Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-03-28
gellows falls Times,
FALLS MAR. IS, 1873.
Vermont News.

- The town library at Stowe at the
present time contains over seven hum
bred volumes.
- Henry Turner has returned to
Craftsbury from his confinement in the
Orleans county Jail, for the shooting of
Charles McRoy on the third OF March,
1872, without trial.
- The steam mill owned by Martin
Brothers, at Dorset, was burned to the
ground on Wednesday; nothing was
saved. The cause of the hre and the
amount of loss are unknown; insured.
- The Newport Express says Luther
Delano has been town clerk of Albany,
Orleans County, for over fortyyears. Gen.
S, B. Hazletine has served as town clerk
of Bakersfield fifty-one years in success
ion, during which time he has himself
recorded all but two of the deeds handed
in for record.
- BY the death of Hon. B. w. Bar
tholomew of Chelsea, Geo. III. Wal
worth and Jennie Walworth of Coven-
try will probably be heirs to one-half
his estate, which is valued at from $780,.
600 to S1S0,000. Their mother was
sister of the deceased, and as he was
never married, they are among his near
est of kin.
- In the case of Richardson Us Pratt,
in the County Court, the jury returned a
verdict for the defendant. 1t was con-
ceded on all hands that the plaintiff in
this cause made the strongest case that
ever has been made in court on one of
these Newcomb notes, and this verdict
ought to settle the question forever, that
the courts and juries of Vermont will
not assist the patent right swindlers who
sought to come into the State to gull our
people, in defrauding our citizens.
Chelsea people have been visited
by a noted man, styling himself DIR.
Beard alias Bailey. Some call him era
zy and others think he is suffering from
disappointed affection. His method of
operation is to ascertain the names of as
many sick persons as he can, and then
give them call. He denounces all doc |
tors except himself as knaves, and then
asks the privilege of curing the patient,
which he says he can do in from two to
ten days. His fee varies from SIS to $25,
and must in all cases be paid in advance.
He generally gets turned out of doors,
and sometimes is chased with a broom
stick. He threatens to shoot any one if
they strike him. Occasionally he gets
chance to administer his all-healing balm,
but not often.
A North Pownal correspondent of
the Bennington Banner, writes that jour
nal as follows: The checklist transaction |
we have seen in this section for long |
time was the return of one, who was
once our neighbor, a husband and father,
to his family this week. He left here
some six years ago in rather mysteri-
GUS manner, (and l would say that
young woman of suspicious character
was missing at the same time,) he leav-
ing wife and seven children, the oldest |
not exceeding fourteen years of age,
with no home of their own and nothing |
to help themselves with for any length |
of time, to exc out an existence as best |
they might from the cold mercies of this |
world. But through the cha .ity and
kindness of neighbors and the untiring |
energies of the mother, they managed TO
live through what has been to most of
them years of trouble and trial. The |
older ones are now able to care for them
selves and help support the younger
Now the heartless father, after six years
of absence, his whereabouts never known
to his family in all this time, has return
ed with the intention of taking up his
abode with them again, he being in no
better circumstances than when he left.
If this is not cheek without limit, in
form me what is
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