Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-04-04

Counterfeit five dollar national bank
bills have appeared, skilfully made by
cutting and FASTING, Six spurious bills
are thus made from five genuine notes.
"A western editor who doesn't like
the gallows way of disposing of murder
ers suggests the use of electricity, after
the manner in which hogs are now in
stantly killed at Cincinnati by patent
battery.
If you have an opportunity to mar
ny a heroine our advice is, don't, for they
say that Ida Lewis and her husband
don't live happily together. She is a
coquette, and he is jealous and cross.
An indianapolis juror offered to
procure verdict for the defendant for
500, and the latter agreed to the propo-
sition, but the court heard of the trans
action and the juror is in trouble.
Miss Phoebe Cozzens was admitted
to the bar in st Louis, last week. She is
the second woman to whom that city has
extended the privilege, Miss Leonora
Barkelow having been admitted in 1870,
but, dying a few months afterwards, she
had no opportunity to cope with mascu-
line lawyers.
The boys OF an Eatonville, On. Y, }
school attempted to "put out" the teach
er on the last day" as is the custom in
certain localities, but just as they were
about to succeed the large girls took
hand and the boys were utterly routed,
and in a very short time driven from
the school-room.
The Kansas City News reports that
man is now wandering about the streets
of that city, ragged, dirty and penniless,
subsisting on free lunches and the chart
ty of gamblers, who, during the war was
one of the most dashing cavalry officers
of the Union army, and at its close held
the rank of brevet Major General. He
conceals his identity under an assumed
name, and his present wretchedness has
been brought about by intemperance.
"A new trail to the Yosemite is being
constructed through the canyon of the
MERGED river Heretofore, numerous and
almost impossible boulders have blocked
the way but they are being removed,
and early in April the route will be
open. One advantage of this new road
is, that it will enable visitors to reach
the valley much earlier in the spring
than by the more elevated trails, which
are usually blocked with snow at this
season.
Mr.. S. 2. Taylor of Tennessee, has in
vented a mittrailleur so effective that an
army may train one of them on the OPP
posing army, and then adjourn to dinner,
satisfied that on their return they will
have nothing to do but to bury the OPP
posing forces and await another attack.
1t is intended for the Vienna exhibition.
The gun barrels are in a water casing,
which prevents them from heating. 1t
has twenty-four barrels, and fires 700 to
1000 shots per minute.
= A man who suspected his servant
girl of using kerosene oil to kindle the
fire with, thought he would try her, one
night, so he poured the oil out and filled
the can with water. When he landed in
the dining-room next morning, there was
no breakfast and no fire to cook it with
nothing but stove full of soaked wood
and the foolishest looking girl he ever
saw.
- The Greeley (Col) Tribune re.
marks in a recent issue: To our mind
the whole system of protection in this
country is a cold blooded swindle." The
town and the Tribune were named after
Horace Greeley, and the editor was for
many years on the New York Tribune
Thus does "going West " dispel the re.
suits of early training.
1t is provided in the new Pension
Law that on the death Of pensioner
the accrued pension, due at date of death
shall be paid first to the widow if nc
widow survives, then to the children un.
der sixteen, but to no other person, ex-
cept in cases where the pensioner did not
leave assets sufficient to pay the expenses
Of last sickness and burial, in which case
sufficient amount of the arrears may be
disbursed to cover such expenses.
Michigan has just discovered that
tens of thousands of her acres, hitherto
deemed worthless on account of the
dense growth of sweet fern, are really
valuable, for this luxuriant vegetable is
found to be much more powerful as.
tringent than hemlock, and far superior
to that substance for tanning purposes,
yielding 40 per cent. extract where hem
lock yields but IA. Tanneries will soon
spring up in the vicinity of these vast
astringent fern plantations, and Mich.
gan will be placed in a position to ex-
port leather as we'll as saw logs.
There is bill before the New York
Assembly, which has just been ordered
to third reading, designed to meet the
cases of insanity which have become so
common in the courts. 1t provides that
when a jury acquits on the ground of
insanity, it shall so declare it in its YER
dict In all cases of murder, the insan-
ity shall be presumed to be permanent,
and the criminal shall be sent to the in