Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-21
Vermont News.

Mrs. A. Lavine, of St. Adams, gave
birth to daughter on the 18th inst,
with two front teeth developed.
On the 18th inst, the dwelling house,
shed and barns of Joel Bill, in Orange,
formerly known as the Jackson Tavern,
were entirely destroyed by fire.
Sally Ball, a townpauper, of Orange,
ate her supper as well as usual on the 4th
inst, and few minutes after fell to the
floor and Immediately expired.
- Beans Hotel in Newport took fire
on the 9Th inst, but the prompt use of
a fire extinguisher put it out. The Eir-
press has more faith in the extinguisher
than their fire engine.
There were shipped from Vergen-
mes between March LIST, 1868, and March
LIST. 1869, +27S, $50 pounds of butter, or
$4,000 pounds less than the previous
year. The shipments on Monday of last
week were 1882.
Otis Chamberlin opened store in
Pomfret thirty-nine years ago, and has
continued the business in the same build
ing, either alone or in co-partnership
ever since. Upon the first of May he
retired from business.
- Great complaint is made in Addi-
son county, that sheep are dying in great
numbers from grub in the head. Many
of them feed apparently well, until they
are seized with shivering, and fall dead.
Large focks have been seriously decim-
mated from this cause.
= Silas Henry, poor man of Sutton,
wishing to have team for work, bought
horse to match the one he chad, took it
home and put it in the barn, and the
next morning found that his new pur-
chase had kicked the old horse and broke
its leg.
= Mrs. Charles Hillo Lyndon, in emp
tying feather pillow the other day found
an iron spoon brought from Scotland 90
years since. 1t was made by hammering
out by hand, and is probably specimen
Of what was used in Scotland century
ago.
- Henry Welcome, convicted at the
late term of the Chittenden County
court of the murder of Perry Russell,
in Hinesburgh, last October, and who APP
pealed from the verdict, was on Friday
last taken to the State Prison, to await
the action of the Supreme Court in his
case.
- COW owned by Cassius Buck, Of
Fairfax, being apparently sick few
days since, was given medicine, when
she vomited up lizard which measured
IA inches in length, and about II inches
thick. 1t is supposed that she must have
swallowed the lizard when it was small,
and that it lived and grew.
- 4 burglary was committed in Mid
dlebury on the night of the 10th inst.
upon the store of L. r. Sayre, by boring
holes so numerous as to enable the ras-
Gals to remove a part of the lock from
the door and slip the bolts. They found
about $40 in shinplasters, which they APP
propriated, together with some candy and
other small articles, in all about s25.
= Eugene Cook, fireman in the en-
ploy of the Bennington & Rutland Rail-
road, was instantly killed, Friday morn
ing, in the railroad yard at Bennington.
He was attempting to shackle two en-
gines together when the coupling slipped
upon one of them, letting the other close
up to it, catching the young man between
them and crushing him to death.
"A hog house and corn barn with
their contents, belonging to C. NJ Jones,
of West Cornwall, were destroyed by
fire on Thursday, the 29th ult. The fire
took from fire built at short distance,
for the purpose of heating water prepar-
atory to killing the hog in the PEN
While Mr.. Jones was at tea, the build
ings took fire and were quickly consum-
ed. So the hog was not only killed, but
cooked without assistance. Loss about
$500. Insured in the Vermont Mutual
for so.
LTELI.'s LIVING AGE.-Mr. Froude's
inaugural address at st. Andrews Uni