Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-26

- The severe winter has been very
fatal to old people in England
- Rhode Island bristles with spelling
matches. Some of the dictionary words
reach clear across the State.
- Nevada is overrun with men seek
ing work at the mines, but unable to OBJ
tain it, as their services are not needed.
- An Alabama colored parent has
named his child Heterogeneous the
name having met his eye in primer, and
struck his fancy.
AT Zinnwald, in Germany, a widow
of 1913 has just married a man of sixty.
One of the brides children, aged eighty,
was present at the wedding.
AT Lafayette, Ind, few days ago a
boy drew his arm back with such force
in order to throw SNOWFALL that be
snapped the bone of his arm in two.
- A postal card picked up in a New
England town, the other day, bore this
solemn and fervent appeal; Deer mary
for luv of God send me pare of pants. .
- A new invention is claimed whereby
glass can be made into building mate
rial for house fronts, floors or pavements,
cheaper and more durable than marble.
Adam Grimm of Jefferson, Wis. is
one of the largest honey raisers in the
world His crop for last year was 500
pounds, and his apiary consists of 1853
colonies.
An especially cold wave struck the
country along the Hudson, in the vicini
ty of Poughkeepsie, Sunday night, and
the mercury fell, in some localities, to Il
below zero Others reported 6, s ant
10.
- Its estimated, upon replies received
to inquiries addressed to farmers in Iowa
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska, tina
there is still about 100000 bushels o
available supply of wheat still to com,
| forward.
- A man, seventy-seven years old, ha
made his appearance in Philadelphia
wearing hat which he put on his hea,
thirty-one years ago, vowing he woul'
never remove it until Henry Clay wa
elected President.
The popularity of horse flesh as al
article of food is still on the increase il
Paris. On January / there were fit
shops for the exclusive sale of horse mea
in that city. An Anglo-American ban
quet of hippophagists is announced t
take place after Easter.
-" Numbers is what does the bus
ness" shouted man who lives on Me
chanic street when my wife is aIon
/ can reason with her and run things t
suit myself, but when her mother
around, / am not even a stakeholder i
the concern. -Titusuiie Herald.
= The Democrats of New Britain
Conn, are sharp, whether wise or not
They have engaged all the halls of tina
city for the Saturday evening proceeding
the approaching election, in order t
prevent General Hawley from speakin,
at that time.
The practical question for the cour
try is, whether peace and equal right
and respect for the settlements are NOR
likely to be maintained by those VIII
have always favored them or by thos
who have not A Republican defeat i
1876 would mean the restoration of tn
T old Democratic party under the oil
Southern leadership, not with the inter
ton of rebellion OF disunion, but. &
J Andrew johnson said in his Herald il
! terview, of putting the negro in b
proper place" Whether such a polio
would promote peace, friendly union an
, the national millennium, is for the r,
publicans of IS of go and of '64 to col
: slider, for it cannot be carried out withou
their consept-Harpsr's Weekly.