Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-01-26

" - 0icnaruSon 10 the Union Hall buil(
: ing, and in the other part Of the lowe
story, Mr.. John +. Paige has opened
Grocery and Provision Store, where "
trust ne will receive share Of public pat
70 ronage. We learn, also, that a new phy
m stefan, formerly Of Claremont, has locate,
there. The mortality in Acworth for the
Is last year has been very large. Out Of q
/ population of about 1900 there have beer
. % deaths, which isa very large number
: even for that place.
Last Friday morning as Alvin Knapp
OF West Dummerston, was leading horse
to the rear Of the Brattleboro House, the
horse became unmanageabIe, and rearing,
threw the young man down trampling him
IN shocking manner. Drs. Horton and
Bowles were Immediately called, but he
was so badly injured, that there is not
much probability Of his recovery.
Z, - Rev. Franklin Butler, for IL years
pastor Of the Congregational Church in
Windsor. but more recently an agent Of
the Colonizat ion Society, has been ap
pointed Chaplain Of The State Prison.
i - There are seventy convicts in the
State Prison at Windsor, including four
tor murder and two for manslaughter.
i 80 Patents have been recently issued
as follows: To Ebenezer G. Lamson Of
Windsor, VI, for improvement in augers.
and John C Loveland of Springfield, VT,
for dough kneader.
- Al the annual meeting Of the stock
holders Of the Springfield National Bank
the following directors were chosen: j.
W. Colburn, H. Barnard, C. A. Forbush.
Udney Burke, G. w. Porter.
The U. S. Court House in Windsor
was somewhat injured by the late fire in
Windsor, by the breaking of glass, on as
count of the great heat from the burning
Of the adjoining bailding.
After having been running for many
years, the Vermont and Massachusetts
railroad has just declared its dividend. the
amount being two per cent.
The bank of Rutland has made a
semi-annusl dividend Of six per cent, free
Of Government tax.
The shipments of butter and cheese
from 81. Adams, as shown by table fur
nished to the Messenger by Mr.. Hobart,
master of transportation, have steadily in
creased from 500 tons Of butter and 245
tons Of cheese il 1851, to 1917 tons of
butter and 567 tons Of cheese in 1867
The grand total for the fifteen years
amounts to 3,603644 lbs, of butter. and
16,628,l97 lbs, of cheese, or about seven.
teen thousand tons of the former, and
eight thousand of the latter.
Asa r. Camp, Of Stowe, has been
rendered by the Secretary Of the Treasury
and has accepted, the position, of Examin-
r OF National Banks in the State of Yer
mont Mr.. Camp is The present State
Dank commissioner thoroughly capable.
and fearless in the discharges Of his du-
'es. The appointment is good one.
Gold has been discovered upon the
arm Of Mr.. Walter B. Remick, about one
nile from Lower Waterford village
samples Of the ore have been sent TO COM
'etent judges in New York, and pronounce
ID by them rich in mineral wealth.
Il. K Parke has presented East Ben
'ington with free library hall costing
$4,000.
- A destructive FIRE broke out ia the
ear OF Foster Il Potter's grocery store,in
st. Adams on the 18th inst, and spread
With great rapidly, destroying several
buildings and large amount of property
'alued at S43, 900, on which there was in
urance to the amount Of So, 1000, sl4,-
'O0 or which is in the Vermont Mutual.
nd $1,000 in the Windsor County Mutu-
l, and the remainder in other companies,
nosty out of the State.
The Lamoiile Newsletter says sever
4 horses have been taken seriously i'll
with mysterious disease from which but
ew recover. DR.. f. S. Foster Of johnson
ad two taken down within half an hour.
ne OF which--vsluei at S30o-died-
The disease appears like poison, and by
many i so considered ; hut possibly is an
pidemic disease tina, needs to be investi-
ated.
"A girl Of weak intellect, Ia years of
ge, strayed into the woods at Pownan.
few days ago, and starved to death. Her
rother died in the State Prison the other
ay. i,
IL. Spaulding of Derby Line. missed
pocket book from his safe recently. /
'hice contained $780, He has succeeded