Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-01-04
Vermont News.

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to affords the best opportunity for tailor
o. any town in Orleans county. One vii
m steady habits could get all The work |
70 would hc able to do, The nearest tailor
at at Coventry. FIVE miles distant. 1t is ii
IN desire Of the whole town that some knigl
= Of the shears would come and tarry wit
Ne us.--hasJurgh Standard.
The epidemic Diptheria has made its al
IS pearances in several families in Hinesburgl
b but as yet it has yielded to prompt an
C faithful treatment, and in no case has bee
fatal.
: Alvin House of West Enosburgh ha
made from one COW, during the last sever
r months, 270 pounds of butter, besides sup
plying his family with cream and milk.
Fire.--Tbe Westinghouse and shed,
attached of A. w. Preston of Danville
were entirely consumed by ere last Satur,
day, 23d inst A considerable quantity ol
provision was burned including about so
bushels of wheat. Insurance, $500.
| Uheat.--Mr. Franklin Vance of Glover,
harvested, last fall, from four acres of land,
one hundred and cighty-five bushels of
Scotck Fife wheat, all of the very best
quality. '@
Gut Cut Cada,cm.-Mr. Garrison Alger
of Irasburgh, lately killed hen which
weighed nine and half pounds live weight,
and seven and a half pounds when dressed.
A little girl 5 years old, daughter of Mr..
James Roberts of West Haven, had her
hand cut off near the wrist few days
since, by patent straw cutter.
Fires.-On Saturday morning Dec. 22d
the factory of Herren g. Wells, of Water
vile, was destroyed by fire. All the ma
chinery, except two looms, and all the stock
except what was in the lower story, shared
the fate of the mill. The fire originated in
the picker. Insurance on mill and ma
chinery, $500; on stock, $4,000. in Bos-
ton companies.-Hydepark Neusdealer.
A fire broke out in a barn belonging to
Mr.. c. c. Alvord Rutland at about II
o'clock on Monday night last week destroy
ing the barn and a shed adjoining, together
with 100 bushels of corn, $50 bushels of
oats and ten tons of hay. The whole loss
is about $500, on which there was an insur- /
ance of only Sll5.-Rmland Courier.
On Christmas morning, about o'clock,
the house. of Hoyr Smith of Cambridge
Centre was discovered to be on fire. Help I
and water being handy the fire was finally
extinguished, but not until the house and
contents were considerably damaged
Fully covered by insurance in the Farmers
Mutual.
Fatal accident IN HatacelutM.-A sad
accident occurred few days since in Hart
MELVILLE, by which Martin Estes, young
nan II years of age, lost his life. While
ne was nniting a lSst urnn n Puliy- in she
Lumber mill of Mr.. Carrier the belt slipped
md throwing him upon large circular saw,
running at the rate of 1900 revolutions
minute, which caught his leg severing it
above the knee horribly mutilating his thigh
almost to the body. Those present held
The chief artery until DR.. Bemims,of SIAM
lord, arrived and tied it, who aided DR.. N.
5. Rabbit, of No. Adams, in amputatine
he limb. But after the operation Mr. Estes
soon died from loss of blood, which was
Tery great. He leaves wife and child to
MOURN his sudden death.
With commendable zeal the citizens of
aartwellSille the following day contributed
$50, to the widow.--Benntngton Banner.
Escape.-,John w. Hornely was recently
rrested at Barton, on charge of stealing {
TX tubs of butter from one of Jerry Drew's J
cams, on Saturday the 22d ult., he was
PARTIALLY examined when the Court adj . /.
burned over to Monday. The prisoner re- :
NAMED in the hands of keepers. Sunday I
light he retired, and the sentinels watched !
i'll he was apparently asleep. They then i,
eft him, but TO make things "doubly sure" .
ook the clothes of the prisoner and retired '
another apartment. Being left alone, 4
lonely became "wide awake" rose, tore n
p sheet, tied the strips together, raised a :,
window, and let his form gently down TO
arth, when he ran with as much feetness f
$ it is supposed one naturally would with 1
othing on his person but cotton shirt, in ]
cold night, and that is the last of this Sc
Two drunken men came near being froze e
0 death. on Sunday Dec. 23d, in Hartwell- ),
lille. They had hitched their horse to the e
ence and laid down in the road to sleep off v
heir "weariness." When found they were e
'terly helpless, and couldn't speak, and a !
hort time longer in such bed would have !
nded their miserable days.
DEATH OF RALPH FARNHAM.-Ralph a
'arnham, the last survivor OF the Battle of u
'unker Hill, died Dec. 26th. at the resi- :.
lence OF his son in Acton, Me-, aged one
hundred and four wears, Eve months and Ii
nineteen days. lie died without struo- b