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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-10-27
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Marriages and Deaths inserted FREE, Obituaries,
including poetry to be paid for according 10 length
In Rockingham. Oct. 10th, CHARLES W. P. SEW
ERENS, aged ~ years.
In West Brattleboro, Oct i4th. of typhoid fever
VAL0RUS +. LANG. A, NJ, aged n years, 2 mos.
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Commis.ioners, Notice.

Commissioners Notice.
ESTATE OF DANIEL g. LAKE.
fNHE UNDERSIGNED. having been appointed by
Il the Probate Court of the District of Windsor.
Commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all
claims and demands of all persons against Dan Ell
g. LAKE late of Andover in said District deceased,
and the claims of the deceased exhibited in set off
to the claims of the creditors hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purpose of examining and
allowing said claims at the residence Of Allen Il.
Lake in Andover, in said district. on SAL UkDAY,
THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF N0VEM BEk,
1876 and on the THIRD SATURDAY IN APRIL.
A. ID. 1871 from ten o'clock A. M until four o'clock
P. NJ on each of said days, and that six months
from the 18th day of october A. D. 1876, is the time
limited by said Court for said creditors TO
their claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Andover this 18th day of October, A. d.
1876. 4S45
LHct Us SSAA9I . Commissioners.
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CATTLE AlAREET.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
TUESDAY, Oct. "A. 1876
MOUNT or STOCK At KARxKT.
Cattle Sheep. shotes. Fat Hogs Veal
This week. 40s9 104s3 1000 90
Last week, Ss0@ lz55l Us %
0uE year ago, 5t95 less 100 eT4 90
PEIoEs.
Prices of Market Beef Extra, Sc 80 81 % fret
quality 800 q $50: second quality. $ % = $3.50
third quality. 500 q $3.50.
Sheep and Lanbs.-Per head in lots, $50 9s3.75.
Hides. 5jNe q 65ke. = y.
Tailow, Sc @ &c 2 n.
Mich Coxs and Calves.-f38 $50. SIS andtS
Prices of Store Cattle.-WorEinE Oxen. ' pair.l90
SIS.
RFNARKs-Cat,ls same as last week and the
market quiet Prices 5<c. lower and ranged from
63x 70 lie The market Is slow on sheep and the
range Is from to SC per lb Poultry 1875 10 lSc tor
young turkeys and Il 70 I21so. fer Fevi.
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4 CURIOUS CRIFT.


More than six years since New
Brunswick farmer living on the Upper
St. John took it into his head to build a
vessel in which TO take his family to
Australia. He went TO st. John and
there visited a ship-yard for the first
time in his life, and examined the build
of a schooner. Returning home with
few tools and a book on navigation, he
worked all the time he could get days,
and studied, with the aid O mis- wife, his
"navigation book" evenings. AT the
end of six years his vessel was COM
pleted. During the spring freshets he
Aoated the craft down 10 st. John.
AT that time he had expended every
dollar he could Iaise, including the pro-
ceeds of the sale of his farm. Mr.. Pom
erorv. an American shipper, saw the
craft and finding that it was an object
of curiosity, advanced the money for an
outfit and chartered her TO take to Phil
adelphia. The craft is said not only 70
he n great curiosity in point Of constrnc-
h TTon. 1af nas NUMEROUS inventions never
before seen on vessel OF any kind,
which Mr.. Draper, the backwoodS
builder. has studied out himself. Draper
hoe chartered his vessel for three montns
in order TO get the means Of taking his
family on trip 10 Australia ne ne
vessel is about fifty tons burden. Sne y
evnected sv,ss here every day, and will re-
main in the harbor several days.--1"''
! lind Ne \ Press.
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DETHRONED.

Particulars Of tie RcroIutiOn ia Turkey
Late foreign advices state that the de-
position of Abdul Aziz was effected
neither by popular revolution, nor by a
palace intrigue, but by revolution of
the ministers. Matters were brought to
an extremity by the sultan's absolute
refusal TO advance money from his privy
purse to the exhausted war treasury,
whereupon Sheik III Islam, in the pres
ence of all the minister's informed the
sultan that the people We're dissatisfied
with his government, and he was there
fore deposed.
\ Vienna special to the London Stan
dard gives the following details of this
bloodless revolution: The ministers
assembled on Monday afternoon at the
residence of the grand vizier and dis
cusscd the state of public affairs. They
concluded that unless some remedial
measures were adopted universal rebel
lion and general collapse of the state
would result. A resolution was adopted
embodying these views, and a petition to
the sultan was drawn up praying him to
abdicate in order to save the country.
The sultan received the petition with
affected compOsure and said he would con-
slider the matter. On Tuesday morning
there was great stir in the streets. The
trade guilds, firemen, water-drawers and
water-carriers, headed by the Softas,
formed in procession and marched to the
sultan's palace unopposed by the military,
who were apparently unprovided with or
ders how to act in caseo such an emergen-
cy. During its progress the procession was
increased by thousands. The palace
was guarded by mounted police, who
did not interfere with the crowd, al
though the cries were raised of Down
with Abdul Aziz = Vive Murad
In the meantime Murad, having been
released from his own house, to which
he had been confined by the sultan, was
conducted to the mosque and saluted as
"Sultan Murad the Fifth" While this
was happening. it was suggested to Alb
dul Aziz that it would be prudent for
him to remove with his four sons to the
old seraglIo. He complied, and was es-
corted thither almost speechless.
The new sultan has issued a procla-
nation to the people. 1t declares that
members of the cabinet shall continue in
Office that the sultan will draw 81 800,
00) from the civil list for purposes of
the state. and relinquish the revenues
run the nrivate- r,rnrnrty- Of che crown
.sSle proclamation recommends the estab-
lishment of an equilibrium in the budget,
and reorganization of the ministry of
Justice and council of state, and directs
the ministers to devise form of govern
ment suitable to all British subjects
without distinction, so as to secure the
liberty of every individual.
The imperial proclamation also ex-
presses the hope that the bonds of friend
ship between Turkey and all foreign
powers will be drawn closer. 1t con-
cludes with the announcement that the
new emperor has ascended the throne by
the grace of God and will of the people.
The proclamation was received with
public rejoicings.
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WEJIPHI!S IN 1913.


In copy of the Weekly American
Eagle, published in Memphis by F. S.
Latham, Esq, Friday, January 6, 1843,
we note the most important local" re-
ferring to an alarming earthquake "
which visited Memphis and the sur
rounding country as far as fernando,
Holly Springs and Pontotoc, Mississippi,
Florence, Alabama, Somerville, Browns
Vile Covington and Jackson, Tennessee.
1t occurred on the evening OF the 4th of
January, about eight o'clock. The edi-
tor commented about a half column on
the event and remarks that the shock
lasted about two minutes and reached its
most agitating period at the end of the
first half minute, when it gradually died
away in a dismal rumbling sound, appa-
rently moving to the southeast, and
proceeded from the northwest.
The tops of several chimneys were shak-
en- down, the bricks falling inside, and
with the realing of the houses and quak-
ing of the earth, frightfully alarming the
Inhabitants. x At our auction
houses, which were filled with people,
so alarming and precipitate was the rush
into the streets that many people were
crushed and trampled upon by the
affrightened crowd. The power of the
Almighty was fearfully and sensibsy
demonstrated in the shaking of the gi-
gantic earth, as if but mere Leaf of the
tremulous aspen. Our city rocked and
reeled as if on the verge of falling to
pieces, and the horror-stricken people
tremblingly rushed from their tottering
houses for safety into the streets, with
the awful impression of paralyzing their
senses that the earth was convulsed with
one of those dreadful throes that cause
her TO open and swallow up cities" In
another notice he says the earthquake
"was not felt below on the river by
steamers, but was up the river. At New
Madrid the shock was severer than any
they had felt since 1911"
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MIR WaRHER'S DIsC0YEhiEs IN
GERMdNT.

Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, during
his stay in Germany, has been diligently
.rv;ng 70 learn why it is that the ue'
VANS do not like US as well as they once
Ala but are inclined to sneer at our ceuh-
trv our education, our, political system
and ourselves in the aggregate, though
no 6uds that they like individual Amer
;c.nr we'll enough. Aside from the elect
.h;cb our unfortunate ways with respect
a. ra;Iroad and other securities have hao
mon the mind Of financial Germany
the principle causes Of the change IN oe' .
man opinion and feeling, he thinks arc
two in number, namely, the German
Governments influence exerted through
an inspired" newspaper press loi S 'nS
nurnose of discouraging emigration anu
tha tories told by returning GermAn'
whose business ventures here have Deen
unsuccessful. .;ons AR
In the course of his observations Dhl'
Warner has noted anotherfact wn'en ~. ~
terests him. lie says that as Ameiio.''
leave their country behind them ouslus ..
ths;r travels their political prejud'ces
fade very visibly; and when AmeI'ss~- ~
's'e ns on,,os;te poitical views meet in E1- q,
rope they find il impossible ~ ..,,,or ,,ns- de-
otherwith anything IKE ve''''''
gree Of malevolence.
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TIE rExls r4cIFIc R4ILwAr.
From the Galveston News.

From the trdlVestDn news
The News noticed few days ago the
purchase of large amount of iron for
the Texas Pacific railway company.
From Maj. Bend, vice president of the
company, we learn that the purchase
comprised twelve thousand tons of rails,
a part from Chattanooga mills, to be
shipped via. Memphis and Little Rock to
Texarkana; part from Marietta, o., to
be shipped via. Cairo and Little Rock to
Texarkana part in St. Louis, 20 be
shipped via. st. Louis and Iron Mountain
road to Texarkana part in Chicago, to
be shipped via. Moberly and Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road and a portion
via. st. Louis and the Atlantic and Pa
cific road to Denison; part at Danvilie,
Va, and part at Reading, Pa, to be
shipped by steamer to Houston, Texas.
and from thence north to Longview or
Dallas. This iron has all been contracted
for, and is being delivered by the differ.
ent mills. The company arc about
closing contract for twenty locomotives
four hundred freight cars and abou
twenty other cars with which to full.
equip its line of road. 1t is the inten
ton of the company to complete its lin
from Eagle Ford to Fort Worth, and tn
line between Paris and Texarkana, befor
the end of July
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A stranger is surprised at the number
of Chinese barber-shops in san Fran
cisco. But if he will but glance at the
head of each passing Chinaman, his
wonder will be dispelled. Among them
no toilet is considered complete which
does not involve a shaving of the greater
portion of the head and neck, thorough
cleand:ng of the eyes, ears and nostrils,
and even a trimming and Penciling OF
the eyebrows and lashes. Razors, probes,
and lances of peculiar construction, are
amsng the instruments used by these
skillful artists. The process of shaving
and cleansing is necessarily long one,
and when Chinaman emerges from one
of these shops he may be safely counted
as thoroughly clean-above the sheul-
ders. The combing and braiding of cues
consumes no little time. Every China
man of adult years regards an occasional
tonsorial experience as sacred duty
The closely shaven head must be scrape .
over often to preserve the appearance SO
much desired, and all this, in a place SO
popular as the "quarter" in this city,
requires the constant service of nu
merous force All the barber hops OF
the Chinese have peculiar sign at the
doorway indicative of the occupation.
1t is a four legged frame, the legs painted
green and the top knobs red.
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renee, and the ship has probably half her
voyage to the United States performed
by this time. This will do more to stim-
ulate Irish revolutionary work and to
restore the confidence of the Irish people
in the revolutionary party than anything
that has occurred for many years. 1t
is the first victory, and is a great blow
to the prestige of England. There were
only seven men in actual confinement,
but there were nine others living in
western Australia on tickets-of-leave.
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"A CANiANNA.
From that hundred Gifted west,
West that grows like weed possessed,
Ranges down on all my doors
Country cousins, countless scores
In posish, in posish
To enjoy the cXposish;
Come to stay, ceme to stay,
While loud voices rise and call
" Put some more cots in the hall
Weltering my children cry,
Sweltering my children cry.
As they wonder to and fro:
Well, this is indeed gOW
While their GUESTS Of both the sexes,
Move about from day 10 day
Doing buildings and annexes.
"A Masonic jewel, costing nine hun
dred dollars, was presented to Albert
Pike, the sovereign commander of the
ancient and accepted Scottish Rite
Southern jurisdiction, recently in Wash
ington. The presentation was made by
Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia.
The whole number of Presbyterian
churches organized in the synod of the
Pacific since 1867 has been seventy-three;
in the synod OF Colorado, forty-three
making, in both synods, one hundred and
sixteen. During the same period forty
two church buildings have been erected
in the Pacific synod, and twenty are now
being built
The forty-fourth annual report of
the American Baptist Home Mission
society shows a fair balance in the hands
of the treasurer The receipts for the
year ending April /, 1876, for mission
and educational purposes, are Sl75,534,
a falling Off of S25, 900 from the previous
year. The permanent trust fund amounts
to S63, 600; the conditional trust fund to
$4,000.
The San Francisco Bulletin says:
The mammoth roses raised this spring
in the west addition are eclipsed by
foreign production. On good authority
il is stated that n rose was recently
plucked from bush at the royal horti-
cultural gardens, in Honolulu, which
measured twcnty-eight and a half inches
I'm circumference. This rose bush blooms
only once a year, and the blossoms are
nearly all of an equal size. The bush
was brought from England in early days,
and from it a greater portion of the
bushes in the island have been raised.
Col. l.. J. Proctor, for many years
lessee of the Mammoth Cave, and Mr.
r. G. Hazlip, of Edmonson county,
have COVE to Philadelphia, and will take
with them rare collection OF Kentucky
curiosities, consisting in part of the
American mummy, the discovery of
which in Grand-aveDue cave last year
created such sensation; a number of
eyeless fish, stalactites and stalagmites,
and last, but not least, large number
of splendid specimens from the coal and
iron fields of Edmonson county, with
which they hope TO attract the attention
of capitalists to the great mineral re-
sources of Kentucky.
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MILIrIRY POHEhS.

The New York Journal of Commerce
saws that the leading six countries in
Europe, since the last war, are usually
classified as respects military power, in
the following order: -
Germany, France, Russia, England,
Austria and Italy, although some place
Austria before England. England is
greatest in everything but numerical
force. Her army, as far as it goes, could
not be defeated by the same number OF
troops of any nation, but she has not a
population behind them already trained
in the art of war. and the masses of the
English people, although full of pluck
and courage, do not take readily to this
service, and could not easily be organized
into efficient troops. There are some
who think that Englond can draw several
millions of troops with but little delay
from her Indian possessions. The men
thus referred to are 1.-THE, athletic, trained
to use the sword, can live on little, and
under English officers would make fer
midable adversaries; but ON the Euro
pean plains we hardly think they would
cope successfully with trained continents
al troops. Some place Russia before
France, and Italy before Austria, but the
order first above named will stand as the
common judgment.
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CAN AFFORD TO BE SHABBY.-A Lon
don correspondent writes: They say
that Poole, the great tailor, is dead. I've
read the statement in newspaper, so il
must be true. Poole, the tailor; Peters
the coach builder, and Purdy, the gun
maker, are credited with having the
finest horses in England and how long 9
list of customers do you think Poole
boasts You'll never guess, so I'll tel
you-sixty thousand. Perhaps you i'm
agine the majority are English. On th'
contrary, they are American and French
Your countrymen and the French ar
the largest buyers" said one of Poole
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was Immediately acceded to. But she
discovers new that an additional salary
of a million dollars year will be neces-
sary to sustain becomingIy the dignity of
the new title. And she is right. If the
title of empress Of India is worth having
for the English people, it is surely worth
paying for. Why, there must have been
fully milIions dollars worth of ink shed
already by the English press in portray
ing all the gloIics and advantages that
the title of empress is calculated to pro-
duce. If they wish an empress they
must pay for her, AMI leave the valuation
to herself too. Ry and by they will
have to pay for ais mperor, and then, in
due time, prepare to salary for half the
sons of Jove. Perhaps, after a while, the
English people win find out the monar-
chy is magnifoeM institution-to get
rido
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The following lines were written by David Bari
nr the New York Post about twenty years ago, a
re as admirable for their quaintness as Tor the i
lrtant lesson they convey;
THE ZION AND THE SKUNK DREAM.
met lion in my path,
(rwas on a dreary autumn nisht)
Who gave me the alternative,
To either run or night.
dare not turn upon the track,
dare not think to run away,
For fear the lion at my back,
Would seize me as his prey.
So summoning a fearless air,
Though all my soul was full of fright
/ said unto the forest king,
" 1 will not run but fight"
We fought, and as the fates decreed,
conquered in the bloody fIaY;
For soon the lion at my feet
A lifeless carcass lay.
A little skunk was standing by
And noted what the lion spoke;
And when he saw the hon die,
The lions track he took
He USED the lions very speech,
And stretching to his utmost height
He gave me the alternative
To either run or fight.
saw he was prepared to fling
Vile odOrs from his bushy tail,
And knew those OdOrs very soon
My uostrils would assail.
co summonfng a nutnbIo s.-
Though all my soul was f. lioiaa trlSlls.
/ said unto the dirty brute,
"Ill run, but will not night"
MORAL.
As years begin to cool my blood,
I'd rather all would doubt my spunk
Than for a moment undertake
To battle with a skunk
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THE NUDE AT THE CEN1ENNIAL.

Philadelphia Cor. san Francisco Chronicle.
In the main corridor of the memorial
buildings anncx, where the most casual
visitors are not likely to miss it, wax
figure of Cleopatra is displayed She
reclines upon a sort of throne, and is al
most naked. The workmanship is of the
best and the effect startling. The flesh
tint is natural, the hair life-like, and
every detail carefully done. Interior
clock-work heaves her bare bosom, moves
her arms at intervals, stirs her legs, turns
her head languidly from side to side,
and rolls her eyes. Her face and form
are beautiful, and the accessories are in
artistic harmony with a conception of
the Egyptian queen; yet her feature
are not Egyptian, being rather those of
a beautiful French woman. An Ethio-
plan slave, equally nude, stands at her
side and fans her. A bird futters on the
arm of her seat. A golden canopy hangs
above the group, all being enclosed in
glass case. The whole is surprisingly
natural, so much SO that it has natural
effect upon the spectators. Young girls
cOme suddenly upon it and draw back
appalled,. They have nerved themselves
to look at the statuary and pictures, but
ms sight is too unexpected and realistic
to be borne with steadiness. They es-
cape without delay. Women inspect the
group shyly. Men are not to be scared
away by any feeling of modesty, and,
unless escorting sisters or sweethearts,
STAY on the spot in numbers sufficient to
constantly crowd that part of the cor
rider. am aware that such waxworks
and worse are common in European
museums; that artistically they are to
he commended as triumphs of skill, be-
ing totally unlike the effigies usually
shown in this country; but don't think
they ought to be thrust unwarmingly
unon the sight of mixed congregations.
Some of the commissioners are of my
way of thinking, and Cleopatra's stay on
the grounds may be of short duration.
President Hawley is from Connecticut
and is puritanical. He stops in front
Cleopatra while stand there.
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4 CIR-EoID or CHOICE HORSEs
zsUnNfcD 4LITR ON- 4 FREIGHT
TRIM.


For more than a nDnth past the gov
ernment has been purchasing calvary
horses in Kansas dty for use in the
Crook expedition against the Sioux and
Cheyenne Indians, and fir5t-class prices
were paid. The very cream of the
| horse flesh in western Missouri and east
ern Kansas was selected and purchased.
| A few days ago a nHmber of these fin
fat animals were shipped westward over
the Kansas Pacific, destined for Chey-
enne and the military posts further
north. The horses fand well, and were
being rapidly borne westward over the
| plains in cattle cars at the rate OF at
least fifteen miles per hour, when IN
Tuesday morning the accident below de-
scribed occurred. The train had just
left Wild Horse station, a watering
place on the plains, when a fire broke
ont in the loose hay in or near a car
loaded with horses. The alarm was
given at once and the train stopped on
the main track and an attempt made to
get the now lfdIllC anu huutIIig hOiSCS
out of their fiery prison. But this was
found impossible. There was no chute
near nor gangway plank down which the
horses could have been led. The car
soon became ane mass of fire, flame and
smoke The cries and screams of the
struggling animals is described as har-
rowing and horrible in the extreme.
Finding it impossible to extricate or
rescue any of the noble animals from
their terrible condition, the men in
charge brought out their fire arms and
proceeded to shoot the horses out Of their
misery. 1t was the only that could be
done in the name of humanity, and the
boys felt justified in so doing.
When the eastern bound passenger
train passed the scene on Friday, the car
was still burning, the horses being roasted
into one solid mass of chsrred meat.