Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-07-18

- The mother or young WalWorth 10
boarding at Sing Sing, and naturally at
tracts attention. The young man has been
installed sclerk of the shoe department.
A rattlesnake coiled itself about a
negro boy in North Carolina, who was
at work in field, and killed him. When
discovered the reptile was still biting the
lifeless body.
Rev. Leonard III, Bushnell "a Metho-
dist preacher at Lanesboro, Pa, was
crushed to death, the other day, by a
tree which fell across his body, while he
was asleep in the woods.
= Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime
Rock, has separated from her husband,
William Wilson, on account of non-sup-
port She will once more "paddle her
own canoe"
Notwithstanding Chicago's terrible
lesson, her water supply on the South
side is still insufficient for the extinguish-
ment of fires, and the fire engines are
often useless for this reason.
- The first case under the civil dam
age law, in the case of liquor-selers,
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ture occurred at Oswego, few days ago.
A liquor-dealer was notified that he
would be prosecuted by woman for the
time her husband lost while drunk and
for his fine, and to avoid the suit, he
paid the mans fine and thus settled the
question.
The daughter of an English earl,
1 4
full debut as Juliet, in London, recently,
under the name of Edith Gray. Her
father made a will leaving her large
fortune, but omitted TO sign it, SO she
has been penniless and homeless all her
life. A retired actress took charge Of
her. and superintendent her education for
the stage.
The Binghamton Republican sub
mits the following: The plea os Charles
O'Conor that there was no proof which
of young Walworth's four shots were IA
tai, and the jury must, therefore, acquit
him, is not original. 1t is based on the
argument of the Western lawyer whose
client shot another mans dog:
"You hev heern, gentlemen of the ju-
Try" said the eloquent advocate, "you
hev heern the witness swar he saw the
prisoner raise his gun, you have heern
him swar he saw the dog fall dead, you
hev heern him swar he dug the bullet
out with his jack knife, and you hev
seen the bullet produced in Court, but
whar gentlemen, whsr, ask you, is the
man who saa0 that bullet hit that dog ?"
- A gentle rain which was falling at
Ontarior, Wis, the other day, received
a sudden accession by the supposed
bursting of water-spout. In half an
hour the streets of the village were riv-
ers, and the country around was sub
merged in places to the depth of six feet.
Ten bridges were carried of, and i'm
mense numbers of cattle, sheep and hogs
we're drowned, but no human lives were
lost.
Mrs. Swisshelm's opinion on the
Walworth case is that" the woman who
could permit any sense Of personal wrong
to induce her to teach her children to
hate their father or throw any hinder
ances in the way of their obeying the
divine command to honor him-nay, the
woman who should neglect to teach her
children to love their father on earth,
because this is required Of then, by their
Father in Heaven, is bad wife, bad
mother, a very bad Christian, and q
woman one would not want to know.
, Miss Alta NJ Hulett, the young wo'
!, man who was admitted to the bar o.
Chicago about week ago, has had hel
first case, and she won it. 1t was q
matter of rent and dollars between s
, butcher and washer woman. Miss Hu
, lett advocated the claims of the latter
4 She made her pleas in clear name
and with composed mien, picturing the
5 big, strong, lusty butchers oppression o
: the washer woman in such way as t
speedily enlist the sympathy of every
n crowd, who didn't relish being beaten b,
;, a woman.
0 = The recent dashing to death of tn
t aeronaut La Mountain at Ionia, Mich
recalls the fact that three years ago an
8 other aeronaut, also called La Mountain
= persisted in nearly similar manner, anC
l. not hundred miles from the same place
1t This was in 1870, at South Bend, Ind
a an impatient crowd cast him off befor
d he was quite ready, with valve rop
g tied several feet above his head the bal
IS loon shot into cloud of mist and sleet
d which froze the valve.board fast. Th
: intrepid voyager climbed the network
d and tore open the balloon with his teeth
I The balloon collapsed and fell, and th
g acronaut was frightfully mangled.