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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
The Tobacco Interest.

The tobacco growers in the Connect
cut valley are very blue. They contem-
plate raising not over half or three quar-
tiers of their usual crop this year. The
Springfield Republican says: "There is
none of the fret and fever of trade about
any of the channels of this business; q
mournful sense of its stagnation hangs
about the sheds of the farmer, and the
warehouse of the packer, and is ever
present in the conversation of its vota-
ries."
This is an inevitable result of running
hop hazard into any new specially that
for the time being pays excessive profits,
A great many of the Connecticut valley
farmers have been neglecting every 9th.
er branch of their business and devoting
energies and means to this specially
selling off their hocks and herds, build
ing over their barns and sheds, exhaust
ing all their usual supplies of manure
investing heavily in commercial fertile
ers and freighting barnyard manure from
the interior of Vermont and from cit,
stables. The profits have been enor
nous but the business is overdone an,
there is an immense surplus stock o.
hand. Many farmers who were gettip
excited upon the subject and regrettin
that they had not before gone into th
new business, and contemplating NAL
ing the necessary changes to that en-
during the past winter, are now conteI
to go Flooding on as before and congra
ulsting themselves on having foresee
the end from the beginning.
The soundest advice we have ev
heard given to farmers as a class i
"Stick to your own special business, al
improve it in every possible way al
yourself in it." We would not discor
age careful aud judicious experiments
new specialities. but we would not on I
other hand, encourage the heroic idea
cutting off all means and facilities
retreat in time of disaster.-BOsfOn a
rertiser.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

The newspapers on the west side OF
the State appear to be concentrating on
Judge Peck for Governor, certainly a
very excellent man. 1t would be most
satisfactory state of things if a nomina-
ton could be made withoutthe canvassing
and work of schemers. There has been
too much of that in this State the past
few years, aud more disafection is felt
among the people about it than some
think. If the farmers and grangers of
the State choose to come out and act as
body on this subject, their action is
more likely to be decisive than that of
any other element and they have not yet
been heard from and won't be till about
the time of the assembling of the con-
yenton.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

A TOUCHING INCIDENT. A touchi,
incident is reported from Chatauoy
An utter stranger called on respeciab
farmer last week, and asked him if
house had not been robbed during 4
war. The farmer replied that it hl
:" l." said the stranger, twas one Of
marauding party that did it, tod
little silver locket." THAT locke
said the farmer, had been worn by
dear dead child" Here it is" repIi
the stranger, visibly aft cited. 81 |
rich let me make restitution here I
twenty dollars for your little son."
He gave the farmer fifty.do lar d
and received thirty dollars in chaus
He then wrung the farmers hand var
ly and left. The farmer has since drs
his tears and loaded his shotgun. d
fifty-dollar bill was bad
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

The GREAT STALLION RACE. =
entries for the great stallion race
purse of $4,000, and the cham pion
of the United States, which is to Z
off at Beacon park, Sept. 10Th closed
were announced at the Revere no
Wednesday. The entries were ammo
ed as follows: Robert Daizell Of
dington, n. Y, b Phil Sheridan;
r. Farnum, Waltham, Mass, br. 6. c
monwealth, formerly Dread; WIN.
Smith, Hartford, Conn, blk. g. Tho
Jefferson G. p. Keller, Boston, b
Strideaway; ID. Devens, Jr., BostM.
9. Fearnaught, Jr.; M. w. BacOn, N
London, Conn, b. 8. William H. An
John Demas, Detroit, Mich, b. 9. NJ
brine Gift; j. III. Webber, Boston,
Rex Patchen; J. G. Lindalt, st. i
b. s. Pilot Temple; II. S. Russell,
ton, Mass, b. g. Smuggler; ID. JesE
Glen's Falls, N. Y, G. g. Joe BvH
Charles +. Revere, New York, NAB
w. Genet ; james Helm, San Frspds
b. 8. Sam Purdy; o. S. Marshall, Pr1
dence, r, l., oh. 8. Vermont AbdsId
A. G. Wallace, Manchester, n. H. !
Ned Wallace; John X. Poor, Bo'I
blk. g. Draco Prince.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

The AMERICAN HOUSE, Boston
reduced to $500 per day for roe
third and fourth floors. Guests viii,
the use of the Elevator, a most exec
table, and good beds. The lower
finely furnished apartments are
per day. And the Hotel will coat
TO be kept as thoroughly First'
House.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

DIR. HARRIsON's PERIsTALTIC To-
are warranted 4 cure in all cases q tn me- 3
symptoms of Dyspepsia. such as obprsS ~
Eating Sour Stomach. Splitting Of feee' h
ton; also, Headache. Dizziness. PAN y rr,s
and L0ins. Yellowness of the SKIN am ii "a 2
Headache, Coated Tongue. Biliousness, II
plant, Loss of Appetite, Debility, Monat..-s.s
and all Irregularities. Neuralgia, RAM n
Trial box, 80 cts. Large box, 90 cts. ID
this last price. ,u.N
DIR. HARRISON'S ICELAND BAL.lrrSs
a splendid cure for COUGHS. H0AkSh,FsaFfi .
n : HARRISON A co, Propriefors' Ne. >
Temple, Boston. and by ali druggists
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
grlluws falls Jimes,
BELLOWS FALLS, MAY %. 1874

The Arkansas embroghlio has been
settled by the decision of the admins
tration in favor of Baxter The forces
of both Baxter and Brooks are being
disbanded.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

To CURE A CoUGH, to relieve al
tations of the throat, to restore pr
soundness and health to the mos .
cate organizations of the human 80
the lungs-use DR.. Wistar's BdIsda
Hitd Cherry, which is still prepared
the same care in the selection and .
of its various ingredle1i
when it was introduced to the puOl'
DIR. Wisiar over forty years since
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

EITHER Sick OR WELL most Pc
relish a cup of Broma. The diihs
of obtaining it in its purity has prev
ed its general use. The Medal Of J
it at the Vienna Exposition was ss
ed that put up by Walter Baker d
Boston, as strictly pure, and their 3
ness is so extensive that their good;
be obtained almost anywhere.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
EOR MOTH PATCHES, FREQ

and Tan ask your Druggist for Perry ~
Freekle Lotion. which is harmless and 70
intallible. Or for his Improved CON k y nsIil1
PlMPLE REMEDY, the great SKIN ME-
for Pimples, Black Heads or Flesh worms. al
suit b. z. PERRY. the noted Skin Doctor: 4
Street. New York. spn-"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
INCIDENTS.

Harmon and Rhoades, living in the
same house, got across the street into an.
other dwelling, the lower story of which
was flooded, but some apple trees broke
the force of the wave and the house
stood Three men, ]. NJ. Stephenson
and two new hands whose names are not
known, fearing the boarding house in
which they were with q number of 9TH
ers would give way, despite the entreat-
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

Cambridge produces this year 200
tons in maple sugar and syrup.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
SAD SCENES.

Three French children at Leeds, nei-
Their of them over nine years old, who
sat among the living and the dead, in
Mr.. Warmers house at Leeds, AMI told
questioners that they could not find three
sisters and brother and their mother,
but that their father was safe and attend.
ing to the dead people. But many well
knew that the brother ana sisters were
among the dead; yet no one had the
heart TO break the terrible news TO the
children. Two of the little ones have
been adopted by Mr.. Hillett, one of the
overseers of the silk factory.
Seven young girls climbed into an
apple tree, thinking it would stand, but
they we're all swept away.
The body of little child, A years old
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
AT MERRILL's FLOUR MILL.

w. ii. Adams, whose Touring mill
was among one of the first buildings to
fall, was lost, with his assistant, Mr..
Hitchcock. Mr.. Adams, hearing of the
coming disaster, went down to his house.
and warning his family "The reservoir
has broke" attempted to regain the mill
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
GEORGE CHENEY's RIDE.

Cheney rushed up to his house and
told his father he was going to the village
to warn the people. Together they hur-
ried down to the barn, a few rods below,
and while Cheney was throwing bridal
upon his horse his father cut him stick.
Leaping on his horses back and plying
vigorously his lash, he rode at topmost
speed down the road that skirted the
streams bank to Williamsburg, covering
the three miles, be thinks, in 10 minutes.
II was then about halfpast seven o'clock.
Driving 10 the house of Mr.. Spellman,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
A BABY AFLoAT.

A baby was seen sailing down the cur
rent in its cradle, but it was soon en-
quilted and never seen more.
A boy, six years old, foated down
from Leeds, clinging to the roof of a
house. and was finally rescued.
Of one large family at Leeds all were
lost, save the youngest child. The great
loss of life at Leeds is due to the fact
that most of the families we're at break
fast, and were swept away without mo-
ment's warning.
A French Canadian, pointing to two
little boys. said, 81 had eight children,
but only these are left" He was after
ward made glad, however, by the news
that bright little son, three years old,
was rescued while floating down the river
on mattress.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
sKINNERsvILLE.

This was a very neat little village
mainly owned by William Skinner after
whom it was named. He owned large
silk factory, employed over 100 hands
and owned large number of tel ement
houses. They are all swept away, only
two buildings in the place remain as be
fore the flood. But four persons were
lost in Skinnersville, among them the
wife of Jerome Hillmsn who first gave
the alarm at Haydenville.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22
A FAMILY SAVED.

Mr.. Langly gave his family up for
lost, as he saw them 60 into the house at
the time of the alarm, but he afterwards
found them ali safe in the second story
of the L, twenty rods down stream. Had
they remaiued in the front part all would
have been lost.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-22

named humphreys HOatlng Oy on por-
ton of the roof of his house, they raised
the window and pulled him in. They
we're all saved, as were, also, Humphreys
wife and mother, who each grasped a
child and stood on beds to keep them
above the water.
Frederick Clough, a foreman at the
button factory, heard the roar of the
coming flood and FASTENED to Mrs Bon
ney's house, and told them to flee. Mrs.
Bonney obeYed, running to the hill.
Clough selling one of Mr.. Ryau's chill
dren, a granddaughter of Mrs. Bonney,
and begged Mrs. Ryan and Carrie Bon
ney to follow him, but they stood fixed to
the spot IN terror and fright He fed
with the child. They remained with
another child and SO were swept away.
Mr.. Bonney's ether daughter, Annie, fed
from the mill and was saved.
Mr.. H.. II. Tilton of Williamsburg
was carrying his aged mother, widow
Sarah III. Snow, to a place of safety,
when the relentless water seized them.
She was carried away, while he grasped
a tree about fifteen feet high, standing
on a bank, and was saved, though the
waters reached and swayed him.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-06
EVE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

! Alexandrowna smokes cigarettes.
The ex-Queen Isabella is as bald as a
soup tureen, and about as handsome.
Matilda Heron's daughter, Biiou, gives
/ great promise of becoming an actress.
| Lanra de Force Gordons newspaper, the
| Stockton, Cal. Ledger, has made its appear
| ance. -H
| The notorious DIR. Mary Walker aspires
tn jnnrn ina, n1,a ao14~. Cn-~i....<I, o.,
| her locate.
eff you say that again I'll let down my
back hair and screamr' said a Washington
belle. He didn't.
| Miss Nellie Grant wore white silk trim
| med with round point, and her bridesmaids
French tulle.
A Kansas girl wouldn't be married with
out yellow ribbon arou Id Ter waist, and q
boy rode eight miles to- get it while the
guests waited.
"My wife," said critic, sis the most
even tempered woman in the rworld-shes
always mad" :7&@7f
1t is thought that the ex-Empress Eu-
genie will gradually begin to emerge from
her self-inposed etrGite at Chiselhurst,
where as yet she seldom stirs out, except to
cross the common TO the chapel that holds
her husband s remains.
A friend at our elbow thinks that it is
just as reprehensible for a woman to get
tight by lacing, as for men to get tight by
whiskey. Both injure the system. Well,
it's none of our particular business, any
way. Men generally get tight cause it's
pleasant, and women get tight corsets
nice.
An affected young lady, sitting in her
rocking-chair reading the Bible, exclaimed
Mother, here is a grammatical error in
the Bible" Her mother lowered her spec
tacles and approaching the reader in very
scrutinizing attitude, said: "Kill it! kill
it! it is the very thing that has been eating
the leaves and bookmarks.'
An enthusiastic writer says that the wo-
men of New Orleans are like figures chiseled
out of marble with the soft dash of Guido's
brush or Petrarch's song III their faces,
and the ripe southern blood flushing up to
their temples under the pure surface of
their veins. ~ e
4 girl who had become tired of single
blesSedness, wrote to her intended thus:
"Deer GIN, come rite off, if you're comm
at ALL Ned Jones is insistin that shall
marry him, and he hugs and kisses me so
continually that / can't holdout much long
er.
Miss Sherman, the gentle and aniable
daughter of the General, who has come
back to us from Europe, full of health and
spirits, will be married early i'll Juue to
Lieutenant Fitch, who will resign his posi-
ton in the navy and enter on the pursuit of
some lucrative business in St. Louis. r.
The lawyers of indianapolis are torturing
their brains over an extraordinary problem.
Some years ago lady Of that city married,
and four months thereafter separated from
her husband, was divorced and remarked
in month. and four months thereafter s;FaFe-
birth to child BY herfirs husband. Quito
recently the second husband procured q di-
vorce, and the custody of the child was
awarded to him. Now comes the first hrts-
band and claims the child. Who is. entitled
to its nOSSeSSion2 E--tl
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-06
Raising a I" Row y

The following is Dan De Qui1le's latest
Virginia City yarn: g A few evenings since
a fellow rushed into Tinker & Shepard s
saloon in a terrible state of excitement.
Throwing his hat on the counter he cried
out to Dan, the barkeeper: There'll be the
biggest row here in about a minute that you
ever saw! Give me a drink, quickr Dan
set out the bottle, and while the fellow
helped himself. began to look to his SIX
shooter and get his club ready. Leaving
his hat ON the counter the fellow ran to the
door, looked out, then rushed back to the
bar and said: Yes; in less than half min
ute there II be ! hi of time here! Give
me another.dlrinR. ql,ick.' And seizing the.
bottle, he proceeded to help himself. lie
then took mp his hat and was eoolly march,
ing off. when Dan called ont: See here.
yor-you fellow there. What's all this
about a row? You come back here and nav
for these drinks, or I'll club Won half to
DEATH There you got cried the fellow.
There you go! Didn't say there would
be fearful row here in a minute. knew
it; and there you go!' Dan now saw the
point. Look here, said he; Won can come
back and take another drink IL yo,, want Il.
but wish it distinctly understood that this
is to be the last row you ever raise in this
house, Don't care il i do settle 1t IN that
way, said the fellnw, grinnisag amiaiily a.
he returned tn the bar. y
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-06
Single Men Of Genius, Beauty and I'm
mense Fortune.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

From the Cincinnati Commercial.
1t is q rather singular fact that, so many
Of the editors of New York are living in a
state Of bacheIordom. Bennett, the i'm
lilensely rich editor and proprietor of the
New York Herald, is a solitary bachelor,
though he viii soon be forty. Reid, the ed
itor of the Tribune, is a solitary bachelor,
though he is somewhere about forty. Mar
Bile. the editor Of the World, is a solitary
wido@er OF forty, and his most brilliant
staff writer, Hurlbut, is solitary bachelor
though under fifty. Bundy, the editor of
the Nda, IS a solitary bachelor, though
over forty. Congdon, of the Tribune, is a
solitary widoWer of over fifty, and in fact,
on the daily press alone ! could certainly
name a score Of leading men who are about
forty and wifeless. OF the editors named
Bennett is the Healthiest and most athletic;
Reid is the ablest and most slsillful: Marble
is the handsomest and calnaest, and Hurl-
but the most thoroughly polished man in
the world. Irntlst warn young or middle
aged maiden ladies locking forward to mat
rimoniai bliss, to avoid these bachelor ed
itors, because presume such warming
win send scores Of these nlaidens in pursuit
Of them. ] wonder that some Of them do
not find wives among the intellectual ladies'
who write for their papers, or try to write
for them. Such unions might be expected
to provide very brainy successors 10 the
present editors IN tile natural order.
Another Washbnrn wants to be Senator
at Maine.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-06
Laid Up Against Him.

The following good story is told of the
late Emperor Napoleon:
A Frenchman having served his country
with distinction i'll the army, found to his
disgust that he was always regaled with
the knuckle ends Of preferment. If there
was pad post to be filled anywhere, it was
he who obtained it. If there was disagree
able expedition anywhere, he was orderl
off on it as sure as certainty. After some
years he had an opportunity of seeing the
Emperor, while the latter was on visit to
Algeria, and then he said to him: "Pm
afraid sire, some one of your clerks has n
gr1ldge against me- mot at all answer
ed the Emperor, coldly.
g have heard of your case, and it ap-
pears that although you are not bad Off
Ger, you once took part in a seditious polit-
ical manifestation, and a bad mark has been
set against your name in consequence. =
The officer collected his thoughts for mo-
ment, then struck his forehead aud laughed.
'sWhy, sire, - said lie, 6 shall tell you
what was that seditious manifestation in
which I joined? 1t was the raid which
you headed when you landed at Boulogne,
under Louis Philippe's reign" The En-
peror laughed, too, but reddencd, and the
officer, OF course, found promotion work
smoothly from that date But if it had not
been for that chance introduction to Napo-
leon, he would lave suffered all his life for
having served his master not wisely but too
we'll
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-06
Lynch Law in Idaho.
From the Boise World. NAV q

From the Boise World. May q
A man by the name of Simms, who has
been resident of the lower Payette valley
for some time, as we learn from d private
letter, was hanged a few days ago short
distance below Middleton. The provoca-
tion which led to the act of summary ven
geance seems to have been an attempt on
the part of Mr.. s. to conceal some cattle
which he had purchased from Mrs. Ray,
who was divorced from her husband son1e-
thing like 1S months ago. Mrs. Rays right
to dispose Of the stock is yet to be decided
by the courts, we think, and the theory of
the mob which hanged Sirnnis was that,
he was trying to make way with the cattle
before q final decision was obtained, believ-
ing. as everybody else seems to, that the
courts viii, in the end, give the property to
Mr.. Ray, instead of his divorced wife. We.
regretto have TO chronicle affairs of this
nature. The law is strong enough if prop
erly enforced, to protect and to punish
whoever needs the one or the other: and we
think the execntioners of mr. Simms viii
have reason to regret their deed, however
deeply Mr.. Ray may have been wronged
ana injured. and we doubt not from accounts,
his wrnngs have been grievous.
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How Infdenty is Punished in China.

rHa s# -fs.
A Ningo newspaper says: yesterday
morning, March 3D. the presiding magistrate
of the quiet city of Chinhai was aroused
from his dreamy slumbers by the appear
ance of wife-deceived and avenging hus-
band, who produced from a cloth wrapper
two human heads, which represented his
wife and her guilty companion. One ver-
sion of the tragedy runs thus: The injured
husband had, through his employment upon
steamer, been absent from home for long
periods of time, during which the cause Of
evil was contracted, and, at the close Of the
old year, the husband, returning home to
enjoy the usual festivities, found his neigh
borhood all alive with the story of his
wife's unfa;thfulness. These live Goals of
tale bearing gave additional heat to his an
ger; but he contrived to conceal his feelings
from his wife, and hurriedly left home un-
der the pretense of going to Hankow; but,
instead of leaving. lie, with few trusty
friends, seereted themselves in the neigh
borhood, prepared to obtain cruel redress
before the fire of his anger cooled down.
The unfortunate man, ignorant of the. fatal
trap, entered the house of the woman, and,
both being surprised, were secured by tho
watchers, who speedily severed their heads
from their bodies, and carried the former to
the district magistrate. There will be a
trial, but the whole piece of legislation is
mockery. The guilt or innocence of the
murdered will be decided BY atest. Both
heads will be put into large tub of water,
and set in motion by vigorous stirring. If
the heads meet face to face, behold clear
proof Of guilt. If not, then all the worse
for the avenger Such is the power of GUS
tonl-custom more cruel than law, for it
demands the deatllof both It is said that
if the man had but killed the intruder, he
would be liable to punishment for murder;
but, having effected double murder he
escapes with q mere formal whipping, and
receives a reward of 800 900 cash. The
district, to purge itself ofsuch evil, destroys
the bodies of the dead by cremation, and
Che very piece of ground rendered unclean
by the evil must be plowed up before the
virtuous will venture to dwell there. -
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CREMATION NOTES.
Cremation will surely be di-,1rn-al.

Cremation will surely be di-urn-al.
In life, Ella-In death, a Cinderella.
instrumentation is the pedantic alias for
cremation.
Eightytwo cities of Germany now boast
of cremation societies.
'sR |. P..'' under the new regime, NAV
be construed to mean crest in Pot.''
BY the sweat of thy face shalt thou urn
thy dead.-Dayton Journal
Cremation-'s A consume-ation deyoutly
to be wished for. Punch.