Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-02-02
State News.

Among the Freewill Baptists of
,tarksboro, 40 conversions are re-
ported.
The price of butter ranged from
81 to 43 cents at St. Albans on Tues
lay.
The town of Groton has voted $751;
300 in aid of the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad, which is doing
we'll for that town.
At last Hon. Hoyt Bostwick has
closed the trade with E. M. Irish tor
the Morrisville House. Price SlO,-
900. West Mathews is to run it
FIRE IN RUTLAND.-Peter Fagan's
house in Rutland was burned last Sun
day night; loss unreported, insurance
$1,000.
During the quarter ending Dec.
31st, 1868, the sales of j. Esty q
Co. of Brattleboro, as seen by revenue
returns, amounted to $T2,395.
Cambridge will raise nearly $780,
900 for the Railroad by private sub
scription. Johnson has already rails
ed $4,000 and is not done yet!
Elijah Ross a man of rather in
temperate habits died at Lyndon Cen
ter, the 18th inst, from an overdose
of morphine. His age was about
6S; he left no family.
The Bennington and Rutland Rail-
road takes lease of the Lebanon
Springs road, and runs in close CON
nectiOn with Harlem Railroad, making
an all rail line from New York to
Montreal without change of cars.
A boy named Revers, in St. Johns
bury, has been sent to the Reform
School for hiring a team, and after
using it leaving it hitched to a fence
and himself running away.
At Dandy last week Stephen Ba-
ker was arrested for setting his dog
on William Barns, who was badly
bitten, but the complaint was not sus-
tanned by the evidence.
In August last six persons made
their escape from Chelsea Jail, and all
of them but two have been re-arrest
ed, Charles E. Turner being one of
them. He was captured near Lowell
Mass, last week.
l.. G. Baker has, within few days
successfully drawn another cancer b,
his peculiar process, from the breast
OF a woman in Bellows Falls. Il
weighed over half a pound. The pa
tlent is now apparently doing well
Frank Cleveland, who has latel
been playing upon the affections OF
the fair ones OF Sutton, has been
found to be married and the father OF
an interesting infant in Lunenburg.
Pownal, noted for prevalent drunk
enneSs in years gone by, is now The
banner town of Vermont for temuer
ance. Three successful lodges of
Good TemplarS, numbering over fou
hundred members, have been institu
ted there.
DEATH FROM CANCER.-The wifi
of Hon. W. G. Wilson of Bakersfield
one of our Supreme Court Judges
died on Saturday last, from the effect
of a cancer recently removed frou
her breast.
The potato fever RACES. 1t is re
ported that a farmer in Vermont ha
been offered $4,000 for from forty t,
fifty bushels of new description o
potatO-being fve-sixths of his las
years crop of that particular kind.
Mr.. Joseph Ward of Orwell, cam
near being buried alive while diggin
a grave. He had nearly finished
when the sides caved in upon him
fortunately, his son who was with hiI
gave the alarm and he was rescue
in time to save his life.
Last Friday John Crowley,in who's
grocery the fire caught at Rutland, o
the previous Monday night, was hel
to bail in the sum of one thousan
dollars after two days examinatio
D before two justices, for trial befol
7 the County Court on the charge o
e having set the fire himself.
q A drunken fellow who was guilt
of aagrantly disorderly conduct in
school house in Eden, while the teac
er and some other young ladies wei
cleaning it, was taken down by the
: and the school-ma am laid the 'rule
: down upon the seat of his unde
" standing Served him right.
i TERRIBLE WARNING.-Henry XII
e caid, of Strafford, who had lived
O bachelor to his 57th year, married
. girl of II last fall, and last week W;
consigned to the insane asylum
> Concord, N. III. Terrible warning
t bachelors no. to wait until they @
e so old before they marry a young gil
CHARGE of ADULTERY.-Wm.
Thomas, a French Canadian by brit
= and painter by trade, was bour
" over by Judge Shaw of Burlingto
e Saturday morning, in $500 bonds,
= appear at the next term of the Oh
IS tenden County Court, on the char,
u Of adultery.
Rev. Simon Parmelee, D. D.,
d Westford is now laboring with t
D. people where he first settled. He
e in the Lightweight year of his age,
II the sixty-second of his ministry. N
j. yet : in his natural force abated.'
e. has preached more than 10000 SC
Al mons, attended about 1000 funera
of five ministers and five minister
wives, attended more than 100 cou
n, ellis for ordination, and nearly as ma
he for dismissals.