Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-11-27

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Hudson, distance offourteen miles, 70
3 which he was promoted to corporal
> Vermont Record.
STATE TEMPERANCE SoCIETY.-Th,
: annual meeting of he State Temper
! ance Society will be held about the mid
die of next month, and in one Of thu
following towns: ST, Adams, Burling
ton, Rutland or Bellows Falls, to be
finally determined by the degree of in
f terest manifested by the people. Should
the Executive Committee of the Society
see fit to hold the meeting in Burlington
we can safely proniie them large at
tendance, and that the hospitality of our
citizens will be largely extended to the
members Of the Society. An cold fash
ioned' temperance meeting like the one
Contemplated by the State Society, would
do more to check intemperance here than
all the prohibitory laws have for years
past.-Burlington Times.
RoBBERY.-Very ,arly in the morn
ing of Friday last, two men called at the
house Of Mr.. Brown, residing al the
west pat of this town, and called for
something to eat. Mr.. Brown, had just
left for Troy with load of poultry, and
there vas no one up in the house but an
aged gentleman, the father of Mr. B.,
who went and brought them some re-
lrestments, which they partook of hasti-
ly, end left, Soon after their departure,
a gdd watch which had been left hang
ing n the room-the property of Mrs.
BroHn-was found TO be missing. I'M
mediate pursuit after the thieves was
made, but at the last accounts without
success. The old gentleman is unable
to give any very accurate description of
their persons or apparel-only that they
wore black caps. We trust they will yet
be captured and brought to punishment.
-Benmlngt0n Banner.
The HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE.-OnI
Saturday night last man by the name
Of Sim. Merrill, who is reported to have
the bounty and then to have
'Skedaddled," made off with boat the
of gentlemen in the neigh
'orhood. After appropriating it to his
wn purpose for three days in crossing
ne Lake Memphremagog, he in the
lost unblushing manner and amidst a 1
cries Of gratuitous falsehoods, returned
ne stolen boat. With unparalleled au- {
Iacity covered by look of assumed in I
locence, he suggested that fair remu-
leration should be awarded to him as
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the boat from the condition in which be
represented himself to have found it,
namely, aAoat near ridge of rocks
StanStead Journal.
A DIsGRACEFUL OCCUKRENCE.-An
disgraceful in the highest de-
gree, came off, with all the beautiful et
ceteraS, at North Bennington, last Satur>
day afternoon, growing out of the efforts
Of John Haley to eject drunken fellow
from his Saloon near the Depot, in doing
which be struck the victim of rot-gut, of
which he is himself a vender, a number
IF heavy blows in the face, mangling it
in a shocking manner, and causing it to
be literally one flow of blood. The
whole scene was disgraceful and sicken-
ing throughout-one of which we should
think the citizens Of that village would
be proud. Like things are such an an
gelic recommend for any community
Millions Paradise" don't begin Ben
aingt0n Banner.
DEsERTERs ARREsTED.-Two deser-
ters were nabbed at Eagle Bridge last
by officers who were on their
track, just as they were getting on to the
train at that station, and taken to Troy,
and lodged in jail One of them, Shep
ards-is said to be a finished hand at the
business, having enlisted two or three
different times, with bounties on each
and deserving as often. 1t is
fair to suppose that it will 60 hard with
him, his case being quite too aggravated
a one to be passed lightly by Benning-
ton Banner,
To Wool GRowERs.-Mr. Z. d.
Richardson, of Westford, writes to the
Free Press, that bit of mercurial oint-
ment, about the size Of pea, will cure
the itching of the fine-wool sheep, which
has been so troublesome the past season,
and caused them to pick themselves and
injure the looks and the fleece very ma
terially. He puts it on directly under
the fOre-leg, upon the bare spot; and