Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-07-21
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Mr.. VIM. Bell, a native Of Mass, and
whose parents now reside in Searsburg,
VT, was executed at Waukegan, ILL.,, on
Friday. June Both, for the murder of Mrs.
Ruth Briden, in December, 1868, with
whom he was making bis home. He
persistently protested his entire inno-
cence of the crime, and stated that the
Sheriff "might put his (BelPs) feet into
the stove and burn off bis legs and he
would not change one word he had said
about ii.p G. w. Upton, Esq, YER
monter, and a lawyer Of high reputation
and legal attachments acted as counsel.
but the circumstances were so clearly
against the accused that he was brought
to suif4r the extrame penalty OF the law.
- Wdlton's Daily.
Abner Niles, of the 9Th Vermont regs,
iment, belonging in Bakersfield, was
killed on Friday last while standing on
the top Of car as the train which con-
veyed the 9Th regiment, was passing over
Harmon Bridge, in Pitsford. His head
struck the bridge. fa 7.a n
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ST. ALBANs
CAR FACTORY BURNEp.-The car
factory. an extensive wooden building,
in st. Adams, took fire Tuesday morning,
and was wholly destroyed. All the
tools and machinery were burned with
the building, and large quantity of lum-
Der was barely saved. The whole was
the property Of the Railroad Company.
The fire is supposed to have originated
by spontaneous combustion in pile Of
saw dust. The house Of Geo. +. Hough-
ton, Esq, near by, narrowly escaped.
The loss to the Vermont Central by
this confagration is estimated at $40, 900.
--B~rlington Times. H.
VIOLATION OF LIQUOR LAw.-On
Friday last, on complaint made by States
Attorney Foote Of Middlebury, Henry C.
Thompson of Vergennes, was arrested
and brought, before Esquire Humphry of
Ferrisburgh, for violation of the liquor
law. Several witnesses were examined
and it was shown by them that the de-
fendant had sold two glasses of beer and
eight glasses of cider. No ether testimo-
ny wasl given and the Justice fined the
defendant One Hundred dollars and costs.
I he defendant appealed Tergennes
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A SAD CAsE.-Mr, John Cole of Wal
den was in town Wednesday. Young
Cole had both eyes shot out at the last
battle before Petersburgh, ball entering
the left temple and passing right through
his head. Of all the sad cases we have
heard of in this cruel war;, young Coles
seems the hardest. He was member
Of Co. A, 10Th regiment, and he speaks
in high terms of his former captain, the
late f. B. FROST Caledonian. v5
Rotten EGGED.--We understand
that number of the 9Th regiment met
their surgeon, DR.. Gillett, at Essex juno.
tion Monday night, after they were paid
off and discharged, and entering the car
where he was seated, pelted him severely
with eggs and then pitched bim out a
window. There had been i'll feeling to,
ward the surgeon for some time. but
with how much reason we know not
1t seems too bad after our soldiers have
won SO much honor and glory in the
fed, any should come home to disgrace
themselves CaledOnian.
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A SMART OLD LADY.--Mrs. Moses
Hubbard, of Wheeloek, aged 80 years,
wove, on the lst day of this month, two
and a half yards of linen, double work,
in two and half hours. She belongs to
a generation when women we're made
"'pon honor" She tarries 10 this gen
Grafton as an example of what women
used to be- Vermont Union.
MORE VT. TRooPs CoMING.-The
War Department, it is announced, has
decided to muster ont the remainder of
the Army of the Potomac at once
Dispatches received by Mai. Austine
state that the "a, Sd and 4th VT. regi-
ments have received orders to be MUSTER
ed out, and expect to start for Vermont
soon. t-t, -f.V
AURIFERoUs.-Considerable gold is
found in Sockbridge and Bethel. in the
Locust Greek and White River Valleys,
the men at work averaging about four
dollars per day. About four hundred
dollars had been washed out up to week
before last.
Emery s. Wilder, returned soldier
Of Co. X, 9th Regt., was dragged and
robbed of bis money on Friday the 23d,
at drinking hole in Brattleboro.
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