Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
BENNINGTON COUNTY

BENNINGTON COUNTY.
NARROW ESCAPE Hon. A. Il Gardner, of
bennington, recently had a narrow escape
from being crushed by locomotive in the
depot at Troy, \. Y. He was standing on
one of the tracks In the depot. freight
train entered the depot from the North upon
this track, which Mr.. Gardner observed, and
/ to avoid it stepped upon another track.
Unfortunately an express train was just en-
tering the depot from the South, upon the
track on which MIR. Gardner stand
ing. In a moment he was struck by the
engine and thrown upon the COW catcher.
Providentially an employee Of the railroad
discovered Mr.. Gardner s situation, and rush
ing up, caught and held him upon the loco
motive until the engineer could stop the train
and he could safely be released from his most
dangerous and unpleasant position.
fierce gale lately visited portion of
Bennington county, tearing down fences, I'M
roofing dwellings, and doing other damage.
At Bennington a new building, not finished.
was lcveled with the ground, and the chin
ney of the Congregational chapel was blown
over
\ man named Moon, of Pownal, committed
suicide on Tuesday of last week, by hanging
himself in his barn. The cause of this deed
was undoubtedly a fit of insanity, as his
father was lunatic. He was about forty
years of age, and unmarried.
The Bennington Banner says that Mr.. ii.
W Putnam has offered the citizens of that
! town that if sufficient number of them will
take gas enough to ensure him the ordinary
rate of interest on money invested, he will at
once proceed TO the erection of gas works
I for the use of the town
Z On New Years day, Mr.. Chas. NJ. Rogers
for a number of years past the head man
in the internal management of the famous
st. Nicholas Hotel, New York city-assumed
the post Of landlord of the Mt. Anthony
( House, in Bennington.
SEVERE ACCIDENT.-On last week Tuesday,
a shed at the ochre works of 5. l.. Godfrey,
in Bennington, fell upon one of the work
men, Philip Casey, breaking his hip, and
disIocating shoulder.
SCARLET FEvER.--Scarlet fever prevails
among the Irish population at South Dorset,
and several deaths have occurred. Martin
Mclaughlin, out of family of six children,
has lost three within two weeks, and the
remaining three are dangerously sick. Sew
eral other families afflicted with it.
Az OvERrssUE-The Battenkill Bank, of
Manchester. the time for the redemption of
whose bills expired three weeks since, re-
deemed $3.50 in excess of the amount issued
before the expiration Of the time prescribed.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
NORTHUMBERLAND. Ziha FoQtc, of East
Burke. some six months since, lost all the
fingers on one hand by an accident in a saw
mill. lie was recently kicked by horse
and severely bruised. He will be manned
for life
The annual meeting of the Caledonia
County Agricultural Society Will be held at
the st. Johnsbury House, Tuesday, Jan.
DIST, at ten o'clock, \. NJ, for the purpose
of clecting officers, etc.
\ man from Burke drove over to Island
Pond last week, to sell his pork, and getting
his money. went to specializing IN robes.
He bought two, and when he put them into
his sleigh, managed To slip in third. He
had not gone far before he overtaken,
made to pay for his extra buffalo, and $50
more for hunting it up.
The house of Simon Peck, of st Johns
bury. was entered last week and $l63 taken
from bureau drawer. In the morning a
window was found open, through w hich the
burglar had entered.
Horse THIEyEs.-Two gentlemen lately
! drove up to the hotel at Danville, with fine
horse, sleigh robes, etc, and offered to sell
, them a a very low figure. At last, appear
ing so anxious to dispose of their team, sus
picions were aroused, and no one was founC
to buy. The men both decamped in the
: morning. leaving overcoats, horse, sleigh. etc
which are now in the care of the landlord
man in st. Johnsbury, who was popping
corn over a coal fire a few DAYS since, nearly
lost his life from inhaling the gas from the
: coal, being unconscious when found by som,
persons who happened into the room.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The Sentinel says that water in Burlington
is selling at half dollar a barrel. Wells
3, springs and cisterns are generally dry, anC
d water has tie be drawn from the lake. Th'
cartmen are reaping good harvest by draw
ing water for family uses. Has the price o
milk advanced?
y one-armed person, representing himsel
to be mason, and saying that he had los
two daughters at the Angola disaster, ha
r been stopping in Burlington recently, bu
c decamped after attempting to secure fire.
( passage to New York. He is the same maj
who was recently in Brattleboro, claiming t.
be the Grand Worthy Secretary of the Goo
Templars of California.
- working for William Freeman in Richmond
was attacked on Friday while chopping i
the woods, by two Frenchmen who demande
his money. Refusing, he was very badl
y beaten, receiving a number of severe cuts
} Assistance coming, the rascals committin
% the assault were pursued, but at the last &C
counts had not been taken
n The charter of the Commercial Bank
Burlington expired on the LIST inst The d
rectors made a dividend of fifty dollars pe
> share of the capital stock, and also decla re
l. a semi-annual dividend of three per cent.
The Merchants National Bank of Burline
ton has declared a semi-annual dividend frol
d. its earnings for the last six months of fiv
IN per cent.
"a FRANKLIN COUNTY.
TRAGEDY AT ST. ALBANs.-The village
III ST. Adams has been thrown into the create
IN excitement on account of the double crime
10 murder and suicide At about noon Satu
;. day, John Bishop shot his wife and the
himself. He fired three shots from revolt
Is er in rapid succession-two o. them takIr
III effect upon the person Of his vie. one in h
20 neck and the other in her breast-then sh
! himself through the head. Bishop live
- until p. NJ, when he died. Mrs. Bisho
lie is in critical condition and but little hpp
ie are entertained of her recovery.
The Burlington Times has some particula
Ia from which we take the following
er Mr. Bishop has been in the employ of Il
" Foundry Company since July, 1865. |
was about thirty years of age; well ed
Gated Englishman, and according to his stor
'c a son of of a well-tO-do manufacturer in LOl
10 don, whom he left on some provocation, al
id shipped as a seaman in the English servic