Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1890-01-16
VERMONT IN GENERAL.

Vermont has 1928 pensioners accord
ing to the latest statistics.
st. Johnsbury has voted $500 to the
local band for II outdoor concerts next
summer.
Owing to light business the Rutland
shirt factory has reduced the wages of
employees.
DR.. M. ID. Warren has been appointed
pension examiner at Montpelier, and c.
l.. Erwin at Newport.
Oliver Stearns, an old soldier of the
18th Vermont volunteers, died on De-
cember 30 at South Mortified, aged 60
years.
The output of the Estey organ com
pany during 1889 was considerably above
$4,000 organs, besides large number of
piano cases.
Judge Tyler in Bennington county
court, has sentenced Byron N. Roberts,
convicted for manslaughter, to prison
for 10 years.
The new Universalist church at Rut-
land will be dedicated the 22d, Rev. j.
M. Pullman of the First Universalist
church of Lynn preaching the sermon.
Granite manufacturers at Barre say
that orders for finished work were never
so dull at this season of the year as at
present, but orders for rough stock are
very good.
The slate business on the west side of
Rutland county is unusually brisk for
this time of the season and all the mills
are working full time. Most of them
have orders ahead.
Riley Nokes of Highgate Springs, the
oldest and most expert guide and trapper
in the region, started to look after his
traps the other morning, and became
a victim of the treacherous ice in cross
ing Dead Creek.
Andrew j. Willard of st. Johnsbury,
died while sitting in his chair, reading,
on Tuesday evening, of apoplexy. He
was born in Lyndon in 1915, and was
state attorney from 1865 to 1869, and
held several town offices.
Rev. Charles Van Norden, formerly
pastor of the Congregational church in
st. Adams, has been elected by the I'M
animous vote of the trustees of the Ell
mira College for Women (New York; to
the presidency of that institution.
The Haywood chair company of
Fitchburg, Mass, which has been doing
a branch business at Barton for the last
thirty years in the supply of chair stock,
have decided to wind up their business
there soon. The timber in that region
is pretty well cut off.
Mrs. Polly French of East Templeton,
Mass, who was born in Halifax, this
state, celebrated her Tooth birthday, jan
uary /, according to the programme.
She was as clipper as a girl of 20 on
Wednesday, and enjoyed the celebration
as much as any who were present.
| Major Jonathan Dow, proprietor of
the Commonwealth Hotel of Boston,
died week ago Saturday. He was born
in Wheelock Y years ago, and had been
| in the hotel business in Gorham, Port
land, Me-, and other places for 80 years.
A widow and two children survive him.
The Rutland Telegram says the place
of holding the Vermont state fair has
not been located as the Troy Press
states. The White River Junction
people have not as yet complied with
| the conditions. As the matter stands it
is probably to be again held at Burling
| ton.
Charles H. Pierce, 43, a Central Yer
mont engineer, residing at White River
Junction, died Thursday evening. He
was engineer of the train wrecked at
Hartford bridge three years ago, and
those scenes SO undermined his health
that he resigned his position and entered
the furniture business.
George Carey, a ten year-old boy while
playing at Rutland with butcher knife,
with its point upward, fell on it, the full
length OF the blade penetrating the tfeshy
part of one arm. He came near bleeding
to death before any assistance was
rendered him. At last accounts he was
was still in critical condition.
In taking down chimney in the old
Tim VIM tavern at Derby Line re-
Gently, there was found a nice little
brick forge in the three-cornered waste
space between the upper rooms and the
ridgepole, accessible only by small
trap or scuttle in the ceiling in one of
the rooms. 1t is supposed that the forge
was used by counterfeiters in the balmy
days of Derby Line and Rock Island.
'Patsey," young man who works for
Blacksmith Normandin of Montpelier,
on the Berlin side of the river was fright
fully kicked and mangled by horse
Monday. The beast began by kicking
J "Patsey'' in the face, cutting the nostril
and breaking the cheek bone; next it
CdNel LII Ills Shull bl dIouiltI hlCA VI lls
/ hoof, and then bit the young man and
nearly denuded him of his clothing. He
was well nigh lifeless when rescued, but
: will probably recover.
The case of the administrator of the
estate of the late James A. Stone against
the Central Vermont railroad has beer
settled. The terms are strictly private
,, and will probably not soon, if ever, be-
come known to the public. BY the yer.
, dict of the jury at the last term of the
county court, the estate secured judg
ment in the sum of $4,000 and costs. The
case was taken up on exceptions by the
respondent and was to have come before
the supreme court next month. There
are indications that the cases of Mrs
Addie Wescott against the Central Yer
mont and that of w. II. Devine agains
the Central Vermont railroad have beer
or will, in the near future. be settled.
2 Carson Parker. who 20 wears ago wa: