Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-10-22
Vermont News.

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last spring amounts to S4,664.50,
- No convict has escaped from the
Vermont State prison for eighteen years.
= The last severe frost of last week
froze all the ungathered apples in all
parts of Lamoille county,
- Albert Luce and son-in-law of
Stowe, have gathered from their orchard
over $50 bushels of apples.
= The house of Alexander William
son, of Greensboro, was burnt on the
10th inst, with its contents, 1t was in
sured for $500.
= There is more building at the Yer
shire mines this fall than in any previ.
GUS season; some ten new houses being
now in process of erection.
= There is large difference in the
price of hops this year and last in Yer
mont. Last year 40 cents, this year s
to 10 cents, slight margin of 80 cents
a pound.
- The stockholders of the Burlington
and Lamoille railroad have voted to
mortgage their road for SS50,000. The
trustees are 10 d. Hatch, c. H. Blodg-
EFT and L. j. n Stark.
- The Messrs. Hamblin of Bridport,
lost seventeen of their best sheep out of
a flock of twenty-eight on Thursday
night. They were killed by dogs, but it
is not known whose dogs they were.
- A Danville woman died, the other
day, on the anniversary of her husband s
death, the coincidence not only extend
ing to the day of the month, but the day
of the week and the hour of the day.
- Mrs. Susannan Eaton, of Danville,
who has lived in the town ever since she
was six years old, celebrated her 95th
birthday few days ago, and is still in
good health and the complete possession
of her faculties
The Green Mountain Narrow Guage
railroad has been surveyed through Ply.
mouth. The route lies along Wood
wards reservoir and the Black river,
and it is said that no very serious diff
Guilty lies in the way of its construction.
= The trestle work of the Burlington
& Lamoille Railroad, over Lees river in
Jericho, was finished on Friday. 1t is
about "a feet high, 600 feet in length,
contains 1861 feet of lumber and is
admirably constructed in every respect
- In the Vermont Journal of March
81, 1884, there is the following ephitaph
ON lawyer:
Beneath this stone lies Robert Shaw.
VINO followed forty years the law.
And when be died,
The devil cried
Ha Bob give us your paw"
The rain storm of Saturday at Bur
lington, came in the form of snow in the
country around. Mansfield and Cancels
Hump and the Adirondacks are covered
with snow. At Jericho, the residence of
Gov. Peck, four inches of snow fell Sat
urday night
- The different religious societies in
Vergennes are moving to insure to the
inmates of the reform school religious in
struction and Sabbath School privileges,
and many Of their best people will have
charge Of Sunday school classes of the
boys.
A barn belonging to Mr.. George
McEwitt, who lives in the eastern part
of Middlebury, was destroyed by fire
about four o'clock Sunday morning. The
barn and its contents were insured for
$500. The fire is supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
j. W. Currier of Orleans county
has invented lazy mans churn. 1t is
adjusted to wagon, and all man has
to do is to put his churn into the wagon.
box, pick up his reins, drive half mile
and return, take out his churn, and he
will find his cream turned to butter.
: A young girl who recently died had
lived at service in Rutland for sometime
prior to her decease. Her mistress called
her from the washroom heated and wea.
ry, and babe her procure a large piece
Of ice and break it into small fragments.
She became thoroughly chilled over the
task, was taken i'll and never recovered.
= Another elopement comes to light
1t appears that few days ago a Miss
Hattie Doubleday, young lady of IS,
and the married son of a clergyman, all
of South Royalton, took it upon them to
journey away from hon as man and
wife, registering themselves as such at
one OF the hotels in Montpelier, where
they remained until the unfortunate
girls father found them. The father
sued the married lover, but, on finding
if ne sent him to Jail, his daughter would
fare likewise, he withdrew his suit, re-
turning home a sad, sorrowful man.
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