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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

The wife of the late Professor Agassiz
arose one morning and proceeded, ac-
cording to custom, to put on her stock
ings and shoes. At a certain stage of
this process a little scream attracted Mr..
Agassiz's attention, and, not having vet
risen, he leaned forward anxiously upon
his elbow, inquiring what was the matter.
Why, little snake has just crawled
out of my boot 4" cried she. "Only
one, my dear ? +" interrogated the pro-
fessor, calmly lying down again " there
should have been three" He had put
them there to keep them warm.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

THE OLDEST PRISONER. Dickens, in
his American Notes." published thirty
years ago, describes prisoner in the
Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia,
whose solitary confinement the great nov
elist lamented. This person, Charles
Landheimer, still lives, at the age of
seventy-five He has just been sent back
to his old quarters for the sixth time, for
the offence of stealing-a passion which
has kept him in jail for more than half
of his life.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

A STRANGE WEDDING FEE.-A cler-
gyman who was formerly located in this
city, but is now in New York, married,
little over a year ago, a couple who at
once started for Europe, and have re-
Gently returned. The bridegroom was a
gentleman of wealth, and before he pre-
sented himself at the bridal altar he
placed 500 greenback in his vest
pocket to give the parson for the mar
riage fee and did pay it to him as he
supposed. While crossing the ocean he
discovered, greatly to his astonishment,
the bill in the pocket where he placed it,
and could account for its presence there
only ON the theory that he must have
had another bill of a different denomi-
nation which he had donated to the cler-
gyman by mistake. On getting back to
this country he determined to solve the
mystery, and waited upon the reverend
gentleman, who did not recognize him,
and inquired if on certain date he did
not marry certain couple. The cler.
gyman remembered the occasion perfect.
". al know | am about to ask an i'm.
pertinent question, said the visitor, "but
/ should like to be informed what fee
you received for performing the ceremo
ny?" The clergyman was not prepared
to make any disclosure, naturally being
astonished that his interviewer should
PROFOUND such question, but upon al
explanation being made that the gentle
man himself, whom he then recognized
was the one he had married, he said tha
he would, of course, crafty him, sinc'
he was so anxious to know. 81 receiv
ed" be then went on to say, +" yer,
small quantity of fne-cut chewing to
baeco, folded in a very small piece o
paper" That was enough; the onl,
thing remaining to be done was to apol
ogize, laugh heartily, shake hands an,
make the 500 deposit good.-Bartor'
| Cosrant
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

FORWARD CHILDREN.-No physician
doubts that precocious children, fifty
cases for one, are much the worse for the
discipline they have undergone. The
mind seems to have been strained, and
the foundation for insanity is laid.
When the studies of mature years are
stuffed into the head of a child, people
do not reflect ON the anatomical fact that
the brain of an infant is not the brain of
man that the one is confirmed, and
can bear exertions, and the other is grow
ing, and requires repose that to force
the attention TO abstract facts, to load
the memory with chronological or scien-
tific detail in short, to expect child's
brain to bear with impunity the exer-
tions of a mans is as irrational as it
would be to hazard the same sort of ex-
periments on its muscles. -- Quarterly Re
viea0.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

In a recent ayticiS'on Our Predatory \
Police, referring 10 the subject Of crime
and its causes ia New York city, the N.
Y. World says
Vicious homes in the poor districts
of the city are ncl more certain to send
forth the Juvenile vagabonds, pilferers,
and rufians who swarm in our alleys,
and are only partly gathered at The pub
lie expense into industrial schools and
penitentiaries, than are vicious homes in
the rich districts to prepare indulgent or
neglected children, for later career Of
infamy. The heel-taps swallowed bya
prohgate's son after his fathers debauch
at table, and the sips of gin stolen by
gutter snipe from his drunken mothers
jug, alike beget the thirst for stimulants
which leads the young straight to saloons
and rum holes. From saloons and rum
holes to brothels, low dance-houses, keno
cellars, thieves haunts and rat-pits is an
easy descent.
Eight thousand places are licensed for
the sale of liquors Most of them dis
pense the vilest poisons. Many are mu-
sic halls, worse than the old Broadway
concert saloons, and frequented by the
same class of scapegraces who were
ruined in those glittering dens. Tosome
are attached small gambling rooms,
where scores of habitual criminals and
vagrants gather nightly to prey upon
one another, and concoct all manner OF
deviltries. At night the windows Of
these places have the fascination of bas-
ilisks' eyes to thousands upon thousands
of the restless, thirsty, discontented
poor. Some have money to buy pint
or glass of the stuff in bottles labelled
before them, but can lily afford it. 9th
ers have not enough to pay for nights
lodging. Upon this multitude descends
terrible temptation to steal that they may
drink--that they may buy an hour or
two of blind forgetfulness. Every days
arrests show part of the direct results of
this temptation. If Mayhew's estimate
be correct, that intoxicating liquors are
an agent in three-fourths of the crime
committed in large cities, then the effects
of bad liquor and a longing for bad Ii
quor in New York city are, according to
the police statistics, something fearful.
OF the "a, 514 arrests in 1872, including
63 for homicide, 459 for burglary, 81
for arson, 81 for forgery, 119 for high
way robbery, 1903 for grand larceny,
SO for robbery, the rest for every kind of
criminal offences, nearly 10000 We're
traceable to persons more or less badly
addicted TO drink"
And yet notwithstanding this striking
presentation of the intimate relations
between strong drink and crime, the
World fails to recognize the fact that oil
liquors which contain alcohol are "bad, :"
and it is also an advocate of license !"
for the drink-traffic.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
POETRY.
The New Year.

We are standing on the threshold we are in the
opened door.
We are treading border land we have never
trod before;
Another year is opening and another year is gone
We have passed the darkness OF the night we are
in the early morn,
We have left the fields behind us per which We scat-
tered seed
We pass into the future which none of us read.
The among the weeds, the stones. the surface
mould,
May yield partial harvest: we hope for sixty fold
From out the tender hearts of children we have
taught.
From all the grateful homes where temperance
wrought.
Then has ten TO fresh labor to thrash and reap and
sow;
Then bid the new year Welcome and let the old year
go:
Then gather all your vigor, press forward in the
fight
And let this be your motto; For God and for the
right - Temperance Banner.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

There is only one way to get square
with the Atlantic cable extortion, and
that is to use the fewest possible words
and the longest ones you can think of.
Don't say, l will come, Father is
sick, !" =" Your draft is accepted" or use
any of those terse expressions. Say,
!" Expeditiously | circumundulate !"
+" Father pleuroperipnoueumonicallyd de-
generates" " Or some little simple thing of
that nature, and then you will get your
moneys worth, even at seventy-five cents
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

A WIRES PowER.--A good wife is to
a man, wisdom, strength and.courage a
bad one is confusion, weakness and des-
pair. No condition is hopeless to a man
where the wife possesses firmness, decision
and economy. There is no outward pro-
priety which can counteract Incidence,
extravaganza and folly at home. No
spirit can long endure bad influence.
Man is strong but his heart is not ada
mant. He needs tranquil mind and
especially if he is an intelligent man,
with a whole head, he needs its moral
force in the conflict of life. To recover
his composure, home must be place of
peace and comfort There his soul re-
news its strength, and goes forth with
renewed vigor to encounter the labor and
troubles of life. But if at home he finds
no rest, and there is met with bad tenn
per, jealousy and gloom, or assailed
with complaints and censure, hope van
ishes, and he sinks into despair.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

A prococious boy was asked which
was the greater evil of the two, hurting
another's feelings or his fingers. He said
the former. Right, my dear child, -
said the gratifed questioner, and why
is it worse to hurt the feelings?" BE
cause you can't tie rag round them, y
exclaimed the dear child,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
The wine-Cup's Story.

Could the wipe-cup tell its story.
The story of its day.
Ii would tell of strength and glory
Long fallen to decay
1t would tell of revel weary,
When battle-felds were won;
1t would tell of dark hours dreary,
When revel hours were donel
1t would tell Of shame and sorrow,
OF weariness and grief
OF many wished tomorrow,
Proven barren of relief
OF departed fame and glory.
Could the wine cup tell its story!
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

A colored preacher down South took
for his text the words, Though after my
skin worms destroy this body yet in my
flesh | shall see God" which he divided
into three parts, as follows, first skin
worms second, what they done; third,
what the man seen after he was eat
un.'
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

Two gentlemen were conplimenting
each other on their habits of temperance.
1" Did you ever" said one, " see me with
more than | could carry ?" :" No indeed
was the reply, "but l hare seen you
when | thought you had better have
gone twice after it."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
Love.

True love is grounded on esteem
Buckingham.
If fun is good, truth is better, and love
best of all. - Thackeray
Love me little, love me long Mar
lolV.
Love seldom haunts the breast where
learning lies.-Pope.
Hate makes us vehement partisans,
but love still more So Goethe
In love we are all fools alike. = Gay.
Love, one time, layeth burdens, anoth-
er time giveth wings. p. Sidney
Love is the virtue of woman.-Dude-
Uant.
In love the deceit generally outstrips
the distrust. Rochefoucaalld
Where love dwells is paradise. Rich
ter.
Love is precisely to the moral nature
what the sun is to the earth.-Baisdc.
Words of love are works of love-
Balzac
Love as if you should hereafter hate,
and hate as if you should hereafter love.
= Chic.
When we love we live C6ngreve.
Gold does not satisfy love; it must be
paid in its own coin.-Madame Delay.
She that is loved is safe.-Jeremy Idy-
Tor.
How shall | do to love? Believe
How shall ! do to believe? Love
Leighton.
Love is an egotism of two.-A dc "a
Sale.
l could not love thee, dear, SO much,
loved | not honor more.-L Lopelacc.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

A young lady, having read about a
man having invented stove which con-
sumes its own smoke hopes he will de
wise method whereby tobacco-smokers
can be run on the same economical prin-
ciple.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

Believe nothing against another but
upon good authority nor report what
may hurt another, unless il be greater
hurt to others to conceal it."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07


How HOUSE AIR Is SPoILEp.- The
following facts viii show how the air in
houses becomes contaminated
!. An adult person consumes thirty
four grammes of oxygen per hour, a
gramme being equal to fifteen grains.
2. A stearine candle consumes about
one-half as much.
3. An adult gives off forty grammes
per hour of carbonic acid. A child of
fifty pounds weight gives off as much as
an adult of one hundred pounds weight.
4. a schoolroom filled with children
will, if not well ventilated at the begin
ming of the hour, contain twenty-five
parts in 1000 of carbonic acid, at the
end of the first hour forty-one, and at
the end Of the second hour eighty-one.
5. The air is also spoiled by the per-
spiration Of the body, and by the vola-
tile oils given out through the skin. An
adult gives off through the skin in twen-
ty-four hours from five hundred to eight
hundred grammes of water mixed with
various excrements, poisonous if breath
ed.
6. A stearine candle gives off per hour
0.4 cubic feet of carbonic acid, and 0.0S
pounds of water.
Z. Carbonic oxide is much more
dangerous gas than carbonic acid, and
this obtains entrance to our rooms in
many ways, through the cracks in stoves
and defective stovepipes, or when the
carbonic acid of the air comes in con-
tact with very hot stove and is con-
verted into carbonic oxide. The dust OF
the air may, on hot stove, be burnt to
produce it or it may flow out from our
gas pipes when the gas is not perfectly
consumed.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

How had you the audacity, John,"
said Scottish laird to his servant, "to
go and tell some people that was a
mean fellow, and no gentleman ?" Ma,
ma, sir" was the careful answer, "you'll
no catch me at the like O. that. | ave
keep my thoughts to myself"
:" If place my money in the savings
bank, inquired one of the newly arrived,
when can draw it out again ?" "Oh,"
responded his Hibernian friend, sure,
an if you put it in to-day, you can get
it out again tomorrow, by giving a fort
nights notice."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
A Batch of weather signs.

In response to a circular sent to all
the station observers by the chief signal
officers asking for the signs preceding
storms, Signal Service Observer Dumont
has recently sent to Washington a re-
port for his locality, based upon his own
observations and the weather notes which
Major Ingersoll has kept for several
years, and Foreman Allins record. AT
ter detailing the action of the instru-
ments before storms, the report gives the
weather signs by which the approach Of
a storm is heralded, and these, by the
way, are considered more reliable than
the instrumental signs. Old weather
prophets will be interested in comparing
these rules with the maxims which they
have drawn from their own observations.
1. AS a rule, if the wind touches north
east or east, for two or three days, it is a
sure indication of rain.
g. Dense smoke and haze in early
morning portend falling weather.
8. Summer showers of light character
often follow two or three days of smoke
or haze.
4. Fog, frost and dew precede rain
twenty-four or forty eight hours, except
fog at close of storm.
5. Wind veering from north or west
to south and southeast precedes falling
weather.
6. Halos, lunar and solar, also fairly
defined and brilliant auroras, precede
rain twenty-four to sixty hours.
z. Barometer rising or falling consid-
erably away from its mean forebodes fall.
ing weather, subjected to modifying in.
fuences of the neighboring ranges Of
mountains and hills.
s. Precipitation generally follows a
rapid influx or refux of atmosphere.
9. If wind is southwest and rain set;
in, the rain is of short duration and
light yield.
10, Banks of water clouds or heavy
haze on south and south eastern horizon
indicate rain.
IL. Az area of low barometer at ol
near fort Munroe and running up the
coast surely reaches here as north
easter.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
10 the people of Bello1Os Falls and vicinity;
ATTENTION F.!

Have just received fresh stock of Mems. Ladies
and Childrens' Boots and Shoes which propose to
sell at a small profit and in these hard times dol
lar saved is a dollar made, Read our advertising
medium and profit by its teachings.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

l could not love thee, dear, SO much,
loved / not honor more. Lopelace.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07

How shall | do to love? Believe.
How shall / do to believe? Love
Te;obfo.,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
Business cards.

S. WALKER, Attorney at Law,
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-09-26
PROBATE COURT.

Sept. 14-B. F. Howiler Admir- of
Joseph Howiler, deceased, filed state
ment Of the final distribution Of the as
sets Of said estate, which the Court Or
dered recorded.
Sept. l5-Jared Hawkins was appoin-
ted Admir- of the estate Of Amelia A.
Rutter, deceased. Bond $1,000. j. F.
Jackson, P Dougherty and j. F. Hobbs
were appointed appraisers Of the real
and personal estate.
Sept 16-Jonatban Lieuellen, Guar
dian of the estate of Annie V. Milford
and Alva S. Rucker, filed his third ac-
count; hearing continued to October
18th.
Sept. 1S.-Sam'l Pancoast, Admir- OF
the estate Of Stephen Pancoast, deceas-
ed, fled his final account; hearing con,
tinued to October 14th.
Sept. 10 John Zessiger was appoin-
ted Guardian of Christian Zessiger, an
insane person. Bond $500
John McMahon, Guardian of the mi
nor heirs of Martha E. Mcmahon, de.
ceased, filed an additional bond in the
sum of 81, 200.
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SHERIFFS SALE
Silas F. Webster and ano., Ex'rs.
vs..
Samuel Bigger & ux.

DY virtue of an order of sale to me directed
ID from the court of common pleas of Mon
roe county, Ohio, will offer for sale, at the
front door of the court house, in the town of
Woodsfeld, between the hours OF 10 o'clock
a. m. and o'clock p. m on
Satmday,the 7th day Of Octoborv1S76,
The following described real estate situate in
the county and State aforesaid, to wit:
Situate in Malaga township, and known as
part of the southeast quarter of section
thirty five, in township FIVE and range FIVE.
Also, part of the southwest quarter of
section twenty mine, in same township aud
range, beginning for the same two poles east
of the northwest corner Of the southeast
quarter of section thirty FIVE; thence as de-
scribed in field notes as follows: Bearing one
and half degrees west twenty-five poles;
thence south thirty-fve degrees east sixteen
poles and eight links to stone; thence south
ffty-four degrees east sixteen poles and
twenty links to stone; thence south forty
four degrees east thirty six poles and thirteen
links to stone; thence sou tn seventeen de-
grees east ninety-two poles to stone on the
section line; thence south eighty-seven de-
grees east fifteen poles and Eve links with
section line to stone; thence one and half
degrees west eighty seven poles and ten
links to stone, thence south eighty eight
and half degrees east sixty niae poles and
twelve links to a stone; thence north thirty
degrees west ffty-three poles and fifteen
links to stone; thence north thirteen and
and half degrees west thirty poles to guar.
ter section line between north and south
half section twenty. .niHe; e;thence north eighty
seven and fourth degrees west thirty-two
poles quarter post nine poles on this line
to the place Of beginning, containing sixty
nine and thirty-six one hundredth acres
more or less.
Appraised at S2,7S0.
T. o. LITTLE,
sept5.'76w5. Sheriff N. c. o.
C.SrsELs, Atty.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-09-26

RoADs.-At the regular session Of the
Commissioners on the 9th inst, the fol-
lowing action was taken ON roads:
The road petitioned for by George
Huffman and others was ordered estab-
lished public highway forty feet in
width. Levi Long was allowed $40
damages.
The alteration of county road in
Perry township, petitioned for by F. M.
Amos and others was ordered viewed
and surveyed.
Viewers and surveyor were appointed
on the alteration Of road petitioned
for in Wayne township.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-09-26
sHERIFFs SALE.
Ketterer & Morris
Philip Wagonheim.

DY virtue Of an order Of sale to me direct
- ed from the court of common pleas of
Monroe county, Ohio, will offer for sale at
the front door of the court house,in the town
of WoodsGeld, between the hours of 10
O'Clock a. m. and o'clock p. m, on
Saturday, ,hei30h day of September. 1875,
the following described real estate situate in
Monroe county, Ohio, to wit:
The southeast quarter Of the southeast
quarter of section two, township five and
range six, containing forty acres, more or less,
Also, the southwest quarter of the
west quarter, of section thirty-two, township
four and range five, containing twenty seven
and a half acres, more or less. iEaA
Also, the northwest quarter of the north
west quarter of section thirty one, township
four and range five containing twenty seven
and half acres, more or less.
Also, part of the east half of the northeast
quarter of section one, township five of
range six, beginning for the same on the
south boundary of said half quarter at 81.
mon Drums corner, about fifteen rods east
Of the southwest corner of said half quar-
ter; thence east about sixty. four rods to the
southeast corner of said half quarter; thence
with the east boundary line OF the aforesaid
half quarter, north one hundred rods; thence
west about sixty-four rods to Simon Drums
line; thence south with said Drums line
one hundred rods to the place of beginning.
(except so much thereof of the west siee
of said tract as begins at the southwest cor.
ner of the same and running thence east
with the line thirty-two rods; thence north
west course in direct line to the northwest
corner of the above described tract; thence
south to the beginning. containing ten acres
in the tract so excepted,) leaving thirty two
| acres more or less, hereby conveyed.
Also, twenty five acres, more or less, lying
north of the above tract, beginning at the
northwest corner of said tract; thence north
to Drums corner on the section line; thence
east with the section line to the section cor
ner; thence south with the section line to
the northeast cerner of said thirtv-two acre
tract; thence west sixty -four poles to the
place of beginning, containing in all said
tracts one hundred ami fifty two acres, more
or less, together with the right of way ont
of said lands as now used by Wagonheim
over the other lands of said Mooney.
Appraised. lSt tract at 81 200.
2dstract at $50.
Sd tract at 450.
4th & 5th tracts at $50.
Sufficient money required to be paid down
ON day of sale 70 secure the costs,
0. LITTLE,
aug2s,'7sS5. s'ae . Sheriff NJ. CO.
HUNTER q MA1LoRY, Att'ys.
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City and Country.

In New York city respectable family
pays 81, 800 annually for the rent of a
house. A physician charges from three
to five dollars for single visit and fur
nishes no medicine. In the country it
requires long ride and great
inconvenience to obtain physician, and
when found he may not be able to pro
cure the proper remedies. The most re-
markable and unfailing remedy the
world has ever seen, and one which is
endorsed by all physicians, is now placed
within the reach Of every family, where
it can always be kept for immediate use
Danger arises from delay. One dollar
or fifty cents invested in Centaur Lini,
ment will last a family year. There is
no pain which it will not relieve, no
swelling it will not subdue, wound il
win not heal, or lameness It will not
cure. 1t heals burns without a scar, and
renders the bites of snakes and the
stings of bees innoxious.