Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-06-09
State News.

discourse with this heading April l9tb,
at the Centre Church, on our late below
ed President, Abraham Lincoln. The
sermon was so well received on delivery
that request was made to publish ii that
it might have a wider circulation. We
have read it with satisfaction, and COM
mend it to our friends. 1t is written in a
clear and f1rcible style, with just APP
probation of Mr.. Lincon's character and
services. We give the following extract
as sample of the style and thought OF
the writer
ain the majestic march of Jehovah
among nations, when arise great emery
encies, when great principles are at stake,
when events startling, fearful, terrible,
even, occur, and others impend when
States are shaken to their foundations,
and mems hearts fail them for dread Of
what may come, and the possibilities OF
evil loom up dark all around the horizon,
&c all things betoken to the calmest mind
the existence of a great historic hour
an hour on which historians shall dwell
long, and from which the philosopher
shall draw lessons of wisdom for the
ageS-then, for that hour, .the great Dis
poser Of Events raises up--A MAN.
; Where does he look for him? Not
where men are wont to look for him
not among crowned heads not among
brilliant orators; not even among re-
noWned statesmen and .jurisfs The
oak which is to rear its majestic head, a
mark for all eyes, whose sturdy trunk
shall stand unmoved in the storm, and
whose strong branches shall spread a
shelter, broad and dense from the fierce
heah-hestS of the hour, he has been
nurturing the while in comparative Sc
clu>ion and obscuri:y. David was such
a man, and he took him from the sheep
cote. Martin Luther was such man,
aud he took him from the cell of an Oh
scure monk. Cromwell was such a man,
and he took him from the house of a
brewer.
"ABRAHAM LINCOLN was such a man.
The son of a poor man, reared in poverty,
and when God sent him to his great task,
only enough known to secure him the
place where he could show himself to be.
what the Deity designed, tie man for the
Janr - D,tJ1aI Jy,.1JI
A WELL BoRED.-Well boring has
commenced in Bennington, though not
exactly for the oleagnous substance
known as petroleum, but rather for that
necessary liquid, aqua. The process,
with its attending details, is patented and
consists of a gaspipe, to the bottom of
which is riveted an egg-shaped piece of
cast iron, said bottom section of pipe be-
ing bored with holes for the distance of
TWO feet above said iron. Iron bar holes.
are first made in the earth to a consider
able depth, into which the pipe is insert
ed and driven down with sledge until
water is reached, when a pitcher pump
is screwed upon the pipe, and up comes
the water. One of these wells was put
down by Mr.. d. A. Rider, in the lot op
posite Gates Hotel, one day last week,
water being "struck," and the pump in
operation, in a very short time. Wells
of this description have a great advan-
tage over those of the old-fashoned style,
as it IS not tenth>part the labor to
build them, there is no stoning-up or
throwing out of dirt. 1t is claimed they
cannot be pumped dry, when other wells
are not SO troubled. 1t is really a curl
osity in its Bennington Banner.
FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.-The dwell
ing house occupied by Alfred Worcester
in Windsor, at Sheddsville, was DESTROY
ed by fire on the night Of the 18Th ult.,
together with all its contents except the
furniture in two rooms in the front part
of the building. The family had been
cleaning house the day previous, and the
fire is supposed to have caught from
some portion of the chimney during the
day, and continued to smoulder until the
fire broke out in the night. Edgar T.
Perkins and a son Of Mr.. Worcester
slept up stairs, and were awakened by
the smoke, when young Worcester rush
ed down stairs followed as he supposed
by Perkins, but who must have been
overpowered by the smoke and persisted
in the flames. The only remains found
were few bones and among them por-
ton of the skull. He was about 20 years
of age, son of Josiah Perkins, and had
recently returned from the army, in
which he had served his country. The
afflc,ion is perhaps the more trying
from the fact that his father had been
blind for many years. -BellOws Falls
Times.
BODY FoUND.-On Tuesday night
last the body of an unknown man, about
forty years of age, was discovered by al
boy named Charles Palmer in Winooski
river, near the residence of Rufus Bishop
in Jericho. The body was nariiallv de-