Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-07-28
LOCAL MATTERS.

M - Mrs. Bliss Smith of Londonderry
81 has followed the trade of shoemaker fol
u forty years.
Who among the boys in this place
that are constantly jumping upon the
trains, will be the next victim2
Mr.. E. w. Bancroft has a fine Dur.
q ham bull calf, raised from the Elwell
stock he bought last year, weighing at
mine months 725 lbs.
- Any one desiring good set of tin
man's tools will find "a good opportunity
by referring to the advertisement of John
lkimball in another place.
- The fruit crop in this section, es-
pecally apples, is almost an entire fail
hre in most places, as usual after such
9Sau overflow as we had last year.
Gen. Phelps of Brattleboro has
been string up the Odd Fellows of that
place, and keeps things among the secret
societies there in very healthy condition
generally.
# The Messrs. Russell have some sixty
M men employed on the canal and build
ings they are now erecting, and expect
" to let the water into the new canal early
next week.
p. w. Taft has bought building
Slot just above Geo. Underwood's new
ouse on Atkinson street, and will com
hence the erection of dwelling there
on this fall
= w. II. Hughes and wife of Gull
hrd have been held to bail in the sum
n $500, on charge of larceny for a
focket-book containing sl45, belonging
N Tyler l., johnson.
: There will be Congregational
Preaching in Spiritual Hall, Bartonsville
next Sunday, by young man from Iowa
Who is native Of that place. A gene
raj invitation is extended.
A party of twenty five Brattleboro
gentlemen left that place last week, for
fishing voyage from Gloucester, Mass.
for the mackeral shoals, and have no
doubt had very enjoyable occasion.
The neighbors of Mr.. w. II. Thomp-
son of Athens, who was so severely in
Ajnred by an accident on the 4th Of July,
burned out few days since and did
very kind aud neighborly act by cutting
and getting his hay.
= We acknowledge the receipt of
very beautiful boquet from Miss s P. |
kedfield, Cambridgeport. The skill and
Taste with which it was arranged were
Only equalled by the number and varie-
tie of rare flowers.
We would call attention to the ad-
Prtisement of Gardner d Seymour of
Fulton, n. y, whose fiours are sold by |
kobbins Il Marsh of Chester. The fact
~ at they are sold by our Chester friends !
y sign of their good qualities and fam
Ne will do well to try them.
A = Michael Kneelan who died at the
&me of his daughter, Mrs. Dennis Flaw
A early Tuesday morning, had been the
AM wheel man of the TIMES office for
lore than eight years, having given up
S1 e place last December. OF steady and
Industrious habits his punctuality and re-
! liability were always of kind to adorn
the best walks of life
The Windsor Journal says that on
"Wednesday morning of last week, Major
LAY. c. Fay, with his daug hter-in-aw,
rs. L. Fay, and Mr.. Eaton of the Toll
lilo Blade, and his wife, left for Boston,
Mr.. Fay's private carriage. A novel
hd rare, but very pleasant mode of
Il old style of travel to the city, in these
Us.
: Several citizens complain and very
stly of the defacing of their front yard
nces by lawless boys, who appear to be
nder no parental or other authority,
putside of the sheriff In some instances
Don't fences have been nicely repaired
md painted only TO be immediately de- |
Z ced by vandalism deserving vigorous
sud prompt punishment, and as the stat
zptes fully provide for such cases, they
Mould be vigorously enforced
"A man named Mcdonald, work |
man on the Clark farm, was brought be- |
fore Justice Bridgman on Saturday and
fined SO and costs for assault on Jacob
Baraby. The trial rather showed that
Jacob was the aggressor in the first place.
but that Mcdonald Carried the war in |
10 Africa" and the justice therefore i'm
posed a light fine on him for going be-
yond necessary grounds for defence.
But for rum the affair probably would
not have occurred al all.
= Charles Hartman, boy of seven
\ teen years of age. whose parents live
across the river, was fatally injured on
The cars near East Putney on Monday