Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-08-22
Vermont News.

The art Of teleeraphy is 10 be
taught at the Vermont Methodist Semi
nary at Montpelier next term.
- Arrangements are being made to
extend the Bennington aud Glastonbury
railroad across the mountain, which en-
terprise will probably be completed in a
year or two.
- Hunts shawl factory at Benning-
ton employs two hundred hands, con-
sumes annually 100000 ponnds of wool,
and the payroll amounts to $4,000 per
month. The total cost of the mill, in
Guiding machinery, was over 100000.
Cyrus Merrill, Of Westmore, left
his home some three weeks since, telling
his wife he was going TO Charleston on
business and should return the next day
without fail, and has not been seen since.
= Adna Crandall, of Jay, rs years
of age, has cut and peeled 103 hemlock
trees, averaging two feet on the stump,
during the present season of bark peel
ing.
= Hon. Henry Clark of the Rutland
Globe, and long Secretary of the Agri-
cultural Society, is to deliver the address
at the Chittenden County Fair at Essex
junction.
The amount of premiums to be
awarded for trotting at the State Fair in
Rutland, Sept. 8, 10, | 1 and II, is $3.50.
OF this sum $500 is for single trot,
open to all horses in the United States
and Canada.
An attempt was made to GUST City
Attorney Start of Burlington from office
Monday evening, in the city council, on
charges Of gross immortality and NAL
feasance in office, but the matter was e.
nally laid on the table, which is utter
preted as a victory for Start.
= Job Clements of Bradford was ar
raigned, recently, on 145 charges of IL
quor-selling, but owing TO the absence of
several witnesses at the trial, he was al
lowed totdepart, after being fined 500
and costs for ten offenses.
- Thos. Greenbank has refused an Of
fer of $4,000 for his factory and ma
chinery therein, including his real estate
property in Gaysville, and is now engag-
ed In removing the machinery and win
dows in said factory to Lawrence and
Andover, Mass.
A subscriber Of the St. Adams
Messenger in Orleans county writes that
he has discovered sure cure for con-
sumption in strong mullen leaf tea
sweetened and drank freely every day
from three to six months. The mullen
leaves, unless from young plants, must
be gathered Before July 25th, and dried
in the shade.
Hiram Whitrow, of SYNDICATE, re-
Gently heard noise about his premises,
and proceeded to investigate. In get
ting over fence near his house, he
slipped and partly fell, and at the same
time a gun was discharged by some con-
cealed person, the discharge passing
through his hat and grazing the top
of his head
- Five hundred and ten cars of mar
Bile were shipped from West Rutland
station during the month of May. This
is the largest number of cars and
amount of marble ever shipped from
that station in one month.
A fire broke out on Friday night,
9Th inst, in large pile of chair seats,
which had been temporarily placed in
the engine room of the Mortified Man
ufacturing Co. 1t took the fremen
four hours to put it out and that room
and contents together with the roof were
about used up. Loss fully covered by
insurance.
Peter Campbell of Swanton, was ar
rested Sth inst. Tor causing the death of
small boy named Tatro, He sent him
for rum which he failed to get, and |
Campbell pounded him so numerically |
that, after week OF severe suffering, he |
died Friday morning. The affair is
causing great excitement, and the boy
is looked upon as another victim Of qqnn
= A good story is told on a Judge of
the Municipal Court at Rutland. Dur
ing the recent military reunion in that
city man was arraigned for drunken
ness. The Judge squinted benignantIy
through his spectacles and said " You
got drunk didn't you? p " Yes sir, l con-
fess | did" "Well, you came here to
celebrate, | suppose-you are soldier,
aren't you 2" eyes your honor, but
claim nothing ON that account" I" Well,
sir, law or no law, feel more like thank
ing you for what you once did than FIN
ing you for what you have now done, so
you may go"
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