Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-06
ALBANY.

this winter lost four cows, three year.
lings and two horses, from lack of
proper care. He was confined to his
house with frozen feet and their care
was lett to small boy.
New SUGAR.-Mr. Alvin Hovey of
this town, made his first new sugar for
this season, last Tuesday, March 30.
A year ago there was hardly snow
enough to cool sugar on-to-day there
is nearly 3 feet.
PURCHAsEs.-A. Frasier has bought
the balance of the Kinney farm for
$500. This makes farm of some
200 acres. T. G. Miles has bought
the S. Hovey farm on the river road
for about $500.
MOVED AwAY.-Mr. II. G. John
son of West Albany village has re-
moved to North Charleston, N. H.
He is to take charge of large lum-
Der manufacturing establishment at
that place.
Cow LOST. F. Tenney of AL
bany lost a good COW a few days ago.
Disease unknown.
West Albany school district have
appointed A. Frasier, jr., prudential
committee and have made arrange
ments to repair their school house dur
ing the season. Just like them.
For MARKET.-Hayden & Dow,
cat tie brokers Of this town, have open
ed the spring campaign by starting
about five car loads of cattle to mar
ket this week.
BARTON.
CORRECTION.-Our notice last week
of the finding of the mail bag n
Glover, had one error in it. 1t was
not the Barton mail bag, but a private
one between Glover and South Glover,
and so there was no carelessness on
the part of any mail carrier.
GREAT SCHOOL MEETING.-A large,
enthusiastic, and excited meeting was
held by the citizens of this village
school district, at the academy school
rooms last Tuesday evening. We had
the great misfortune not to be pres
ent, but learn from various sources
that never within the memory Of the
coolest inhabitant,' has there been
such vivid, iervid and anxious feel
ing manifested in the cause Of educa-
zion, as on that occasion. The com
munity was aroused and out in their
might. Everybody Of consequence
was thero-as well as some that were
not of that nature. There were Just
three objects to be accomplished 10y
the meeting, and those three were
carried Barton fashion, with a rush
to wit, the ejectment of j. b. Robin.
son from the lucrative and RESPONSE
bic Office of district school committee
to put a quictus on any feared expen.
ditures on the school house, and third
to crush in the bud that great and
fast growing sin-UeLocipedes no les;
than three of those two wheeled down
country iniquities having been intro
duced into our hitherto excessively
moral village, and which up to the
present time of the aforesaid great
outpouring Ito wit, the school meeting,
have been Decorating and marring
our beautiful town hall for nearly q
whole week by their incessant rolling
and rumbling, and which have had
such a demoralizing effect on ouI
youth of twenty-six summers and up
wards that they have patronised the
wicked thing whenever they had {
mind to, and even youths of lesser
years have run so crazy as to picE
locks to enter the hall where the wick
ed trinity were deposited, and to gaze
upon them. But Barton will be con
taminated no more by these pests of
sound morality, and the authors of in
PRODUCING these unreliable mOnstrosi
ties into our village, to wit, j. B. Roo
insOn, John E. Skinner, Erskine E
Rawson, 10. Webster, John Twombly
DR.. r. B. Skinner, James W. Hall
with sundry other unprayerful persons
are now the lower strata of our en-
ligtened society. The antediluviant
are in the ascendant and we shall here
after learn the social amenities
from other sources than the veloci
pedes.
RENTED.-Mr. - Joslyn has rent
ed Uford's blacksmith shop Tor on
year. He has also rented j. B. Rot
inson's house for the same term.
VIM. G. Browns cow donated hin
a calf last Thursday that weighed l L
lbs-a Durham.
SMART. - An enterprising yout
went into the shop Of VIM. Grave
one day last week, and went benin
the counter and commenced conhsca
ing the change; and on being disco
cred, concluded to own up. Boys thu
are inclined to such pursuits shoul
remember that there is a place in tt
state designed especially for them ca
led the Reform School.
Hutton Friday last, as son
workmen were employed i'll raisiu
an addition to r. Ii. Titles Hot
barn, the staging broke, letting tt
men into the water. One of them,
Frenchman, named Glare, struck on
stump, injuring him quite severel
causing, it is feared, a fracture of tW
of his ribs.
STUCK.-The stage from Barton
Craftsbury got stuck in the snow {
its way back, last Wednesday, al
the driver brought the mail from S
Albany on his back. Thursday,
started for Crattsbury on foot, al
by patience and perseverance succee
ed in returning with his team on f.
day.
LECTURE.-Mr. j. W. Wilson. &c,
ored) will lecture in the congregatio