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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
DYING AS THE ROMANS DE-" Rome

DYING AsTHE ROMANS DE-" Rome"
says correspondent, " is the dearest
place in the world for a foreigner to die
in. From the moment the breath is out
of the body until the final disposition of
the remains, system of extortion pre-
walls. The landlord will most likely lay
in claim for heavy damages. He will
insist on being paid the cost of new
set of furniture, carpets, wall paper, bed
and bed clothes, &C., and for the rent of
apartments for several weeks disinfec.
ton and refurnishing. The municipal
law gives them such indemnities in case
of death occurring from infectious dis
eases, such as small pox, scarlatina and
typhus fever; but they call pretty much
all kinds of sickness which produces
death Infectious and insist on their
exorbitant demands being paid-enforc-
ing them by vexatious litigation, seizure
Of the effects of the deceased, and abuse
of the relatives. After the landlords
are settled with, the rapacious bills of
the undertakers are next in order. The
embalmer requires about 1900 or 1900
francs for his fee. The corporation of
the city presents bill the clergyman
who drones over some printed prayers
expects a gratuity of several guineas
ana sundry and divers other people ex-
pect fee', for doing what is difficult to
comprehend. The best advice that can
be given to the traveller is not to die in
Rome if he or she can avoid it, but to
select some other town, and the one near
est your American home is to be most
preferred.-Boston Journal.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

THE QUEENS DRAWING RooM.-The
ceremony of the" drawing-room is very
we'll known to some readers. 1t means
the presentation to the Queen OF the
younger female scions of aristocratic
families, and is the means by which the
more mature female members of the up
per ten pay their annual homage to their
sovereign. AS ceremony it is simple
enough, the ladies merely passing in a
single file before the Queen and making
salutation, which she returns. But
although this reads as very easy per.
formance, it is, in fact, most trying or.
deal, and one against which a most in.
dignant protest is now being raised. The
ceremony begins at 2 o'clock, and its
length, of course, depends upon the
number Of ladies taking part in it. The
number has now grown to be so enor-
nous that the Queen, who has to stand
all the time, finds the fatigue too much
for her, and during the latter portion
gets one of the princesses to take her
place. Last week, says London letter,
the throng was so immense and the ar
rangements for ingress and egress SO
shameful that many ladies who left their
homes at half past one did not reach
them again till seven P. NJ, and then in
a most pitiable condition, weary, faint
they had had nothing to eat-their
splendid Partisan dresses crushed and
rumpled, their feathers broken, their
laces torn. 1t is truly complained that
what the British matron looks upon as
her greatest honor, giving her, as it is
supposed to do, the cachet of respectaail-
ity Ohough some very dubious persons
have been received of late years., is
dearly bought at such cost. So long
as the drawing-rooms are held in the
wretchedly narrow area os st. James
Palace, and SO long as the present enor-
nous crowd insists on attending them, it
will be impossible to obviate the Difficult.
ty. As remedy, it has been suggested
that instead of passing before the Queen
the ladies should be drawn up in line,
down which Her Majesty should pass.
Or, again, that the ceremony should be
held in the evening, which would give il
more the character of reception.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

TRAVELLING ON FARM Did any of
your readers ever think of the amount
OF travel 1t takes to raise crop of corn
[ never saw an illustration in print, aud
Though would give you one. have a
twenty acre field, forty by eighty rods.
To break up this would take one hundred
and sixty miles. Narrowing it, about
forty miles. Furrowing out, ninety miles.
And for each plowing of two burrows in
a row, ninety miles, or plowings, four
hundred and fifty miles. Thus you see,
it takes about eight or nine hundred miles
of travel to raise twenty acres of corn.
not counting going to and from the field.
Besides there is replanting, thinning,
rolling, etc.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

How CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE KILLED
A PIG.-Judge Chase tells an amusing
story Of his younger days in letter to
a friend. He says:
"ODe ludicrous incident of the ehore
kind impressed itself strongly on my
memory. The bishop and most of the
older members of the family went away
one morning, he having ordered me to
kill and dress pig while they were gone,
to serve for dinner that day or next. |
had no great trouble in catching and
slaughtering fat young porker, and |
had the tub of hot water all ready for
pIunging him in preparatory to taking
off the bristles. Unfortunately, howev-
er, the water was too hot or otherwise in
wrong condition, or perhaps when l
soused the pig into it / kept him in too
long. AT any rate, when | undertook to
pull off the bristles, thinking they would
come off of themselves, to my dismay l
could not start one of them. The bris-
ties were set, in pig-killing phrase. 1
picked and pulled in vain. What should
| do? The pig must be dressed. In that
there must be no failure. l bethought
me of my cousins razors, a nice, new
pair, just suited to spruce young cler-
gymau as he was. No sooner imagined
than done. | got the razors and shaved
the pig from toe to snout. | think the
shaving of the pig was a success. The
razors we're somewhat damaged in the
operation. They were carefully wiped
and restored to their place. My impress
sion is that, on the whole, the pig.killing
was not satisfactory to my uncle, and
my good cousin found his razors not ex-
actly fit for use the next morning"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

LIME WATER FOR WASP SrINGs.-
DR.. Danverne writes to French Jour
nal that some time ago he was stung on
the head and face by number of wasps.
The pain was great, and he had no am
monia at hand, nor was there druggist
near by. Recollecting the fact that lime
water was good for burns, it occurred to
him to try It for the relief of the burn
ing sensation produced by the stings. 1t
answered the purpose perfectly, and he
has since advised its use in some twenty
cases of wasp stiDgs, and it has always
caused an instant cessation of the pain.
The remedy is simple one, and worth
making note o."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
Justice Extraordinary in Switzer
land.

An extraordinary application of jus
tice is recorded by the Confedere do
Valais, as having occurred in that Can
ton. A peasant in one of the Communes
sold some fowls to a neighbor; she did
not pay for them at the time, and delay
ed doing so until the vendor got uneasy.
70 protect himself, he again took posses.
sion of the fowls upon which the wo.
man charged him with being a robber,
besides using towards him other forcible
expressions in her repertoire. She finally
denounced the offender to the Municiple
Council. The latter, deciding that the
case was within its jurisdiction, found
the delinquent guilty and sentenced him
to personal chastisement Each mem
Der of the council had, under the con-
sciousness of the plentitude of his exc.
cutive functions, the right to give the
culprit three strokes with a switch. The
Judge de Paix and the President did not
avail themselves of the privilege but
the other members let justice have its
free course, and each gave to the delin-
quent three blows upon not the most
guilty part of his person, he having in
vain prayed that his sentence might be
committed to a a ine.-Sactss Times.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

BROKEN PRoMIsEs.-Reader, never
break your promises And to this end
never make promise that you are not
sure you can fulfill. You may think II
a trifilng matter to make an appointment
with friend or agree to do certain
thing, and then fail to come to time 4"
but it is assuredly not a small affair. II
you get iu the habit of DegIecting to
make good your promises, how long, do
you think, will your friends and acquain-
tances retain confidence in you? The
nearest and dearest of them will in time
learn to doubt you and will put but little
faith in your words. And there is way
of half meeting ones obligations, which
might be called bending" promise,
which is also very bad practice, and
should be carefully avoided. For in
stance, you agree to meet a person at a
certain time but, instead of being pune
tual, you "put in an appearance sew
eral minutes, perhaps an hour, after
time; or you promise to do something
FOR friend, and only partially perform
the duty. You may not have exactly
broken your promise, but you have GER
tainly bent it, which is almost, if not
quite, as bad. Keep your promises to
the letter, be prompt and exact, and il
will save you much trouble and care
through life. and win for you the respect
and trust of your friends.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

GIRLS, HEAR THIs.-Girls do not al
ways know their power. 1t is far great
er than they think and, were they true
and brave enough to exert it, they might,
almost in a generation, revolutionize so.
ciety about them. Exert your power
for good upon the young men who are
privileged to enjoy your society. Cen
tie and good, be also brave and true.
Try to exhibit the ideal of woman
"a pure and good woman whose
life is mighty as well as beautiful
in its maidenly dignity and attractive
loveliness. Do not let it even seem that
dress and frivolity constitute your only
thoughts; but let the elevation of your
character and the usefulness of your life
lift up the man that walks by your side.
Some of you are in intimate associations,
which under exchanged promises, look
forward to nearer and more enduring
relation. In these hours do nothing to
lower, but everything to refine and en-
noble each others character.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

The NEwFANE CENTENNIAL.-The
town of Newfane, which has Just cele-
brated its centennial, is remarkable for
having moved its village completely.
From 1871 to 1920, it was on Newman
ket hill, an eminence from which fifty
townships aud distant mountains in New
Hampshire were visible. The village
consisted of court house, jail, meeting
house, academy-the first academy that
Windham county ever saw-two stores.
two hotels, and variety of shops, such
as were found in all New England vii
lages at an early day, and about twenty
private residences. Not trace of this
village in the shape of building of any
kind remains to-day indeed, as long
ago as 1880, there was not building
left standing which stood in the old vii
lage. In 1925 the site Of the public
buildings was changed from "Newfane
Hill to what is now called Fayetteville
a village two miles east of the old CEN
tire, in the valley of the Wantastiquet
river. At the centennial the address
was delivered by Charles K Field, and
among the stories told by him in it is the
following, as given in the Montpelier
Argus:
BY strange perversion of legal prin.
ciples it was supposed by our ancestors
that whoever married widow who was
administrative upon the estate of hen
deceased husband, represented insolvent
and should thereby possess himself of
any property or thing purchased by the
deceased husband, would become an ex.
ecutor de son tort, and would thereby
make bimself liable to answer for the
goods and estate of his predecessor
MAJOR Moses Joy became enamored Of
Hannah Ward, widow of William Ward
who died in 1888, leaving an insolveut
estate, of which Mrs. Ward was admin.
lstratrix. To avoid the unpleasant pen.
alties of the law, on the morning of her
marriage with Major Joy, Mrs. Ward
placed herself in a closet, with tire.
woman, who stripped her of all he,
clothing, and when in perfectly nude
state she thrust her fair, round arm
through diamond hole in the door of
the closet, the gallant major clasped the
hand of the buxom widow, and wa:
married in due form by the jolliest par
son in Vermont. At the close of the
ceremony, the tire woman dressed the
bride in complete wardrobe which the
major had provided, and caused to be
deposited in the closet at the commence
ment of the ceremony, She came out
elegantly dressed in silk, satin and lace
and there was kissing all around.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

A professor who stated that one can
not taste in the dark, as nature intends
us to see our food, was nearly fioored by
a pupil who asked, How about blind
mans dinner? 2" But he recovered him.
self by answering; Mature, sir, has
provided him with eye teeth"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

SLEEP.
Care charming sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother TO Death sweetly thyself dispose
On this afflicted prince fall like a cloud
In gentle showers; give nothing that is loud
Or painful to his slumbers easy, sweet, light,
And as purling stream, thou son Of night,
Pass by his troubled senses, sing his pain
Like hollow murmuring wind or gentle rain.
Into this prince gently, oh, gently slide,
And kiss him into slumbers like bride.
beaumont and E2efshe
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
Poetry.
For the Bellows Falls Times.
My Answer,

Oh, tell me no more of your piles of gold,
OF your jewels, all cleaning bright,
Oh, speak not of visions your mind may hold,
Where am the central light.
For value far more my own free heart,
Than are all your treasures so rare
And dearer to me than your works of art.
Is my life. so free from care.
Oh. dream then no more that maidens mind.
Thoughts lofty and high may not hold.
Think not on earth naught has power TO bind,
Her heart, SO fast as your gold,
There is one treasure from Heaven above.
From Heaven. the place of its birth,
Oh. fairer than gold, the bright gem of Love,
Shining in infinite worth,
Oh, what can / care for your piles of gold,
When weighed in the scales of Truth?
My heart mid your wealth would tire and grow
old,
While in the spring time of youth.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

A young man was recently fined ten
dollars in Connecticut for shaking his
handkerchief at young lady. The
Judge, in passing sentence, remarked
that it was a fortunate circumstance that
the young lady had shaken hers at him
first, or he would have sent him up for
three months.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

At social gathering recently, a POM
pous individual who was complimented
on the profusion of his hair, took occa-
sion to mention that when his mother
died, at the age of eighty-fve years, she
had not bald hair on her head.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
General Wood Work.

THE having purchased the inter
Il est of p ELDRIDGE q COMPANY. are pre-
pared to manufacture all kinds Of Packing Boxes.
Mouldings. &c. Also all kinds of Saving. includ-
ing Scroll work and Brackets. Planning and Match
ing at short notice and in the most workmanlike
manner at very low prices.
HEALD 4 WHEELER.
April LIST. 1874. Il
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
Country Children,

Little fresh violets
Born in the wildwood,
Sweetly illustrating
Innocent childhood
Shy as al antelope,
Brown as berry,
Free as the mountain air,
Romping and merryl
Blue eyes and hazel eyes
Peep from thelhedges.
Shaded by sun-bonnets
Erayed at the edges
Up in the apple trees,
Needless Of danger,
Manhood in embryo
Stares at the stranger,
Out in the hilly patch.
Seeking for berries;
Under the orchard tree.
Feasting on cherries
Tramping the clover blossoms
Down 'mong the grasses
No voice to hinder them,
Dear lads and lassesl
Dear little innocents,
Born in the wildwood;
o that all little ones
Had such childhood
Gods blue spread over them,
Gods green beneath them;
No sweeter heritage
Could we bequeath them
-RHral Ne,c Yorker.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

"ris not to cry God mercy, or to sit
And droop, or to confess that thou hast faiPd;
'Tis 10 bewail the sins thou did'st commit,
And not commit those sins thou hast bewaiId.
Ii that bewails and not forsakes them too,
COnfesses rather what he means to do.
-OHqrLes
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

Slowly descended and, with right aspect,
Against the eastern gate of Paradise
Leveil'd his ey'ning rays.
-Hilton
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

The dead of midnight is the noon Of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Mrs. Bdrbuuld.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
Little Gems.

WANDERING SUNSHINE.
Floated the yellow butterfly.
A wandering spot of sunshine by,
Street.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
Tile Piano in one Lesson.

All the G and A keys
Are between the black threes,
And tween the tlros are all the DIS;
Then on the rt0ht side of the threes
Will be found the BIS and C's;
But on the ted side of the threes
Are all the F's and all the Els.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
TO CONSUMERS OF
PAIN AND OIL.
STAGE NOTICE.

On and after July 1st, the subscriber will run a
stage between Bellows Falls. Townshend, Jamaica
and Wardsboro. carrying the U. ). Mail. Leaves
Townshend for Jamaica every Monday. w cd nesday
and Friday. Leaves Townshend for Wardsboro eve
ry Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday, on the arrival
of the evening stages. Express business promptly
attended to- Ihope by careful attention to business
to receive the patronage of the travelling public.
g.. +. WELLINGTON.
Cambridgeport. VT. June "a. 1873. 26
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24
DYSENTERY CORDIAL.

noNT BE without BOTTLE of WOODS !"
IL DYSFNTERY CORDIAL in the house. for ii
is the best thing used for Dysentery, ChOlic-
Pain in the Bowels and Cramps. p
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

NJ. GEORGE, Surgeon Dentist. Teeth
filled with Gold or Silver. Satisfaction given
N cases
v Particular attention is given to inserting Ar
{ni Teeth with all the modern improvements.
Nee No. /. Up Stairs, Union Block
BELLOWS FALLS. Vt.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-24

AMAD0N, Matchmaker and Jeweller.--
Constantly for sale Watches, Clocks. Gold and
er Work and Fancy Goods. Also good assort-
n Of Guns, Rifles and Fishing Tackle. In Went
tbs New Building.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-03-21

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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-03-21
Circuit Court on the Coast.

The following Act has passed the
Legislature and bcon approved by the
Governor and consequently is a law.
1t will be noticed that our Spring
Term Of Court will bo holden for this
county on the first MONDAY or APRIL,
which is close upon us and affords our
officials but a short time wherein to
get ready. The Grand Jury selected
by the Board Ct Supervisors for a
May Term viii not ans ver, aud
there not being the requisite thirty
days wherein to give notice before
Court, the Grand Jury will have to
be picked up on the ground. All
processes were issued relurnable Oh
first Monday in May, and of course,
are unserviceable.
Judge Champlin has written to q
gentleman at Shicldsboro that the
bill had passed and been approved,
says the Sea Coast Republican.
p. s. The Clerk will immediate
ly issue q uenire for :Gc Grand Jurors
appointed for the May Term, as well
as all other processes r~eturnable to
April Court.
FAN ACT to change the time of
holding the Circuit Courts in the
First Circuit Court District.
SECTION, /. BE it enacted by the
Legislature of the State of Missis-
sippi, That the Circuit Courts shall
be held in the several counties COM
posing the First judicial Dis rict'
at the times, and continue the num-
Der of DAYS hereinafter named, to-wit;
In the county of Perry on the
first Monday of March and Septem-
Der, and continue six days.
In the county of Jones on the
second Monday OF March and Sep
TENDER, and continue six days.
In the county Ct Marion on third
Monday OF March and September, and
continue six days.
in the county of Pearl on the fourth
Monday of March and September,
and continue six days.
In the county Of Jackson on the
6rst Monday of April and October,
and continue twelve days.
10 the comfy of Harrison on the
third Monday of April and October,
and continue twelve days.
In the county of Hancock on the
first Monday of May and November,
and continue twelve days.
SEC. 2. Be il farther enacted, That
all laws or parts Of laws in conflict
with this Act shall take effect and
be in foice from and after its passage.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-03-21

On the event Of the late launch
at Smiths Shipyard we took occasion
to speak of shipbuilding asa future i'm
portant branch OF industry iog Pas
cagoula.
The Mobile Graphic thinks Mobile
can beat us on this line, and the
New Orleans Times wishes us both
success.
Let us all pull together, and the
necessity for getting U vessels built
down East, will cease.
SHIP BUILDING.
From Graphic.
Pascagcula is engaged in ship
building to a limited extent, a sohoon'
er of about ninety tons having just
been launched there, built of white
and live oak, copper fastened, and in
tended for the Mexican trade. The
STAR argues that with an inexhaust-
ible supply of the best quality o. oak,
cypress and pine on the rivers of that
vicinity, Pascagoula will become
famed for turning out neat, staunch,
seaworthy vessels, at a cost a
reasonable as can be done anywhere.
Mills are at hand to furnish the best
quality of lumber needed. Mobile is
close at hand, to SUI ply everything
needed in the way OF cordage, sails
and rigging, and there are experience
eh sh p builders that might make
Pascagopla famous for h r shipyards.
What applies to Pascagoula will ap-
ply with greater force to Mobile.
Our forests abound in live and white
oak, cypress and, convenient to the
rivers that are tributary to Mobile
and we have mills here that furnish
the lumber in just such shape as it is
needed. We have experienced and
skillul ship builders here who can
bring out just as fine specimens of
naval architecture as q oe pro-
duced anywhere. Let them be en-
couraged by a discrimination in
favor of Mobile built vessels, exempt.
ing them from all tonnage dues and
port charges. Mobile can be made
d ship building port. Let it be done.
From N. o. Times.
Pascagoula. with its inexhaustible
supply OF oak, pine or cypress, on tbf
Iivers has gone into the ship Luildid
b~usinesson a limited extent. A n%aturi
sequence of the loca ity of the plaq
with fresh and salt water at hand
plenty Of timber, and a large an
growing export lumber trade. Mobili
stimulated by Pascagoula's example
and success. is tuning her attention
to building up a large lumber trade,
and speaks also of surprising Pasca-
geula in her ship yards. Success
attend our neighbors in all such en-
terprises.