Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-16

vestigation is to be made.
- Petitions have been presented in
Congress from eighteen thousand citizens
of Colorado praying for admission as a
State.
- Some children named Hurst in
Morgan county, Ohio, made candy from
some sorgum in brass kettle. 1t killed
three of them and made two of them
very sick
Women are now eligible to any
office of school control or management
in Pennsylvania, under the school laws
of that State. At least a minority of
ladies will hereafter, it is anticipated,
have place on the Pennsylvania school
boards.
- The price reported to have been
paid for the New York Independent by
Mr.. Taimage and his associates is $780,
900, of which $50, 900 is to be paid in
cash, and the remainder to stand on
time, with real estate security. Mr.
Bowen is said to have refused 100000
for the same paper four years ago.
Grace Greenwood says that Congress
man Harris, who told his colored associ
ate to sit down the other day, is him
self frightful example of the iudis
criminate mixing of white and black
children Oh the plantation and on the
nurses laps in the old pre-emancipatlor
times-for he says "pore" for poor
"thar" char" and ''sar."
- Daughter of the house (to priv
LEGGED old friend of the family y" Deal
Mr.. Lupus, you don't seem to be enjoy
ing yourself I should like to have yor
: waltz this once with me-" Privileged
old Friend =" My dear child, | dom
dance; but if it suite you, wouldn'
mind sitting here with my arm arounC
your waist, while the others are making
themselves dizzy"
- Paris is substantially fre-proof
without the use of iron girders AM
beams, iron lathing, or brick or TIL
T floors, by the adoption of a simple prin
, ciple of construct IN, which is that Their
r shall be no air-paces left between floor
, or between the plaster Of walls and th
: studding or wall itself; and that tn
roof must be covered with tile, slate 0
metal. There is not such an incendiar
: thing as wooden or tar-and-gravel roc
in Paris.
Thurlow Weed, having been interview
ed, says that the only two occasions o
which he had felt a painful soliciiu6
: for the safety of the country, notwitl
= standing the political decentralization pr
:. vailing in influential circles" were frs
General Buffers Massachusetts, campaie
: and secondly, the movement to elect
"a president for third term; and now
: hopes that the withdrawal of the non
! nation of Mr. Cushing, or the firm !
fusal of the senate TO confirm the non
,o nation, will save the country from
!, third occasion of painful solicitude equs
ly as discouraging as the other two.
The recent loss of three large pi
nc senger steamships has led somebody
propose an effectusl means of gusrdi
rs against such fatal accidents. Ea
&c large passenger ship should carry
De small but powerful steam launch.
foggy weather, this launch should
re sent ahead few hundred yards, CO
to nected with the passenger ship by fit
he ible telegraphic cable provided with
he electric battery, so that signals might
Ter constantly transmitted from one to I
other. The launch should always cal
u.s. an electric or other strong light, and
ch provided with powerful steam whist
he On meeting with ice or with vessels,
for unexpectedly approaching the coast,
i'd would be comparatively easy to stop
ng launch and give warning in time to IS
"a the passenger spip from Gala
for Jan.