Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-09-05
vermont Nws.


lincton ON Thursday night last week. An
Fnelishman named Willbm Barnet cut his {
wile's throat from ear /, ear. She was I
found with her right arm extended above
her head aud holding bloody knife--a
coarse duh bread. knife or butcher-kaite with I
a wooden handle-ihe bed clothing and pill (
law soaked with blood, aud the wall spat-
tered and stained with the same terrible
witness of crime. The evidence would
seem TO leave no room for doubt, that it was
n murder and that she died by the hand Of
her drunken partr er.
White whortleberries are the latest freak
of nature in the fruit line They have been
raised at Burlineton and are somewhat
larger than the I'd ma y black whortleberry,
but rather inferior in flavor.
The ladies in East Albany, last Wednes-
day, being annoyed because of the supplies
of rum furnished the community by man
in the place, procured the key to the rum
hole and spilled the contents of every bar
rel and bottle in the shop.
II. II. Thomas, Esq, formerly of Bran
don, now clerk in the Adjuiant Generals
Office at Washington, WIS arrested the 9th
er day, in that city, upona complaint Of as
sault and battery, for Jeaiipg a secessionist
for expressing treasoabs sentiments, aud
brought before magisfpie for trial -
Whereupon it was judicialy declared by
his Honor that the provocatRn was suffi-
cient for the beating, and "the prisoner at
the bar was acquitted amid& the shouts of
the boys from the War Department, who
were present at the trial u full force
Bully for that Court she Knew herself
Ninety-six men have enlisted from St.
Johnsbury within the past four weeks.
Notices appear that applications for Banks
at Waterford, Concord, abd Brighton, re-
spectlVelY, VIII De maue 70 the legislature
at its next session.
SERIOUS AcorpExr.-On Tuesday last
a son Of Mr.. Daniel Put,hm of this village,
some six or seven years DID. was caught by
the main belt of tuce's Machine Shop, and
carried over the pulley through narrow
passage OF but IA inches, and seriously
if not fatally injured one jaw being broken
twice, his limbs severely bruised and The
flesh shockingly torn from the left side.
Drs. Dyer and Woodward were immediate
ly summoned, and under their skilful care
it is hoped the child may recover Brandon
Monitor.
Mr.. S. n. p. Warner, son of Hon. Z. d.
Warner of New Haven, is appointed As
'istant Paymaster in tile Navy, and is as
signed to the feet under Com. Farragut, in
tho Mississippi.
A sheep belonging to David Stockwel
Of Moretown, IL years old, has brought
lim 23 lambs p OF which she has raised.
She had twins every year but one, then
rpIets.
Emerson Hall, Esq. has been appointed
postmaster at St. Johnsbury, uice Geo. A.
Merrill, Esq, resigned.
WHAT Town IN VERMONT CAN BEAT
TINS Mrs. Dolly Clap of Rupert has
Eve sons in the army, whose aggregate
hight is % feet and 10 inches. Their ag-
sregate ages are ia years.-G George 28,
Palmer %, Barney %, Isaac 20, and Ste
phen Is years.-Two are in the Vermont
Cavalry, one in the New York 77th one in
Minnesota regiment, and the other in the
Washington County Regiment, New York
State Militia. These five constitute the
entire family.
The village of Qnechee, in addition TO two
or three other contributions for the SAM
tary Committee during the year, has just
contributed in money fity-fve dollars more
for the relief of the eek and wounded sol
diers.