Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-01-24
Vermont News.

breaking one of the small bones of his
leg, near the ankle.
A Castleton family who couldn't
easily move on May-day, started out, the
other day, with their household goods
and chattles, around stove in full blast,
the pipe running up some ten feet into
the air, making everything pleasant for
a twenty-mile ride.
Two fools met in narrow road at
Newark, the other day, and bantered
each other for more than two hours as
to which should turn out. The women
folks at this point being Disguised took
matters into their own hands, and soon
came to an amicable settlement.
- The thaw, last week, was disastrous
at Fairfield Center, where the ice in the
Fairfield river broke up, carrying off Ma
than Gilbert's dam and the house of Mr..
Blanchard with contents, the family
barely escaping in their night clothes.
A horse valued at 5000, owned by
T. r. Normand of Panton, recently
caught his hind foot in a loop formed of
bent iron hoop, lying on the ground, and
partly frozen down, and in his efforts to
get free nearly severed his foot from his
leg. He died from the effects of the in
jury.
= Henry Congdon of Wallingford,
had narrow escape from death, recent
ly. He was leading his horse to water
with long halter. when the animal sud-
denly kicked at him furiously, striking
in the jaw and knocking out several
of his teeth, but fortunately not serious
ly iDjuring him.
B. Benjamin of Rutland, was ar
rested in St. Johnsbury last week, on a
complaint charging him with being a
pedlar, and put under $500 bonds to APP
pear at the June term of County Court.
Mr.. Benjamin is dealer in ready made
clothing, and came to st. Johnsbory a
few weeks since and opened his stock OF
goods and commenced business in the
same manner other people do, and
claims to be clothing merchant rather
than pedlar
- As Moses Eastman and Nathaniel
Gray were riding home from the village
of Lunenburgh, ON Thursday evening of
last week, one Charles Martin, son-in-
law of Eastman's came up to their sleigh
and snapped a gun at Eastman, with
whom he had previously had some diff
Guilty. Martin was promptly arrested
and put under two hundred dollar bonds
for appearance at the next term of the
county court.
A rather singular accident occurred
on the P. q o. r. R., one day last week.
Soon after the train left Morrisville the
forward trucks of one of the freight cars
came off and rolled out one side of the
track, and the train run to this place be-
fore the accident was discovered, the
coupling holding the car in its place.
The mystery lies in the trucks getting
out of the way of the rest of the cars.
Elisha Brown of Sutton, a man
over 70 years old keeps the school in
district No. s, known as the North Ridge
district Mr.. Brown kept a school in
the same district Al years ago. The old
house then stood on the sight of the
present building. Mr.. Brown has been
a minister of the Methodist church for
many years. Last Sunday he preached
in the school-house, where he teaches
which is the first time in many years the
North Ridge people have heard sermon
so near home.
A store-keeper at Newport rashly
took up an old darkey, who was telling
snake stories, with the remark, "Snakes
are never seen in the winter. You bring
me a live snake this winter, and I'll give
you the best barrel of -four I've got in
the store" The darkey knew the woods
Whereabouts, soon found a live snake
near running spring, and, bringing it
in the next day, demanded the -four and
got it.
A man in Chittenden county, has
an experiment designed to ascertain how
far soil is protected from cold by snow.
For four successive winter days, there
beine four inches of snow on level, he
found the average temperature immedi-
ately above tn snow IA degrees below
zero; Immediately beneath, 10 degrees
above zero; under drift two feet deep,
q above zero.
A brakeman named Burroughs was
killed at Winooski Saturday morning.
While near the switch south of the de-
pot, about to assist in Stacking cars, he
caught his foot in the frog, and being
unable to extricate himself, was run
down by backing engine, the tender
passing over him and taking off both
legs and mangling him fearfully. He
lived but a few hours.
FELCHvILLE.-The tenth annual con-