Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-09-24
Vermont News.

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The Chittenden County Fair proved a
failure. Too much money was
invested in the F." boss trot
The Dorman Brothers of Newport,
have paid G. w. Pratt 81 900 for the
trotting stallion, Nimrod.
Mrs. A. II. Webb of Barton, has a
piano that was made in London in 1910.
1t dosnt look much like the modern pi-
ano
A Castleton barber and dressmaker
went to law about little matter of 80
cents, and the costs amounted to over
$50.
A barn belonging to Patrick Sullivan,
in the eastern part of Mount Holly, with
its contents, about twelve tons of hay,
was burned on Friday night last.
Mr.. Lambkin of Burlington, who was
severely injured by an accident on the
pouil-tdsiSIH Iedllfpdu Vi tdudud, III
August, 1874, has recovered $1,000 from
the company
Bears begin to show themselves pretty
freely in Stratton. One came within
thirty rods of dwelling week ago
last Sunday, killed sheep, ate part of
it, and carried off the rest of the car
cass the next night.
Ashley Dutton of Warren, had the
names and tails of two horses shaved off
one night recently; the nuts stolen from
his wagon, and his harnesses carried into
the fields and cut. A school district
quarrel is supposed to be the cause
Belle, little girl of one year old,
daughter of Simon Carpenter of Gran
by, was severely scalded few days since
by trying to drink from her grandfath
er's shaving cup of boiling water, spill
ing nearly all its contents into her bo-
som.
Geo. Sudbury, of West Concord, look
ed down the barrel of pistol to see if
it was loaded just in season to see the
ball coming out. 1t glanced around the
socket of his eye and came out, but it is
not certain whether the sight is destroyed
or not
= Horace Hodgden, of Danville, who
is noted in that section as a strict oh.
server of the Sabbath, did hard days
work last Sunday under the impression
that it was Saturday. His family made
the same mistake, and there is mourning
in the house of Hodgden
Amos Emerson, of Worcester is rails.
ing chickens in novel manner. Find.
ing partridge's nest last spring, he re-
moved the eggs and replaced them with
the eggs of a bantam hen and has now
twelve chickens following the partridge
they roost regularly near the place OF
Matching.
r. G. Hill, of Elmore, took $50 in
premiums on his excellent sheep at the
New England fair He was obliged to
compete with imported stock, but the
merits of his sheep were so apparent
that the committees were forced to ac.
knowledge them. He sold five yearIings
for 5000.
Mr.. Alexander Brothers of Fairfield
in attempting to ford the Missisquoi
River, at Sheldon, Saturday evening
last, was drowned. He had passed ovel
safely few days previous, but the storm
of Thursday and Friday had raised the
river several feet, and the current was sc
strong that the horse and wagon were
drifted some distance down stream. His
wife and two children were rescued.
- Between one and two o'clock OH
Monday night, Peter Myte, man work.
ing on the railroad and boarding at the
house of S. M. Mead in Underhill, stole
from VIM Tobin and two other railroad
men boarding at the same house, an ov-
ercoat, sack coat and vest, wallet and
five dollars, a pair of pants and six
shooter revolver, amounting to about
forty dollars.
"A press dispatch says that the
Grand Jury of Orleans county. Yer
mont, has been sitting at Irasburgh the
past week and has found some twenty
i've indictments against liquor dealers
IN Newport, Coventry, Barton, Glover.
Charlestown and Irasburgh, and wide
spread CONSERVATION exists among the
dealers, many of whom have fled to
Canada Massachusetts and Connecticut
There is one centennial which has
been lost sight Of On the 25th of Sent
lf75, Ethan Allen, with 10 men. sud.
denly appeared before the city of Mon.
treal with the apparent intention of can.
turing it, as he had the old I'll fort a few
months previously, when General earle.
ton with large force sailed forth and
captured Allen and his whole army,
The hundredth anniversary of the fool.
hardy enterprise occurs next Saturday.
Immediately after the required hail