Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-04-30
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- President Grant was fifty-thre'
years of age on the twenty.seventh da!
of the present month.
- Reading Pa has anovel drinking sa
loon where nothing but milk is sold, anc
the cost of drink is only three cents.
lis this the Adams House ?" asked
a stranger of Bostonian, Yes, wa:
the reply, it's Adams House until you
get to the roof, then it's caves"
A new and dangerous counterfeit
recently made its appearance at the Ma
tional bank redemption agency on the 81
notes of the First National bank of Pax
ton, Ill
AT Boston grapes are selling at
So 80 per pound; Southern Strawberries
10 cents and 81 quart; green peas OF
cents peck; tomatoes for % and &c
cents quart; asparagus for 80 and AZ
cents bunch.
- After a long and exhaustive trial
a boy in the high school at Medford has
been suspended for month for pinning
+" April fool on tutors coat tail. Two
girls were sentenced to weeks penance
each for aiding and abetting the offence
- The New York Tribune mentions
as an interesting feature of the laborers'
strike in Brooklyn the fact that many
of the striking laborers have been shell
tered and fed at the public expense dur
ing the winter, when there was no work
to be had.
- 1t is regarded as somewhat curious
that New Hampshire at last election pol
led nearly one vote to every four of her
while Connecticut, in can
vass at least equally active, could poll
but one to five and half.
The Republican State Government
of Maine is not liberal enough to suit
some of the Democratic organs there.
1t has appointed Democrat to be a
Judge of the Supreme Court, just as a
huIlabaloo was about to be raised over
the rejection.
- At Nelson, Va, a few days ago, a
gentleman who had lost several sheep
by dogs, put strychnine in large quaint
ties upon one of the carcasses, and the
next morning found thirty-one dead dogs
in the field, the farthest one being less
than one hundred yards from the dead
sheep.
On Saturday afternoon, May 3
1873, there was one of the most violent
snow storms of that season. Ia the
evening there were three or four inches
of snow upon the ground and the rain
had turned it to slosh. The next day
was very fine and by noon none of it was
visible Boston journal.
- According to Chinese etiquette il
is not allowable to use in writing OF
printing the character with which the
name of the Emperor ends. The new
Emperor's name ends with Fan, and q
decree has been issued giving instructions
how the character is to be written here
after for general purposes.
- How sweet is perfect understand
ing between man and wife. He was tC
smoke cigars when he wanted them, bu
he was to give her ten cents every time
he INDUCED in one. He kept his word
and every time she got fifty cents ahead
he'd borrow it and buy cigars.
- The monument which is soon to be
erected on the grave of Poe will be sur.
mounted by raven in marble, and will
bear this inscription Edgar A. Poe
born January 10, 1911 died October r
1S49S author of The Raven. Ny tanta.
lied spirit here blandly reposes."
- Arthur B. Barrett, mayor of St.
Louis, died on Saturday. Mayor Barrett
was elected only a few weeks ago, very
sharp contest resulting in his election
by small majority over Mr.. Overstotz,
the citizens candidate. Mr.. Overstotz is
now dangerously i'll at New York, and
Mr.. Mcguire, the republican candidate,
has been i'll ever since the election.
DEATH OF JOHN HARPER.
Harper senior member of the firm of
Harper d Brothers, publishers of New
York, who has been i'll several months,
died at nine o'clock on the evening OF
the 22d inst. He was in the 10Th year
of his age. He was member of the
Church of the Holy Trinity from whence
his funeral took place on Friday.
The chaplin of Auburn prison
lately delivered very interesting lee
ture relating to prison life and manage
ment Of the institution with which he
was connected. He claimed that there
are about 1,400 prisoners incerated
in Auburn. Of this number 4S have
a classical education, 203 read and
write, 116 read only, and 116 have no
education.
- The ups and downs of fortune have
forcible illustration in the case of Dan
Bryant's widow at New York. A fewyears
ago, she spent $1,000 in giving lunch to
dozen lady friends, herself wearing a
$1,000 dress to further honor the occasion.
Now the friends of herself and her late
husband are planning benefits and sub
scriptions for the support of herself and
her children.
- The Charleston, S. c. News and
Courier comments as follows on the Lex
ington and Concord centennial: cit is a
most gratifying indication of the return
of the era of good feeling that it was
conducted in a spirit which rendered it
truly national celebration. North and
South stood side by side and arm in arm,
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