Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-03-25
falls Times,
LOCAL MATTERS.

c. b. Cutler, VIM. Lynch, Ellen Farr.
One of Estey's FIVE octave melode-
ons are offered for sale in our columns
thh week. 1t is good chance.
The annual village school meeting
Il called at the School House on Tuesday
evening of next week, at u o'clock.
- N. ii. Farr & Co have established
ther quarters, for the settlement Of their
accounts, at the store of Z. A. Turner.
W The water has finally worked a !
channel through the ice in the river and
eddy below the canal, which is regarded
y favorable for the spring freshets.
Rutland has voted that all her fu-
ture town and freemen's meetings for the
year 1870 shall be held at Rutland vii
lage, instead of West Rutland as hereto
fore
The dwelling house on Reading
town farm caught fire few days since,
from some defect about the chimney, but
~ discovered and extinguished before
doing much damage.
L. Amadon has just got his store
ArIly reconstructed this week, from the
I1te fire, has good stock of goods and
mites his customers and friends to make
Lin a call. They will find him ready to
finnish anything in the jewellers line.
+ The young men and boys of this
place will do we'll to take special look
atiheieepulp in the river and eddy below
IL canal, as such view may not APP
pear there again for a generation, and
LEY will want to remember it as pre-
dent.
= Clark & Whites troup give their
oosing entertainment at Felchville on
Midday evening of this week, and will
then break up. Mr.. Clark goes to New
York in about two weeks to join French's
circus which is to make tour through
The country soon.
= There was a splendid auroral dis
Nay at about midnighton Monday night.
HE northern sky was handsomely illu-
minated with numerous blades of white
Hghts, while eastward blush tints shot
III, and still further, or two-thirds the
Way into the eastern sky, broad and
hen crimson closed the exhibition, or
nther that's the way it was when We left.
- AT the recent town meeting it was
noted that at future day the Modera-
pr should appoint committee of three
isinterested persons, relative 10 setting
iii a portion of School District No. to
District No. 3. The following named
persons have been notified of their ap
oointment as such committee VIM. III
johnson, Geo. c. Bidwell, E. r. Osgood
= Mr. l.. Amadon has just finished fine
I've hundred dollar, Astronomical clock
Which is well worth looking at. 1t is
Entirely of his own manufacture, and wa
Begun by him some twelve years ago
and been made in "odd jobs" 1t i
hrge, standing over six feet high, has
hood honest face, and looks as if i
night be the father of all the clocks in
town. 1t has mercurial pendulum AM
y not therefore affected by heats an'
bids, and thus keeps up the " balanc
q power" with the contraction or ex
Rnsion of the pendulum rod. Mr.. An
6on has built it in some respects upo
leas of his own, and its first ten day
Running indicates it to be a standard tim
Regulator
The entertainment at Union Ha
on Wednesday evening by Clark I
White was received with great favor b
large audience. They are the be
minstrel troup in the country, and it is
source of much satisfaction that by u
omission of so much of the coarse al
disgusting, they have so greatly impro
Id this class of entertainments. nj
Clark gave some of his finest songs i
terspersed with the comic, while 3" Hank
White constantly improves in the com
brit and sharpness of his peculiar Dire
lery. The Others performed their pal
well, especially Chiriskie, whose feats u
on the silver wire, &C., were done WI
3satisfactioD.
John Dempsey, recently injured
falling from Hinsdale bridge at Br'
tleboro, died March 10th. He got b
ter and was out, took cold which caus
a relapse.
A young lady in Brattleboro ma
a somnambulist excursion the other mig
of more than a mile in the snow, ba
M foot. in her robe de nut, and only awe
as she locked the door on her retu
Result, severe cold.
The hotel at South Vernon, owl
by Charles Merrill was destroyed by
March 18th. The fire took in the a
from defect in the chimney. Mr.. NJ