Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-12-02
State News.

afternoon to throw the Chicago Elk
press train on the Vermont Central.
off the track. As the train going
: north was near the Chittenden place
= about mile east of Williston Depot
the engineer discovered, on coming
around a curve, some obstruction on
the track, and sounded the whistle
for "brakes." The train was soon
stopped, whenit was ascertained that
some villains had placed a railroad
tie across the track, upon which was
a couple of heavy plank and six or
eight sticks of hard wood. The sec.
ton men had passed by an hour be.
: fore, when the track was all clear
Had the nefarious plan succeeded,
many persons would have been iniur.
ed, as the cars would have gone down
an embankment from Is to 20 feet
high. Gov. Smith and family were
on board the train. There are vari.
GUS surmises in regard as to who were
the miscreants, but nothing reliable
has yet developed itself 1t was
truly narrow escape, but will doubt.
less lead the railroad managers to
put an efficient watch over their en-
tire line.-Burlington Times.
ROBBERY IN ST.. ALBANs.-On the
evening of Saturday, Nov. 10Th, as
one of the masons employed on the
new hotel in ST. Adams, was return.
ing to his home at st. Adams Bay, he
was confronted a few rods below the
American Hotel by a man who de-
manded his money or his life. The
man chose to give up the former,
amounting to $4,000, which the rob-
Der took and departed The rob-
berry was committed about 8 o'clock,
P. NJ.
The abstract Of grand lists at the
State House show an aggregate Of
nearly 1000 dogs in this State, yield
ing revenue Of the same number of
dollars.
A Vermont paper mentions the
case of farmer who last fall drove
up to his barn $40 sheep to winter.
! He sold "a lambs and fat sheep for
market, for $685.. He sold his clip
of wool for 1854, and then had flock
of 10 more than he had in the fall.
The 10Th annual meeting of the
/ Vermont Teachers Association, of
which the Rev. Pliny Ii. White, of
Coventry, is President, will be held
at St. Adams, on Tuesday, the 10th
day Of January, 1865.
BURGLARY.-On Thursday night,
the / It'll inst, the store of Mr., VIM.
NJ. Spooner was entered, the money.
draw relic yed of its coutents-some
$40 or $15-and goods taken to the
amount of $40 or $50. The rascals
gained an entrance through one of
the rear windows,-which they rea.
ched with the aid of plank,-by re.
moving a couple of lights of glass;
Verm0Rter.
There are fifty post Offices in the
county of Windsor.
An Irishman at the polls in Wind
sor being challenged for his natural.
ization papers, after much caution to
the authorities not to "tier it, hand
ed over a paper which being opened
was found to be bill against him
self for hoo barrels Of aohiskey!
FATAL ACCIDENT. Joseph Savage,
a Canadian of good character and
industrious habits, was hit upon the
head by falling tree, or broken limb,
and fatally injured while chopping
for Mr.. Hosea Wilkins in the east
part of Mendon, on Thursday after.
noon last.
On the night of the 3lst ult. the
house ofDana S. Smith Esq. Of Leices-
ter was entered by some person, aud
a purse containing S38, and jewelry
to the amount of 81, taken.
ACCIDENTIN BoLToN.-Julius Hodg-
es came near being killed in Bolton
on t h e 10th inst, while blasting
rocks. The fuse was fired and did
not explode. Mr. Hodges, thinking
the fire had gone out, went near to
examine it when the charge explod-
ed filling his face with powder and
small stones. 1t is thought he will
lose both eyes.
NATURAL CoNsEQUENcE.-Miles
Gray, of Lunenburg, got drunk, fell
off a platform six feet high, struck his
head on stone and was killed.
On Tuesday about noon, one
Timothy Shean, a laborer in the gray
ell pit fell from one of the bents OF
the railroad bridge and was drowned.