Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-06-25
Vermont N ews.

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furnish the music for the State Fair to
be held in Rutland early in September.
/ - Twenty persons have made pro-
fession Of religion and united with the
Congregational church at West Hartford
within short time.
= Solomon Eaton of irasburgh has
probably the largest hop yard in Yer
mont. He has 5000 hills, covering ten
acres.
The bears have been committing
heavy depredations in Rochester. Sew,
eral unsuccessful attempts have been
made to capture them.
= BY the stoppage of the knitting
mills in Bennington it is estimated that
more than four hundred persons will be
thrown out of employment.
- Frank Fairbrother of Bennington
stepped on nail which penetrated his
foot, few days ago, and died of lockjaw
on Saturday.
The state normal school at Ran
dolph is to have an endowment $4,000
having already been secured and
beginning made for $4,000 more.
= 1t is now reported that the liabili-
ties of Blodgett 4 Heath, the St, Al
bans clothiers who suspended on the
18th, aggregate about $4,000.
- The Weeks Brothers, prominent
business firm of Lyndon fail to get the
unanimous consent of their creditors to
take % cents, and are now going into
bankruptcy.
Wilder Buffum of Wilmington was
seriously injured on Friday last by be-
ing struck on the head by stick of tim
Der, but it is thought that his injuries
will not prove fatal.
Miners are blasting for lead and sill
yer ore in the Green Mountains between
Rutland and Pittsfeld and find rich
deposit. Evidences of it have been
there for many years.
Notwithstanding the hard times,
the Fairbanks scale works at st. Johns
bury have shipped since January LIST,
$500 more scales than for the cores
ponding five months of last year.
= John Allen, who set fire to the
house and barns of John Hanks of Ran
/ dolph, his employer, few weeks ago,
has pleaded guilty of arson and been
: sentenced to eighteen years in the State
J prison.
"A new breed of grasshoppers have
, made their appearance on the farm Of
G. f. Webster of Irasburgh. They are
: no larger than hornet; some are all
green and others have red bodies and
e black wings.
- The officers and soldiers Of Orleans
, County meet at Barton, July 5, to form
a reunion society and to take steps for
| the organization of military companies
and battalion to participate in the
Centennial exercises of 1876.
- The Bennington News says that in
removing some bodies from their rest
ing places in the cemetery in that town,
the body Of Mrs Bartlett, that had been
e buried some twelve years was found to
be petrifed, weighing 800 pounds.
= Heman Stannard, brother of Gen.
: Stannard, was found dead in his bed on
: Saturday morning at his residence in
: Colchester. Mr.. Stannard was appa.
e renly in good health on Friday evening
and the cause of his death is unexplain.
G ed.
: - As workmen were repairing N.
S Young's store, in Alburgh, they found in
? an old counter, which had been stored
: in George d. Sowle's barn for some time
e mouse nest and two cards of matches
= A little gnawing of the mice would have
/ given another Of those mysterious incen.
2 diary fires.
}. - The proprietors of Lake DunmorC
a House, Salisbury, propose to get up 8
|. centennial celebration of the beach real
d ing, and the exploits of the Green Noun
tain Boys, to be holden at Lake Dun
more, Saturday, July 3. There is 9
> strong probability that General Butler
will be the orator of the day.
Henry c. Boardman of East Alburg
a well-known operator in hay and farm
: produce, has been missing since las
Wednesday, and is supposed to hav,
:, run away, as he is indebted to farm
ers in the vicinity to the amount of $50
600, and had $4,000 with him lust be
fore his disappearance.
A. S. Nelson, a Montpelier farmer
l. while hoeing corn, the other day, founc
3. cent bearing the date of 1888. On
3, one side was an Indian, with bow anc
l. culver; on the other an American eagle
l. with the inscription, Massachusett
If Commonwealth" and the words On
Is Cent across the eagle.