Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1865-05-26
State News.

| SHOCKING ACcIDENT.-Mr. Jason
Babcock, an employe Of the Passumpsic.
Railroad CO., was killed in tbs shops of
the company at this place on Thursday
afternoon, the lth inst, under the fol-
lowing peculiar circumstances: Mr.. Bab-
cock, together with several other men,
were at work in the, car shop near the
apparatus used for raising cars. This
apparatus is a screw worked by two belts
and pulleys. Accidentally the lever
which puts this screw in motion was
changed, putting the machinery in gear.
This fact was neither known to, or no.
ticed by, any one present. Slowly and
silently this screw unscrewed till its
thread run out of the nut, whe the
whole thing, weighing about 500 lbs,
fell aud striking Mr.. Babcock upon the
head crushed in his skull. Some five
or six men were standing near, and he
was Immediately raised up aud spoken
to, but he made no sign. He was reno
we'd TO his house and surgical aid sum
moned, but his brain was oozing out, and
he was totally unconscious till he died,
although he breathed for an hour or two
after the accident. Mr. Babcock was
nearly sixty years of age, and had been
in the employ of the railroad company
about one year. His funeral was attend
ed on Sabbath day at Burke, his former
home CaledoRtdn. 5. .ssagua
YOUNG Elmore Goguon
and Frank Williams, from the Centre
village, only Ii years old, were commit
ted to the Jail in this place the present
week, charged with house-breaking and
stealing. 1t seems these young boys
have broken into several houses in the
vicinity of the Centre, while all the oc.
cupants were at church, and taken small
sums of money and other valuables.--
Messrs. Josiah Ward, Sam'l Powers,
Sargent, Widow Ide, and others, each
suffered slightly, though the aggregate
amount Of money taken was less than
$40. We understand they exhibit an in
difference TO their crime, which is strik-
ing evidence of the depravity of the hu-
man heart. We need a reform school
in this state for these boys, and some
others nearer bome.-- Caledoniaa.
Bound UP.-Recent developments
have seemed to fasten guilt upon the
Kicker who was arrested some months
since for stealing sum of money from
Mr.. John Wheeler Of West Concord
While in Jail here he made a nnfflasaf
OF one Bacon, room-mate at jailor
Eldredges. After Bacon was released
he was altogether too "aush' with Pas
sumpsic money, so his neighbors thought
and being arrested he divul5ed the secret
that had lain between him and Kicker.
The latter had examination at West Con-
cord, and was pa: under $4,000 bonds
for appearance at County Court; and in
default of bail was taken TO Irasburgh
Jail. Bacon was put in Jail at this place.
Over 500 Of the money was found in
Mrs. Ruben Bonnett's ash,house, ia Lyn-
don. Mrs. Bennett is Bacon's daughter.
- CaiedOnian. sa seaa
The LOST Found AND THE DEAD
RAIsED.-Three years ago this spring
Mr.. Daniel G. Shaw of Barton while
riding from Island Pond to Charleston,
lost his pocketbook containing $97.--
The present spring, while driving over
the same road, man from Island Pond
turned this wallet out of the mud on his
wagon wheel, and restored it TO the own
er. About $40 of the money was we'll
enough preserved to be redeemed by the
banks.
At the battle of the Wilderness, the6lh
lay Of May, 1864, Mr.. Clark W. Pow
sr5 from Danville, Of the 4th Vt. regi-
ment, was seen to fall, and as the rebels
took that position few minutes later he
was not again seen by his comrades in
arms, and they reported and believed him
killed. He was mourned by his friends
as dead Nor did they know to the con-
rary till the present spring, when among
A lot Of prisoners from that slaughter pen
At Andersonvlle he was sent North
He is now 10 hospital at Montpelier,
recovering from severe attack of ty-
lhoid fever. He says he was not even
lit by rebel bullets on the day when he
vas reported killed, but that he fell from
antness and exhaustion, and though
conscious Of his Hazardous position could
rot help himself until the rebs had pos
session of the ground and he taken pris-
)ner. His testimony to the bsrbarity of
he rebels towards Union prisoners corr
'oborates what all who have experienced
# the tender mercies of the 'ehiyaly,"
affirm Caledoaian.
TALL LIGHTNING.-On the evening
If the l1th inst, during the thunder storm
hat passed over jacksonville, the light
ling struck the ground on the Peter Hol-
,rook hill, half mile from the village,
With such force as to plow a ditch about
i've rods long and four or five feet wide
nd three to five feet deep, throwing out
tones of several hundred pounds weight
distance Of two or three rods, and
ranched out from the ditch in all diree-
ions, perforatng and tearing up the earth
Or more than ten rods, and performing
many curious freaks amongst the trees,
oots and stones. The shaking of the
arih was tremendous, to an extent new
r before witnessed.-PhGnir.