Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-04-09
Vermont News.

Burglars stole $3.50 worth OF jew
elry from the house of Col. George A,
Merrill of Rutland the other night.
On Saturday evening, Willard's
planning mill, in Poultney was destroyed
by fire. Loss about $4,000,
- Daniel Curtis, of Dorset, 81 years
old, is the oldest postmaster in the state,
having been in office over 80 years,
- Two thousand and eighty seven
tubs of butter-1O3, $50 pounds were
shipped from st, Adams, during March,
= The Normal School at Randolph
is fourishing, One hundred and nine
teen students are enrolled this quarter,
and four first class teachers are employed
Wilmington claims to be the ban
ner town in New England for the man
ufacture of maple sugar, having re-
cord of 1877 tons in one season.
= The young mems Christian associa-
ton of Vermont, will hold series of
gospel meetings at Mortified, April 10th,
18th and 18th.
- One of the oldest inhabitants of the
town of Monkton, Mrs. Little, died, Sat
urday, 9th nit, at the remarkable age
of one hundred and seven years.
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thing over $4,000 in losses in the Mont
pelier fire, all ofwhich have been adjus-
ted and paid so far as the insured could
be reached
= They have plucky boys in Cam
bridge. To lads about Is years old re-
Gently killed with an axe bear, the
skin of which measured six feet four
inches in length four feet in width
n Now let us have a spelling match.
Let the students of the U. V. NJ defy all
mankind living within radius of three
miles of the City Hall to knock the ORTIZ
ographic chip from their shoulders.
Burlington Free Press
= Isaac r. Houston, sort of good
old legislative patriarch from Victory,
was hung in efigy in that town two
years ago and has just recovered 5000
for it. That's the kind of hanging and
that's the kind of Victory.
Theodore Skinner, of Albany, Vt,
recently slid from hay NOW upon the
tines Of pitch fork, one of which pene-
trated his leg above the knee, making a
terrible wound, from the effect of which
he may die.
- Geo. W. Robinson of Bennington,
has obtained patent on an attachment
to an ordinary hoe handle, for dropping
corn and other things of the kind. 1t is
a very simple contrivance, costs but lit
tie, and bids fair to become general.
- Sheriff Maxwell, of Troy, had oc-
casion to visit Gov. Peck at Jericho, last
week and found him engaged in perusing
law book by the friendly aid of the
ftful CLEAN of two tallow dips, in tin
candle sticks. The Governor promptly
transacted the business and returned to
his reading,
- The station house at Swanton juno.
ton was destroyed by fire at halfpast {
o'clock Thursday afternoon last. Fiji
teen minutes after the fire was discover.
ed the whole building was in flames
Part of the contents were saved. Il
+ was supposed to have caught from al
engine.
At the Michigan election on Tuesday
Hon. George S. Swift, graduate 0
Middlebury College in the class of IS
and son of Judge Swift, of Middlebury
was unanimously reelected Recorder 0
: the city of Detroit-a position which h
: has held by successive reflections 70
some eight year with the greatest cred
, it
On the evening of the 21st inst
: Miss Hattie Paddle of Ripton, had tn
: misfortune to be thrown from sleigl
s backwards by the sudden start of tn
horse, receiving a confusion on the TEN
pie, and was taken up for dead, bu
t prompt measures being taken the pros
t poets of her recovery are favorable.
- Mr. John E. Chamberlain, of Soutl
i Newbury, prominent railroad builde
n and business man, has been seized wit
o paralysis, and it is thought will not re
/ cover, He is father of III. e. Chamber
: lain, formerly the general freight agen
of the Rutland railroad, and, since tn
n lease Of that road to the Central Ven
D mont, the superintendent of the Concor
It railroad
Is = In digging for the water pipe in
e street in the north part of the city,
h day or two since, the frost was found /
e have penetrated the ground to the dept
i of nine feet. The incredulous are &
IS full liberty to arm themselves with pic
d and test the truth of this statement |
If their own satisfaction Burlington Fl,
IS Press,
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