Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-14
Vermont News.

Hartford, and was changed to Its present
name in 1882.
- The shoe store of L. Bissonette, of
Bristol, was broken into Sunday night,
May I'd, and 500 worth of calfskin
boots and shoes stolen therefrom.
! Newell Stoker of Danville, lost
valuable new mich COW. The animal
was found dead in his water shed, hav-
ing been gored or fatally injured by one
of the oxen
= Three bears were killed at South
Duxbury last week, and two Others were
seen. Bears are said to be plenty in
that vicinity this spring.
On the LIST inst, L. j. McWain,
while going from Bethel to Rochester,
was thrown from his carriage and broke
both bones of the left arm close to the
wrist.
"A man named Chamberlain died
suddenly in Lyndon on the 1st inst, He
was at work the day before his death,
and it is thought he was poisoned by the
chemicals which he used in his trade,
that of silver-plating.
Some unknown fatal disease is pre-
vailing among sheep in Coventry, and
several farmers with good focks, have
lost large numbers. Lewis Nye has lost
25, Willard Frost % or more, and near
ly every farmer in that section has lost
more or less.
Moses Marshall of Bennington,
while drawing load of lumber, on the
14th ult., got stuck in snow bank. one
of his horses getting mad kicked him
senseess, and badly damaged watch in
his vest pocket.
- A fire broke out in the North Ben
nington boot and shoe mandatory on
| Tuesday morning last, damaging prop
erty to the amount Of $4,000 A pow
erful stream of water from hose con-
nected with the force pump Of Messrs,
Thatcher and Wellings' mill, was all
that saved them from loss of perhaps
100000, and throwing $50 hands out
of employment.
= As little daughter of Mr.. Patrick
O'Brien of Wells, about six years old,
was playing out doors on the Doth ult.,
her clothes ignited from a fire which
some Of the older children had built on
the ground near the house, and burnt
/ her so badly that she died the next week.
80 The superintendent of schools in
Duxbnry, in his report to the secretary
Of the Board Of Education, says: Two
old school-houses have given place to
new and more inviting ones in this town
during the past year, and now l do not
think there is one left which can be call
ed really unfit for the purpose" But
few towns can say as much for their
school houses.
The St. Johnsbury Caledonian says
that on April u, Mr.. Harvey Dunn Of
Ryegate tapped a maple standing neal
his house, inserting two spouts. The
sugar made from this tree on the nine
following days, when stirred off dry
weighed ten pounds.
- Alice Raymond's dramatic troupe
"bust up at St. Adams unable to pay
their bills, whereupon they sued each
other, and two of them took their tern
in Jail. The Messenger says the "cour
. scene" drew better audience than the
notices of admission 35 cents reserv
ed seats so cents"
- John M'Casco, the oldest inhabi
tant of Danville, died in that town OIL
the 26th ult., aged 80 years. The Sta
says he was native of Poland, and a
the age of II, was conscripted into tn
Austrian army, being engaged in mos
of the battles of the French Revolution
including that of Waterloo. He wit
messed the triumphant entry Of Bona
parte from Elba into Paris, in 1874
Soon after the battle Of Waterloo, an,
the final restoration of the Bourbons, h
! enlisted into the British army, and mus
tered with troops then about being
transported to Canada. He came t,
Danville in 1917, and settled on Oh,
farm where he died.
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