Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-10-10
aellulrs falls Times,
BELLOWS FALLS, OCT. 10. 1878
Vermont News.

dreth anniversary of the foundation of
the town.
A South Hero man writes to the
Plattsburg Sentinel that he and Grand
Isle man, have been badly swindled .by
lightning-rod peddlers, recently.
The barn of Alpheus Harding of Low
ell, was destroyed by fire Sept. 18th. 1t
contained some 5000 worth of hay.
The origin Of the fire is unknown.
Three Bennington seminary girls
climbed to the top of Mount Equinox,
the other day, going straight up by the
shortest and steepest route, feat seldom
if ever accomplished before.
A lady in Montpelier has large pic
ture of "Ruth and Boaz," worked in
worsted in which there are 969,210
stitches 1t took eight months to do the
work.
The town of Barnet is going Cor Jay
on pauper case; child about four
months old, because its great-grsndfath-
err once lived in that town.
Some mean thief broke into the house
of Peter Morris, at Newport Centre, re-
Gently, and stole a quantity of butter, su-
gar and several other articles. Mr.. NJ
and his wife we're absent from home at
the time.
A starch mill in the vacinity of Iras-
burg washes aud CRATES up 200 bushels
of potatoes in five hours, and 10000
bushels in the autumn season. Eight
pounds of starch is about the average
yield of bushel Of potatoes, those fresh
ly dug yielding the most.
While Charles Elkins of Coventry
was going from his barn TO his house,
recently, he was assaulted by two young
men who Knocked him down and would
have killed him had not assistance ar
rived. Elkins is ignorant of any cause
lot Sucu treatment.
The Hardwick reporter says postal
cards are nice arrangement on some
accounts Last week a nice young man
in Greensboro had his wounded heart
still more lascerated by postal card
from his Ann Eliza which said, "You
needn't come Saturday night nor any
other night | don't want to see you"
Judge Isaac Parker of Coventry, is
now in the SD year of his age, and .
well-preserved specimen of octogenarian
manhood. He graduated at Middlebury
College 81 years ago, and in the dignity
of his department and address, he re-
minds one of his nephews, Judge Isaac
Fletcher Redfeld now of Boston. and
Judge Timothy p Redfeld of Montpel-
ier
Genevieve Robinson of Gouldsville, q
miss two years of age seems to be agri
culturally inclined She planted o
squash seed last spring, which came M
in due time, and that she has watereC
and made the object of her especial
care during the season, sitting beside i
hours at a time. As the result of hel
good management she has raised foul
squashes, weighing 105 pounds.
SALISBURY can put forward claim
for the championship of the State on fa
people. Living in that town. which
has population of only 2000,--are five
persons (sour of them in one district,
who weigh between 262 and 300 pounds
Among the five is young lady II year.
of age, whose weight is 275 pounds
while one maiden tips the scales at 800
The other three are of the male per
suasion, the lightest one of whom weighs
262 pounds.
A man named John Mold recently
figured quite extensively in Peachau
with nice horse and carriage, which he
endeavored to sell to Moses Porter Of
Danville, stating that the team came
from Winnooski Falls. Porter went t.
Winnooski, but failed to gain any knowl
edge of it, returned and tried to fine
Mold, with view to arresting him, but
he had fed to parts unknown. The team
was found to belong to Edwin Gauthiel
of Sherbrook, P. O., of whom Mold hir
ed it, promising to return it in one
hour"
Hyde Park has eight frst-cass circu
lar saw mills, most contiguous to larg,
lumber region, on the Gihon and Greer
rivers; two tub and pail factories doing
large business peg factory, wher,
the best pegs in New England are man
ufactured number of old fashione,
saw mills, and water-power enough to d.
all the manufacturing now done IL
Northern Vermont. There are also 1.
natural ponds.
Charles W. Merriam, of Elmore, wen
out on a ledge to cut a small tree grow
ing there, when the part Of the rock O
which he stood fell, precipitating him t
the ground. distance of over 10 fee
He was accompauied in his fall by sax