Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-09-08
State News.

churches In Vermont awaiting couoo-
Grafton. viz: those at Fairfield, West
Randolph, West Poultney and Bel
lows Falls.
The skeleton of an Indian was dug
up a short time since, on the farm of
Simon Brooks near the Vernon line.
The individual was apparently OF
large stature. The bones are In toll
erably good state of preservation. A
clay pipe of rude construction was
found with the bones.
Butter, about 1000 tubs, seld at st.
Adams Tuesday at from 40 to 4b cts.
CD. Hitchcock is on his annual
woodchuck hunt in Sandgate. He has
already Stayed about two hundred
During two days last week he shot no
less than forty-nine.
A car load of geese to the number
of two thousand, less one dozen, pass
ed through ST. Adams yesterday en-
route to Boston from Canada.
Ninety-eight years ago last March,
family of thirteen persons began
the first permanent settlement in Rut-
land. In March, 1870, will be the
centennial anniversary of the towns
birth.
At Richmond, on the Oath, rs tubs
of butter sold at 40 cents; 800 boxes
cheese at l3 to a cents; 100 hogs,
weighing from $50 to 400 lbs, live
weight, sold for from 9 to 10 II cts.
The farmers of Franklin county
were disappointed in their anticipa-
tions of large harvest of grail. The
wheat and oat crop is unusually light
this SeaSon-a large quantity OF straw
and but little grain. For want of
rain, the potatoe crop will be light
Corn looks as if there would be a
good large crop.
Mrs. French, an aged widow lady
living alone at South Hardwick vii
lage, fell down cellar last Friday night
about o'clock and was SO badly
hurt as to be unable to move and was
Obliged to lie till II o'clock the next
day when she was found by neigh
Dor. She is in very critical condi-
ton.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-The last
DanviIle Star says that Lowell Pow
erS OF East Cabot, attempted to take
his own life, and almost succeeded.
: He had been missed from his house
) for a day or more, when ID search was
instituted by his family and neigh
bors. A day or two elapsed before
he was found, and when found, he
was disc ,vered with his throat cut
= on both sides of his neck, and severa
t stabs in his body, none OF which haC
} proved fatal. He used large jack
knife. He was taken home, hi;
wounds ministered to, and at last &C
: counts he was considered in a very
critical condition.-Caiedonia
l CALEDONIA CoUNTY.-This count,
| has done well Alfhqmnh tho 4nn,o
5 Gratis have ktd like beavers, anC
/ got out all their available force, thu
Republicans have made net gain Of
d over four hundred votes over las
year. The Republicans have made
=. gain in thirteen out of the seventee
II towns and in Danville, one of tn
/ two democratic towns in the county
they have reduced the majority lrOl
81 to 10. BY the canvass made JUS
! before election, there were shown t
, be 30O6 Republican votes IN tn
J. county. The vote on Tuesday show
the reliability of the canvass by pol
ing up 1881 votes, and Walden yt
to hear from. We think we arc jus
~ flied in saying that Caledonia di
:. well; for although she has not game
4 as many votes as some other couI
y ties, she had not as many to gain; {
- the record of last year shows les
~ number of stay-at-home Republican
- than in many other sections OF tt
~ state.-CdtedOnian.
IN MORE RASCALITY-A span OF HO
If sEs ST0LEN.-One night last wee
ID the one of the two Stanley boys, who's
er recent act of fendish rascality
If still fresh in the community, al
Of another boy by the name OF Gibbon
I'd stole a span of horses valued at SIC
be to $500, from Ichabod Cross, of Shaft
he bury, and making off with them, so
I'D them to man in Center Cambridg
. for about half their value. Gibbol
u.s. has been arrested and is now in Gu
N, tody, but Stanley is still at large.
80 little State Prison discipline wou
IS, do him good, besides being conduci
at towards the yindication OF Justic
mt Though young, he is hardened (
of fender, and sooner or later must kno
~ by experience the truth of the o
~ adage-"the way of the transgress
he is hard. Bloomington Banner.
A. Spotted FEVER IN WALLNGFoR
)ui John McCarm, young man ag
III 81, at work for Jonathan AndersC
us ESQ.,, arose in his usual health Tu'
or day morning, was taken violently 81
'ne during the forenoon, and died on t
III night of Wednesday, of spotted few
so A part of the time during the fol
d. hours of his sickness it took sever
Jus Jus persons to hold him upon the bed.
%" At the democratic convention in t
m. first Kentucky district, which mol
BIZ mated Boyd Winchester for congre
. the rebels present undertook to {