Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-07-21
LOCAL MATTERS.


rms & Wilson and Geo. w. Nutting
Furnish it.
- Mrs. Warren Wiley will speak in
spiritual Hall, Bartonsville, next Sun
LAY, July %.
nj - Three thousand and five hundred
Quarts of Strawberries were shipped from
quincy during the season just closed,
= Dea. Cragin has some most excel.
Int cheese, inferior to none in market
thanks for a liberal sample from which
~ Judge.
- The water commissioner gives notice
Mat the water will be shut off all day
next Sunday. Let the whole village
rovern themselves accordingly.
|S = In connection with the New York
zxiot, we give elsewhere brief account
u the +" Battle of the Boyne," which
hough now ancient history" will he of
pecial interest at this time.
- A drunken man appeared in the
&reets on Tuesday and began to deliver
temperance lecture, and among other
fhings said that "when Moses received
Nthe Revelation he had the delirium ire
mems
= The Canal Co. having shut off the
Qater for few weeks to rebuild the canal,
those enterprising machinists, Messrs Os-
food q Barker, promptly put a steam
boiler into their shop and thus keep it
mining.
Farewell to old potatoes. Neigh
6er, Henry w. Sabin has left with us a
LIBERAL supply of nice Early Rose. This
yariety are coming out ahead again this
1eason and sustaining their previous rep
utstion.
Rev. Mr.. Weaver is to give a series
Of Eve lectures on each Sunday afternoon
It Engine Hall, at 4 o'clock, during the
next five Sundays. His subject is the
Creation, from religious aud scientific
point of view.
e - The northern mail closes at 1l:15
An, but all letters for Chester, Ludlow,
Springfield, Claremont, Charlestown,
Windsor, Woodstock, and the larger
towns north, will go up the same day
evening, if put into the post Office before
2P. NJ.
Mrs. A. Derby generously opened
her doors TO all on Wednesday evening,
and more than two hundred people paid
their respects, the occasion being the
opening Of two flowers OF that rare plant
the night blooming cereus. The beauty
Of the flowers and their peculiar and
fine fragrance we're much admired. and
the privilege enjoyed fully appreciated.
The 9 Vermont Mason, is the title
az d new monthly just started at Rut-
land, Henry Clark, editor. 1t is devot-
edfo the interests of the Masonic frate-ni-
III The craft will no doubt find it con-
renient mode of communication in the
State, and for that it could not well be in
better hands
A. :. Granger has left in our Office
several varieties of grass and oats of
rank and large growth, gathered on Sa-
bins and Bancroft's meadow-"Lake de
Sabin." The oats had attained growth
Of 5 feet 10 inches in height, herds grass
feet 6 inches, red top feet, witch
grass 6 feet inches.
= A slight shock of an earthquake
was felt in this village at about O'Clock
All, this Thursday morning. On Hen
III street it seemed to vibrate east and
I'D. At Chester we learn the shock
~ quite sharp. A shock is also report
n Portland, Maine, exactly twenty
fo1 hours earlier.
Any one Wishing to rent good and
p hanent water power for manufacture
in1 can now do so in this place. The Ca
~ Co. are prepared to rent shops aud per-
4 m1nent power. An article in relation
totheir works, and al important item
therein relating to freights, will be found
inanother place.
The cry of murder was raised on
Canal bridge, Bridge street, Tuesday
night at little before 10 O'Clock. 1t
appears that stranger was passing
toward the Island house, at that time,
and was attacked by number Of per-
sons standing on the bridge, but our re-
porters have been unable to gather any
hing very serious out of it.
advertised Letters. Joseph Pous.
nd, +. F. Marsh, Lewis Hitchcock
Mrs. r. B. Pulsipher, r. Q. Morse, Mrs.
Emily A. Stearns.
- DR.. l.. E. Wells, formerly of this
county and son of Col. S. B. Wells of
Athens, has located at Battle Greek,
Mich. for the practice of his profession.
Dr.. W. has been honored by the ap-
1ointment from the commissioner of agri-