Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-05-29
State News.

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.--Ihe
district Committee, Saul Bishop, G.
W. Aiken and P. G. Skinner, has is
sued call requesting the Democrats
of the Third Congressional District
to meet in Convention at Hyde Park,
the 10th day of June, at II o'clock
a. H., to appoint two delegates and
two substitutes to the Democratic
National Convention and also to NOM
mate candidate for Congress and a
candidate for District Elector.
The Repository records distress
ing case ofpoverty, sickness and death,
In Montpelier. Two French families
resided in two small rooms. with but
one bed In the house, and very scanty
clothing while the restitution of food,
furniture and other necessaries Of life,
beggared description. Five children
died there last week of "bIack-mea-
sles. After the neighbors found out
the case, the distress of the families
was relieved, but the Repository we'll
asks, "where was the overseer of the
poor ?"
Such cases will sometimes occur in
every well regulated community, and
the whole responsibility should not
be thrown upon the officers of the
town. If we were all neighborly, as
we should be, even with the poor and
humble, we shonld see suffering in
time to alleviate if not prevent it, and
ING sometime said to us 'Inasmuch as
We have done it unto one Of the least
of these my brethren, ye have done
it unto me"
The failure of the firm Of Bedding,
Keith & Co., bankers, London, Eng
land, is reported in the papers. 1t is
said to have been caused by the sud
den departure of Mr.. Bedding for parts
unknown. Mr. Keith was in this
country, and left last Saturday for
Europe, on the reception of cable dis
patch.
Mr. Bedding, at the head of the firm
of Bedding, Keith & Co., is native
| of Johnson, and his many acquaintanc-
| es here will learn with no little aston
| ishment of such a termination to his
! successful career. And it is to be
| hoped that further intelligence may
give the matter another aspect.
| The Montpelier Journal says that
the sum of two hundred dollars has
been returned to the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Co.. of that place, fol
the benefit of policy holders in this
company, through the Confessional a
st Adams. The money was returned
by Father Druon, Catholic Priest a
. that place.
. A new paper is projected at Ben
!. nington, in the interest of those op
posed TO 7, w. Parks and the Banner
c Enos Edwards, Of Morristown, ha
a pair Of steers one year old, whic
, weigh nineteen hundred pounds. The
are Of bright red color, and wei
y matched.
d, Col. A. NJ. Dickey Of Bradford praC
l. tees law during the week and pre-;
Il ches sundays. Every other Sunda
}. he breaches at North Thetford in til
:. Union meeting house.
} BuRL 1,,,;13;, Vt, May 25.2T6e tai
peries of Gleason & Laid, at Eas
! MiddIebury, were totally destroyed b
u fire yesterday morning. Part of til
/ contents were saved. The loss is e
[. timated at $4,000.
q TROUBLE AT THE VT. MARBLE QUA
= RIEs.-RUTLAND, VI, May 24.-Tt
% Irish laborerS at the West RutIan,
!. Vermont, marble quarries, to the nun
Der of several hundred, having struc
- for higher wages, the owners of I'll
quarries, instead of acceding to the
sc demands, sent agents to Canada an
lie engaged about 500 Frenchmen I
N work the quarries. This has cause
II much i'll feeling among the Irish, wi
. threaten the destruction of the plac
III The authorities are on the alert al
will promptly quell any disturbance
O. that may occur.
I'd SwANToN.-A. A. Brooks, ESQ.,, c
n, Swanton, received a letter a few da
et ago, without date or name, from
nj conscientious man. The letter W
post.marked at Derby Line, and re;
Ie- as follows:
k Mr.. BRoOKs-I have a confessi
IT. to make to you. | am no thief, b
II. there was a time about twenty yea
p ago, when you kept liquor to SELL
NO My health was poor. | wanted sol
Ill brandy; did not want any body
tie know it. | took pint bowl, went
rs your barrel and drew some-put sol
in sugar in it out of your barrel and b
ill a bowl half full. [ never expect
or see you again in the present state
as things, and am going to the judgme
it, before long. I send one dollar, thi
.er that will pay you, and if there is a
lg. more to settle, shall have to do til
his with the Judge.
at
New YORK, May 25.-Steamshi
City Of London and Bremen arriv
ate this morning.
his A meeting of the friends Of Charl
,he Francis Adams, DESTROYS of havi
ny, him placed on the democratic platfor
5ht for the Vice Presidency of the Unit
'6,- States by the National Democra