Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-10

A cyclone passed over Savannah,
Ga, Monday night, tearing up trees and
unrooiing houses. The grand stand at
the fair grounds was destroyed. The
track OF the storm was narrow, but the
force was terrific. The display of cleo
trical phenomena was grand.
- Washington was visited Saturday
evening, by the most terrific tornado ever
experienced in that locality. The dam
age is estimated as high as one million
dollars. The some tornado visited New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and 9TH
er states, doing much damage and de.
stroying several lives.
- How to give your husband gold
watch Procure box which can not
be opened without breaking, and into
this drop every five-cent piece that
comes TO you in change. This is what
Mrs. j. Boyle O'Reilly of the Pilot did,
and the result was present of a splend-
did Waltham watch ON his Both birthday,
which occurred last week.
The compulsory attendance law Of
Connecticut has been attended by an in
crease of the number of pupils in the
schools by about $500, of whom one
fifth represent the natural increase from
population. The law has therefore
brought in about $500 from the haunts
of ignorance to instruction, and sti
leaves out about 200 by reason Of pa
ternal neglect, and 5,60S in employ
ment.
- Ex-Governor Miller of Minnesota
who has been on tour of observation
in that State, reports that there is a
stretch of country fifty miles in width
and extending from the Ohio line north
westerly to Lake Shetak, from which
the grasshoppers have removed every
vestige of the wheat crop and about ev-
cry other kind of vegetation. Gov.
Miller's report is confirmed by the state
ments Of local papers.
= There is something worth thinking
about in what Henry A. Wise says OF
the shareholders rebellion, as follows /.
4" There are ninety things out Of a
hundred in that war that you can't ae-
count for 10 any other way only to say
that it wasn't man s war at all it was
God Almighty's war His time had
come for the abolition Of slavery, and
the war was not to end till that was &C.
complished and bless God every day
of my life that it was accomplished"
- A good story is told of the ex rebel
General Forrest as follows: Being under
the hands OF colored barber, the latter
discovered who his customer was and
informed him that he had brother who
fought at Fort Pillow. "Ah," said the
General, "and where is he now ?" He
was killed there" replied the artist. +"
The General was only half shaved, but
quickly and quietly he slid out of that
chair, paid for q whole shave and sought
some other shop. In reply to the Curl
Gus gaze of friends whom he met on the
way, he said, Il like to have only half
of my face shaved at time.
- The Salt Lake Tribune publishes
an account of the horrible death of a
youth, William B. Lockhurst, after
burial in that city. On the 30th of last
month, the deceased, while at picnic,
went in bathing. He afterwards entered
a swing, and in few moments was ap.
parently lfeless and was taken down and
pronounced dead. The impression among
his friends was that he did not resemble
a corpse when inferred. The coffin was
subsequently, opened and it was discover
ed that he had revived and desperately
attempted to escape from his agonizing
Incarceration. He had torn the skin and
flesh from his face, and the hair out by
the roots, and turned completely over.