Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-11-17
9ellows falls Gimes,
LOCAL MATTERS.

November Goth.
i Richard Oregon of Brattleboro,
s will deliver lecture on temperance, at
Il Rockingham Center, next Monday even
q ing. Give him "a full house.
Dogs have been making sad havoc
u with the sheep in Westmoreland, N. II,
d the past season, nearly fifty having been
j killed in the north part of the town.
4 a most brilliant auroral display
occurred On Thursday evening OF last
4 week-iust before the snowstorm-the
crimson arches shooting up TO the zenith.
= Lewis Mcneil of Hinsdale n. H.,
q was fatally injured two weeks ago, by
i the fall of barn door, producing con-
q cussion of the brain, living but a day af-
q ter the accident.
Il Messrs Moore q Shepley expect to
II have their paper mill in running order
4 on or before the first of next month,
u when they will commence the manufact-
ure of wrapping aud paper hangings.
The Balihs will hold another meet
ing at o'clock on Saturday evening, at
room No 5, in Union Block, for the
transaction of any village business that
may come before them.
q We hope that our readers will excuse
al extraordinary matter on this page
this week. Friends claim the space as
Il military necessity" and it has been
Surrendered as was our dwelling Monday
evening.
III = w. j. Conant announces new and
nce stock Of furniture this week, ard
q hereafter will also deliver the same to
u all purchasers in this and adjoining
towns See his advertisement. Those
wanting goods in his line will do well to
give him call.
Those who may wish to buy or sell
stocks and bonds, will fnd the house of
Fisk & Hatch, New York, among The
very best in America with which to do
their business, and we therefore cordially
commend attention to the advertisement
tn second page.
I'M - Inquiry is made if We are to have
any lectures this winter. Wecannot an
wer the question. but would it not be
well 10 ascertain how may tickets will be
taken in the village for them, say three
Or four? and thus ascertain if suffi-
cient patronagecan be obtained to sustain
q course.
|A The village Bailifs have let the south
room Of Engine Hall building on Canal
street nov occupied as an oyster and fish
market to A. N Kidder d Co, and the
loom they now occupy for their marble
sorks, being on the same floor with the
1 Lookup, is 70 be vacated and will be oc-
cupied as police headquarters.
- The first snow Of the season fell on
Friday and Friday night last to the depth
aof 81 inches, very unusual amount
FOR this place SO early in the season, and
for few days the streets were lined with
sIeighs The rain storm and January
thaw " of Tuesday night, however, has
carried off most of the snow, and wheels
arc again the unanimous order.
= Last year Mr.. r. s. Blanchard of
Walpole, n. H., planted two kernels OF
Canada corn, from which he raised six
Teen ears OF sound corn. This year he
used the sixteen ears for seed and raised
n therefrom 100 lbs. of nice sound corn,
Il being 70 bushels. The place on which
he raised this and other nice crops is adj
II vertised forsale in our columns this week
p r. Chandler and his son, Frank
b., extensive business men in Chicago,
but formerly of this place. both came
but of the great fire all right. The firm
of Chandler Pomeroy Il Noyes, commits
sion merchants and financial agents, (of
which Mr.. T. r. Chandler is a member
also passed safely through the great or
deal, and have issued a circular giving a
very encouraging view of the rebuilding,
Reconstruction and financial affairs of the
city.
A case of highway robbery extraor-
binary occurred in the bridge nearthe tan
merry, this side of o. III. Blacks, mile or
% below this village, on Wednesday even
Ing. Mr. Mosely, who drives four
horse team, and is wholesale dealer in
whips and cigars, entered the south end
s. of the bridge which was so dark nothing
could be seen, and ran into a single team
which was entering the other end, and
driven by Mr.. jones of Walpole, who
can only whisper, having lost his voice.
AL came to halt, and Jones leaving
bis wagon commenced whispering, and
seized Mosely's herses and not being able
Of course to make himself understood.
began climbing upon Mosely establish
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