Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-20
State News.
A new monthly paper is about to
be published in Bristol.

age has been erected in st. Adams.
The Hoosac Valley Mills in Pow
nal, manufactured $4,000 yards of
cashmere in March.
The town of Randolph has rescind-
ed its vote directing the erection of
soldiers monument.
There are over fifty cases of mea-
sizes in Morrisville village. 1t has
made sad interruption in school.
A farmer in Weathersfeld killed
"a rass in his granary in one day, last
week.
BURKE.-Mr. Leonard Wetherbee,
formerly of Newport, has recently
purchased the tavern stand in South
Burke, formerly known as the Colby
stand.
COAsTING ACCIDENTAL little daugh.
ter of Joseph La Page of this village,
nine years old, was severely injured
while coasting with a party of chill
dren, yesterday morning. She was
overrun by sled full of larger girls,
and partially fractured the large bone
of the right leg.-Neaosdealer.
WHO BEATS THIS ?-Mr. G. L.
Berr, of Waitsfield, has three-years
old heifer, which brought a calf the
first day of April, that weighed one
hundred and eleven pounds.
The Bellows Falls Times under
stands that j. M. Davis, recently ar
rested for robbing the mails, is now
at home in Claremont, having secured
bail, which he got reduced. This
means that he will not stand a trial,
and that his bail is to be forfeited.
A. S. Earle, brakeman on the
freight train which leaves Rutland for
Bellows Falls at 10 p. H., was killed
last Saturday night by his head strik-
ing bridge just east of Gassett's sta
ton. His body was found in the
bridge by the section man some time
afterwards. He was % years of age
and leaves a wife and two children.
RATHER HoGGIsH.-It would seem
that the burglar has preceded the rail
road into our valley. Some person
or persons unknown entered the
house and cellar Of Geo. L. Water
man, Esq, last week, in the night
time, and robbed his pork barrel of
from so to Is pounds of pork-all he
, had, more or less. As they left "no
BILL" the exact amount is not known.
-Nea0SdeoLer.
SEVERE ACCIDENT.-Mrs. Board
man, wife of Ralph Boardman of near
Cadysville. slipped and fell on the ice
fast day near their own house, and
fractured the neck of the right thigh
bone. The doctors say that there
will never be bony union of the frac
ture, and she will become a cripple
: for life. The men folks were all all
sent from home at the time of the &C
cident, and no one in the house bu
two invalid ladies, who had great diff
! ficulty in dragging her into the house
when she had to lie on the floor fo
= some time in great sutfering.-Nes0S
i dealer.
!, FoRGERY.-A young man named
! Perkins, some connection of George
a of II,
> to SiIsby's on Railroad street one da,
, last week, with an order with Mr.
! Ford's name attached, for $40 worth
! Of clothing. He got the clothing ant
departed. On Monday Mr.. Ford say
. the order and pronounced it a forgery
Silsby ascertained that Perkins ha'
= gone to Littleton, where a Telegram
? caused his arrest and detention unit
. the matter is in some way settled. |
/, will probably prove the most exper
> sive suit Of clothes that Perkins eve
" had.-Caledonian.
n SUSPICION OF HYDRoPHoBIA.- Iii
i tie boy of Mr.. B. N. Gates, constabl
[ of Hyde Park, was, about three week
V ago, bitten by dog while at play
He has been sick for about a weeE
"a and on Friday last, when offered
o glass of water by his mother, he bit
o piece out of the glass. In attemptin
N to get the glass away his mother GO
% her finger into his mouth and he bi
p. it very severely, and a lady assistan
4 shared the same fate. We understan
p however, that he has since manifesto
. neither disposition to bite nor drea
~ of water, and that the doctors sa
a there are no symptoms of hydroph(
q phia, but we would rather keep GU
4 finger out of his mouth for ventur,
v -Nevsdealer.
# William Hulburt of Cornwall, RI
" Gently died of starvation. He was I
t. years of age. a bachelor, and wort
b, some $4,000; but having lost $l3
u through robbery, he became despoI
ic dent, afraid of coming to poverty, an
j. having refused to eat he starved hin
IN self to death.
A DARTMooR PRISONER. a
IL Newark, Vt, April 18th, 1869, NJ
20 Samuel Drew, aged 80 years. He
7. supposed to have been the last surv
is vor of the Dartmoor prisoners. 81
IL enlisted into the United States servic
in in 1911 as a marine on board th
c. sloop of war Rattlesnake, commando
h. by Capt. Grafton. The ship was Cal
y, tured few days after she left Bo
lg ton, by British frigate, and Mr.. Drey
s, with others, was carried to Englan
he and incarcerated in Dartmoor prise
(the black hole of British infamy,) fc
~ two years. He was present at I'll
n, time the guard fired on the prisoner
es and received slight wound in tt
~ knee. He has resided in Newar
rs about forty years.-Catedonian.
es AN UNNATURAL MOTHER. - Mr.
Mary Ives of this town, wife of Ro'
ney Ives, but living separate from he
husband for nearly three years pas