Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-10-12

selves to be returned Pixies Peakers. to
kidnap three colored persons in Fremont |
County. Iowa. They obtained possession
of the negroes, but one escaped, and
alarmed the inhabitants, who put the /
telegraph in requisi,ion, causing their
arrest and Judgment in Jail for trial.
81 The Free Press understands
that Mr.. Geo. A. Merrill of St. Johns
bury, will receive the appointment of
Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs,
from Gov. Fairbanks"
WALKING.-Mr. VIM. j. Chapel of
Albany, N. York, proposes to give Rut-
landers a specime of his tall walking.
He will undertake to walk one hundred
hours without stopping for purse of
500, and is to receive $40 for each
hour he walks after the expiration of the
one hundred hours. The walking is to
be done in Franklin Hall, in this village,
commencing October 18th.
g. Mr.. W. II. Burnham, of Wis
eonsin, has succeeded in finding gold in
several towns in Addison County, and in
one day, with the assistance OF two men,
took out thirty dollars, of the precious
metal. He is so confident that gold
hunting will pay in this State that he
intends returning from his western home
in the Spring and make that his business.
&c The Bellows Falls Times says the
pedler broad cloth game has been played
on two farmers near Woodstock, to the
tune of 500 each. 1t is the same game
played up in Franklin county and re-
peated in Bellows Falls. Look cut for
the swindlers.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Last Tuesday
afternoon an accident occurred to MIR.
Edward A. Woodland of Walden, by
which he lost his life. He was under a
building, attempting to raise or move it
by means of a jack screw, when some
part OF the timbers gave way, and the
house settled, crushing Mr.. Woodland, and
killing him. When found, his body was
bent double, with his head between his
knees. He was about twenty-five years
of age, and leaves a wife, but no children,
as we are infurmed.-Norh Star.
FIRE IN DANvILLE.-Last Thursday
morning the barn of Capt. Samuel Mea-
der, who resides about one mile north
west of Danyille Green, was entirely
consumed by fire, with all its contents
consisting of about forty tons of hay, 6
large amount of wheat, and other grain
The building, as we learn, was insured
but the crops were not. The fire j!
thought to have been the work of an in
cendiary.--North Star.
%'SoME PUMPKINS" Mr.. ZeladiaI
Tracy, of St. Adams Bay, has presented
us one of sixteen black pumpkins, raiset
from seed which he found in sack o
Brazil Nuts. He planted the seed OIL
the 9th of May, and gathered the pump
kins on the 28th of Sept. The pump
kins average twenty lbs. each in weight
st. Adams Messenger.
ca Mr.. Fl. NJ. Cheney, of Franklin
has gathered yellow pumpkin whicl
weighs 68 IL lbs, and measures six fee
in circumferenee.-Ibid.
@ MIR. Abel Wood of Barre, raise
lhe present season 90 bushels of whcs
on 200 rods of ground. Also 200 bust
els of provinder, composed of oats, ry'
and barley, on 2 IA acres of land.
EY There was quite fall of snow G
Mount Mansfield, on the 26th ult., ar
on the 9th the thermometer was on
is degrees above zero.
O. OF 63 horses entered for premium
at the National Fair in Springfield, Mas
62 were of Vermont blood or Vermo
breed.
@ The Age gives the following
the offence of Atkins, p. H., at Belloy
Falls, lately decapitated:
He wrote to Postmaster in this G.
in business letter, as follows:
"If you are not too conscientious, fral
your letters-just stamp free on the
and as / have the P. o. here all will
right. IF your conscience viii not allc
it, all right--mum is the word"
G. In speaking of cheese in Vermol
they reckon by tons their merchants
not consider it at all remarkable to Sc
off 100 or even 200 tons for Boston
New York at one time. One night ]
Gently, 81 cars loaded with 10 tons
cheese to q car, passed over the Vt. Ct