Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-06
Local News.

GooD.-Our selectmen have fixed
the road up by Chamberlain's shop
putting up railing. Not dangerous
now. The railing is noble work of
art costing not less than 81 IL cts.
in currency besides the labor of two
men for period of three hours!
LIBRARY.-The people of lrasburgh
are moving in the matter OF village
library. They have had one or two
meetings to discuss the matter.
misunderstanding Jameson has
had printed blanks for table of stats
tics of all the cattle, crops, horses,
fowls, &C., raised or on hand during
the year 1858. This is just what is
wanted we think it is something new,
or if not entirely new it is not gener-
ally attended to. If the executive
committee attend to the business we
can thus learn how Orleans county
stands in general thrift and in agri-
cultural progress. We wish to see
the figures.
THRIVING Eleven persons united
with the congregational church at Iras-
burgh last sabbath.
RUNAWAY Duncan McDougall
of this village, hired a horse
of Capt. Little one day last week, to
60 to Irasburgh; he succeeded in get
ting on his journey as far as where the
highway interferes with S. S. Clark
fence, when he came to a Sudden stop
by being tipped out Of the wagon
The horse ran with him and dragged
him some distance, injuring him so he
was confined to the house some days.
We understand that our selectmen are
taking measures to have things so fix
ed that people living in the village,
where they are short of land, can
build into the road as far as they
please, and then If the streets are toe
o narrow for ordinary locomotion, they
o are going to have travellers turn back
4 and 90 round the town, for it amt go
v ing to answer to deny any man wha
i he wants; the town has got its name
e up for being accommodating; by al
9 means keep it so and let US thrive
E Is any man so foolish as to suppose
o that one will settle in our village ant
be bounded by the narrow limits al
h. lowed by law? By no means! 1t i
o. a thing unheard of here. When Mer
20 rick Mansfield built his house he con
~ Guided that he wanted a rod of tn
o. road annexed to his premises, and s
iS he stole it! When his next door ncigt
Of Dor, Geo. Leonard, built his house
II thought he was as good as Mansfield
no and so he stole rod Then John "
,;S Jones built house and stole a TO
ID and half! No objections made b
O. anybody. Now people have diScoveI
Nv ed that things on Front street are nc
to as they ought to be, that the road
not straight, and so they have concl
ve ded to "rob Peter to pay Paul" an
re are going to gouge from J. l.. Woo,
Yer man enough to straighten it. And ;
mr. it is all over town; when a man wan
% piece of the road he takes it; wi
he is going to object? Not the seleC
mt men? No, indeed They are not Q
mr. ing to jeopardise a second election
Ike fearlessly doing their duty. But dor
his it look pretty though, to see CLARK
roo fence run out into the road, where
INV has been travelled over for years; al
to- then 60 over to Benz. Nutter's and s
I'd avarice in all its beauty fence r
,ur into the highway. clear and distir
> from the ones on each side of it, L
Of less than eight feet! A year ago Ii
to summer Capt. Little conceived t
,nv idea of building a horse shed ado
an. ing the Jerry Drew stand, and as
we wanted to use his own land for otl
AXE purposes he concluded to put the sh
the in the highway. The selectmen bI
rice tied up, brave as sheep, and order
him to stop work or they would tt
down his shed the Captain shook
head and looked determined, tell
and them he should build it there and
thin they tore it down he would build it
per- the common in front of his old stan
'ere This fetched the authorities to tn
CO.. co. milk; they wilted they mizzled Il
% ro sloped; they vanished into thin
of and Capt. Little built his shed in
ents road, with none to modest or MI
OF him afraid. Well, whose
aua sinesS is it !? Not ours, perhaps
:: shall make it ours whether it is or
felt and if any one don't like it he
and "grin and bear III or resort to t
car inalienable right" of all fools ;
eng give US the heartrending order of IS
'ba a' MY paperr'
ana SOUTH TRoY.-Our South Troy
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