Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-16
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Gov Hclbrook has received draft from |
some Vermonters in California for 1886, to !
applied TO the relief of the sick and wound |
ed Vermont soldiers. Had it not been for |
the recent disastrous floods in that state this |
donation would have been much larger.
Capt Lyman, son Of Chas. Lyman, Esq.
Of Montpelier, has been made chief Quar-
termaster in Halleck's department. He
went out as captain in the 18th Indiana.
Rev. Charles S. Hale, of Brandon, has
been elected chaplain of the 9th Vermont
regiment. Mr.. Hale is an episcopal cler-
syman of great personal worth, and fully
competent to fill the important position as
signed to him.
In Montpelier, man named Heath has
been arrested for stealing several pieces Of
| dress goods. The articles were found con-
cealed underneath his door step.
/ A new passenger depot for the Vermont
Central railroad is to be erected this season
at Burlington on the quay. The building
will be OF brick, l75 feet by 60, two stories
high, and is estimated to cost $4,000.
Mr.. Henry II. Crossman and Mrs. Mary
Ann Crossman were REMARKED at Claren-
don on the 10th ult. They were divorced
from each other about year ago, but in
tend to stay put this time.
About the year 1910 the liquor manufac-
ture in Woodstock entirely ceased. 1t had
been an extensive business and for several
years before and after 1925 nearly 5000
barrels of distilled liquors were annually
produced.
The father of the lamented Col. Els
worth is about moving TO Vergennes, to
take charge IF the Arsenal there.
: John McKeogh has been appointed chic
clerk and paymaster on the Rutland and
Washington railroad, ctce George Toilet
resigned. Mr.. McKeogh has been in the
: employ Of this corporation for several years
, The examination of John Richeau ant
Martin Lizotte charged with setting fire tc
, the "Ieineberg Bridge" on the evening o
Sunday April 27, 1862, took place at thu
Town Hall in Burlington, on Monday
The result of the examination was that III,
accused were held for trial at the next tern
t of the county court. The bail was put a
a $1,000 each, in default Of which they wer
: committed to Jail.
A Among the Vermonters who have fal1ei
: in this war is Col. Amos Bosworth of tn
e 54th Illinois regiment. He was native O
? Royalion and emigrated to Illinois som
o twenty years ago. lie was one of the fir,
to rally for the defence of the Union, an
at the battle of Shiloh, though so unwe
II that he bad to be carried in an ambulance,
y he was at his post. Exhausted by faiigu
y and exposure the excitement was too muc
= for him, and he was taken home-to di
! He leaves wife Formerly Miss Paine, {
re Randolph and two children.
~ Letters from the 9th Vermont regimen
at Ship Island, state that out of the q
ed horses shipped only 100 survived Il
be voyage.
!, Joseph Clark, of ST. Johnsbury Cent?
,e- has kept an account of the amount of sno
d fallen the pasa winter at that place, al
n makes It II l-2 feet
!" EFFECTS OF LIGHrNISG.-During Il
on thunder storm, Saturday. the barn of NJ
Tor Kinney Cummings, in Bradford, was stru
m by lightning and horse killed. We lea
80 that there were four horses in the barn, a
1, two in the shed, that had been driven
there out Of the storm. Several men we