Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-03-16
STATE NEWS.

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A SABBATH EVENING EPISODE. "A
Lad-he had not attained manhood
neither In years nor discretion
''mlght have been seen" last evening
so intoxicated, that he occupied the
entire thoroughfare in slow and pre-.
carlous passage down South Main
Street. When near the limits of the
corporation his load became too heavy
for him, and yielding when he could
no longer resist, he laid down to rest
| Fortunately, he was discovered soon
after by those who acted the good
Samaritan and took him to an adjoining
house, where by active effort and a
free use of restoratives he was arous-
ed from his benumbed, half frozen
condition. If he had been undisturb-
ed for two hours he must have frozen
to death! This is the second instance
within a week, Of drunken exposure
which has nearly cost the life of the
victims Of incompetence. The other
unfortunate it is thought, will live, but
must lose both hands and a part Of
one or both feet, And yet while its
victims multiply, we hear of no effort
to suppress the accursed traffic =
st. Albans Messeng ger.
VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD
The following figures show that the
Vermont Central Railroad is a "big
institution" and that it costs something
to run the ''machine::" L. F. Perkins,
Esq, the efficient and popular Master
Mechanic Of the Road, gives employ
ment to rs engineers. 46 firemen, 40
rail welders, 81 machinists and help
ers, $50 car builders, 45 blacksmiths
and hel pers, | painters and helpers,
and SO Others-a total of 500 men.
j. W. Hobart, Esq, Master of Trans
portation, employs Ia men. Forty
eight men are employed on the pas
senger trains, thirteen of whom are
conductors. One hundred agents and
three hundred and thirty-fve trackmen
are employed at the various stations.
Major Tenney, Master Bridgeman,
employs ll9 men. The road annual
ly consumes 10000 cords Of wood.
The net freight earnings of the road
in 1865 were S1.065, 1861 against
$926,522,07 in 1864-,N. -4lbanS
Transcript.
Police TENSION Wednesday,
Maggie Carroll, whose name appears
IperiodicalIym the records of the police
court, was given sixty days in the
County Jail, by Recorder Read. for
vagrancy.
Peter Good of South Burlington.
who is not as good as he might be.
was arrested at the instance of States
Attorney En@Iesby, for adultery with
a prostitute named Dolly Ann Bixbr.
Both were bound up for trial by JUS
tice Hollenbcck on Wednesday. in
$1,000, and in default of bail were
committed to Jail. Goods offence
is aggravated by personal abuse of
his wife whom he beat and turned out
Of doors, for objecting TO his criminal
harboring of Miss Bixby.
An individual. whose name we are
requested by his mother. not to men
ton, was on the LIST fined s. and costs
for intoXication.
Geo. Roberts, a man from Port
Henry, was fined So and costs Friday.
for intoXication. He was picked up
helpless lying across tn c railroad
track. and brought before Recorder
Reed.
Chas. Champagne, for selling liquor
was fined SO and costs, and Joe
Parker for intoxicati0n. s. and costs.
by Justice HolIenbeck.-Frec Press.
The OLDEST MAN-Judge Barrett.
III a communication to the Woodstock
Standard, eAectuallv knocks the bot
tom out ofthc story which has rome
the country through. that Peter Nassau
"a colored man Of Pomfret. VI. Is 100
years old, and consequently the oldest
man in America. Judge :. say,
Peter states that his first recollection
is that Of being slave on the island
of Martinique. His masters nanc
was Joseph Damilux, a Frcachman.-I
He left the Island on account If its
being taken possession Of ami claimed
by the British. The British first
took Martinique in 1894. Peter. who
left with his master. and came to
Boston with him, was then he SUD
poses about 16 years DID, he had not
got to be man. If III 1874 he wa,
only sixteen years old, he is now
about. lightweight
THIEvING.-Richard Common boy
ten or twelve years old, was arrested
for stealing from the Bakery money
drawer on Wednesday. His examin-
alton was had the same day before
Hubbard Hastings, Esq, and as the
boy is notorious little thief, stealing
everything he can get his hands on. |
the justice sentenced him to be locked |
up in the Jail for one week. He was
arrested, tried, sentenced and put in
Jail within two hours after he COM
mitted the last theft.-Caledonian.
SEIzURE.-On the 1st Deputy Col
lectOrS Rand and Foster seized 10 ral- |
Ions of the 'critter," with two horses.
about half a mile north of Bugbce's in
Burke. Greenbacks will call the
"crltter" out.-Calcdonian.
BREAD CAST Upon THE WATERS
A benevolent Christian Lady of Yer
mont, says the January number of the
Bible Society Record was lad IA oor1 i