Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-01-18
Vermont News.

readers of the Standard will remem-
Der the brutal murder Of Mrs. Girls
void, at Williston, more than year
ago, and the arrest of John Ward,
alias Jerome Lavigne, and Charles
Ii. Potter for the commission of the
crime. The County Court acquitted
Potter, but found Lavigne guilty.
The latter's case was carried to
the Supreme Court upon points of al
legged errors in matters of law, COM
mitted by the lower court, and was
disposed of at the recent session in
Burlington, the court holding that no
error in law was committed in the
trial and verdict, and that the verdict
of guilty, must stand recorded against
the accused. The sentence was pro-
nounced by Judge Barrett, the con-
Guiding words of which we give:
"The sentence of the law is now to
be pronounced, and it is that you be
hanged by the neck till dead, at such
time as shall be fixed by this court in
warrant to be issued thereby at the
next term thereof, commanding this
sentence to be carried into execution:
and that you be imprisoned in solita-
ry confinement in the State Prison in
Windsor, in the County of Windsor,
till said punishment shall be inhict-
cd"
The Free Press adds:
''Lavigne stood and looked the
judge III the face during the delivery
of the sentence, without the CULVER Of
a muscle, or the slightest bIenching
of his cold grey eye, and sat down at
its close, apparently the most uncon-
cerned individual in the courtroom.
sit would seem that the atrocity Of
Wards crime must remove all room
for even an application for executive
clcmency. If there was ever a case
where the law should take its course,
that of the hired assassin, brought
from New York city for his deed of
murder, must be it. 1t is certainly
to be hoped that he will be so care,
fully guarded that the gallows will
not be cheated Of its own, and that
before his end he will make a con-
/ fcsslOn-which cannot indeed make
his own guilt any more certain, but
may clear up tie fearful mystery
which still surrounds the crime. and
show who was the inStigator as well
as the perpetrator of the Griswold
murder
The Vermont Mutual lost $4,000
/ in 1866, from the careless use of
Kerosene. and have passed a new by
law imposing an additional charge
of 10 per cent. for insurance on build
lngS where it is drawn by artificial
light.
CANADA On~--The oil business of
Canada West is very much depressed.
owing mainly to the low price Of oil.
which is now worth less than $500 a
barrel. Very many good wells have
ceased working, as at present prices
they cannot pay expenses. What has
so depressed the price Of oil we have
not learned. One year AGO it was
bringing so a barrel In speaking
of this oil business the Cleveland
( Herald says that more money has
been bored into the earth in the oil
regions than has come from the holes
made, and mentions the case of a man
who, uuappreciative OF the good rule
not to put all his eggs in one basket.
expended his fortune of over one hun
drcd thousand dollars, and succeeded
III developing eight good producing
wells, but has abandoned them all,
pennileSs, because it will not pay to
barrel and market the OiI.-Aoyth
Star.
A GOOD REPLY.-A subscriber to
the Montpelier Freeman ordered his
paper stopped for the reason that he
could get the Tribune or Journal for
81 30 per year, the regular price of
the Freeman being $500.
Mr. Willard publishes the note of
the subscriber, with the following re-
marks:
1--WE wonder, however, if it has
ever occurred to the very few per
sons who stop State paper because
its price is triAe more than the Jour |
nal or Tribune, that no paper out of |
the State, however able, can take the |
place OF one which gives State news,
Is devoted to State interests, and is
thoroughly conversant with all State
affairs. -Four cents a week may be
an eXtravagant price to pay for in
formation relating to affairs in ones
own State, and those who think it is.
will doubtless, deem it wise economy
to save the penny each week. and
lake the Journal or Tribune.
But those who do this should not
let their economy stop here. 1t must
ne extravagant folly for them to pay
ave, or ten, or twenty dollars for the
support Of preaching in their locali-
ties, when a volume of sermons can
DC bought for dollar or a dollar and
I half, and can be read at home every
sabbath, saving both Sunday attire
and Sunday expenses.
There Is no use in explaining to
those who prefer a city weekly he.
cause it is fifty cents cheaper, why
paper which has a hundred thousand
Ibscrlbers can be afforded choanor