Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-17
Vermont News.

o ana Nefgennes, Tor the location OF the
4 next State Fair.
e Mrs. Allen, aged SO years, mother
of Mrs. A. w. Hawkins, in St. Johnsbu-
ry, fell from her chair on the 4th instant,
: fracturing the right arm. Being aged
g and infrm, fears are entertained that she
will not recover
The Burlington Times says that bu-
rial in the Catholic Cemetery proper,
was refused to the body of Donovan, the
freight conductor, at Rouses Point, be-
cause he had been Free Mason.
! Mr.. b. +. Gage, the St. Johnsbury
artist, has received patent for improve
ment in Photographic cameras, He is a
brother of W. P. Gage of this place.
- The girl Dougherty, shot at Rut-
land, by William Long, died some three
weeks ago
Lewis S. Jenkins delivered at the
Bradford depot, few days since, four
cords of Live Oak timber for which he
received $50;
- Water in Burlington, is selling at
half dollar a barrel, Wells, springs,
and cisterns are generally dry, and water
has to be drawn from the lake. The
cartmen are reaping good harvest by
drawing water for family use.
Gen. Stannard heads the call for
meeting at Burlington, to organize a
Grant club, and the editors of the Free
Press and the Times are on the roll of
names.
- The Vermont Agricultural Society
is in a prosperous condition. The profits
to the treasury in 1867 amounted to
1857, rs, which makes the fund now in
the treasury s8,661.14.
- David Rice of Hartland, last week
killed COW weighing 938 pounds, and
l2O pounds of rough tallow were taken
from her
= The eighteenth annual meeting of
the State Teachers Association will be
held at Barton during three days, begin
ming January %.
There were only nine deaths in Gov
entry for the year 1867, not one per cent
of the population. No death occurred
in the months of February, June, Sep
TENDER, October or December.
- The late Bishop Hopkins of Bur-
lington celebrated his golden wedding,
May 8, 1866. The annual convention of
the Vermont diocese was assembled at
the time of the golden wedding, and the
bishop was presented by the clergy with
a pastoral crook. He has had IS chill
dren, nine sons and four daughters, nine
of whom are living.
- There is smart old woman in
Glover, who recently refused an offer of
marriage from a man of 55, telling him
she could take care of herself. She
works out for wages and can do as much
as many young women.
i Hon. Luke P. Poland has been an
pointed one of the Regents of the Smith
sonian lnstitute-a well deserved COM
pllment to the member from this district.
There were nineteen deaths in
Greensboro, during the year 1867; av-
erage age, 81 years; youngest A months
oldest, 81 years. Nine, or nearly half,
were under the age of 81 years.
The Free VIII Baptists are pressing
earnestly the work of raising funds for
their new institution to be located at
Lyndon. 1t isstated that the people of
Waterbury havesubscribed some 81 900.
- 1t is said that the recent accident
at the Burden ore bed, by which three
men lost their lives and four more were
wounded, was the result of gross care
lessness. Had it not been for the fire
built outside the excavation to thaw the
frost from the supports, some of the men
might have escaped, even when the roof
fell in.
As Mr.. Cross, of the firm of Cross g.
Brigham, Bakers, of st. Johnsbury. was
driving his bakery team down a steep
hill into Whitefeld village, one of the
rear horses slipped upon the ice, and fell
under his mate, throwing him down also.
The leader was frightened, and ran
dragging the wheel horses down the hill. |
and injuring them SO much as to ruin
the pair
As lady was leaving well-known
store on Railroad street on Wednesday
evening, the proprietor politely informed |
her that the price of that cake of soap
'he had slipped into her pocket was lust
% cents. Her back came up immedi--
ltely, and she stoutly denied the soft i'm
'eachment. The merchant was inexora-
Die, and soon the soap was produced, and
he would be shop litter was glad to take
at the high price of 80 cents.-.S.
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