Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-01
Vermont News.
Vermont has 1S9 blind people.
- The Vermont State Prison now hi

county at from $40 to S23 per head.
- DIR. A. =. Brown of Charleston was
thrown from his wagon few days since
and seriously injured.
- year ago well-to.do farmer in
Coventry signed a patent right swindle
and now parties in Middlebury ask him
TO pay them the sum of $3.50.
- There is now living in Williston q
lazy aged "a years, and strong healthy
woman for that age, who has had thirty.
three children of her own. She has been
three times married
A two year old son Of Lorenzo
Grandey of Barton Landing was severe.
ly scalded on Saturday of last week, by
turning a tea kettle of boiling water on
his face and stomach.
The loving wife of Mr.. Alfred
Forbes, of Swanton, presented her hus-
band with fine boy last Friday. The
happy husband feels quite proud since
he became father. He is only SO year S
old.
- Chas. H. Jones, of North Benning-
ton, has invented new and improved
process for regulating steam engines, by
which the complicated and expensive APP
paratus now employed is very much sim
plified and cheapened.
A five dollar bill, carefully pasted
on prepared paper, which was in one OF
the thoroughly roasted Chicago safes, has
been returned to the Irasburgh National
Bank of Orleans for redemption. Ii
looks as if it had been tried by fire."
- There has been considerable excite
ment at McIndoes Falls the past week,
in consequence of the abduction of a
young girl from her fathers home, on
Wedn dsday evening, by parties who wish
ed to prevent marriage that was to take
place next day. She has not since been
found.
e St. Johnsbury undertook to get up
an excitement by fox chase on the Fair
Grounds, but it wasn't success. The
managers had three foxes, and the first
one let 60 chased the dog and scared him
SO that he ran into the crowd and they
kicked him out.
- fellow giving the rame of III. S.
Fitch, and protesting to hail from New
York State, has recently suddenly de-
parted from Rutland, after duping sew
eral parties in Now York and Western
States. He appeared in the guise of a
commission merchant in -four, lumber,
etc.
The teacher of the graded school
at Winooski was sued, recently, for 800
damages for Furnishing boy so that, ac-
cording to the testimony, he had to sit
upon pillow. The jury, however,
thought it only good sound spanking,
such as the boy deserved, and gave the
case to the teacher
A little son of Henry Wilson, of
North Brook field, while playing with
other children, fell into a well some
twelve feet deep, and containing about
four feet of water. Not much liking
such cold bath, the little fellow, who
is only about six years old, caught hold
of the wall and climbed out, before any
assistance arrived.
- Mr.. B. f. Thomas of Hardwick
was badly chopped while hewing railroad
ties on the 18th. 1t appears that he was
hewing, and one of his hired men was
scoring the same stick, when accidently
in some way, the scorers axe hit Thomas
full blow just below and back of his
hip inAicting cash six inches long and
three inches deep.
- Miss Phebe Goodwin resident of
Bradford, 81 years old the 18th day of
last May, has spun during the last sea-
son, 406 skeins of yarn, and twisted 46
skeins. She has knit II pair of feelings,
of which she sold for 60 cents per pair,
s pairs of double mittens, and will get
in or out of a carriage as spry as three
fourths of the ladies of forty.
= Frank Todd and Levi Boyd, young
men of Readsboro, walked to North Adj
ans, Mass, on Friday. 18th inst, and
separated on their return when within a
few miles of. home, the former taking an
obscure road, upon which, his lfeless body
was found on Saturday. There were no
marks of violence on his person, and the
impression prevails that he expired wnil
in fit. He leaves wife, two children,
and life policy of $1,000.
A man who seems to be loosing his
faith in womankiud, has posted the fol-
lowing "notis in the Berlin. VT, post
Office:
My wife, Mary Miller, having deceiv-
ed me in regard to her age, before mar
riage, claiming to be 26 only when she