The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 18, 1889 Odds & Ends 7/12/1889 The midnight passenger train north was ditched near Brandon, at 3:17 a. m., Wednesday morning, by the giving way of the roadbed, which had been washed by heavy rains. No one was hurt enough to need a physician, though there were over 200 passengers aboard, including 60 "fresh air fund" children from New York. The engine was overturned; the coaches were only derailed. A broken lamp started fire, but it was quickly subdued. G. N. FRENCH & Son of Grafton have decided to remove their carriage works from that town to Bellows Falls. They have purchased land and will build a building at once. Secretary of War PROCTOR, who has been home in Proctor, for a week past, has been confined to the house by sickness a portion of the time. A stone thrown by a hoodlum whom Father TURCOTT was attempting to prevent from ringing the bell in the Catholic church at Highgate, the 4th, struck the priest over one eye, and split his skull. It was feared the injury might prove fatal, but the injured clergyman is doing well, though not wholly out of danger. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT