Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-08-06

raised this season 1886 bushels Of oats
on ten acres of land,
Ten thousand dollars worth Of
counterfeiters' tools were captured IN
Brooklyn Monday night.
What next Live frogs are said to
be exported from this county to Eng
land for breeding purposes.
- There isn't house to rent in New
Harmony Colorado. In fact, thereisonly
one house there, and the family number
twelve persons.
A water spout burst in Umatilla
county, Oregon, on the 18th, inst, de.
stroying crops and other property to a
considerable amount.
- On one of the railroads in Nevada
it has been fonnd necessary to shorten
! the rails, as the suns heat expanding
| them caused them to spread.
John Mcnamara of jackson, Neb.,
was attacked by hogs, the other day,
while sleeping off a drunk, and was
killed and his body nearly eaten up.
The population of New York un-
der the new census falls much below the
expectations. 1t was supposed that it
would be at least 100000. The Times
puts it as 1925, 094, and the Tribune at
1904, 272.
- A new venture in English journ-
alism is The Obituary, mortuary re-
cord. The editor promises mot only
to announce the sorrow, but to soothe the
grief" One of the features will be IL
Illustrations of celebrated tombs.
= Santa Anna is II, but still erect
and slender, and his black hair and
black eyes yet preserve their original
brilliancy He is as fond of cock fight
ing as ever, but he hasn't the money to
indulge in it as much as he would like.
- No, sir" remarked Mrs. Sheridan,
with great frmness, at the farm in the
country: "it's of no use to tell me that
10000 Black Hill Indians are up in
arms that brindled COW has got to be
MIXED" The lieutenant general said
something about neglecting the public
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st. Louis Globe.
- Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is given up
as hopelessly insane. She sits down
silent and alone in her solitary room to
keep imaginary company with senator's
and ambassadors in the light of that
gracious smile long since hid beneath
the coffin lid. 1t is one of the mercies
vouchsafed her to live her life over
again with her loved ones dear little
Willie and rollicking, boyish Tad-to
sit at the head of the table and hold
familiar converse with them all
"A correspondent writes to the Coun-
try Gentleman Feed the potato bugs
as soon as they begin to come; take old
potatoes, large or small, slice them thin,
dust them with Paris green, mixed with
plaster or flour, one part green to ten of
the latter; drop them about the fields
or truck patches where the bugs are
found; put out few, and often. The
bugs will go for the fresh cut potatoes
and eat them with good deal of relish,
and as a matter of course, it will be
their last meal"
- AS one of the dozen old women
who drive milk carts around Detroit
was rafting across the Campus Martius
yesterday, a chap, wearing lavender
pantaloons and bright blue necktie,
motioned for her to stop, and then APP
preached and inquired: do you put
water in your milk ?" Yes, sir" Her
prompt replies rather staggered him,
but after some hesitation he asked :
And what makes you do itg' Be
cause it's much healthier for calves when
mixed half and half" she retorted. She
waited for him to ask another question,
but he couldn't think of any.
= The O'Connell Centenary will be
observed to some extent in this country,
exempt, we trust, from the untoward
influences surrounding it in Ireland.
Daniel O'Connell was always the friend
of the United States, though an enemy
of American slavery, and there is much
in his charaeter-his sturdy selfreliance,
his broad and generous sympathies, his
wit and eloquence, and his almost un-
paralleled powers as a modern tribune
of the people-which will ever make his
life full of interest to us who are natives
of the soil, to say nothing of our Irish
born citizens, whose idol he has ALWAYS
been. He was born August 6, 1775 and
died in Genoa, Italy being on a pill
grimage to Rome-May Is, 1S47.
= The sole survivors of the Noun
tain Meadows massacre, according to the
Salt Lake Tribune, are two young men
named John Calvin and Myron Tackett.
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