Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-30
State News.

Fred Behoit, and Benoit has sold the farm
to Charles Varney and bought Varney's |
grist mill.-Times.
The house of Horace Cutler of Richmond |
was burned during the high wind of We'd |
nesday last week.
Mr. L. A. Tilotson of Wolcott, says he
raised l20 bushels of nice wheat, the past
season, from bushels sowing.-Netcsdeaier.
A BIG PUFF.-Mr Judson Hurd of Adj
Olson recently found huge puff ball on
his farm which measured four feet in cir
cumference.
A barn full of grain, in the north part
of Salisbury belonging to H. A. Sheldon of
Middlebury was unroofed by the wind on
Saturday.
The wind took the large oak rafters from
the barn of Mr. j, Kelsey of Salisbury and
drove them into the ground fifty rods away
like stakes into snow drift.
The Northern Vermont Musical Associ-
alton will hold its next annual convention
in St. Adams on the 4th, 9th, 9th, and 9TH
OF January next.
The new Masonic Hall at Brattleboro,
now nearly completed, will be dedicated
on St. joins day, Dec. "A, with appropri-
ate ceremonies,
A Methodist Episcopal educational con-
vention recently in session at Montpelier,
proposed to raise $50, 900 for seminary
fund by weekly ten cent subscription.
A Freewil Baptist church was organized
Tcl,, chIIrxr ho byra
council called by the Wheelock Quarterly
meeting.
Richar Flynn, landlord of the Valley
house atFair,ax, was wrestling at Milton,
the 10th IF November, and had a leg broll-
| en-.
NEwsIAPIR DIsCoNTINUED.-T St.
Adams dlily Transcript has been discon-
tinued ard Is list Of subscribers transfer
red to the Burlington Free Press.
FIRE.-Ye learn that the dwelling house
of J. & H. 3. Ayers of Berlin was destroy
ed by fire LIST Tuesday night with its con
tents. InSred in Farmers Mutual for
S800.-WoRpclier Jo,una2.
L. Caswel of Ripton was brought down
and lodgedn our county Jail by officer
Ripley on Sunday, and yesterday morning
| he was brought before Justice Slade on
the charge Of drunkenness. He was fined
$ and cost, amounting to Sl44S.-Ud-
dle5ury Register.
REPoRIED ROBBERY.-The Free Press
learns thd Williston farmer, returning
Saturday evening from Burlington, where
he had sid $500 worth of butter, was drug
ged and robbed by stranger whom he
took into his wagon, an, who asked him
to take drink from his bottle.
BARRE.-Nr. Amory Allen, of this town.
has raised this season, on acres and p
rods of land, with bushels sowing. of
common oats 231 bushels, weighing 81
los. and Is ourees TO the bushel Who can
make a better showing than this Fire
man.
NoRTHFIEID.-Rumor says that a COM
pany for manufacturing chairs has been
organized at Northfeld and the old ma
chine shops based for the purpose. We
trust the report Is true. and that the hum
Of industry vii again be heard in those
vast buildings where silence and decay
have so long igned.-FfeeHau.
In Bloomfield, on the 9th inst, as q son
Of VIM. stiles aged 10 years. went into the
saw mill of Mesrs Perkins < Cato to call
some of TIE wJrkmen to dinner, he caught
one of his feet in belt and was thrown
down through 4 hole in the floor. and broke
his skull. one arm and one of his legs, and
otherwise mangled him so that he died or
, the llth.
FATAL ACcIDENT.-Horace Pierce o
Wolcott. was killed on the Passumpsic r
; r., near St Johnsbury, on Friday last
| The calamity occurred while the cars wer,
passing under a bridge his head hittins
the bridge and killing him instantly Ii,
leaves a young wife and q little child t,
e mourn his loss and deprivcs his mother 0
: the last of her family. her husband an,
> other son dying in the army during the re
| bellion. The nneral services were held a
Wolcott on sunday p M.-Ners3saler.
The Caledonan has the following in re
lation to the Lmoille Valley railroad :
$ Engineer Mitchell has returned from a tril
I along the line o SWantOn, and reports fav
= orable progress. in that direction. Enginee
Hale of the western section, has surveye,
from SwantOr to the Lamoille river, a
C which point le has abandoned the worl
= on account of he snow, which was nearl
a two feet deep here last week.
- We learn th,t quite a number of prom
inent railroad contractors have been ex
'V aiming the line during the past week.
o Proposals for ue grading ndmasOnry ar
:. kept open unit the Goth inst.
II The Baptist State Convention of Vel
(, mont held its annual session with the Bar
% fist church in Windsor on Wednesday an
=. Thursday, No. 18th and 18th. Officer
Is for the ensuing year: John Goadby, ID. l
l. President; Re, Mr.. Frenyear. clerk; /
n X. Fuller, assistant clerk Dea +. A. Flu
r. Ter, treasurer. The board appropriate
$4,000 to the ad of feeble churches in tn
/ state. Reports IF the officers and churcht
Is show the CONVENTION to be in a more fou1
5. ishing condition than at any previous per
3D.
: RAILRoADsIN VERMoNT.-The follow
f ing railroads we're chartered at the LAT
n session of the Legislature. They are a
d short roads:
/ The Northern Vermont and Lake Chan
T plain, from Cambridge to Essex Junction
h the Missisquoiand Clyde River the Bar
7 Railroad; the Manchester and Jaimaica
=, the BrattleboD and Pawlet River; Il
. Wantastiquet Valley; the Runaway Por
I Railroad; the Rutland and Bethel; Il
E. Brattleboro AMI Bennington, extension
h Lamoille Valley road to McQuam Bay,
a. Swanton.
le HAND TORN OFF.-Marcus Ainswort
of Calais, had ais right hand torn off by
+ threshing mashne Friday of last week.
w. Benjamin vas threshing for Mr. Ain
Ut worth with his machine, and the latter W
ut aiding him. While thus engaged NJ
AinswOrth put his hand under the cylind
70 to brush out some wheat while it was
of motion. he having on mitten at the tin
is The mitten was caught by the teeth of Il
e machine, and his hand terribly mangle
= AmputatiOn was necessary, which was ski
il fully done by Dr. Marcus Ide, assisted
10 DR.. Gray, Mr.. Ainsworth losing about on
. third his forearm.-Argus and Patriot
he Last Saturday Loren Kinney sold
~ VIM. Adams SO of his merino ewes al
lambs for 81 so a piece. He has % lie
H. and has bought 20 coarse woods, mixtu
d. of Cotswold and Southdown, for 81 and
er a head. c. A. Sylvester sold Adams
r out of his flock of 300 for 81 head, AdaI
:, having his pick % others he sells
I'd $50 each. Kinney and Sylvester ha
i'd been among the leading Merino advocat
be in the county. Their focks have alwa
J. attracted great attention at the fairs. TIL,
: selling out so cheap argues somewh
Is against the profits of that breed of sheep.
De Union.
SUPPOSED INCENDIARIsM.-Ah house
E. longing to young man by the name
Smith, situated about mile and one h;
is southeast of Chelsea village, was burn
i on the 18th inst. 1t was evidently t
|" work of an incendiary. 1t was suppos
Is. that young man by the name of Nor
III was the incendiary, and that he set it
= fire for the purpose of obtaining the insl
ance, in which he was interested. He W
~ brought to trial before justice court W
as fined him five hundred dollars damag