Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-01
State News.

ped a monster bear one day last week.
An effort is being made in Barnard
to organize town agricultural socie-
ty.
The Ludlow Wooden mills employ
over two hundred hands.
A suit entered IL years since in the
Addison county chancery court has
just been decided.
Large numbers of sheep are dying
in Addison county from grub In the
head.
James Higgins had leg broken
Monday morning at Essex Junction,
while scuffiing.
l.. NJ. Macomber, of North Ferris
burgh, is attempting the cultivation
Of peaches.
1t was said that snow was four feet
deep Oh the mountains between Lin
coin and Warren, on the 10th inst.
A lad named Romeo CrosSman was
killed by being kicked by horse at
Burlington on Friday.
There have been made in Wealth
ersfeld the past year over eight thou
sand barrels of lime, of which Chas.
Amsden made seven thousand.
A row occurred at billiard room
in Milton, on Saturday last, during
which an innocent spectator was dan
gerou8ly stabbed.
1t will cost about $500 to repair
the bridge at Enosburgh Falls, which
was damaged by the late food.
The editor of the Ludlow Gazette
has received from Mr.. Stephen Bailey
of Cayendish, "an apple two years
old, and quite palatable." What is
the Kind and now preserved ?
In the Nergennes market butter is
worth from 80 to 80 cents; cheese Is
TO 20; eggs 20; potatoes 40 to A /;
oats rs; hay $l2; chickcus II to Is ;
turkeys Is to 20.
Hailstones, half the size of robins
eggs, fell III Weybridge, Oh Sunday
the l6th Inst, and covered the ground
to the depth of nearly an inch.
Last Sunday three FrencImen broke
into a freight car in Rutland, opened
case OF boots and each fitted him
sell to new pair leaving their old
ones instead.
There was a terrible thunder show
er i'll Peru last week Friday. The rain
poured down in torrents. doing dam
age to the roads i'll Peru, estimated
at 500; also the turnpike from $50
to 500.
Millions of graSshopperS appeared
in BRIDGEPORT previous to the late rainy
season. They were very small and il
was hoped that the cold storm would
efectually annihiiate them.
Capt. w H. H. Kenheld of Hyde
park, has been appointed assistant as
SCISSOR for Lamoille county, vice He
man Waternau, removed.
Thomas Stevens, of WalerviIle, on
Sunday last fell from the head scaffoId
of his barn, striking on a Wagon
wheel, received injuries OF such dan
gerous nature. that he is not expected
to live.
There were shipped from Vernon
between March l, 1868, and March
1869, $3.50 packages Of butter, weigh
ing 27S,698 pounds. About $4,000
pounds less than the year previous.
Mrs. Andrew Burns, a resident OF
Troy, n. Y, died on Friday Of las
week, at Bennington, of tumor il
the stomach. 1t was found necessar,
to remove the tumor before she coulC
be got iuto a coffin. The tumor weigh
ed 30 pounds.
Cambridgeport had a bit OF an elope
ment recently. A married man start
ed off with a young woman, but wheI
he got as far at Bellows Falls he wa
confronted by his wife and an officer
After some defiant talk, he conclude,
to return home with his vigilant wife
preferring that to trip to Fayette
vile jail.
5 The grand list of Rutland is con
: pleted, and loots up $48,292. Las
: year it was $4O,745, and the yea
previous $4,000. The number O
polls is 2,197, and the number O
: dogs 329. The Herald says: 9Th
e polls are supposed to be taken NOR
=, accurately than the dogs, as only thos
: purps' too large for a bur eau draw
$ er could be found by the listers tb
n day they were round"
Sheriff Place and constable Bale
5 arrested two men, who were caugl
$ in the act of breaking into the grocer
of Mousette. at St. Adams. The pri
n oners made a desperate resistance
e but after some knock down argument
on the part. of the officers, conclude
discretion was the better part of va
: or, and submitted to be locked up.
q Mrs. Rachel Allen of Halifax, die
h recently, aged SO years. She has ha
-e thirteen children, and survived the
u u all but five. She leaves 50 grand-ch
y. dren, and II great-great- grand-ch
h dren-m making SO descendants. 81
lie has been a member of the bapti
y, 10 church in Halifax for more than s
y. years.
ID A PROGRESSIVE DANDELIoN.-La
Or week, the Freeman says, Rev. A.
ut Billiard of Willsamstown brought in
~ this Office a dandelion, the root {
# which was four and one-half feet
er length. The dandelion grew on t
e. edge of a rayine, and seemed to ha
T a taken strong fancy for downwa
v progress.
j. ,,
b. The patents, factories and emit
s. manufacturing property of the HOY
Sc Scale company have been purchas
~ rs by the Brandon Manufacturing co
pany, an association of wealty a.