Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-06-11
Vermont News.


has a cactus which contains forty-tve
buds and blossoms.
= The live people Of Underhill have
raised nearly $4,000 to secure the build
ing of steam saw mill at that place.
Moody Cheney, of Bloomington,
aged 50 years, quit chewing tobacco last
December, after having used it upwards
Of sixty years.
= The grangers of northeastern Yer
mont are arranging for an old fashioned
Fourth of July to take place in the
grove in !yndonville.
= Newport had bear hunt last Fri
day, but Bruin understood navigation
better than his pursuers did, and so pad
died across the lake and escaped.
= Five persons at St. Johnsbury unit
ed with the Calvinist Baptist Church
last Sunday, and twenty united with the
Free viii Baptist Church all by baptism.
A practical mechanic is employed
by the month to watch the iron railroad
bridge below the village of Waterbury,
who devotes his time to the business
and examines it carefully after the pass
ing of every train,
- The wife of n N. Barrows of
South Royalton, while insane on Monday
knocked her husband down with pitch
fork, set fire to the house which was to-
tally destroyed, and cut her throat, in
tiicting probably fatal injuries.
The new Baptist church at st
Johnsbury is to be 50x60 feet in size,
built with four gables and in the form
Of an amphi-theatre, with seats built
around a circle, and aisles all verging to
the pulpit. The gallery is to be be-
hind pulpit, The estimated cost is S.
900.
The dwelling house of Michael Me
Guigin, of Dorset, was totally destroyed
by fire Monday morning. He arose and
made fire as usual and went out to
milk, leaving his family asleep. On re-
turning found the house in flames, which
had progressed so far that they could
not be extinguished.
The Free Press says: On Satur-
day evening, Fred E. Kip caught in the
Onion river, near the Heineberg bridge
black sturgeon, which weighed 324
pounds, As this is acknowledged by
fishermen to be the largest fish of the
kind ever caught here, and as Mr.. Kipp
got him out without the aid of spear,
he can fairly claim the championship.
Recently party of six tramps,
well laden with whiskey, entered Drury'
brick yard, at Essex Junction, with the
intention, as they told the men, of run
ming one end of the kiln. The employ
es, finding that words would not do, re-
sorted to sticks of four foot wood, and
were not long in convincing the invaders
| that they had better look for a job else
where
Chester Bradley, living near New
port, VT, is more worthy of term in
the state prison than nine-tenths of the
convicts. He recently whipped his wife
numerically, knocked her down, pound
ed and kicked her, dragged her down
stairs and turned her out of the house.
A night or two after the brute attended
meeting and said it was the happiest
day of his life.
- The dwelling known as the Poland
saw-mill house, near West Montpelier,
owned by Bart S. Scribner, was burned
on Thursday night of last week. The
house was occupied by two families,
Messrs. White and Goodell, whose loss
is heavy. A horse and some poultry
were consumed. r. L. George loses a
ton Of hay. Buildings insured in the
Farmers Mutual for $500.
George Taylor, of Braintree, in
Orange county Jail for larceny, was adj
mitted to the barn for the purpose of
cleaning off horse. He had shackles
on his feet, or rather chains, and so was
left alone for short time, and when
wanted, turned up missing" 1t is not
thought he has gone far and his early
recovery is expected. Sheriff Dickinson
has offered a reward of 500 for his APP
prehension.
The dwelling of David Keith of
Readsboro was discovered to boon fire by
the stage driver Wednesday morning of
last week, and although the alarm was
Immediately given, it was totally con
sumed. But for this discovery, the loss
would have been total as it was, but
little of the household effects were saved.
Loss, $3.50; insured for $500 in the At
ma Insurance Company of Hartford.
The cause of the fire was a defective
chimney. Mr. Keith will rebuild at