Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-02-21
Vermont News.

George Fierce, Oh fayston, quit
fire, went visiting, and on his return
found his stove on its way down cellar,
through the burning floor.
- Plainfield has fatted and sold six
thousand turkeys, the average weight
was ten pounds each, and they sold for 70
cents per pound, the whole amounting to
twelve thousand dollars.
Sam Lucas, of jail-breaking fame,is
back again in his old quarters at the
Bennington county house, his third at
tempt to regain his liberty, having prov
ed unsuccessful.
- Montgomery has champion
"growist" in a young man OF sixteen
summers who is six feet four inches in
his stockings and wears No. twelve
boot.
The Vergennes Graded school has
been closed few weeks, on account OF
the measles. Two teachers and twenty
pupils we're down with them.
The fact that three hundred cars
have been at one time in waiting FOR in
spection by the officers of the Customs
at Island Pond, afford something of an
idea of the business at that point.
Or the Vermont division of the
Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad, in
the town of Morristown, seventy new
buildings have been erected within the
last two years.
= There is remarkable activity at
present among the owners and workers
of slate quarries in Poultney. The last
years product has all, or nearly all been
sold, and orders are coming in constant
ly.
- The Boston Journal learns that q
Vermont clergyman has resigned, owing
to controversy among his flock as to
whether he had been guilty of sin or
only an indiscretion in playing "blind
mans bluff
There is not school in the Black
River Valley, from Irasburgh through
Albany toward South Craftsbury, dis
lance of twelve miles, that is in running
order most, if not all, are closed on
account of sickness of the teachers or
pupils.
The Montpelier Argus and Patriot,
saws that one Ell Barnum, farmer re-
siding at Milton, is attempting to dis
pose of his farm cattle &c, by lottery ,hav.
ing advertised it by circular, contrary tc
the laws of the state of Vermont. He
proposes to sell $4,000 tickets at one dol
lar each.
A petition largely signed by the cit
liens of the state has been presented tc
the President, praying for mol pros in the
case of Gen. George j. Stannard, the de
eaulting United States collector in the
/ Vermont district. His frauds are esti
mated at $4,000 and the trial is to come
off at Burlington on the 18th.
- Last Wednesday morning, about
o'clock, the dwelling house occupied by
Enoch D. White, of Walden, was entire
ly consumed by fire, together with most
of the furniture. Origin of the fire I'm
known. The house was owned by Johr
Sias, of Danville. Insurance on hous,
s400; on furniture, $500. Loss abov
insurance, $500.
- There are now residing in Thetfo {
two men who have enjoyed long time
of uninterrupted friendship-Jaspe
Lord and Jasper jackson. They wer
born in the same neighborhood in which
they now reside. They are masons by trad
and have always worked together; wer
married and bought their farms abou
the same time. They are nearly sevent
wears old, and neither OF them have an
children, Both are we'll to do, an
strictly temperate and moral men.
= Horace w. Cutting of Concord los
three oxen recently,by breaking throug
e the ice, on the Connecticut. He ha
t passed over the place several times wit
, heavy loads of logs, and was returnin
e with an empty sled when his team {
r four oxen suddenly went through the ic'
q The forward yoke were immediatel
q drawn under the ice by the force of tn
j. current of the river, and floating dow
s the stream some fifty rods, lodged again'
a rock, where they we're found by Gu
ting holes through the ice.
- One of our contemporaries thus 81
+ liloquizes, and he isn't fa- out of th
't way :-"Oh, tits fun to be local, t
l. naught but enjoyment and ease; t
e next door to being boot-black or rul
r bling hive of bees 1t is fun to 8
d down to your table with its dusty doc
81 ments spread, and write long string
u locals out of your tired head. 1t is fu
T. to be talked of in public, or be chase
'e about by night, by Teller with 'suthi
% -, I'D aohaa for q h;t Of q 6ob