Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-12-20
Vermont News.

ly lost five hogs in one night-all he
had. Disease unknown.
= There has been worked up at the
starch factory in Coventry. this fall, TO-
600 bushels of potatoes, giving veiy
light yield OF starch.
- Benjamin Markham has resigned
the Office of postmaster OF Sherburne,
after having served in that capacity,
most of the time, for thirty-ive years.
- Patrick Crowley of VAUDEVILLE, was
thrown from his cutter on Thursday at
ternoon of last week, and received fright
full wounds ON his scalp.
- During the absence in California
of Mr.. Stone, the editorship of the st.
Johnsbury CaledoniGn will devolve on
Hon. A. G. Chadwick, who was the
founder of that journal.
Willis Hanscom of Sheffield, is
the champion fox hunter, he having
caught this fall, 25 and his brother
Barber has taken 9-and shot the tail
off the tenth-maklng "a between the
two.
= Luther Kendall, residing in the
west part of Hardwick, was recently
thrown from his wagon, consequent upon
wheel coming off, and seriously injured
AS Samuel Griggs of Readsboro,
was returning from North Adams with a
yoke of oxen and load, he fell and the
wheels ran over him, breaking his leg
below the knee. After lying out all
night, he managed to crawl home.
- Robert Churser, a lumberman OF
East Concord, got carried down the Con-
necticut on a raft, recently, and had his
life imperilled in the fifteen mile rap.
ids" he was thrown into the stres m
and rolled about promiscuously his wife
all the while watching him In agony,
from the Vermont shore, until finally be
gained rock. A religious meeting be-
ing held near by broke up and rescued
him, scarcely able from cold, fatigue
and fear, to " navigate the earth.
Mrs. E. Dawson of Newport Cen
ter has sold 200 lbs. of good butter this
-eason, from one COW, besides fattening
calf on the new milk, which weighed
when dressed 80 lbs, and the family of
three using what butter they wanted.
= One of span of horses owned by
William Fuller of Cambridge, slipped
in the road recently, and both horses
and wagon went down the bank into the
river. The horses were drowned and the
town will have them to pay for.
Mrs. Levi Barber of Hubbardton,
recently met with quite a serious acct
dent, at the depot in Castleton. As she
got off the night train, owing TO the ex-
IRENE darkness, she made misstep and
fell off from the platform of the depot,
disloeating the shoulder.
Poultney is one of the thriving
places in Vermont, and never advanced
in any one year as much as in the year
1872. The slate manufacture, which
has become the leading interest, has
been very prosperous the last year, the
sales being more than double of any
former year. Many new quarries are
now being opened with prospect of a
still larger increase of business another
year.
A man named McGinnis, while
driving horse and cart in the yard of
the Switzerland Falls Marble Company,
Tuesday afternoon of last week, was
thrown out of the cart, by the breaking
of an axle, striking his head on piece
of marble, the horse at the same time,
falling over him. The man had his jaw
broken and received several severe
bruises and Commissions.
A murderous row occurred in one
Of the BARRIERS shops, at Rutland, du-
ring the absence of the proprietor, few
evenings since, in which shears we're used
as weapons, and some of the parties re-
ceived severe cuts aud bruises. They
were separated, however, before any fa-
tai wounds were inflicted, and two of the
gentlemen were brought before Justice
Marshall and fined about ten dollars
each.
- Emmons Howe had the misfortune
to lose two fingers while at work in the
chair factory at Mortified, running a
circular srw; and Wallace Davenport
narrowly escaped immediate death while
at work in the same establishment by
The br aking of the circular saw which
he was operating, one portion of wbich
struck him violently upon the temple
shocking him over and stunning him.
but inficting no serious injury, as th,
saw struck him with the fat surface !;
had the sharp points of the teeth hiJ
him in the same place it must have
caused instant death.
SEVERE SToRM.-The snow storm of