Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-11-21
Vermont News.

neighborhood in this county, at least, pota'
toes are yet unharvested, owing to the NOR
tality that has prevailed this season. As
winter now appears 10 have set in they will
have to be in the ground ill next spring,
when, II good depth Of snow lies upon the
ground they viii be Just as good as new.
In III same neghborhood, which is sparsc-
ly populated, fourteen perso have died OF
dpthcIia this season, all of whom were fam
! lily onneclions.--.S. JohnsDuyy Caledonidn.
DISAPPEARED William, son of Russell
Bascom of Halifax, disappeared some two
weeks ago, and nothing has been heard from
him since. lie wore nothing but his com
mon farm clothes.
| CouNrERFEirs.- The latest counterfei's
are vel ex, cuted tens on the bank of
1 Rovalton, VI. These are in circulation
through New England and in the State Of
1 New York TO considerable extent. One
specimen was SO finely executed that it
passed undetected through several of the
| Berkshire (Mass.) banks.
d. Giddings of Westford, has nine Span
ISL bucks, for four Of which he has been
offered 5000. They were shipped 10 Utica,
Ohio, on Friday.
A stout, able.bodiea man was enlisted by
the Sel,ctmen Of ST. Johnsburv, and seut
into camp, drilled with the company some
six weeks, ard then rejected because he
toed III. The town now refuses TO pay the
man for his time spent in drilling, and he
proposes very properly TO take it to law.
FEvERs.-There have been an unusual
number Of cases of feycrs in THE vicinity
the present fall the old inhabitants say
more than heretofore for many years. Some
one who has taken pains to ascertain, finds
there have been some ninety cases in and
and within one mile Of Bradford village.
They have not been however Of maiig-
nant type, and but few cases comparatively
have proved fatal radtord Telegraph.
!
FATAL AccIDENT.-A week ago last
Sunday, three ilishmen, residing at North
/ Pownal, attended church at North Adams,
and on returning were precipitated down
the steep bank of the dam Of Il. Carpen-
ter Il Co.'S Factory, badly smashing the
wagon, killing the horse, and throwing the
men into the water. one of them being
drowned thereby, by the name of Daniel
I Lahain. 1t was first claimed that tire ac-
cident came from intoxication of the men
but we have since learned that it was Who'll
/ iy accidental, and that the town OF Pownal
has been legally commenced against for the
Occurrences Ben. Baaaer.
! EXTENSION OF THE PAssUMrsIc r. Il.
Perhaps it is not generally known that
I the work on the extension of the Passump,
sic railroad is being rapidly pushed forward
this fall. Tuere are now some 200 hands
at work upon the grading, masonry, etc.
between Barton and the Line, and it is ex
pected that the cars will run to Newport in
July next. The BIassawippi railroad i,
surveyed and located from the Benson place
Plain, where the Passumpsic survey strike
the LineS to Waterville, where it intersect
with the Grand Trunk. If this Canad'
!, Road is built, together with the Shetfort
and Chambly road, it will make a drec
| route to Montreal and Quebec--almost al
; air line FROM New York to each of tn
above-named Canadian cities. Eventual,
the valley Of the Connecticut will be til,
lhoroughfare for travel to and from Bostoi
$ and New York and the principal cities o
J Lower Canada Cdledo8iaa.
ASSAULT IN RYEGAYE.-On the eve
/ ming Of the 25th of Oct, one Martin Cham
Z; berlin was met ia the highway leaGing from
Wells River, by four young men, and al
alteration toek place, which has been an
) dergoing an investigation before &. Som
: mers, Esq, during the past week. Th
testimony for the government tended Il
show that Chamberlin was met and way
: laid, and that he drew knife and inAicle,
: several severe cuts upon the person o
Thomas Nelson, one Of the young men
: when the others with a bludgeon struck hin
over the head, knocking kim senseless. Til
: young men claimed, and although not en-
: titled to testify, it +" leaked out on the trial
that they were met BY Chsmberlin, win
h had been TO Wells River, and was some
q what intoxicated, and that he commence
n abusive and insulting language to whici
e they made no reply, when Chsmberin 60
a out of his wagon and assaulted young Me-
;. son with knife, and was only prevente
II from killing him on the spot by the inter
d ference Of has comrades. Chamberlin ha
n the decided advantage Of tie boys in gel
: ting the ear of the Grand Juror in advance
d and the result was that they were mulcte,
y in fne Of $50.
SHoPLIFTERs ARREsTEp.-Three wo
. men, Mrs. Esther Snay, Mrs. Maneson, an
Mrs. Mary Merriam, were yesterday arrest
ed BIZ Sheriffs Field and SieopS and stole