Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-12-26
Vermont News.

fell from staging and split his knee
pan open, but is doing we'll.
"A. Il. Bean of Glover, raised the
past season $4,000 bushels of roots and
is feeding them to his cattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steven Laurence of
East Berkshire celebrated the sixty-frst
anniversary of their marriage recently.
Jesse p Chipman's house in Hunt
ington was burned Wednesday night
Very little was saved. Insurance $1,000.
The house of Loren Hale, in Wa
terford, was burned on the 9th inst.
Most of the furniture was saved. Insur-
ed for $500.
On the 9Th inst, A. Y. Houston of
Ryegate had tree fall on him, injuring
his ankle and severely bruising his head
and face.
Two hundred and fifty superior
Spanish merino sheep were recently ship
ped from Middlebury to stock ranches
in California.
H. Flanders of Chelsea, has captur-
ed thirty skunks this season. He is un-
questionably the most Scent-sible man in
the county.
Albert Stone of Eden, while chop
ing in the woods, was nearly killed by a
tree falling upon him. 1t is expected
he will recover.
Penniman's market and Gorham's
hat store were burglarized of small
amounts, in st. Johnsbury, on the night
of the 9th instant.
"A Whitehall minister was marry.
ing couple when dog fight interfered
and the bride called out: Drive ahead.
the yaller pup has him by the forepaw."
- William WEIGH of Granville, tried
to poison himself with arsenic on Satur.
day night, but took an overdose, which
not killing him cured him of his weari
ness of life.
- The St. Albans Messenger say;
George w. Jones, a well-known citizen
of Brandon, has been lodged in Jail al
Rutland for chastising his daughter with
whips and chains.
-Silas L. Griffith of Dandy, has now
twenty three Finlanders engaged as
wood-choppers. Only two of the Fins
can speak English. They are au honest
temberate, and quiet lot of men.
= Mrs. l.. G. King of Sunderland
plucked four kinds of flowers from hel
fower-bed, after the snow went off, which
were as fresh as if blooming in May
They grew and blossomed under tn,
snow.
- DR.. Goodspeed of Granville, while
enlarging a hole through the side of hi
house by means of a red-hot poker, il
order to make room for gutter, set fire
to the building and it had narrow es
cape from destruction.
- III. d. Bryant OF Morrisville, VIII,
has been a cattle dealer, and buyer o.
butter and farmers produce, has recent
ly failed, owing some 81 900 with asset
to the amount of $4,000 leaving def
cheney of $1,000. He now proposes tt
settle off with his creditors at 30 cent
on the dollar.
- james Campbell, an old and re
spected citizen of Fairhaven, while a
work near his barn on the evening o
the 9th inst, was suddenly stricke
down and died in few minutes. Ell
had recently had paralytic stroke, an
it is supposed that this was the ultimat
cause of his death.
= Hardwick has bridge fight. Hor
A. E. Judevine, chairman of the boar
of selectmen, being in the minorit,
gives public notice that he shall not az
E with the selectmen in the transaction {
any further business. Voted to raj:
225 per cent on grand list for town pu
) poses. There is loud call for retrencl
ment in town expenses.
= Another explanation has been gil
en- of the recent robbery at Highgat
where it was stated that a burglar tie
young Mrs. Ricord to kettle of boilin
water and then stole $75. of her fathe
in-law's money. There was no burgls
in the case, and no tying. Mrs. Ricor
stole the money herself and hid it unde
carpet, where it has since been foun,
= As two boys of Searsburg, the ole
, est one seventeen years of age, we're GU
examining their mink traps, recent
} they came across bear tracks. The
, had no gun with them, had hatche
but no cherry tree. They borrowed
gun and started in pursuit, and fnall
came across his bearship making a mes
under fallen tree. They fred and sc
verely wounded him, and then despatch
ed him with the Ratchet. He dresse
over three hundred pounds and the
took from him sixty pounds of talloW
The bows will net about S75 from tina