Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-01-27
LOCAL MATTERS.


1sro on Monday,
~ Mrs. S. A. Wiley will speak in
Spiritualist Hall, Bartonsville, next sun
day.
- Now is the time to see that fires are
safe. We hear of several recent escapes
from fire in this village.
- We suppose the regular temperance
meeting is to be held next Sunday eve
ming. but nave not heard where.
lecture this Thursday evening at
Westminster, before the Farmers Club,
BY Henry Clark Of Rutland.
All rum sellers, rum drinkers, gam
blers and fast young men will do well to
read the last words Of Henry Welcome.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Hartland
who have not previously disposed Of
their wool are now selling at 40 cents
per pound.
In the town Of Nottingham, with
in the last fifty years, several persons
have attained to the age of one hundred
years, and over.
Rev. d. NJ. Crane (Baptist), North
Springfield, received by donation from
hisparish SIS, on Friday evening, Jan.
9th.
The largest and best display Of Sew
ing machines ever made in this place
may be seen at the store of George W.
huntington all of which, w. II. Up
ham is agent
We are assured that the village
corporation has full supply of hooks
and ladders, which are kept in the en-
CINE house 1t was stated in corpora
ton meeting last year that we had none.
The FIVE young men engaged in a
free Eight at Tyson Furnace recently.
we're brought to Plymouth last week,
and three Of them, John Gales, Michael
Sullivan and Charles Daley. were fined
four d liars each and costs.
Tie wife of Prosper Merrill Of
Woodstock, in attempting, Sunday even
ing, 70 pass from one room to another,
mistook the door and fell down the eel
lar stairs, breaking one wrist, spraining
the other and receiving severe cut in
her head.
- Rev. J. G. Wilson of Saxtons Riv-
er, gratefully acknowledges a very pleas
ant visit from his people, on Thursday
evening Of last week, who left with him
cash and vauables TO the amountof son e
fifty dollars.
1t is an item in favor of this place
Just now, when the want of water is so
general elsewhere, that there is no such
complaint here for the purpose of run
ming neutrality-suspicious. to the work OF
the present Canal Co. last summer.
- The Caremont, On. H. Manufaot-
uring Co., have our thanks for copy OF
the New Hampshire Register an an
nual that should be a Military necessi-
ty' to every New Hampshire man, and
all on the Vermont border will find il
very convenient to have in the house. "
A man in the vicinity of Wood
stock has been so severely poisoned ano
paralyzed by drinking cider that was
Conducted through lead pipe into hi'
cellar, that he is unable TO raise his hand,
to his head, or to attend to bis ordinary
business. The pipe was not cleaned Of
rinsed out the first year, but laid away
and used last fall without cleaning.
The weather has been oppressively
cod this week, the coolest day being
Monday. when it marked 13o to 1872 be
low zero in the morning. AT Bartons
vile it marked IS below, at Andover q
and at Woodstock %. There has ye
been no good sleighing here, wheels bein!
still in general use--a very rare occur
renee for this section and the winter al
ready half gone.
We have received so many inquir
les about the circular saw and shingl
mil advertised in the TIMES last week
that we answer all by saying that tn
property is situated in Weston, VI, tina
the capital required will not exceed $3.50
or $500, and that further particulars ma
be obtained by addressing II. II. Mont
gomery, North Ferrisburg Vt. TIL
mil is but nine miles from Ludlow raj
road station.
= The Union meetings to which re
erence has already been made, are beu
attended by the evident tokens of the D
vino favor. Under the faithful aud pu,
gent preaching of the Word by Rev. T
G. Dewitt, the people are being move
as never before in the history Of til
place. Several have already yieloe
themselves to Christ, and daily, new one
are pquiring, What must | do to |
saved" Children aud strong men are t
gether bowling at the Gross, and risir
viii new hopes, and new life in Chri
Iesus oo on their way rejoicing O III