Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-12-15
Almanacs are ripe.

- Snow ploughs and shovels to the
front.
- What does the cremationist do with
his urningss
- The Kansas legislature contains
ISL republicans and IA democrats.
The republican vote in Kentucky
was $3.50 larger in November than ever
before.
- The monument of Horace Greeley
was unveiled on Tuesday, at Greenwood
Cemetery.
- Yellow fever cost Savannah the
lives of almost 1000 persons, at its re-
cent visit to that city.
- There were 112 houses burned at
the New Orleans fire on the LIST of De
cember, and very many families lost
almost everything they had.
- Down in Massachusetts, they have
| figured it out that the net earnings over
expenses, or the accumulation of each
individual in that community does not
exceed $3.50 per annum.
- While Gov. Brogden, the republi-
can executive Of North Carolina did not
feel authorized to count out democratic
elector on the ground that said elector
was an unpardoned, perjured ex-rebel,
Gov. Grover eagerly violates the express
laws of his state to reject an ex -postmas-
ter elector.
- The spectacle of a party trying to
steal one President and impeach another
at the same time has been reserved for
the centennial year. The success Of the
experiment will undoubtedly be so la.
mentable that a second trial will not be
made for another century.-N. T. Tiib-
une.
= 1t is pitiful sight (remarks the n.
0. Republican, to see heavy Ulster oy-
ercoat try to go home with weak young
man in rain storm. The coat absorbs
about barrel of water, and must touch
on the sidewalk when the young man is
breathing between heats from one cross
ing to another.
- The remains of balloon have re-
Gently been found on the coast of Ice
land IN the car were human bones
an incomplete skeleton and leather
travelling bag, containing papers so
mouldy as not to be deciphered. 1t is
conjectured that this was the balloon in
which the aeronaut Price assembled dur
ing the siege of Paris.
= The early cablegram from London
stating that the news of Tilden's sup
posed election had no depressing infu-
ence upon American securities is false
NJ. d. Conway has written the Cincin-
natl Commercial that con the first
tidings of Tilden's election, American
securities fell on Change, and the old
Confederate bonds acre quoted, for the
first time since the fall Of Richmond
- The Providence Journal says a
Newport tradesman recently failed for
So, 100, and offered TO pay his creditors
ten cents on the dollar, which was ac-
cepted, when he told them he could OBJ
tain the amount if they would endorse
his note to the bank. This they agreed
to do, actually making themselves liable
for the money they were receiving in full
payment of debts due them. A new
way of paying old debts.
- Washington society has some pc
culiar wrinkles. A on lady's visit.
ing or invitation card signifies that the
lady is the wife of member of Con,
gress, and a members daughter, and
other lady relatives or friends or in
mates Of members family,
The law of Oregon requires that va
cancies in the board of electors shall bt
filled by viva voce and plurality vote
Apropos of which the Tribune remarks
that while it is a common enough thing
for two persons to claim to be one, Mr.
Cronin of Oregon, stands alone in his
tory as the first and last man who claim
ed to be plurality of board Of
three members.
= The democratic press has been dis
gracefully backward in recognizing the
value Of Gov. Growers services. The
editors have chuckled over his trick but
have ignored him almost entirely. The
first adequate appreciation of his work
comes from the Atlanta Constitution in
this suggestion The Governor of Or
egon ought to have place in Tilden'i
Cabinet" Grover with bulldozer OF
two would tone up to about the right
level an administration secured by theft
= 1t was stated at gathering of wo
man suffragists, in New York, the Other
, night. that the farmers of the Emnirt