Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-01-15
Vermont News.

'oo' 10 eoiu III NTdltsDury NJ 60
per cord hay at $50 per ton; oats at
about so cents per bushel.
Mrs. G. w. Cherbino Of Weybridge,
slipped ON the snow and fell, breaking
her arm near the wrist, ON Saturday.
- deaf mute of West Rupert, has
Killed torty-one skunks the past season,
Tor the sake of obtaining the oil for med
ical purposes.
Hazen Wilkins, of Eden, had his
nose torn off recently, and was otherwise
injured by Il falling limb of tree which
he was chopping
- Mr.. L. Amsden, of Winhall, had
one of hisshoulders dislocated last Thurs
day morning by the falling of barn
door.
-Alynx having trap attached to one
of his hind legs, was shot abouttwo miles
South of North Bennington on Tuesday
last.
Judge Kittredge of Fairhaven, had
leg badly fractured in two places, on
the 9th inst, bysbeing thrown from
sleigh.
John Tenney of Waterbury, died a
few days ago, of injuries received on De
cember 31st, when he was run over by
span of horses.
- Last Friday, Mr.. b. j. Browns
store and the building adjoining, occu-
pied by Messrs. Fitch and Newton, in
Highgate, was destroyed by fire.
- The mill-pond by Gallup's mill, in
Charleston, broke away through a musk
rat hole in the dam on the 2Sth ult., and
ran dry. The breach has been stopped. |
= There were only ten deaths in Cow
entry during 1868, percentage of only
one in hundred of the population, and |
quite remarkable exemption from NOR
tality.
= Mr.. l.. w. Martin, of Richford, re-
Gently attempted to blow out kerosene
lamp without turning the wick down.
The consequence was an explosion and
almost serious fire.
= An attempt was made to poison j.
NJ. Mills, ofSt. Johnsbury, the other day,
by leaving in his way plug of tobacco in
the end of which was concealed strychnine
enough to kill twenty men.
The directors of the National bank
of Derby Line, in connection with the
annual meeting ON Tuesday, treated the
to dinner at Butterfeld's
hotel. A pleasant way of discounting.
The French paper soon to be pub
lished in Vergennes, is to be called
" LUnion Canadienne" 1t will be pub
lished at the Vermonter Office by Jas.
and edited by Mr.. Edouard
Duquet.
The salary of Rev. DIR. Lord of
has been raised to $4,000
positively, and to $500. provided the re-
ceipts from sales and rentals of pews
should reach that sum, after payingneed- ;
full expenses.
= A horse belonging to Mr.. C. E.
Kinney, in Albany, took fright while
crossing bridge, and springing off the
end of it he landed his passengers at the
foot of the embankment. Singularly, no !
one was injured.
= Clarence Ruper, about ten years :,
Of age, was found near his fathers house,
n New Haven, with frightful wound
On his face and head. 1t is supposed !,
hat he was knocked down by horses
md trampled upon. /
- Government bonds amounting to ]
$4,000, which Mr. Philo Jewett of Wey-
bridge, buried in ashes for safety, and ..
which were bleached into almost worth
ess paper, last fall, have been recognized !
BY the Treasury department, and the
money refunded.
A friend of the Caledonian writes
10 that paper: As Ira Cheney of West
more, aged 70 years, was crossing Will
oughby lake on foot, the coolest day in {
December, he broke through the ice, half
\ mile from shore, and had to break ice
with his hands same thirty feet, before
finding it of sufficient strength to bear
him up. He succeeded in getting out,
md, ON arriving home, his outside gar
nents were frozen so stiff upon him that =,
t was only by the influence of hot fire
hat he was enabled to disrobe himself j
CONCERT AT PERKINsvILLE. The 9
Concert of Halls Band of Boston, given
1t the Hawkes. Mountain House in Per-
on Monday eve., January
18th, was highly successful and delight :
hl affair. Although the night was !
stormy one, yet the Hall was crowded, D
md the audience testified to their appre-
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