Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-21

and collector, gives notice eise"heie Vi
the time and places where he VIII be
ready to receive taxes.
= Letters put into the postotfice here
after the northern mail has closed, but
nrevious to Up. NJ, will reach Chester
Depot the same day evening.
Is Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. johnson, hav
IN returned from their wedding journey,
have been very pleasantly spending
week with their friends in this place.
Capt. Walter Taylor writes us
from Nebraska, Jan. 10Th, last Saturday,
that the weather was as fine and pleasant
as 4 May morning. No snow, thermome-
ter 1t $50 in the shade.
Geo. w. Nutting writes us from Hous-
ton. Texas Jan 10, that the winter there
has been very mild and pleasant, and
they have had but one frost and that
light
Hon. F. ID. Douglass of Whiting,
made pleasant call at this office Tues
day, made the more so when by an ac-
cident as he was about to leave, we ac-
certained that he was on his wedding
trip
Midwinter but the compositors in
the TIMES office this Wednesday after
noon are working at their stands with
their windows up. No snow, rain storm
Tuesday, very muddy and summer tenn
perature
Saturday was mild and very fine
day for the season, and doubtless in
creased the attendance at the special
town meeting. making the streets appear
lively.
A gentleman from Grafton informs
us that his thermometer Wednesday
morning, marked so degrees above zero
being exactly the same as the morn
ing of July Sd last summer
f. T. Dewey's oyster trade in De
cember was larger than in any other
month since he has been in business, hay
ing sold during that time 1900 gallons.
It must be that they liked his oysters.
Davis & Arnold had maple sugar
Oh their counter for sale this week, made
last Monday by j. A Farwell of West
minister. 1t was very nice of course,
and S a part of the eccentricities Of this
winter.
Mr.. L. Nj. Read was severely in
jured one day last week He was driv-
ing near Cages Mills and meeting a
team turned out, and in getting back in
to the road one wheel struck rock by
which he was violently thrown out upon
the frozen ground, cutting his head and
otherwise injuring him so severely as to
confine him to the house for few days.
Mr. J. A Farwell of Westminster,
has brought to this office butterfly
which be caught in his door yard Mon
day. Such is mid-winter in Vermont in
1876. Wednesday morning it was 500
above zero, and rose higher through the
day. Such mild winter seems unpre-
cedented in this section, though some one
says we had such one in 1912, but we
disremember Florida has removed
to Vermont
Mr. +. w. Perry who for some nine
years has carried on the Tanning bust
ness Just below this village, has now
taken bis son into copartnership, and
the new firm will be styled f. w. Perry
q Son. We are glad to learn that they
already have contract for work which
will occupy them for the year ensuing
The performance of this contract will
require some 700 cords ofhemlock bark,
which they are now buying to be deliv.
cred during the winter. 1t is a good
sign of improvement in business, for il
one kind of business starts, another will.
There has been several runaways Of
late, smashing fences and buggies, but
the most remarkable one came off Mon
day when horse and buggy belonging to
Col King and in the care of an emplo.
.yee, ran down Atkinson street and al
most Stacked to a trot, when the carriage
struck stone post as it entered the
grounds of E. w. Bancroft. This re
newed the fright Of the horse which
ran round to the north grounds of Mr.
Bancroft's house and there plunged
down the terrace some so feet, in somer
saults, into the flower yard below. The
horse was forced from the buggy anc
strange to say Immediately rose anc
trotted off without serious injury. TIL
buggy was of course thoroughly de
moralized
Saturday night was made hideou
IN some of the streets by unearthly nois
e. Smashing of windows, and on tn
Ierrace brick bat was thrown into tn
house OF Mr.. Jennings which came nea
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