Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-07-12

a fire was discovered in Mr.. Samuel STAN
ford's barn in this village, destroying
property to the value of about $3.50. In
sured tor $3.50 in the Vermont Mutual,
Four sleighs, two new harnesses, some
hay, few bushels of grain, two plows.
four or five stoves, few tools, one COW
and shoat were III the barn at the time,
and all we're burned with the exception of
the shoat which escaped badly roasted.
The fire was caused by an incendiary,
and one Leonard Allen is strongly sus-
pected of the arson, as he had previously
made threats to that effect He is des-
perate scoundrel and lives in Canada when
not upon thieving tour in the States.
He goes by the name of John W.
Homely," in consequence of his awful
countenance and horrid gait.-Orleans
Co. Standard.
FIRE IN TRoY.-We learn that q barn
belonging to Walter Powers in Troy, was
destroyed by fire one day last week. The
fire caught from pile of old rubbish
while the family we're in the house eating
dinner.-Ib.
Ey The Orleans County Teachers AS
ISOLATION held its last session at West
Charleston on Friday and Saturday of
last week.-lb.
Cor HOME AND UNHuNG.-Hon. Elisha
White has arrived in Orleans county
again, safe, sound, and unhung. He left
Texas an the 2Sth of May. He confirms
all the published reports in relation to
the state of Southern feeling, He says
they are determined to fight " till the last
man of them is killed" We hope they
will. He came through the territories /;
and when he reached Clinton county,
Missouri, he learned there had been a
battle at Harper's Ferry, wherein $4,000
Northcrners were killed and 10000 taken
prisoners, with small loss on their side.
10.
COUNTERFEIT.-Five dollar countefeit
bills on the Bradford Bank are in circula-
ton. They are well executed, printed on
red-tinted paper, and calculated to deceive.
The genuine bills are printed on paper
which has no red Freeman.
gg An impromptu call upon the Hon.
Frederick Holbrook was made by nearly
all the citizens of this village and many
of the ladies, on Thursday evening of last
week, to tender him their chngratulatioD
on his nomination to the office of Govern
or of Vermont. The Brattleboro Cornet
Band was in attendance and discourscd
most eloquent music. Mr.. Holbrook was
called out and introduced to his friends by
Edward Kirkland, Esq, in a neat and ap
propriate manner, and he was received
with three cheers.-ThGnsr.
ACcIDENT.-ln driving down High
street Sunday evening Cyrene Bemis o
this village hit tree near the side wall
and was thrown against it with such forc'
that the bark was smootbed by his fac
and the rebound sent him backward near
ly two rods He was Immediately takel
up insensible, the blood gushing from hi
nose and ears. He is now in very pre-
: carious condition. The wagon was a com
plctc wreck.-Ib.
ca The Gas Works in Windsor hav
E been put in operation, and the villag
was ligh ted with gas for the first time O.
the evening of the Fourth Walton'
Journal
$ AS the extra train was returning fror
Barton the night of the 4th. some fendis
being fred gun at John Scott, the break
man, the ball passing within a foot {
!, his body and through the bonnet" {
G the car he was on. The place of this az
Y was the Bugbee cut, this side of We,
1 Burke, and the time about 8 o'clock
: the evening. 1t was quite dark, but
s lantern which Scott had at his side plair
g ly revealed his person aledonian.
ORANGE CoUNTY.-The Republican an
Democratic county committees have hot
called convention at Chelsea the l7tl
The calls read precisely alike. Tn;