Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-29
Vermont News.

William Harvey, Jr., of Barnet,
was thrown from load of hay recently,
and striking on some rocks received Sc
we're injuries.
A son of William Green of St.
Johnsbury, fell from tree recently, from
which he was picking fruit, and broke
his leg.
- VIM. Horton, clerk in Shaw's in
surance office at st. Johnsbury, is a de-
faulter TO the extent of 5000, and has
disappeared.
- Mrs. John Page of Sutton, 81 ears
of age. has spun FIVE skeins day du-
ring the last three weeks.
- About six hundred tons of hay
have already been sold in the vicinity
of Alburgh for shipment to the citiea.
The high price of $50 was realized for
most of it.
John Allison, of Newbury, while
in liquor, attacked his hired man with
a scythe, cutting his hip in terrible
manner. He tried to follow up the as
sault but was prevented by by-standers.
A son of Edwin Hayes, of Stowe,
about five years old, accidentally fell
down stairs, recently, and struck ON a
scythe, cutting fearful cash across his
abdomen, which it is feared will result
fatally.
- Bennington announces that her Jail
has been empty now these two weeks,
and half her rum shops are closed up,
and thinks it time that item about her
" sixty open rum shops and Jail full of
drunkards was called in.
Lemuel Woods, of Peacham, met
with serious accident recently. His
horse ran away, kicked his buggy into
pieces, throwing Mr.. Woods in such
manner as to break both bones of his
leg near the ankle, and inAict several
severe flesh wounds.
John G. Somers, of West Concord,
got under liquor and went to Milan
Smiths and tore around terribly while
the men were away. Mrs. Smith was
frightened and in the excitement her
little boy, two years old, tipped dish
of hot starch into his bosom, which
burned him SO as to eutanger his life.
Lewis Earle, of Woodstock, while
driving load of freight recently, fell
from his load. The load passed over
him, breaking his nose, and tearing the
flesh from his arm for several inches
above and below the elbow, so that joint
and muscles were exposed.
= As Frank Dean, brakeman on
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad,
was standing on the rear end Of his train,
at st. Johnsbury, the train coming in
from Concord backed against the train
he was on. The sudden jolt threw Dean
off his feet, and he fell on his elbow,
breaking it badly.
Seth Langdon, of New Haven, re-
Gently forgot that it was his seventy
fourth birthday, and with one pair of
horses moved eleven acres of grass. 1t
was on the old family farm, on Town
Hill where his father pulled the stumps
in the early agricultural development of
the finest farms in the state.
Henry Murphy, living in the south
east part of Bennington, had a narrow
escape from suffocation on the night of
the 10th inst. He retired to bed, read
a while and fell asleep. He was soon
after awakened by the smell of smoke
and when fairly awake, found all the
bed clothes in flames. BY presence of
mind he snothered the fire without
much damage
"A Bennington daughter, whose do
mestic nature is equal to her natural
was invi,e ed by an Advent ex-
horter to join his sect, get her white robe
ready, and prepare to ascend. I" L can't"
the maid replied Gather and mother
are going up, and somebody must stay
10 see to the cattle"
Mcfarland the tax gatherer at
Westmore, does not find his work of col
Letting taxes from the hands in the Ja-
cob's mill growing any easier. He re-
Gently made another attempt to collect
a tax of one Fairbrother, who refused
TO pay, and was lodged in Jail at Iras.
Durgh, but released the next day on bail.
Fairorother has now sued Mcfarland
for false Imprisonment
VIM. Dewey, of West Salisbury,
got in quite a passion the other day:
went into his neighbor George Taylors
gard and announced his intention of
killing him. Taylor did not want to be
killed and told Dewey so, which only
increased the passion of the selfconsti.
,uted executioner. When Dewey was
called upon in court to explain or de
END his conduct he had a fit of the i
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