Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-07-16

George Jingle, who resides at Jones
:, Shaft, Oglesby, Lasalle Co. Illinois.
- The travel has set mountainward.
Over 200 guests were at the Profile
House over Sunday
- Governor Tilden appears to have
done worse, from the Democratic point
of view, than the President in taking
up his summer residence at Long
Branch he has gone out Of New York,
while the President is still in the Union.
A recent number of the Chicago
Tribune serves up the murder and rob-
berry of one day in several columns of
deliberately headed matter, one of the
lines reading, Several Plain Unassum-
ing Murders Committed Out West.
= The recently-published memoirs of
John Quincy Adams contain the rev.
citation that De Witt Clinton, the model
statesman of the past epoch, made a
distinct proposition to purchase the
whole of the Legislature of the State of
New York, in so important matter ms
its electoral vote.
= Have you thought, fellow citizens,
that the reduction of the national debt
has been $120 minute since you have
sat here and l commenced talking
Taking the average of the whole time,
the reduction of the debt has gone on at
that. Why, take your watch and look
at it. See the second hand as it flies !;
at each tick of the second hand two
dollars during the whole time since
Grants Inauguration by day and by
night, upon week day and upon Sunday,
two dollars per second in gold has gone
off the national debt.-SenGtor Sargent
at San Francisco.
- A Western editor returned his
tailor's bill marked declined hand
writing illegible"
Rival hickman at Niagara Falls
now issue chromos to passengers, after
the manner Of religious newspapers.
= During the past year ending June
| there were 1l2l railroad accidents in
this country by which 179 persons lost
their lives and 9S4 were injured.
The cherry market is glutted this year
and e,,h,,rhn,,a Enl I,QEo,,1A
their fruit for enough to make it any
object to pick it and bring it in.
= The Italians are coming over here
in large numbers, it is said, instead of
emigrating to South America, as hereto
fore, on account of the political distnr-
Dances in Uruguay and the Argentine
Republic.
- The grape crop in Ohio has been
seriously injured by the protracted rains.
Wheat is also suffering there, and farm
ers complain that the rains have inter
fered with the cultivation of the growing
corn.
- Shad are passing over the Holyoke
fshway. On Wednesday, 7th, inst, four
large shad were found in the fshway
near the entrance to the canal, four hun
dred and thirty feet from the bottom.
- A millionaire of Granville, Wis
cohsin, has recently made will, in which
he leaves $4,000 to any incorporated
town or village in Wisconsin that will
not tolerate brass band That's some
thing like philanthropy.
Il gentleman said to an old lady
who had brought up a family of chill
dren near river should think you
would have lived in constant fear that
some of them would have got drowned. .
Oh, no, responded the old lady, eve
only lost three or four in that way"
What is the use of frightening peo-
pie to death The New York CONNER
cial Advertiser says, keep your name
and address about you during this sea-
son Of sunstrokes." 1t might be well
also to arrange with an undertaken in
advance and get a commission.
A rich New Yorker has spent S12,-
600 on volume Of poems which he is
having printed for private circulation.
He is excessively nice and tickle about
the punctuation, which has been chang
ed so many times that the work will
cost $50 per volume, as the edition will
be only 200 copies.
The people in the vicinity of Butte
county (Cal.), about one hundred and
fifty miles inland, have turned out en-
neasse to shoot and drive away the thou
sands of pelicans which are lowering
about the Big Meadow lake and eating
up all the fish One of them was found
with four trout in his pouch.
"A boy at Mona, Iowa, was struck
by lightning last Tuesday and the back
of his new coat torn entirely out. al
though no other injury was done until
the boy got home, when his economical
! father thrashed him for tearing his coat.
How sharper than the lightning's flash
it is to have particular father.
The cash vault of the treasury at
Washington requires three KEYS to open
it, and these are in charge of three gen.
tlemen, each holding one key, and the
presence of all is necessary to unlock
the vault. The Secretary of the Treas
ury appoints one, the Treasurer one and
the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
one.