Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-07-03

IN your shoesl" Second ditto" You
couldn't get in them +"
= Eleven persons are said to have
been murdered Monday night in dwell
ing in Spencer county, Kentucky.
= Some Changers in Iowa have been
arrested by an Internal Revenue Collec-
tor for selling tobacco to brother Grang-
ers without taking the precaution OF Sc
curing dealers licenses.
-A colored convert at Nashville be-
came unmanageable during baptism, and
selling the minister. who was small
man, she threw him over her head and
he came near being drowned.
"A Virginia sheriff asked a murder
er if he wanted TO make speech on the
gallows, and the man replied Guess
not it looks like rain, and don't want
to get wet go on with the hanging"
A smart young Granger in Lac
Qui Parle, MINI. has this year set out
1000 forest trees, besides sitting up five
nights in every week with red-haired
woman of great beauty.
- The thunder storm of Monday
night was very disastrous in portions of
Maine. In Bangor alone property to
the value of many thousands of dollars
was destroyed.
- Two of the five boilers in the ex-
tensive saw.mill and salt-box of Thorn.
as Saylor & CO., Carrolltop, Michigan,
exploded with terrible force at six
o'clock on Tuesday morning, killing five
men ard wounding FIVE others.
- Two heavy thunder storms met
over Manchester, n H. Monday night,
causing one of the most terrific storms
witnessed there for years. Several
houses we're struck by lightning, though
no one was sersously injured.
A man in Southjngton. Conn, is
raising some grapes of Eshcol. He
thinks that when one of the clusters
reaches maturity it will be three feet
long and weigh seventy-five pounds.
The aforesaid cluster is almost in bios
som now.
= Tne mad dog excitement is daily
increasing. Nearly dozen people have
been bitten recently, in New York City
four receiving bites from rabid animals
on Monday. Six mad dogs were killed
on the streets during the day, and some
twenty. five in all have been shot during
the past two weeks
- Young Walworth, who is now il
the Auburn prison, is of no use to thu
contractors. He has developed epilepti
symptoms, and is employed in the hos
} pital to wait on patients. Ingersoll, th
Tammany ring swindler, has from tn
! first been a well behaved, tractable an,
} willing prisoner. He is employed in
shop where rush horse collars are made
= George II. Long was fatally sho
at Tuscumbia, Ala, Sunday night, b
ex- Congressman j. III. Sloss, who's
daughter he had grossly slandered. II
had been forbidden to pay his addresse
to her, and undertook to ruin her char
acter out Of revenge. Mr.. Sloss SUI
: rendered himself after the firing, and
now in custody.
, A most terrible suicide was con
mitted by Charles Coffin of West New
bury, Mass, on the 29th ult. He wa
about sixty years Of age, and by trade
. shoemaker. For some time he bs
g threatened to take his life, and Frida
forenoon, about half past ten, he wei
= to the rear of his barn and with rszC
F" nearly severed his head from his bod
He was found about eleven o'clock, bl
~ life was extinct. He was of intempera
habits, and often remarked that his Ii
~ was worthless one.
70 = Charles Crowell, an old man of z
m who has just died at Green Village, !
as Y, has been raving maniac for fort
h five years. He was kept chained to
te small room, and would never allow al
IN clothing to be put on him. Sometim
# he would not eat for week, and at OF
,e ers be could not get enough. When
rs insanity was at its worst stages no Oh
" dared to go near him. Shortly befo
he he died, his mind became clear, SO tn
10 he could converse with an attendant.
ee - The Wisconsin Catholics are sece
u ing from the oranges. The Bishop
be Milwaukee has declared it unlawful f
IN Catholics to be grangers, and it is stat,
ly that Catholic Bishops all over the cou
try will follow his example. 1t is,
ly course. the element of secrecy in Il
a grange which excites the suspicion of Il
1T Catholic clergy. This appears obie
lie. tionable on the ground of puerility
90 many whn have NO raIio;ous ooru,l