Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-12-15
letter From Woodstock.
County Court-Judge Banett's Charge-I.i-
quor Prosecntion-M oodstock newspapers
Incident OF admission to the Bar.
wooDsrocK, Dec, 6, 1871.

ty Court was opened here by an appro-
pirate prayer from Rev. Mr.. Hewitt OF
the Universalist church. Judge Barrett
being detained at his house by sudden
and severe, yet temporary illness, Judges
Marcy and French filled what they could
of the bench very satisfactorily, for the
forenoon, the senior judge calling the
court docket in the attempt to find out |
from the bar what was in readiness to |
be done. Sixty.fve out of some 2S3
cases we're noted for trial and the court |
adjourned Cor dinner. At two o'clock
p NJ, Judge Barrett assumed his accus-
toned place and made very sensible !
and comprehensive ia k to the large ju-
rors, while the little ones awaited in re-
spectful silence their turn. The speech
from the judicial throne on this occasion
was the more important because of the
Ludlow murder case of last summer, so
fully reported in the TIMES during the
investigation, in which one Italian organ
grinder is now confined here in Jail for
the alleged murder of his comrade. The
evidence to come before the grand jury,
as it is understood. being entirely circum
stantial, the Judge explained to the jury
their duties, intoxicating the well estab
lished doctrine that this kind of evidence
is Just as conclusive, as direct testimony,
provided the links are so connected as to
carry conviction to the jurors mind Of
the guilt of the party charged.
The court came in this morning and
to-day have been at work in trying No.
40, Asa T. Barron us. Henry F. Porter,
u very civil suit, conducted by very civil
attorneys, Messrs. Collamer and johnson
for plaintiff, AMI the Pingrys of Hart
ford for the defendants. But the end is
not yet.
Since the burning of Henry's hotel, a
few years since, there is but one tavern
in this city, and that is so we'll kept by
Mr.. Fairbanks that it is largely patron
lied, last night every cot and corner be-
ing filled and running over. But IT Is
5 loosely whispered around that States
attorney Edminster is in league with
.. Fairbanks this term, in furnishing Gus.
toners. Whether be has any pecuniary
interest in the concern may not be known
i unless enquired into by the grand jury
d At any rate large number of witnesse:
! are arriving having hotel headquarters
Il and being introduced to the inqulstorla
t. brigade of IS men who hold their daily
sessions under the lead of the States at
torney, in the basement corner room o
Il the court house. Sheriff Amsden guard
y the door of this little masonic museum
y and moves with noiseless step to and from
. the entrance, introducing one by on
= those persons prepared for initiation. |
? is believed from appearances and from
'e occasional utterances outside, of sue
u language as Uncle Toby said was use
O. by our ''Army in Flanders that dill
~ gent search is in progress for intoxica'
:. ing liquor and vendors of the same bu
70 with what success, time alone will detel
g mine. Are men 10 be blamed for
% treacherous memory? And, especial
u if the Darwinian theory of the Mamma
ie liza race be correct, ought we not to wa
"a for further development of the gent
~ homo, ere we condemn the man who's
y breath, and clothes, and entire person
SO saturated with the odor of onions tn;
10 he cannot remember the last time he e'
of err tasted, or saw or heard of that swee
er scented vegetable? Indeed, is he Gel
d. surable, if he swear he does not use I'll
&C. article at all. 1t is sometimes gravel
IN. said that a certain mephitic animal new
n scents his own effiuvia, but Mr.. Edito
ng you do not believe it do you? And y
,t- il would be difficult for him to tell whel
, a he got it,
ais | went to-day to look after the dep
las of the Woodstock railroad. But ala
I'D its sight and track was all covered wi
er snow. The overwhelming financial drou
nv of 1869, followed by the terrible Oct
". Der freshet of the same year, seems
", have delayed, or ruined the prospect
its speedy completion. II is even sa
that since the Chicago fire and the raw
zR ges Of he consuming flames which spre'
ell all over northern Wisconsin and Miel
OIL gan, all responsible insurance compani
ful decline to take the risk. Even the VI
Its mon. Central and Vanderbilt will n
rit- write policy. We are sorry at the b
or look which the the thing presents, for
in ought TO be built.
tn The attempt of the town some ye
the and half since TO call to the aid of t
ich suffering patient the really talented a
md experienced medicine man, who once "
ing the favorite family town physician, al
,er. who, if the record be right, acted as
it'll coucher at the birth of the promising
au FAINT Droyes q failnre He cama