Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-30
Vermont News.

T. ihC shiPnNneSo' P'uiti y iioui WI
gennes last Monday were 27,999 pounds
Butter 1864 pounds.
} Two of the dogs who have made
such havoc lately among the sheep in
Cornwall and Bridport have been killed.
- Coal has been discovered en- Henry
Titles farm in Benson, but whether the
vein is thick enough for working, is
not yet certain.
A boy named Frank Moon, 1.-THE brush
factory in Bennington, on Tuesday last,
was run over by a lumber wagon, and had
his left leg broken just above the knee.
= Saturday. 18th inst in going home
from Vergennes, a Mr.. Lynch of Panton
upset his wagon in crossing a bridge,
was severely bruised, and lost one of his
+ horses
= William Wicks Of Pawlet, VT, has
caught seventy-one foxes in one trap
within space Of three feet, also eleven
skunks ten crows and twenty-one coons.
He says the trap is not worth over five
cents.
- A few days since as Mr.. A. Afford
of Walden was engaged in chopping in
the woods, he was thrown from the log on
: which he was standing, striking heavily
upon his right side upon log, causing a
| severe internal injury.
The dwelling house, barn and shed
5 of Harvey Wiley of Barre was des-
! troyed by fire on the night of the 30th
7 of November. 1t was probably the
S work Of an incendiary. Insured in the
Vt. Mutual for $500.
j y Mrs. Clarinda Spaulding, an old
+ lady of SO years, broke her hip by
! fall, in Brandon, three weeks since,
e which caused her death some days after
d She was resident of Enosburgh and
: was visiting her daughter.
- A crossing has been made under
/, the railroad track at Castleton depot, SO
= that travel may not be all suspended by
. the necessary standing of trains at the
:. depot, nuisance of 20 years. The cut
~ ting cost 81 900, OF which the town pays
" 5000.
- Rutland boy named Hackett, is
- playful, rather. A short time ago he
/, nearly put out the eye of little boy
!, with thistle stock. A few days later,
% coming slyly behind another, he tripped
:, him up and dislocated his wrist. Again,
: using an old boot as missile, he play
a fully split schoolmate's lip, leaving an
;. ugly wound
ID = Michael McCann was put in jail at
D. Fairhaven Friday for intoxication, pried
j, the lock off with an iron bar which me
Ia one struggled in to him, and escaped,
ID next day appeared in the street, and was
es chased by the officers and recaptured.
is Now he has two charges besides intoxica-
n ton to answer for-breaking jail and re-
ssting the officers.
"A few days ago as the stage from
Wilmington to Brattleboro was near the
le summit of Hog Back Mountain in Marl-
d boro, the horses took fright at pile of
le freight near the road side and ran dis.
Al lance of three miles, demolishing the
y, coach and seriously injuring the driver,
Mr.. Swan, and one or two passengers.
b. The horses themselves we're nearly ruin
is ed.
3 = Died, Nov. 20, Mary, daughter of
a. +. and r. Goodrich Of Hardwick, aged
lie II years. About year ago she was
e, riding to Craftsbary in company with
a many others, and had her hip struck by
! some of the number. 1t commenced
ie swelling and became very painful, and
y sometime last simmer was opened, since
Or which it has been running sore until
We the day before her death it ceased dis.
IS charging.
T. In digging under the Congregation.
al church at Castleton recently valise
oi was found containing an outfit of bur
re glars tools, consisting of drills, chisels
ay screw-driver, oil can, powder-fuse, neal
y little devise for blowing powder into the
- hole, when drilled. The valise lay on
ne the top of the ground and had probably
te lain there ever since the last attempt to
vi enter the bank some eighteen months
Us ago.
g.
40 = That was worthy act indeed which
,s the Freeman records of Elijah Nye Of
a Berlin; who, considering the ill-looks Of
\. the Congregational church in that place
r. ordered painter to put on two coats Of
l. paint and bring the bill to him for pay
be ment, telling no one. 1t was not strange
~ that this doer of good became noised
y, about, and friends shortly after paid him
no a surprise visit, which abounded in con.
no CALCULATIONS and tokens of good will on
all sides.
= The Ne,esdealer says: VIM. Jack
ne son, sub-contractor on the l.. " r. r.,
n on the section commences at Morrisville