Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-01-31

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had kept them from being covered by
the snow. Each man left widow and
children, the latter all young. Sanders
family is destitute. The aged mother
and sister of Sparks have gone mad, and
will probably die.
A wag lent clergyman horse,
which ran away and threw him, and then
claimed credit for aid in spreading the
gospel.
There have been 1000 complaints en-
tered this winter against the good peo-
people of New York for not clearing
their sidewalks.
Compulsory education is one of
the things most widely thought of and
talked about at present. The last argu-
ment for its adoption by any one State
comes from Missouri, where, however,
the majority are not yet in favor of it.
"A collector called upon debtor a
day or two since, and upon presenting
his bill was met with smile that was
childlike and blaDd," and the soft
words, "please call next Monday and
I'll tell you when to call again"
= The number of deer killed in the
northern part of New Hampshire this
winter has been unusually large. 1t is
said there were thirty carcasses in the
depot at Plymouth at one time, killed at
Thornton, Woodstock, Lincoln and that
region.
"A Detroit policeman lately con-
sumed an entire day in shooting a hog
which he had been commissioned to kill.
He destroyed thirteen dozen cartridges,
but wouldn't have hurt the animal then
if it hadn't walked up to smell the muz-
zle of the pistol.
"A little romance about Ben Wade's
daughter and her "tall young carpen-
ter" will have to be given up. Ben, says
that to begin with he made no objection
to their marriage, in the second place
that his daughter never was engaged to
the carpenter in question, and thirdly
that he never had daughter.
To add to Stokes misfortune. and les
sen the probability of his escaping the
gallows, it has just come to light that
Fisk's murderer is related to Mrs. Gov.
Dix; which fact, instead of inclining the
governor toward Stokes, would make
him less inclined to interfere, lest it
should be attributed to family influence.
- For the first timein history the far.
mers are cutting the spectators with
their own weapons. California brokers
put up corner" on ships, contracting
for the carrying capacity of all ships
that will touch at San Francisco up to
the harvest of 1873. Thereupon the
farmers, fortified by the sales of wheat,
have cornered on corn, and oblige the
spectators to pay double price for grain
wherewith to load their waiting vessels.
"A terrible case from coal gas re.
Gently occurred in Toledo (O.) board
ing house. Mrs. Majors, the proprietor of
the house, her daughter Ida, and Mrs.
Quance were taken suddenly i'll, Tues
day night, and summoned physician,
but the illness passed away and they re-
tired. The next morning Mrs. Quance
and Ida were found dead upon the floor,
and Mrs. Majors was but just alive
Three men upstairs were insensible, but
they recovered, and there is some hope
for Mrs. Majors. The gas came from a
coal stove in the sitting room.
Mrs. Agassiz gives sorry picture
of the Indians of Terra del Fuego, with
whom she scraped passing acquaint-
ance in the course of her recent trip on
the Hassler. Though she has looked
upon savages north and south, she states
that she has never seen any SO repulsive
as these. Their bodies are out of pro-
portion almost to deformity, their ex-
preston is bestial, their manners are
uncouth in the extreme, and their tastes
apparently of the lowest description.
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Their appetite for tobacco is strong. and
their talking is like the chattering of so
many monkeys. They wander natad
J and homeless in snow and mist and rain
as they have done for ages, asking Of
the land only a strip of beach and 8
handful of FIRE; of the ocean, shellfisb
lenough to save them from starvation. -