Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-03-28


"A Michigan bar-keeper Is called
upon to pay for horse stolen by an in.
ebriate Indian, to whom he had sold IL
quor.
- Sarah Simon, little girl of Ia
who didn't know any better, got married
in New York, recently, and her father
is trying to get divorce for her.
The Massachusetts House of Rep
resentatives, Wednesday, by vote of
40 to 1877, refused to rescind the resolu-
tions censuring Senator Sumner, passed
by the last Legislature.
A youth In Danvers, Mass, aged
fourteen, played at hanging Saturday,
using wheelbarrow for a platform,
which canted over and he was soon after
found dead.
The defense of gentleman who had
deprived his neighbor of his turkey and
roasted it was that he found it on his
fence and seized it in payment of rent
of the fence.
- A young gentleman who advertises
for wife in the Independence Beige has
his little preferences. The applicant
must be young lady or childless wild
ow; and he would prefer a wife who is
slightly lame"-a precaution probably
against her running away.
Hon. Austin F. Pike, who has been
elected to Congress from the Second New
Hampshire district, is an able man, of
considerable legislative experience, and
his friends anticipate that he will make
an honorable mark at Washington.
Some of the Irish citizens of Man
chester, n. H., instead of celebrating St.
Patrick's day in the usual manner, this
year, devoted days pay to assist in
building Catholic hospital and Or
phan's Home. The traders of Irish de-
scent gave the profits of the day for the
same object. About ninety-fveper cent
of the Irish operatives in the mills gave
their days pay. and it is thought that
upward of $4,000 was realized.
= Belfast, Me-, has good dog story
a story of good dog. After one of the
late heavy snows young girl was try
ing to make her way along the street,
when strange dog, large Newfound-
land, came to her aid. He kept ahead
of her, breaking a path, until he saw
her turn in at her destination, when,
with a satisfied wag of the tail, he trot-
ted back.
The Susquehanna is being stocked
with salmon from spawn secured in the
Sacramento river in California. Salmon
spawn can be collected by millions in
that state at trifing cost, and, as the
eggs bear transportation thousands of
miles without injury, nothing but little
patient industry on the part of fisheries
is needed to supply all
our eastern stream with this delicious
fish.
"A Milford Comm man gravely
tells the world that he has patented a
process for the manufacture of imitation
fur, which so closely resembles the orig
inal article that good judges are almost
deceived by its appearance. The mate
rails used are base of thick wooden or
felt, and hair shaven from small and
refuse pieces of the skin of fur-bearing
animals. The hair is beaten into the
wooden base, and the resulting combina-
ton is SO finely put together that the old
test of blowing into the hair hardly re-
veals the deception.
1t is sometimes claimed that one GER
tain way to prevent intoxication is to
make good wine cheap. The assertion is
made that in European countries, where
good and pure wine is part of each mans
daily food, that there is much less drunk.
enness than there is in countries where
the law attempts to suppress or regulate
the use of intoxicating liquors. The po-
lice records of the city of Rome during
the past year do not bear out this asser.:
ton. They show that out Of ,O94 knife |
and pistol scrapes," over 600 were COM |
mitted in bar-rooms, liquor-saloons, cafes,
and other places where the parties en-
gagged in quarreling had been drinking. |