Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-16
News of the Week.

Seth Low has given 81 100000 to
Columbia college.
Wyoming has the smallest female
population, q 1862; New York the larg
est, 1920, $3.50.
There are said to be $50 lady physi-
clans practicing medicine in the cities
of the United States.
The Harvard faculty has decided to
let the undergraduates play at foot ball
next fall the same as usual.
1t is stated by church authority
that there are now over 800 American
women living in foreign countries as
missionaries.
The argument in the income tax cases
was finished last Wednesday, and the
supreme court adjourned until May 80,
when decision will be made public.
The supreme council of A. p. A. met
in Milwaukee last week. 1t was the
seventh meeting. Representatives from
all over the United States and Canada
were present.
A sporting item is going the rounds
to the effect that Corbett will meet the
colored fighter, Jackson, in London
next August OF September, and settle
the championship of the world.
julius Hawley Seelye, for 81 years a
teacher at Amherst college, and Is
years president, died at his home in
Amherst Sunday evening from nervous
disease, which for years had been vast
ing away his magnificent powers.
Times are beginning to be good again.
that people are able to buy things again
is the fact that Haverhill, Mass, lately
shipped by far the largest consignment
of shoes which ever left the city in one
week.
Last week Wednesday Peter Turney
was inauguratt d governor of Tennessee.
The Republican and Populist members
of the legislature refused to attend the
Inauguration, and went over to Chatta.
nooga and spent the day with the de.
feated Republican candidate, II. Clay
Evans.
There are now said to,be $50 electric
railways in operation in the United
States, with a total of 5000 miles OF
track, % 600 cars, and a capitalization Of
over $500, 100000. Eight years ago only
Is of these roads We're in operation with
about 100 cars.
A little book which has furnished the
greater part of the free silver ammuni
ton is "Coin's Financial School, pub
lished in Chicago, and illustrated with
a large number of pictures. 1t has ha6
a phenomenal sale, and the income OF
the author is said to have been $500 tC
5000 day for some time.
On next Saturday at Worcester
Mass, occurs the annual spring meet
of the New England intercollegiate
Athletic association. Ten colleges will
be representated, Dartmouth, Amherst
Williams, Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology, Brown, Wesleyan, Trinity
Bowdoin, University of Vermont, nd
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The
chances are that Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology will take first place
and Dartmouth third.
The Bland silver dollars in the United
States treasury would now bring SAL
cents each in gold if sold by weight il
London, against value at one time il
1894 of 46.399l cents. In 1892 the valus
was as high as GA 643 cents; in 1890 tx
highest value was 1888 cents; in 1856;
silver dollar was worth 1887 cents il
gold. The four countries of the worlc
China, and Japan. Wages there ar,
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AS to whether lottery tickets can b(
sent by express after importation int
this country was brought up in New
J Orleans last week The accused, w
P. Parkhurst, was charged with having
i'm ported ticket of the Honduras Lot
terry company, successors of the Louis
lana lottery, and to have borne it OF
his person on a Louisville and Nash
vile railroad between the States 0
Florida and Georgia to New Orleans
for the purpose of disposing of it. Thu
case will go to the federal supreme
court.
After next September the age of con
sent of females in New York will be 1
instead of Is years. A section of tn
penal code provides that any person
who takes female under the age Of 1
without the consent of her father
mother, guardian, Or other person hav
; ing charge of her person, for the pur
pose of marriage, is guilty of abduc
, zion, punishable by fine and imprison
ment. The act does not declare il
terms such marriage void, yet, being il
violation of law it NAV no VOi6ablp