Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-25
State News.


the death of an aunt in Ohio has fall
en- heir to $4,000.
A suit entered II years since in the
Addison County Chancery Court has
just been decided.
The Sheep madison County are
dying in large numbers from grub in
the head.
A. il. Williamson has the contract |
for carrying the mail from Middlebu-
ry to Shoreham and receives $500
per year.
Thomas Hogan. a workman at the |
North Middlebury Marble quarry was |
seriously hurt by a stone falling on |
his hand, on the 10th inst.
The Sheldon Spring Co. are now
putting up eighty cases of mineral wa.
ter per day, worth at market rates |
$640, or SO, $40 worth per week.
On Friday night last, Mrs. Brigham
of West Randolph, received a visit
from some night walker who 'lifted"
her washing and crept back to his den
under cover of night.
The Congregational church in Bird
port has decided to dispense with the
afternoon sermon.d uring the summer,
and devote the time to sabbath schools
and prayer meetings in the out dis
tricts.
Henry S. Ruggles, for a lorg time a
leading citizen of Poultney, a promi-
nent member of the MasonN fraterni-
ty, died on Friday last, aged IA. He
was buried on Sunday with masonic
hOnOrs.
There were shipped from Yer
GENES between March LIST, 1868, and
March lst, 1869, 27S,689 pounds of
butter, or 81, 900 pounds less than
the previous year. The shipments
last Monday were 1882 pounds.
Cassius Buck, ofFairfax, had a cow
that did not seem to do we'll !; he gave
her medicine and she 'heaved' up, not
Jonah, but q lizard which measured IA
inches III length, and about | IL ill.,
ches thick.
There were shipped from Richmond
on Monday 100 tubs Of butter, the
price paid being FROM 30 to 38 cents
per pound also about 100 boxes of
cheese, skinned article, which sold
for from 6 to 10 cents per pound.
No new cheese has yet been offered.
SUICIDE.-Benjamin Reynolds, of
Tunbriuge, committed suicide by
hanging himself, Monday morning, the
I7tn inst. He was about sixty years
Of age, and, it is said, become melan-
choly by reason of some recent losses
in property, although he had consid-
cradle left.
About month ago poor old man
was found in the streets ofSt. Adams
supposed to have been put off the
cars-whO was unable to tell who he
was or where he came from. Being
taken to the poorhouSe, he died last
Monday. The overs ,er sayS-I new
er could find out his name or resi-
dence. He said he had a brother
P0track DuRiUdn,-that was all the
Ineligible words | ever heard hin
say"
Eugene cook, fireman in the EN-
ploy of the bennington & Rutland
Railroad, was instantly killed, Friday
morning, in the railroad yard at Ben
nington. He was attempting to shac
kle two engines together, when the
coupling slipped upon one of them
letting the other close up to it, catch
ing the young man between them anC
crushing him to death.
1t seems that the Mr.. Wilson OF
, Vermont who recently made a repor
to the n Y. Agricultural Society OF
opium raising in this State, was a res
ident of Monkton. The Aiiddlebury
/ Register says: 1--WE hear of quite ;
; number Of farmers who propose, thi
year. to cultivate the "Weed" quit,
, extensively. There are to be severa
acres Of peoples on the farm of FL. c
) Sessions, in East Middlebury."
: A daughter of Capt. A. P. Slaytol
of East Elmore, nine years old, Will
cutting kindling wood recently, acci
t dentally struck her little sister of fv,
t years on the head with the ak, cutting
5 a cash in the seal p one and one-hal
s inch long, and going through the skull
J, one-half inch.-F'reeman.
STORE BURNED.-The store an,
: goods at East Montpelier, owned b
q Col. f. V. Randall of this village, an
in charge of D. P. Clark, was burne,
; early Saturday morning last. TIL
evening previous an auction had bee
: held in the store until late hour
but there were no indications of fir
;: when the building was closed, and tn
origin of the fire is mystery. Insul
ed in foreign stock company. TIL
goods were valued at $4,000 to $4,000
Freeman.
S. NJ. Hoyt has sold his farm i
South Wheelock to Albanus Jones TO
p $1,000. W. P. Wakefield, of tn
8 same place, has sold his farm to Ell
o. sha Berry for $3.50 Possession,
p both cases, given Immediately. job
: Fisher has bought the Calvin Bennet
Q house and garden in the Red village
paying little over $500. The
v w. McKoy place was sold a fer
weeks since to widow Kilby and sol
!. OF Burke, instead of VIM. Kelley, q
, our paper said last week. Prize
r. paid, $500. One day last weel
}. Willie Sidney, lad 10 years of ag
fell from a ladder and broke his arr
, badly in the elbow. Galusba Do
o has sold his fine horse to a Bosto
, man for about 1928. He started fc
> Boston with him last Monday.-Lu
n don Union.