Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-12-25

f.OiuD, tpe IoAowlng omuers wee unoseu ;;
President, H. c. Robbins; secretary and
treasurer F. 9. ThsSeher; executive
committee, Miss Addie Howard, Miss
Emma r. OlmstsAd. Mics Alice H. Bal
lou, II. G. Robins, Frank Chamberlain,
Edward Starr They will give enter
tainments during the winter.
The new residence OF MIR, Il. Philips
is nearly completed and will be among
the finest residences in that section.
INA late Brooklyn paper has the follow
ing 81" The many friends Of Mrs. j. X.
Herbert, formerly Miss Mary A. Ran
ney, will learn With deep regret of her
death on Fridaylast. Mrs. Herbert was
the youngest of he thirteen children of
the late Hon. w. r. Ranney, Lieuten-
ant Governor ofIthe State Of Vermont.
She was born in Townshend in that
State. A woman of remarkable mental
endowments, she enjoyed the advantage
of an education which considering her
sex, was unusually liberal
O. s. Howard of Townshend has in
his possession pork barrel that has been
in constant use for more than one hun
bred years, aud is sill doing good SER
vice, as sound in every respect as when
new, and with the original hoops upon
it. The slaves are Of hard pine and the
hoops of hickory. This barrel was
brought from Nendon, well filled with
pork, to Townshend, in the year 1775,
by Levi Howard and used by him until
1910, when he gave it to Chaplin How
ard. 1t was used by him until the year
1889 when be in turn gave it to his son,
the present owner. The barrel had been
used few years before leaving Mendon
FAYETTEVILLE christmas tree here
Thursday evening.
Mrs. Henry Scott, with her two chill
dren, reached this place last Friday on
her way to Townshend. She came from
the South, Coushatta, more than week
ago, and says that affairs there are ever
worse than reported. The women wer,
forbidden, under penalty of death, Il
even visit the graves of the murdered
men.
A. 4. Warren recently found soft
shelled egg, which measured little owe
six inches in length.
A prisoner was brought to this Jail oil
Tuesday, the 10Th, charged with havin,
too many wives
I Our lyceums are in very fourishing
condition, and still prove interesting ans
instructive.
WEsTMINsTER Wssr Mr.. Boydel
organized Maple GroFa Grange a Vest
minister West. on Thursday Of last week
Dec. 18th, With tbs following officers
/ VIM. B. Cutting, Master; D. C. Coz
ham, oseTseer; jerome Holden, Sew
ard; FL Harlow, asst stey&fd @
F. Buxton. chaplin Il P. Densmore
4 treasurer; Reuben Miller, secretary H
P. RanneY gate-keeperf Mrs. II. ?
\ Ranney. Ceres; Mrs. J. I'll Clark, 20
mona Miss E. L. Harlow, Flora; Mrs
H. G. Harlow, lady asst steward.
We understand that the above grange
| had about sixty members to start with
BRATTIEBoRo.- The Catholic churcl
at Brsttleboro are raising money t.
! build school house Of their own, ant
have about $1,000 Of the $4,000 wanted
1t seems to be understood that this move
ment is in consequence of the difference
between them and the school authorize
of the village.
! Wells Goodhue, formerly a prominen
citizen of Brattleboro, died in New YorE
ON Friday Of last week.
PUrNEY. Winslow d Sons have soil
during the year, FIVE thorough-bre'
short horn cattle, for the round sum o
$4,000, besides many other sales o
thorough stock.
| NEwsPAPoRIAL.- he Vermont Chron
icle, many years ago published at thi
place, and the organ of the Congrega
tional churches of Vermc Mt, and which
for some thirty years has been published
at Windsor, is to be published at Mont
pelier after the first of January next, by
J. q j. NJ. Poland, the present publish
ers of the State Journal. BY the viii
of its former proprietor, the late L. j
McIndoe, it was presented to the General
Convention ofthe Congregational Church
es Of Vermont, and by them It was &C.
eepted last June, and they have ar
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