Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-19
Vermont News.

of bullets picked up on one of the battl
fields of the recent rebellion.
| -Perley Stone of St, Johnsbury, ha
a hen with four wings, the two extr,
wings growing from the same joints will
the regular ones and turning up insteac
of down. The four are about the sam,
size.
Mrs. Abial Chamberlain of New
bury, woke in the night of the 30th ult
feeling unwell, took some medicine, said
she felt relieved, and died in fifteen min
utes afterwards. She was as well as us
ual the day before.
Henry Magoon, 80 years old, is
the tallest man in Washington, being
six feet seven and one-half inches high
IN his stocking feet, and weighing over,
two hundred pounds. There is fair
prospect of his being good sized man
when he grows up.
= Richard Sterling, one of the first
settlers of Warren, has already reached
the advanced age of ninety-one years,
and bids fair to reach a century. He
has never failed of being at the polls on
the first Tuesday in September since he
was resident of the town.
= The wife of Mr. Joseph Pepper, of
Bennington. came near loosing hei life
from the inhalation of the poisonous va
pors from compound forpoisoning rats,
which she was recently heating on the
stove. She felt the influence of the
poison rapidly operating on her senses
and calledinap asser-by, who's brought
aid.
Among the recent occurrences in
Bennington, which partakes of the sub
lime and ridiculous, is suit brought by
a common drinker against vendor of
whiskey for some two hundred drinks,
each of which will of course make an
indictment. If the matter is pushed, it
will make rather wholesale affair for
the one in whose hands ''the tail comes
off,"
- Harvey Bartholomew of West Hart
ford was recently prosecuted for viola
ton of the prohibitory law, and though
$50 distinct sales were proven against
him, the jury found him guilty of three
violations only. He was subsequently,
arraigned for drunkenness and breach of
the peace, to which he plead guilty and
paid his fine.
ON Friday morning, Jan. 90, while
a boy was drawing child three years Of
age, son of Edwin Hapgood. of Lowell,
Mass, formerly of North Troy,) along
the brink of Concord river, he slipped
and fell, and the child was thrown over
the bank into the river and drowned
The body was not found for an hour or
more after the accident occurred.
Abel Park, who lived in the north
west part of Lyndon, died suddenly
Wednesday night, the 9th inst. He was
in usual health the day previous, and
Wednesday evening he visited at his
brothers with his wife. Some time dur
ing the night, Mrs. Park was awakened
by her husband in distress, and before
the neighbors could be aroused, he died.
He was stout, thick-set man, of about
so years, and it issupposed apoplexy was
the immediate cause of his death.
Levi Smith, of Wheelock, was re-
Gently prosecuted for an assault and bat
terry upon William Folsom, and fined SO
and 81 costs. Smith was moderator of a
school meeting. The subject of collect
ing taxes came up, when Folsom charged
Smith, who had been collector, with ne
glect in collecting taxes. Smith retort-
ed by intimating that Folsom had forged
orders ON the district treasurer Folsom
then squarely informed Smith that he
was liar, when Smith came down from
the chair and struck him.
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