Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-12-28

the cloth cost them Sl.00 per yard, and
was sold by them at once for SLIGO per
yard. Here is shown the unequal pro-
lection to the manufacturer.
Mr.. Grout opposed the petition. The
manufacturers and few wool-growers
were DESTROYS Of monopolizing great prof
its. He thought the petition illiberal.
He feared Vermont would be turned into
one great sheep pasture. Men rich with
thousand sheep and thousand acres
were parceling ont between them the
whole STATE. Men of moderate means
must move out. The State would be de-
populated. One formerly populous School
| District in Westminster bad been reduced
from this cause as reported by the Town
Superintendent, to having school OF only
four children. The fact was simply this
The wool growing business was overdone.
Too much money had been made in it.
There must be collapse, and capital
must flow into other channels. A tariff
would only apply an unnatural stimulus,
and would be followed by additional de-
manGs.
Mr.. Farr ana Pierce replied to these
structures showing how closely every in
dustrial pursuit in Vermont was allied to
the wool-growing interest and that fears of
injury to the State by her success in this
branch, were groundless.
AT the close of the discussion the club
adopted the petition almost unanimously,
and committees were forthwith appointed
for circulation and shortly nearly one hun
bred seventy-six farmers have appended
their names TO it, which number win be
greatly increased among the farmers Of
the town generally.
MYsTERIoUs.--A correspondent of the
Lyndon Union writing from CRANKY in
forms that journal that in the latter part
of October last, there was found on the
banks of the Connecticut river, in Guild
hall, near the widow Elkins', a suit of fe-
male apparel, lying on the ground in
regular order, as though unfastened and
dropped from person standing erect.
The dress was figured delaine, choco-
late colored ground work, with green and
purple figures; green thibet skirt. The
clothing was of fair quality, and tidy in
general appearance. Dress somewhat
torn at the bottom, as by walking in the
woods. No one is missed from the COM
munity, nor was any stranger seen in the
vicinity near the time named. Mrs. Ell
kins has the clothes in her possession
which would fit person of about medium
heighth. Whether some malignant tri-
fer has attempted ruse upon quiet
community, or some wanderer, perhaps
outcast, has committed suicide, or whether
there has benin these tragic times-a
l foul abduction and murder, is at present
: all mystery.
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al
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Household Reading" is now sent as
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"A man named Patrick Hank of Que
! bee, fell in a trance and was supposed to
be dead. Preparations were made for the
f funeral, but he recovered consciousness in
S time to prevent that ceremony.
"A fashionable lady in Pittsfield wore
q her new hounet to churcb last C,nJo