Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-05-11

'~''N - $50
- Nine tubs of butter were stolen
from the depot at Bradford, on Tuesday
night, Gath ult.
Merrill Sherburne of Barton recent
ly had all the fingers of his left hand cut
off by saw above the second joint,
"A fire at St. Albans on Saturday
morning destroyed the gas house. Loss
about $1,000. Insured in the Metropoli-
tan Co. for $4,000.
"A young son of w. w. Bruce of
Waitsiield, one day last week, went to
spring near the house for water. He was
shortly after found in the spring, his head
being at the bottom of the barrel set
therein, with Lis feet protrudng from the
top.
II. w. Park, President of the Rut-
land and Bennington railroad is visiting
the towns of Wallingford, Dainty, Dol set,
Manchester, &c, to advocate the extern
sion of that road to connect with the New
York Harlem road.
- Mr.. James Boyd, at work for Mr..
Horace Carpenter of St. Johnsbury, had
the thumb Of the left hand cut off, and
three fingers badly mutilated, by circu-
lar saw, on Monday morning of last week.
- As Rev. DIR. McKeen of Bradford
was preaching at West Fairlee on Sun.
day, 22d, a wooden ball, 10 inches in d.
ameter, fell from the balustrade of the
belfry upon the I, of of the church, and
rolled off upon the ground.
= Willie, youngest son of Simpson f.
Chase, of Windsor, had a leg broken a
few days since by being struck by a pass
ing lumber ear while carelessly standing
on the railroad track at that place.
- A barn b longing to Darwin Fuller
in Starksboro, was burned on Saturday
night last, together with nine cows, one
yoke of oxen and seven to ten tons Of
hay. Loss about $1,000. The fire is
supposed TO be the work of an incendiary
- r. B. Cobleigh, boot and shoe
dealer of st. Johnsbury, went to Boston
On the 18th ult. to buy goods, and has not
yet returned. His creditors have attach
ed his property, and his friends are in ig-
norance whether he is lost, killed, or has
run away.
- Mr.. G. p. Hannum, Esq, highly
esteemed citizen Of Rutland, and one of
the selectmeR of that town, was run over
and instantly killed near the depot in that
place on Friday last. He was getting out
of the way Of one train and in doing so
got in the way of another.
- Mr.. Halsey Bullock of Lyndon, en-
gagged in building a barn, fell distance of
tweaty-three feet on Wednesday morning,
breaking two or three ribs, and sustaining
other severe injuries. As he is man
weighing some two hundred pounds it is
wonder that he was not instantly killed.
On the 21st ult., Miss Eliza Puffer,
an Operative in a Bennington mill, had
her clothes caught in a revolving shaft
and was whirled around in a fearful man
ner before the machinery could be stopped.
She was severely injured but hopes are
of her recovery.
- The Burlington Free Press chron-
icles the seizure, near Pittsburgh, recent
ly of 20 gallons of gin, two horses, wag-
aud harness and two robes. The man in
charge did not know his name, could not
tell where he lived, where he came from,
nor where he was going to. He was
lodged in Jail, and Monday morning his
education had improved, so that he was
willing TO communicate.
- In Castleton few days since, Mr..
A. w. Bankers team of yoke of cattle,
with a horse hitched to the tongue of the
cart in front of them, became frightened
and manageable, and after running
long distonce the horse got into such po-
Isition that the tongue hit him in the head,
filling him.instantly.