Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-16

standing in the shed, and some women and
children In the wagons. The lightning Is
supposed 10 have struck telegraph post
some tweny % thirty rods south OF MI.
Cummings and run along the wire al u
reached the bani, II cerner OF which was
but a few inches from the wire. Nearly
every telegraph post between the one first
struck and the barn was spllntered and the
piects thrown 10 some distance. The cleo
Iric fluid, after entering the barn, seemed 10
spread itself, as several. timbess an posts
Of the barn show the marks OF If. The
horse that was killed was fastened with
chain halter, which win probably account
for his being killed, while the other horses
were only knocked down. The horses in
the shed were brought TO their knees, and
some of the men were thrown down. Those
in the wagons were affected but slightly
AN INDIAN RELIc.-We now have ly-
ing upon our table in our Office an Aadiaa
az, curiously and deliberately carved out OF
what was evidently originally a very hard
piece of fiinty stone. 1t was turned up by
pillow share on the fam Of Moses Hay
wood of this town, near the base OF Ball
Mountain. Its present weight is pounds.
Ii is 9 inches in length, inches wide at the
bit, and inches at the head. There is a
carved indentation around the stone, form
a groove, undoubtedly for the handle to be
wilhed upon it. 1t bears marks Of ex-
IRENE old age, but portions of the bit still
present remarkably hard and polished
surface. 1t is an exceedingly interesting
relic of "ye olden times" when the aborig
inals roamed unmolested by the pale Faces
through the valley of the Otter Creek
Scientific men think many centuries have
passed siuce it was yielded by the staiwart
red SIX; N who fashioned it. We hope 1t will
find Judgment in the Museum at our Cap
itol.-RmlaRd Herald.
SAD ACCIDENT AT PEAcHAN.--On
Monday evening last week, while a patty
of men at Peaeham Corner were firing a
salute on the evacuation of Yorktown, a sad
accident occurred. by the bursting of the
gun they were using, seriously iniuring
three persons, Mr. John West, it is said,
will lose the sight of both eyes; - Gould,
(son of Burnet Gould, loses the sight of
one eye, aud another person had one thumb
blown Of.
j. B. Slayton Of Stowe furnishes The
Hydepark NeaosdeaIer statement of the
amount of sugar he has made for the past
six years. He has only eighty trees
scattered over some four or five acres Of
uneven and somewhat rockey PASTURE
mostly Of second growth, and from twelve
10 twenty inches in diameter. The tree;
are tapped with S-sths bit, using tin spout:
and lin buckets. During The six years he
has made $3.50 pounds of sugar; no season
making less than 430, never more Than 625
the amount this season being $50.
/ FINANcIAL.-C Commissioners Edmunds
Woodbi idge, and Merrill, succeeded OIL
their recent visit to Washington in having
the general government reimburse the Stat
of Vermont for war expenses incurred III
6 sum Of $4,000. This, with sl23,00
paid last fall. and 100000 yermon,'s shar
of tie direct tax of twenty millions laid b
Congress in August last, makes in all S475
600, which the State has received from III
Federal Government. About $4,000
still remains due the State.