Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-09-12
Vermont News.

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A Stowe laundress found 1896 in
the pocket of vest sent to be washed,
and returned it to the owner, but will
look to heaven for her reward.
Watering milk that is carried to a
cheese factory is not a profitable bust
ness, as a Williamstown man has real
lied $25 worth.
Traders in Montpelier are now of
fering but thirty cents bushel for good
potatoes. The crop is large this year,
and the quality excellent.
John Swininton, of Leicester, in
company with Dan Buel, of Orwell, left
Leicester Junction, the 2Sth inst, with
two car loads of sheep. bound for Cali
fornia market.
ID. Edgar Hill of Bridport, who
has been for many years prominent
breeder of fine horses. has been seriously
i'll for two months with acute rheuma-
tism, and dyspepsia of the worst style.
- Hon. r. J. Jones, G. ID. Lane,
Cherbino & Williamson, and William
III. belong Of Cornwall have recently
made sales of fine sheep at high figures
for the California market.
Sep. LIST, Walter age two years, son
of Henry Palmer of Addison, walked
backward into pail of water, and was
so badly scalded that he died ON Tues
day.
II On the morning of the Oath ult.,
Old Mansfield showed white face.
Depth of snow not known. This has
not occurred before in the month of Au-
gust in the memory of the oldest inhab-
liant
"A Burlington young lady, who
tended cigar store, and was injured re-
Gently by runaway accident, has since
lost all idea of the value of articles, and
insists on standing in front of her em-
ployers store and offering cigars and to-
bacco to every one that passes.
-"The fat boy" OF Pickwick papers
has rival in Montpelier, in the person
of clerk in his usual good health, who
retired at night and did not get up till 5
o'clock thenext evening, sleeping through
the whole day. 1t is said he sometimes
takes maps of forty-eight hours, or more.
A school teacher in Starksboro
found upon her arrival at the school
house, one morning recently, that she
had left the key at her boarding place,
mile distant Instead of sending for
it she and her pupils went in and out of
the windows through the day.
Alpha Messers, of Rochester, lost a
steer short time since, and one day
last week found him in the pasture with
his neck fast between two trees. 1t is
supposed that he had been in that posi-
ton, without food or drink, at least four
teen days.
B. S. Thompson, who has been in
the tin-smith business in Woodstock for
many years, took French leave " for
the West, one day last week, whittier
his family went some months ago. He
left his debts behind him amounting in
the aggregate to some $4,000 with no
assets.
There is good little boy in st. AL
bans who did it with his little Ratchet
in the following manner: He requested
his big brother to put his toe upon the
chair that ne might cut it off. His big
brother laughingly complied with the
request, when this remarkable little ras-
cal deliberately chopped it off.
-Apropos of the need of pharma-
ceutical association the Rutland Globe
recalls an instance, in this State, of
young man, without education and but
nine months from the farm, who opened
a drug store and advertised himself as
I" an able, competent and experienced
pharmaceutist who "would be on hand
at all hours, day and night to compound
prescriptions.
A certain Prof Daniels of Yer
mont, attempted recently to illustrate to
some friends the reputed power of the
human eye over dumb animals by enter
ing lot where ferocious bull was graz
ing. He fixed his eye on the bull, but
the latter responded by tossing the pro-
fessor twenty-seven feet into the air.
Fortunately he landed on the safe side
of the fence, not much hurt.
On Wednesday of last week, a thir-
teen year old daughter of J. P. Ives was
badly injured by falling from load of
hay, on which she was riding home with
her father from the funeral of Mrs.
Winslow. The wagon striking an ele-
walton the load tipped of, and the girl
struck her head on stone, splitting open
cash in the skull, and cutting an ar
terry. She was attended by DIR. Page,
and is now doing well.