Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-28
Vermont News.

hoW putting up elghiy cases OF mineral
water per day, worth at market rates
$40 or $3.50 worth per week.
Geo. Markham and Chas. III. Young,
of Worcester, while chopping last week,
succeeded in cutting each an ugly cash
in his foot. F0
- There was slight fire in house
on the Lake road, in St. Adams, on
Thursday night, caused by bed taking
fire from pipe which man went to
bed smoking.
= 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.
- On Friday night last, Mrs. Brig
ham, of West Randolph, received visit
from some night walkers who D." lifted"
her washing and crept back to his den
under cover of night.
- Thomas Stevens, of Waterville, on
Sunday last fell from the head scaffold
of his barn, striking on wagon wheel,
received injuries of such dangerous ma
ture that he is not expected to live.
A store in east Montpelier, contain
ing some $4,000 to $4,000 worth of goods.
belonging to T. V. Randall, of Montpel-
Ter, was entirely consumed by fire about
o'clock Saturday morning. An auc-
ton had been held there the evening
previous, but the origin of the fire is I'M
known. Insured. ten
The Weldon House at St, Adams,
the largest hotel in Vermont, has been
leased for term of years by Walter
Mcdonald, for an annual rental of s10,-
900.
- David Harrington and Dan Will
der were arrested in Bridgewater, the
other day, on charge of stealing, and
Justice Angel ordered them to give bonds
of 800 each to answer the charge at
County Court. This Harrington did,
but Wilder had to go to Jail.
Benjamin Reynolds, Of Tunbridge,
committed suicide by hanging himself
ON Monday morning. He was about
sixty years of age, and, it is said, had be-
come melancholy by reason of some re-
cent losses in property, although he was
still beyond want.
- While Orvis Philbrick was turning
a pulley at Gallop's mill in Browning
ton, on the 10th inst, his clothes caught
to shaft that was making some 400
revolutions minute, breaking his arm
below the shoulder and otherwise baby
bruising him.
The jewelry and watch repairing
shop, adjoining s. M. West & Sons store,
in Arlington, was entered on the night
of the 10th inst, and number of watch
es taken among them were several val
liable ones. No clue has yet been found
to the guilty party.
- Capt. VIM. j. Cain, of the Sd Z. S.
cavalry, arrived at his home in Rutland
a few days since, on six months leave
of absence. Captain Cain is one Of the
most efficient young officers in the cav
airy branch of the service. and has seen
nearly four years of continuous service
on the plains. He is son of the editor
of the Courier
Dogs are committing extensive raw
ages on sheep in the vicinity of Vergen-
mes and Waltham. J. Borough has
lost three, NJ. j. Birkett three, i. X. Ha-
ven one of his valuable blood sheep, by
canine marauders. 1t is singular fea-
ture in the "sheep fever" as the dogs
love of mutton isstyled, that when once
they get taste there is no remedy for
the disease but death.
- man named Young received in.
Ijuries at the steam mill in South Barton,
VT, on the 18th inst, from which he has
since died. He was standing near the
engine when the governor belt broke,
and before the engine could be stopped
its speed became so great, as to cause the
bursting of a pulley on shaft, one of
! the pieces of which struck Young on the
head, crushing through his skull and in
to the brain.
= Lucius Reed, one-armed veteran
soldier, hired team at the stable of H.
r. Ide, in St Johnsbury, May 1st, osten,
sibly to go to Concord. Not returning
at the stated time, Ide concluded he had
been " done for" and started in search
of his property, which, after several days
he found in Bradford, where the THE
had left it, prior to his departure fol
tparts unknown.
A man by the name of Alger, liv.
ing on Rice Hill, st. Adams, committed
suicide Thursday, by hanging himself
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