The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-07-26

boards and nails could do. There
, was a sick woman in the neigh
borhood who desired few ap
pies, but they would neither sci
, or give away.
One evening the enraged IN
habitants met at the house of one
of the neighbors, chose thel1
captain and picket guard, ant
proceeded to the place Of deposit.
Guards were duly stationed a
the doors and windows to pre-
vent any egress from those with
in, while one man carried an axe
to apply to the crevice between
the boards and the others caught
the apples that rolled out in suf-
ficient quantity to fill two bags,
one for the sick woman and one
to be divided among the company
THE BEARS.
The first settlers were much
annoyed and their property de-
stroyed by bears, which they
would occasionally catch in the
log traps. Capt. Caleb Stevens,
man who lived in the north
part of the town, was one day re-
turning to his home accompanied
by his two little boys, and in
coming over a knoll, he discover
ed an exasperated old bear that
had been pursued by hunters and
dogs, coming directly toward
them with open mouth. Nothing
daunted, he picked up a stone
within his reach, and sent it with
such force that it hit the bear on
the head and fe1led it to the earth
and he soon killed it.
SMALL POX.
In the autumn of 1910 the small
pox appeared in the east part of
the town, at the house of David
McKeen. The house was used
as a pest house, and several men,
bers of the family died, but the
dire disease was soon suppressed.
In 1881 one case occurred, and
again in the summer of 1865,
three cases, but only one proved
fatal.
CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS MISTAKE
Some time during the war of
1912, four men from the north
part of the state, Stone, Rice,
Parker and Sanborn, purchased
drove of cattle in this vicinity,
and started them for their homes.
ga cuStom-house officer named
Perry, then living in Chelsea,
procured a company of men and
went in pursuit of the cattle.
He overlook them in the town of
Topsham, took them from their
owners and started them back
toward Corinth. The owners of
the cattle not wishing to be rob-
bed of their property, procured a
company of men to assist them IN
making an attempt to rescue their
cattle from the custom house Off
GERS. This company met on a
bridge at the foot of the hill at
Cookeville in order to stop them
when they came along. When
the cattle came to the bridge,
general melee took place, but the
officer held possession of the cat
tie and they were turned into
pasture and guarded by COM
pany of militia a few days and
then driven away. 1t was after
wards ascertained that the cattle
were not subject to confscation,
and the government paid the own
ers for their property.
The first physician in town
was DR., Joshua Tenney, who
moved his family here in 1875,
from Salem, N. H. He practiced
nearly half a century quite sue
cessfully, and died at the age of
80. His widow. survived him
twenty-one years, and died in
1865 at the age of 90 years. Hon.
VIM. Spencer, the first lawyer,
came here in 1907. He was dur
ing many years justice of the
peace, several times represented
the town, was county court judge
and judge of probate sixteen con-
secutive years.
David McKeen came here from
Londonderry, L n. H, in 1880.
He built the first saw mill in the
east part of the town. The
heavy irons for this mill were
drawn through the woods from
Colchester, on kind of appara-
tus made of two poles framed to-
gether and attached to a horse,
like the thills of a carriage, but
extending behind and dragging
on the ground.
Three brothers, named Henry,
Samuel and David Dearborn, and
brother-in-law, Winthrop Green