Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-23

DdQly WOuIIeu. rive Otuoio "OAO
slightly wounded. The officers and
guards were unhurt. All is quiet at
the prison tonight and an inquest is
being held on Craft.
Wisconsin is going back on her
murderers, having come to the con-
clusion that Imprisonment for life isn't
quite the thing for those who take the
lives of her citizens in cold blood. A
Legislative committee have just report
ed in favor of the repeal of the law
prohibiting the death penalty, and
state it as their opinion that murder
in the first degree can only be ade
quately punished by death. Horace
Greeley will think this progress back
wards.
In Montreal the snow is said to be
ten feet deep on the level, and fears
are entertained of a ruinous freshet
when a thaw comes, to avert which as
much as possible the city authorities
have five hundred teams and a large
force of men at work removing the
snow from the streets and depositing
it on the ice in the St Lawrence.
More than forty years have elapsed
since JohnsOn's Anodyne Liniment
was first Invented, during which time
hundreds of thousands have been ben
Gifted by its use. Probably no arti-
Gle ever became 80 universally popu-
lar with all classes as JOhnson'8 Ano-
dyOe Liniment.
| LYNDON BEEF-Lyndon, it is ad-
mitted, ranks second to no town in
the county as regards good farms, and
she possesses some representative
farmers as well-men who farm it in
telligently, and as a consequence, sue
cessfully. AS sample merely Of what
they do in the stock-raising, or rather
beefp producing line, the following may
be worthy of honorable mention -
Week before last AmaSa BemiS d Sons
marketed pair of Durham oxen which
weighed ALSO lbs, and a pair of
three-year-o Odds, weighing 1910 lbs,
1t is enough to say of The first pair
mentioned that they received the first
premium at our county fair last fall.
John Rowland IL Sons also CARED a
very good pair which weighed 1850
lbs. Last wee pair of oxen sent
to market by Charles Sanborn stands
number one-weighing 4, 230 lbs. One
: Of the pair was considered one of the
2 best, if not the best beef animal that
| has been CARED at Lyndon depot for
some time. His live weight was 2,
| 600 lbs. He was small boned, close
5 made and fat. Quite a number OF
smaller oxen and steers of varied
quality and dimensions, numbering it
! all about 40 head, were CARED al
. Lyndon last week. Of the beef cattle
remaining in town, and awaiting theil
time, the largest and best is a pair o
< white Durhams, owned and fed by A
? o. Harris. Their last weight was
1900 lbs, said to be noble animals
j. and extra beef. VIM Randall, Wei
come Bemis & Sons, have one or NOR,
2 pairs, weighing from $500 to 400
lbs, and no doubt there are other
+. which | am unable to mention.-Cal
ed0ni0R.
0 SHOCKING AFFAIR.-The Burlington
r Free Press says that barn On the
V farm of William r. Villas Of that city
|, near Winooski Falls, took fire abou
eight o'clock on Friday evening ant
e was entirely consumed. The barr
e was very large one, and containe t
v at the time thirteen horses and colts
thirty cows, yoke of oxen and on,
, hundred sheep, Zone hundred ant
!, torty-hve animals In all) seventy fv
o tons of hay, one hundred bushels of
i wheat, besides other grain, farm tools
e moving and threshing machines, &c
|, &C., all of which burned. The COW,
: were all tied in their stalls, as vel
J. as the horses; among which was
n favOrite mare and several of her colts
d The sheep were in a shed $50 fee
e long, which was filled with hay above
e and were all destroyed. The onl,
IS live stock saved We're five two-yeal
2. Odds, several calves and one horse
e the latter so badly burned that it i
d not expected to live. The barn ant
n stock were valued at $4,000 and in
f sured only for $1,000.
Last week Thursday, a young maj
h from Canada, at work for Mr.. Hadle
a of Victory, was drawing a load o
a lumber from j. R. Lees mills. ant
ii when crossing the bog bridge, til
o kingbolt came out, and the load sill
E. off on to the ice. The young ma
D. struck the ice first and the load fel
N on to him. When found, few mir
N utes afterwards, he was dead .-Union
- A GOOD COLT.-A friend write
- US that Mr.. Charles S. Clough oil
: No. Grantham, N. 81. has a well broke
= jet black stallion colt, of the Morri
and Abdalla blood, 80 months ole
" which weighs 1866 lbs, and Is 16 l.
! hands high. If any one can beat thi
= we would like to hear from them thrC
~ y this paper.-CaLedonian.
y On Sunday morning about 6 o'cloc
Ii the store of A. 7. Freeman, at Har
u land four-corners, was discovered t
a. be on fire. When discovered it ha
r so far progressed that all efforts
save the goods, save some few thu
were in the back store, were unavai
% able. Loss light, the property bein
n. insured $500 on goods, and $50
90 on store. The safe was got out b
to fore the lower floor fell in, books an
To papers safe. The post Office with i
At contents was wholly lost.
g CHURCH STATIsTICs.-The Secon
Id Congregational Church in ST. John
= bury was organized April 7, 1872