Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-12-15
State News.

on Tuesday morning. AS we learn
the circumstances, Mr.. Sidney DIN,
after breakfast, went out of his house,
and short time afterwards was found
near one of the out-buildings with his
throat cut from ear to ear, and life ex-
tinct. The cut was a frightful one,
and death must have ensued almost
Immediately. The deceased was one
of the most upright, straightforward
men in town, and was universally re-
spected. His untimeIy aud shocking
death has cast a gloom over the entire
community where he resided.
1t is considered certain that the
dire deed must have been committed
in temporary fit of Insanity, as it
can be aseribed to no other tanglble
cause.
FATAL ACCIDENT.-Last Thursday
afternoon at o'clock, Zenas Metcalf
of West Concord, went out chopping,
and felled fir tree. When about to
fall, he ran under the tree, which tell
upon him, crushing him to the ground,
and held him there till 10 o'clock at
night, when his sOn-im-law, Richard
son, went after him He lived till 3
O'Clock Saturday morning. The doc
tors believe that had he been extri-
Gated within two or three hours after
The fall, he could have been saved. -
Richardson was in the habit of goi 2
into the woods after him regularly at
about O'Clock, but Oh the day of the
accident. Metcalf told him not to 70
after him, as he was going to a GER
tain neighbours. But not returning
home at 10 o'clock, Richardson went
to the neighbours to learn the cause
of his stay, and not finding him pro-
ceeded to the woods, where he found
him nearly dead from cold and long
confnemcnt-Lwdon Union.
RUFFIANIsM IN BENNNGTON-The
Banner says: Another exhibition OF
ruffianism of the baser order trans
pired on last Saturday evening"
Three roughs, crazed with liquor,
named respectively, Hurley, Sullivan
and Palmer, left North Bennington at
about I o'clock. and proceeded to
make a general assault on almost ev.
cry one they met First, they want
ed to fight Frenchman, at HinSGen
vile; but on his telling them he should
be only too glad to accommodate them
they concluded to move on. soon at
ter they met Mr.. Geo. Benton, whom
they struck twice with their whip
next they came up with Mr.. Henry
Parker and daughter, striking the CIR
so savageIy in the face. a number OF
times, with the whip, as to lacerate i
in cruel manner. On Mr.. +. ), eX
postulating with chem as to their con
duct, they went at him with stone.
and fists, breaking his lose, and 9th
erwise very severely injurlng him
afterwards they met Mr.. Barnes, oil
the firm at Paper Mill village, and an
other man named Griffin, whom the,
at once attacked, and continued t
:. chase up, until just after crossing TIN
;. covered bridge this side of the "Albr'
: place" where the buggy cOntainin!
:. the drunken brut'.o was overturned
! throwing Hurley with such force /
the ground, where his head struck
= big stone, as to put him into insens
bility, in which condition he has TO
the most part since remained. Il
8 will probably recover, though his hea
:, is badly smashed. The other tw,
Sullivan and Palmer, were soon afte
= arrested by Sheriff Powers and ASST
- tants, and conveyed to Jail. Tie
. were tried on Monday, aud convicted
. the bail being very properly set at
:. high figure, failing to obtain whic
they were taken back to Jail.
s. Miss DICKINSON's LECTURE.-T III
&C. hall was filled to overlooking 0
&c Thursday evening to listen to Mi'
Dickinson's plea for women. III
IN burden of her lecture was, learn YOU
al daughters to work-at homework, {
to learn some trade or business, by whit
id they may be self-supporting and i
a. dependent should the usual suppO
fail. The lecture was highly prac
,r- cal, the ground taken generally ten
ve BILE, the sarcasm severe, and the bl
~. tory of woman's wrongs eloquent al
If thrilling. The lecture closed with
,is most touching story: A young girl
of years old came to this country fro
M England. She came with the man
va whom she had been married S
Ilv months before. He deserted her.
tn She was stranger in a strange Ian
oh and pennileSs. She had not friel
or even an acquaintance in the ne
on world. She sought for work, her nc
me- ey being expended. and went to wo
cd for a man who solicited her to 90 in
in. the country. This helpless child, t
a stranger in a strange land, was tax
les i'll by circumstances that befeli her..
She was betrayed 6y the man W
oil took her to his home. The peoE
nd of the house discovered her mourn
on condition and she was taken into t
Ike streets of Philadelphia On bitt
to cold night OF that bitter cold NOR
. of last January, and there turn
mt adrift upon the world, without frien
an. or acquaintance, her last state bel
sb. worse than her first She took she
er in lodging house. The won
tes gave her a room for money, and we
I'm. not near her. There she remain
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