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indicted-one for obtaining liquor undel
false pretences; plead guilty and wa
fined $40 and costs, amounting toSlS,64
the other for drunkenness, was fined s.
and costs, amounting to 1887. Also two
young men from Hardwick were indicted
one was fined so and costs, the Other
charged with drunkenness, plead no.
guilty and was allowed to settle by pay.
ing costs. Three others were arraignet
for drunkenness and other preliminarie:
and were bound to appear for trial Feb
10TH"
- The friends of Rev. A. Dean
Congregational minister in Newbury.
made him donation visit, January 10
and left substantial proofs of their es-
TEEN, to the amount of about $40. And
the friends of Rev. H. johnson, Metho-
dist minister, in Newbury, made him a
donation visit, January 23d, and present
ed gifts amounting to $120. Newbury
has done well.-Amora.
A revival of religion is in pro-
gress on WestfeH circuit, as we learn
from Bro. Ball, some %, having expert
enced the pardoning mercy of God, re-
cently.-Mr:stian Messenger,
@ The Lake froze over last week,
Wednesday, 23d. For several days after,
streaks of open water were visible to the
North and South, but the ice seems now
to be tolerably frm--though the snow
which fell upon it yesterday and last night
does not promise the best of crossing
The average time of closing, for our Lake
is about the 9TH of February. Last ' ear
it closed on the 5th.-Free Press.
gg George ". Woodhouse and Chas.
". Little were brought before Justice
Hollenbeck, Monday, charged with dis
turbing public worship in the Methodist
Free Church. The acts complained of
consisted Of uncouth noises, card-plqying
and I" carrying-on of various sorts in
the church during the services, and have
been continued for a number of evenings.
Woodhouse was fined SO and COSTS
Little escaped with a severe reprimand.
The punishment might have been more
severe without particularly shocking the
feelings Of the community. No gentle
man will be guilty of deliberate and per-
'evering attempts to ridicule and inter-
ere with religious worship, and lovers of
lecency and order will be glad to see the
aw applied in its utmost rigor in all such
asses. One or two other young men,
whose names have not been furnished US.
we're also concerned in the disturbances
alluded to. They, and all others similar
y inclined, will do well to take warning
oy this transactiOn.-FreeP Press,
% A drunken row took place Sunday
on Lake street, in the course Of
which young French woman, was knock
ed down and terribly beaten by a man
named Wood. The woman was in an
advanced state of pregnancy, and was
much, perhaps fatally, injured. She re-
NAMED insensible this morning. Wood
is in custody to await the result. David
Minor, Joseph Robear, 10. Lashway and
Peter Shattuck, concerned in the same
fracas, were taken before Justice Hollen-
beck this morning, and fined So each and
costs, for drunkenness, and in default of
the money were committed to jaiI.-F3ree
Press.
ca In Bennington on the stormy 18th
not bell sounded for public worship till
evening, and there was not a sermon
preached in the village during the day.
A dwelling house was unroofed. The
windows of the Catholic Church, and
other buildings were broken by the force
of the wind.
F1RE.-On Tuesday morning last, the
barn, shed and nearly all of the dwelling
house, located in the north part of this
village, and owned by an industrious
Frenchman named Chambo, was DESTROY
ed by fire. Insured in the Vermont Mu-
tual-N. Watchman.
KILLED.-Mr. John Chambers. sta
ton agent at Sharon, was so injured on
Monday last, in Stacking cars, that he
survived but short time. He was a
worthy man, aged about sixty.-B.
-Four colts valued at 5000, owned
by MIR. Henry Merrill, were run over by
the passenger train, in Haverhill, N. H..
on Saturday last, and two of them killed
HORSE THIEF.-A young man, says
the Montpelier Freeman, hired a horse