Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-12
Vermont News.

l feNts'''NS III ~. AhAD0ilS iNCCntils Luz
there is too much snow for easy travelling
Thomas Gordon, of Bondville, has
walked five miles in fifty.two minutes on
a wager of So. Where is Weston?
A Vermont genius wrote to the
postmaster at Lowell to know "who
kept the factory there?'
Michael Douglass, of Morristown.
was kicked in the chest by horse, a
week since, and died in consequence on
the 26th ult.
= An honest boy in Bennington re-
turned pocket book containing $40,
lost by G. A. Packer in the cars on Sun
day.
= The wheelwright shop and barn of
Mr.. John Creed, of Peru, was entirely
destroyed, with all its contents, few
nights since.
= Michael Corlcy, of Albany, while
returning from Morristown few nights
ago, froze both his feet so badly that he
will be crippled for life.
-Silas Randall of Greensboro, though
he is over so years of age, is still able
to read distinctly without the aid of
glasses.
- The residence of Robert French,
near East Hardwiek, was burned We'd
nesday, Jan. 9th. The fire is supposed
to have caught fire from the stove pipe.
Insured for $1,000.
Vermont is Boosting thatshe greas-
ed the " Hub" last year with two and
half million pounds of butter. How
much grease did the Hub" put in the
Green Mountain palm
A young man named Walbridge,
living in Williamstown, committed sui
eide by stabbing himself with a pocket
knife on the 23d. Depression of spirits,
caused by the death of his father, was
said to have been the cause.
While Nelson Briggs, of Franklin,
was carrying loaded gun on Sunday
last, it went off accidentally and lodged
the bullet in the back of his neck. The
wound is doing well.
Mr.. Joseph Boyers, of Hydepark,
an old soldier of the 1st Vermont Caval-
ry, while working in the woods on Satur-
dar last, getting mill-logs, received Sc
we're injury in the leg by log rolling on
to him. 1t is hoped that he will not be
permanently crippled by the injury.
A grand reform in dscarding to-
bacco in all its form has commenced in
Albany. Quite number have broken
off entirely, who had chewed, smoked or
snuffed for many years, some of them
more than half century, and are now
in their newly acquired freedom
from habits most disgusting and injuri-
Gus.
A dark skinned youth in North
field. son of French father and Creole
mother, handsome, intelligent and esti-
mable, was recently turned out of dane
ing school in that town on account of his
color. The young men of the class vot-
ed, 10 to y, in favor of the outrage,
while the young women sensibly voted,
10 to 1, against it, but the latter voice
was very consistently rejected. Such alb
surd idiots as these young men have no
business in Vermont.
"A drunken fellow who was guilty
of fagrantly disc, derby conduct in a
school house in Eden, while the teacher
and some other young ladies were clean
ing it, was taken down by them and the
school ma'am laid the "rule" down upon
the &c seat of his understanding"
The oldest minister in Vermont is
Rev. Ammi Nichols, of Braintree. Heis
in the eighty-eighth year of his age, and
the sixty-fourth of his ministry, having
preached in Braintree fifty-eight years. |
Next to him comes Rev, Rimeon Parm- |
lee, d. d., of Westford, who is eighty
seven years old and is in the sixty-second
year of his ministry. He has preaehnd
more than 10000 sermons, and attended |
lbout 1 900 funerals.
A man calling himself John Nit