Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30
LOCAL MATTERS.

~ Large numbers from TINS ana oe"er
ices visited the scene of the railroad
aster on Sunday.
VI 4 new painter has opened a shop
,own. See his advertisement. He is
omended as Industrious and good
rkman.
IA p w. Taft took six different views
The scene of the recent railroad acct
N in this town and has them for sale.
Ice by mail, % cents each.
n Col. Geo. A. Merrill, superintendent
, the Rutland & Burlington Rrailroad,
zone on brief trip to Europe for
4 health, having sailed from Quebec
81 Saturday last
n They are to have ameteur theatre
H. in Charlestown, N. H., on Tuesday
y N evening of next week. The people
Y that place have good reputation Tor
uch things, and will doubtless have a
nod entertainment.
III Master Geo. w. Cook brought us
sue very good early potatoes last week.
does not know the variety but they
ere planted the 10th of May and dug
EDth of July. They were nearly ripe,
Ia showed remarkable growth in only
12 days.
n F. P. Hadley has an ice cream
|keezer which from a trial of it the 9TH
h day we Judge will make ice cream in
vi or fifteen minutes. In three minutes
Y nice frost formed on the outside and
liz cream inside was frozen an inch thick.
Is We propose to farther experiment with
Il will report again as to time.
III Shall we have band That's the
pes.ion for our village just now. On
tro or three recent occasions band has
Zen particularly wanted, and as so many
Enterprises in this place have been start
~ so we'll and SO successfully this year,
n this project be now started and car
Ied forward with the others. What say
Fu?
81 "A passenger on the train at the
{tine of the accident at Brockway's Mills
nj week, informed us that during theil
Eeul he could distinctly see the hair or
be heads of some of his fellow passen
FH rise up straight like bristles, and
resumes his own did for it felt enough
EIike it, and he is sure he had his share
~ the fright.
M Mr.. S. E. Stearns of Bartonsville
4 xho lives near but not in sight of thu
rene of the late railroad disaster, hearC
Die roar of the passing train, a sudder
Eeash, and then a silence, which he in
kDreted to mean that trouble had oc
parfvd, aud immediately harnessed hi
horse and was soon at the place of tn
|ecident, and with his neighbors engages
IA caring for the passengers.
" - We learn that the man in who's
Inc the misplaced switch was left, nea
Bartonsville, and through whose care
ksness the accident happened, has bee
discharged from the road. He was sec
&0d section man, and was too busily Ell
Fged in getting hay from the side of til
nilroad track to think of the SWITCH
there is painful rumor, however, ths
Ne mans sensibilities had that day bee
bo much blunted by strong drink, to /
mindful of his duties. IF so we have
temperance lecture in the case. Othe
Wise the man is we'll spoken of, but it
! EVIDENTLY not his forte to tend switches.
- Taft's pictures of the railroad acc
TENT are in great demand. He sold
Ne local trade alone over 70 durir
Wednesday forenoon, Immediately aft
hey were out, and was unable to supp
lis orders by mail. He now has fu
apply. A wish having been expresse
~ many that the scene might be pilot
eraphed, Mr.. Taft has gratifed tn
Kish, and all, especially our own tow
nen, can have the opportunity of pl
serving in that form what was doubtlt
fhe most thrilling and perilous scene tn
over happened in this town.
Mr.. w. III. johnson had narr,
Escape from serious injury at least
Wednesday. He was engaged at abe
II o'clock in some work about the n,
block, helping to move a timber we
lieve, when by a sudden movement
fell backwards through a scuttle sol
twelve or fourteen feet, into the baseme
below. His head and body were son
what bruised, and he kept about duri
the day apparently not seriously injur
but the fall was of such a nature, a
being a man of some 10 or $50 |
weight, it is wonder he was not W
seriously injured.
AN Irish couple were married
Canal Street on Saturday evening |: