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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08
Second District.

The following is from Windsor coun-
ty correspondent Of the Rutland Herald
and though it appears before the sunrise
of our election campaign to be held next
year, we copy it as so much of the hlsto-
~ of the political affairs ofthis state.
"The death of Judge Steele naturally
calls up conversation concerning his
sharp contest with Judge Poland for
the Congressional nomination IN TINS
district last fall. Poland and his friends
complained that Steele stole ais thur
der while he was away out in Utah at
tending to his law business and TO En-
ma silver mines for his clients, and that
it was not fair to commence the canvass
without notice to the present incumbent.
The gifted and lamented Steele is indeed
gone. but bis devoted friends will be
hardly reconciled to allow Judge Poland
to enjoy his back pay in quiet, and be
his own successor without another effort
to surplant the surviving contestant,
who will then have enjoyed the honors
and emoluments of office-State and Ma
tional-for nearly thirty consecutive
years. by younger man of equa, integ-
rity, purity and capacity FOR good SER
vice in Congress. If Judge Hoyt ii.
Wheeler, of Jamaica, can be induced to
step down from the honorable position
he now holds and take the nomination
he will be likely to get it. Otherwise
the Hon. VIM. III. Walker, of Ludlow,
who though a younger man than he
looks to be has obtained the front rank
in the legal profession, will be very like
ly to crowd closely upon the heels OF the
+" Bishop" as the able ex-senator and
present incumbent is not inaptly called,
in the Congressional race. 1t is we
know, rather soon to name candidates,
but if notice could thus early be served
on parties who felt so hurt last fall,
that they were taken unawares, they
would at least have to get another ex'
cuse for fault. finding"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

The PHYSIOLOGICAL Journal for
August is on our table with an excellent
variety of sesonable reading. The main
topics discussed in lively entertaining,
and always instructive style, appear in
in part to be The late Joseph Howe,
Lieut. Governor of Nova Scotia; Proph.
ecy, Ancient and Modern; DR.. Horace
Wells and the Discovery of Anasthesia
How to Use Phrenology; The late
Cakes Ames, NJ. c.; Study of the Nat
ural Sciences Turning Points in LIfe
Agricultural Hints; Handsome Face
and Bad Dispositions, etc This Publ
cation deserves hundred thousand sub
scribers. Two dollars a year, with .
Chrome premium. Address S. r. Wells
$50 Broadway, New York.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

A PUBLIC SPIRITED ITIzEN.-The
Akron (Ohio) Beacon of recent date,
publishes the following:
1.-TWO years ago Mr.. Sardis Birchard
gave the city of Fremont, Ohio, fourteen
acres of land, worth $4,000, to be used
as city park. On Monday evening he
added to this sum fifty thousand dollars
for the purpose of founding public Ii
brary, museum, and art gallery for the
use and benefit of the citizens of the
town and Sandusky County. He has
also arranged for the final disposition Of
his elegant collection of paintings and
articles Of vertu, to 60 into the public ar
gallery. The city proposes to purchase
the site of Fort Stephenson for the Ii
brary buildings. This will make an ele
CANT situation as it comprises about twC
acres right in the heart of the city, hav
ing fine trees and shrubbery, and is Of
fered to the city for $4,000. Fremon
can well afford to be proud of such
citizen. These noble acts richly crow
Mr.. Orchards forty-six years residenc
among the people he has so richly bles:
ed"
Mr.. Birchard was from Wilmington
VT, and has many old friends living j
| Windham County.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

There is evidently feeling on the
part of some to be on hand early, with
reference to our State and congressional
election next year. and we have else
where copied some remarks from cor
respondent of the Rutland Herald, on
the election of congressman from this
district. To that the Burlington Free
Press announces that Col. Kittredge
Haskins of Brattleboro will be candi'
date for Congress. To this we will also
add that we have heard mentioned six
other names from this county. and also
an equal number from Windsor county
and rs Judge Poland may himself be in
the field for reelection, there will al
present be no fear or trouble for want
of candidates.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

CoUNTERFEITs.- new counterfeit
fifty cent scrip is out. 1t can be detect
ed in moment by the least close in
spection, as the imitation of the silk fibre
is very weak there are minor points Of
of difference in the engraving, which,
however, would scarcely be noticed, save
on studious comparison.
A counterfeit half eagle of the coin
age of 1872 has also made its appear
ance at New York and Boston, and
which SO closely initiates the genuine as
almost to defy detection. In weight
ane color it corresponds with the legal
coin aud is made of 848,1000 gold al.
Logged with copper and a minimum Of
silver. The intrinsic value of the coin
is SAT-. The outlines of the letters and
eagle on the counterfeit are not as sharp
square or angular as on the genuine
The government offers reward of $4,000
| for information leading to the capture
of the dies from which the coin is made
and to the arrest and conviction of the
parties guilty of making and putting il
on the market.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

Estate of John KimbaIi.

STATE OF VERMONT / The Probate Cou.
DIs'T or WESTMINSTER SIS. and for said DSr
To all persons interested in the estate OF 70
KIMBALL. late of Rockingham, in said dlsr
GREETH
you are hereby notified that Leander Ami
Il executor of the late will and testament III
JOHN KIMBALL, has filed in said court bis 4
cation in writing, setting forth that said Kline 4
died seized of a certain piece or parcel OF lana
uate in the village of Bellows Falls, in SAID
ingham, and bounded Northerly by lands Of
Brown and E. W. Hildreth. Southerly by Ia
Edmund Blake, and Margaret Hubbard, IL
by Canal street and Westerly by Roekingha
containing one-half acre be the same more
with dwelling house thereon. And further
forth that it would be for the interest Of t1'
tees and those interested in said estate to hsl
same sold and converted into money, for theiTT
that said legatees reside without the State
mont; and praying for license to sell said =
either at public auction or private sale; Az
are further notified that said court will deeias
granting the license prayed for, at special 6 81
to be held at the Office of G. II. Eddy - rs bS'
Falls. in said district on the NINTH DA1 VI W
GUST. A. . ls73,at TEN Of the clock in the loren
when ~ where you may be heard in the pteA
CHARLES B. EDDY. Rege@S'
| July q. 1873 "
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08
gellows falls Jimrs'
BELLOWS FALLS, AUGUST 8, 1878

Some political activity has sprung up
IN Ohio, where the discontinued elements
of the democrat party are little prom
inent in trying to form ga new political
party" 1t appears to be sprout from
similar efforts which have been made
there annually for several years, and as
many democrats there and in other
parts of the country do not look on il
with much favor, its future prosperity
is not promising.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

THE PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.-The
Kansas State Grange of Patrons Of Hus-
bandry, at their recent session at Law
renee, passed resolutions depreciating
the prominence given to horse racing at
State fairs, and calling upon the farmers
to more literally support the fairs, SO
that there might be no occasion for de-
pending on racing as the means of max
ing money. Resolutions were also adopt
ed on the transportation question, the
most important of which was one de-
handing that either farming property
be taxed as railroad property is, upon
the basis of its income, or railroad prop.
erty as well as farming property be tax
ed on the basis of its value independent
Of its income.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

THURLow WEED.-Speaking of old
men who are not long for this world, |
am reminded of Thurlow Weed, who
can hardly tarry on this planet much
beyond the summer. He was recently,
and is still, l think, at Richfeld Springs,
and so week that he could hardly get
about on crutches. He has been serious.
ly ailing for over a year past, and has
been so often at deaths door, only to get
up and walk out Of another door, that
few persons can believe him so near the
grave. He is almost the last of the pol
iticians who were SO prominent twenty
five years ago. All the friends of hi
youth and mature manhood have gone
and the world can have little charm fo
him now. He is still hard at work die
tatiDg his "Reminiscences" and ha
hardly completed them. He is deepl,
interested in his work (his daughte
Harriet acts as his amanuensis-shoul
| say .woman-u-ensis p, and say tina
when be has finished it be will be read
to depart. York Letter:
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

"HANGMAN FooTE." - Ex-senator
Foote of Mississippi is publishing in the
Washington Chronicle very interest |
ing series of "reminiscences of public
men. In the last he gives frank and
creditable account OF an incident which
made great noise at the time. After
sketching one of Mr.. Calhoun's excited
speeches on the slavery question in the
United States Senate, followed by per-
sonal appeal from him to Mr.. Foote to
sustain the cause of the South, the latter
says:
Waiting a few minutes for that Bo-
annerges of debate, John P. Hale of
New Hampshire, to close most stormy
and indignant harangue, in which his
faculty in the application of potential
and striking epithets had been fully dis.
played, | leaped to my feet and made, as
l must frankly confess, under the over
whelming excitement of the moment,
one of the most funny, rabid and insinuat-
ing speeches that has ever dishonored a
grave and dignifed parliamentary body
in which | told Mr.. Hale in plain terms,
that were he to visit any thickly settled
vicinage in Mississippi, and there use
such language as that which he had inst
uttered, | did not at all doubt that he
would incur the hazard of being strung
up on one of the Hottest trees of the for
est; and that In such case, should there
be any want of a willing executioner,
would myself turn hangman for his ben
eft. These frantic and indecent words
bad scarcely been enunciated ere l be-
came painfully sensible of the stupid
and unbecoming nature of my conduct,
and | would have really given words to
recall all the nonsense had uttered.
In less than forty-eight hours l re-
ceived hundreds of anonymous letters,
filled with the most caustic revilement,
and othere inclosing the most hideous
caricatures of person whom these same
caTicatures denominated Hangman
Foote.' l positively writhed in agony
Never bad my self-respect suffered such
severe humiliation. j felt that the ia.
bled shirt of Nessus was actually envel
oping my limbs. Meanwhile the jolly
) and kino-hearted Senator from New
Hampshire and myself had long. since
gotten on good terms, and l had ever
: taken up decided liking for him on &C
count of his genial disposition, his nstu
raj amiableness of temper, and hi
sparkling vivacity, either in debate o.
in conversation"
Not long after Mr.. Foote was induced
, by Mr.. Hale to procure from the Presi
dent (Polk) the pardon of New Hamp
shire man, to whose sister be was intro
I, dueeG by Mr.. Hale with the remark
" Young lady, this is a gentleman o
whom you have often heard in New
England. He is one of the Senator
! from Mississippi. To him alone are yol
. indebted for the Liberation of YOU
: brother. When you get home again b
sure to tell your friends and neighbor
there never again to call him Hangmal
Foote.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

MILK AS A REMEDIAL AGENT.-Con-
siderable has been lately said in medical
journals concerning the value of milk
as a remedial agent in certain diseases.
An interesting article upon this subject
lately appeared in the London Milk
Journal in which it is stated on the au-
thority of DIR. Benjamin Clark, that the
East India warm milk is used to great
extent as specific for darrhea. A
pint every four hours will check violent
diarrhea, stomach ache, incipient chole-
ra and dysentery. The milk should new
er be boiled, but only heated sufficiently
to be agreeably warm, not to hot to
drink. Milk which has been boiled is
unfit for use. This writer gave several
instances to show the value of this SIM
pie substance in arresting disease, among
which is the following: The writer says,
/" 1t has never failed in curing me in six
or twelve hours, and | have tried it,
should think, fifty times. have also
given it to dying man who had been
subject to dysentery eight months, latter
ly accompanied by one continual diar-
rhea, and it acted on him like charm.
In two days his diarrhea was gone. in
three weeks he became hale, fat man,
and now nothing that may hereafter &C.
cur will ever shake his faith in hot
milk"
A writer also communicates to the
Medical Times and Gazette, a statement
of the value of milk in twenty-six cases
of typhoid fever, in every one of which
its greatest value was apparent. 1t
checks diarrhea, and nourishes and cools
the body. People suffering from disease
require food quite as much as those in
health, and much more so in certain dis
eases where there is rapid waste of the
system. Frequently all ordinary food
in certain diseases is rejected by the
stomach, and even loathed by the pa.
tent but nature, ever beneicient, has
furnished food that in all diseases il
benefcial-in some directly curative
Such food is milk. The writer in the
journal last quoted, Dr. Alexander Yale
after giving particular observations up
on the points above mentioned, viz, it
action in diarrhea, its nourishing prop
critics and its action in cooling the body
says: we believe that milk nourishe
in fever, promotes sleep, wards off de
lirium, soothes the intestines, and, il
fine, is the sine qui non in typhoid fever.
We have also lately tested The value o
milk in scarlet fever, and learned tina
it is now recommended by the medica
faculty in all cases of this often yer,
distressing children's disease. Give al
the milk the patient will take, even du
ring the period of greatest fever; i
keeps up the strength of the patient
acts well upon the stomach, and is ever,
way blessed thing in this sickness. Pa
rents remember it, aud do not fear t
give it if your dear ones are affiicte
with the disease"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

A HORRIBLE DEATH. james Nor
gan, a lumber dealer of Glens Falls,
N. Y, and a prominent business man at
that place, met with horrible death on
Thursday night, of last week. 1t seems
he heard the horses in his barn, during
the night, kicking and making consider
able noise, and taking lantern, he wen!
to the barn, where it is supposed horse
kicked him insensible, breaking the Ian
tern and setting fire to the barn. Mr.
Morgan, the horses and barn were en-
tirely consumed.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08
E.tnts nfCnlrin Flint.

STATE OF VERMONT The Probate gout
WINDHAM COUNTY IS. and for SAID III ITi
To all persons interested in the estate Of CA ~
FLINT late Of Townshedd, in said district, aS
ed. GREk5iins,
YOU are hereby notified that Aurelius G h.s,
Il administrator of the estate of said dee'tt.
has filed his petition in court here. setting :
that the debts allowed against said estate a.
to the sum of SS33.y7 that the personal estate y
able to pay debts and charges of adminislusa,,
will not exceed the sum of FIVE hundred aels
that it will be necessary to sell part, OF tns
estate and that part thereof cannot be sold WI
injruy to those interested in the remainder 81
pray ed for license TO sell the whole OF say y \
estate subject to the right of homestead tha..
and that said court will decide upon the ali9sa
Of said application at a special session thereof
held at the probate office in Townshend u Z
district. on the NINTH DAY OF AUGUST 2
when and where you may be heard in the pre-
if you shall see cause. "a.
JpIv1 1874 \" ~ i- 9&
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

ESTATE OF HENRY E. ST0UGHIoN
I'VE THE SUBSCRIBERS, being duly az.
w by the Hon. Probate Court for the dsNs
and adjust all claims and demands of al. RI
against the estate of HENRY Il. STOteIt
late Of the city, county and State of New ~
ceased. and also all claims and demands eA-
in offset thereto and six months from M
ENTH DAY of JULY last. being allowed
court for that purpose. we do therefore mere
NOTICE, that we will attend 10 the buslnesss,
said appointment. at the office of GeoTge, n n
Sell9Es talls In said District on the THI ARD
NESDAY OF DECEMBER next. from IhHl 4.
a. n. until FOUR o'clock P. NJ. on eaea
days.
J,H. WILLIAMS. Commissios6
o cHAs. B. sT0UGHToN. q.
Bellows Falls. Vt, July IL. A. D., 1913,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08
The Modoc Commission.


1T. KINGsBURY,
The San Francisco Bulletin has brief
sketches of the members of the military
commission appointed to try the Modocs,
and as that of Lit. Kingsbury, who is a
Vermonter and native of Chester, will
be OF interest TO many of our readers
we copy the sane as follows;
LIEUTENANT GEORGE W. KINGsBURY.
1.-THE appointment of Second Lieu
tenant George w, Kingsbury as a mem
Der of the Commission is handsome
compliment to gallant soldier and an
accomplished gentleman. Lieutenant
Kingsbury enlisted as private soldier
in the Sixteenth Regiment of Vermont
Volunteers in 1862, and 1864 was pro-
NOTED to the position of Second Iieuten-
ant. He was with the First and Ninth
Corps in the Army Of the Potomac, and
served through the second Maryland
campaign was in the battle of Gettys-
burg, and in Grants campaign of ga
and '65, which terminated in the fall of
Richmond. At the battle of Spottsyl-
vania, Va. he received remarkably
close call, ball passing into his chest,
through the left lung, and thence to the
spine, making its exit between the eighth
and ninth ribs. He was brevetted three
times for gallant aud meritorious ser
vices on the battlefield OF the Wilder
ness and Spottsylvania. Lieutenant
Kingsbury was honorably discharged,
for wounds received, in October, 1864.
and received an appointment as Second
Lieutenant in the Veteran Reserved
Corps, Twenty.third Regiment; was
placed in command of Company D., and
stationed at Jacksonville, Indiana,
where he remained until the fall of 1865
Next he served as Adjutant at the mus
tering out camp of the Wisconsin Vol
nnteers, and subsequently, he joined his
regiment at Milwaukee. He was assign
TO duty in the Freedmens' Bureau il
the spring of 1866, and served in Vir
ginia, Kentucky, and Alabama until th,
fall of 1869. He was appointed SeconC
Lieutenant in the regular army in May
'67, and joined his regiment, the Forty
third Infantry, in 1869. He was after
ward transferred to the Twelfth Infant
ry, and in February, 1870, was assignee
to duty at Camp CASTOR, Cal, where h
acted as Post Adjutant, Quartermaste
and Commissary until the Modoc trou
bles came. After Colonel Wright
death, Lieutenant Kingsbury assume
charge of Company E., Twelfth Infan
ry, and retains the command. Thong
little less than thirty.thtee years of agt
: he is thoroughly grounded in militar
matters, and upon the legal question
arising during the trial his advice wi
be of value. Lieutenant Kingsbury hs
been Judge Advocate of the Court-Mal
tial held in the field under General d.
Wis orders. He is by no means movie
in military law. He is trim, light con
plexioned benedict, and will kick tn
beam at one hundred and twent.
FIVE. He is the junior member of IL
Commission"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

AN ENORMOUS WOMAN Coroner
Herman of New York held an inquest,
Saturday. in the case of Josephine Jam.
ison, colored woman, who died sudden
ly on Friday evening at No. 2O3 Delaney
street. The diseased woman was a ma
tive of Virginia, and although but %
years of age, had attained enormous pro-
portions, and weighed nearly 500 pounds.
She had been suffering from asthma for
long time past, and her death was due
to this disease, aggravated by the great
accumulation of adipose matter about
the lungs and heart. After death her
relatives were compelled to have an inn
mence wooden box made 10 contain her
remains, and as the box was too large
to be carried up stairs it was placed in
the back yard, and the body after being
prepared for burial was carried down
stairs and placed in it. After the box
was closed it was found necessary, in or
der to carry it out into the street, to tear
down portion of the rear fence. The
funeral service was held, yesterday Mt
the Attorney. street church.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

- The post Office department has I'M
der consideration the propriety of adopt
ing some means to enable the travellers
on railroads to mail postal cards or 9TH
er letters. 1t is suggested that this can
be done by placing plain lettered mail
boxes in each passenger car, and that
postal clerks or messengers on the train
or at the principal stations along the
road, make the collections, thereby plac-
ing the whole thing in responsible hands
and under the control of the department.
= Boys and girls beware of green APP
Piles. In New York boy named Arch
ibald McIntire ate inordinately of green
apples and peaches on Wednesday night.
Within an hour he was suffering with
terrible cramps in his stomach. The
doctors tried to save him, but he passed
into spasms and commissions, sunk into
a comatose state and red eruptions GOV.
cred him from head to foot. He died
next morning.
= The Southern editor rarely ven.
lures into his compositor's room, and
when obliged to do so, arms himself to
the teeth, and leaves on his desk an obit
uary notice of himself appropriate tC
the event of a sudden death. Do you
ask whyf His handwriting is such as tC
invite violence from those by the sweat
of whose brows it is deciphered and sci
up.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

The New York World is indignant
that anybody should believe that the
democratic party is dead. But before
it gets through with its burst of indig-
nation, it confesses that the Democracy
we're compelled to nominate Greeley,
though much against their will, because
they were pogerless to do anything but
acguiesce in the action of those whom
the World denounces as enemies. If this
is not death it is worse than death, sub.
lection.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

GEO. b. LINCOLN, late of N. Y. Ro,,
of Health, says: "CARBoLIc SALyp
a most excellent article" A thouss,
other testimonials are to the like elIsD
Beware of limitations. Genuine. h
stamp of john +. HENRY, s & 8 G.
lege Place, N. Y.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

MANY SUFFER rather than take nau
seous medicines. All who suffer from
coughs, colds irritation of the bronchial
tubes or tendency to consumption, will
find in DR.. Wjstar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry remedy as agreeable TO the
palate as efectual in removing disease
The Bslsam is pleasant remedy it is
a speedy remedy it is a remedy that
cures.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-08

THE MoDocs.-Dispatches. purport-
ing to rest on official authority, report
that the military commission appointed
to try the Modoc murderers has found
guilty all those charged with capital Of
fences and awarded them the full penal
ty of the law. The sentiment of the
court martial was unanimous in this
opinion, and as soon as the sentence is
approved by the President the prisoners
will be shot. The papers in the case are
now in Washington.