping place ana 'nea
Nav London. Halifax and return. lasting
from Jure 10 mt! September i':