Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-10-21
CrnOnt News.

nc Governor has appointed james
~ siade, Jr, of Middlebury, Secretary
OF Civil and military affairs.
A young lady in New Haven has
plfeed silk and worsted bed Quilt in
winch there are 1856 difIent pieces.
Hon. Moses Kittercdge of St,
bloomsbury, has made donation of one
Thousand dollars to the Orphans Home
at Burlington.
Clothes thieves visited Bridgewater
on the night of the 9th, carrying away
nearly $50 worth of clothing belonging
to different parties.
Sam vel Booth Of Ferrisburgh rails
cd on his farm and threshed this season
twenty-three hundred bushels Of grain,
consisting of wheat, oats and barley.
- A little girl three years old, of N.
X. Wolcott's Shoreham, set its clothes
on fire with matches last week, and was
so badly burned that she died soon after.
A lad named Woodward living in
Manchester, was seriously injured recent
ly by the accidental discharge of gun
IN the hands of another boy with whom
he was hunting.
- The St. Johnsdury Caledonian
learns that those well informed in regard
to the circumstances, have little doubt
that the late Geo. f. Houghton of St.
Adams committed suicide. We under.
stand within year he has at times
manifested unmistakable signs Of insani-
ty.
- As Miss Alice Doton was passing
the church in Randolph, Tuesday, the
4th inst, some of the laborers threw some
rubbish out of window, frightening her
horse so it ran with her and threw her
from the carriage. She was quite severely
injured but no fears are entertained for
her recovery.
= 1t is thought that the house of Hi
ram Jenness, of Sheffield, which was
burned few nights since, caught fire
from the pipe of Mrs Jenness, who was
not in the habit of smoking in the house
and went to the shed TO smoke, the even
ing before the fire, when it is supposed
she dropped some FIRE from her pipe.
= Quite an excitement has been rag
ing in the Normal School at Ran dolph
among the fair sex concerning jute
switches. Some of the pare hts wrote to
the daughters to desist from the use of
the dangerous ornament, because of the /
g reptiles said to originate therein.
The advice spread and the effect upon
the size of the head OF the majority was
.ruly startling. Only switches bestowed
Oy nature are now tolerated
= DR.. B. f. Wiley, Of Bridgewater,
some years ago received an Injury by
he cars running over his leg. from which
,e has never fully recovered. A few
weeks ago he bruised this same leg and
IN abscess formed, which stopped the
'rteries supplying the foot and mortitica-
lou was the result. As last resort
he limb was amputated by DR.. Chan
Her, who was assisted in dressing the
wound by Drs. Richmond and Sherwin.
The parts for severa! days refused to
zeal, but we learn that some attempts at
lealing are beginning to appear.
= An accident occurred on the Cen
raj road near Braintree on Monday
light, by which twelve cars and the en-
line on No. 10, going south, were thrown
rom the track. The accident was cans.
d by cattle on the track. The cars and
ngine were all badly smashed, and the
rain with which the cars were loaded
vas scattered over the ground, The !
Silas Bell, was killed, and the
ngineer and conductor Injured, /