Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-15
State News.

On the old tax bills of Rutland.
Gen. w. Y. W. Ripley of Rutland
1as returned from his trip to Paris.
Lee Scott, Is years of age, son of j.
D. Scott of Cambridge, was drowned
in the Lamoile river on the I'd inst.
The Masons OF Vermont will have
a grand celebration at Waterbury on
the Oath.
On Wednesday last, two gentlemen
caught a sturgeon weighing So lbs, at
Milton lower falls. So says the Free
Press.
There will be an immense crop of
pears in the region of Bennington this
year, unless the present appearances
are dreadfully deceptive.
Within the past fifteen months thir-
teen persons have been buried in the
Grafton cemetery, whose average ages
amounted to nearly Is years.
There were 100 tubs of butter sold
in the Milton market on Monday, at
from 35 to 38 cents; also 81 boxes
new cheese, from the Mars factory,
at IS cents.
Miss Lucy T. Bradshaw of Mont
pelier has become; by the death of Rev
Pliny Fl. White, the official head o.
the Order of Good Templars in the
State Of Vermont.
Summer visitors to the healthglv-
ing waters of Highgate arc beginning
tc come in. Many OF the citize1s, to-
gether with the hotel keepers, a-e very
busy preparing for more.
In the Richmond butter market
Monday, 356 tubs of butter were sold
at from 30 to IS cents per pound.
The sales of cheese were 260 boxes
at from IA to Is cents per pound.
W. H. H. Green, Esq, of St Adams,
purchased of Hon. W. H. Blake, Of
Swanton, last week, two year old,
half blood Durham heifer, that gives
twenty quarts Of milk per day, for
500.
Rolin Plumb, son of Hiram Plumb
of Nottingham, committed suicide by
hanging himself On Friday evening
MAY 28th. No cause is given for this
occurrence. He was about Z years
of age.
Lorenzo Gore has one of the bear
cubs recently caught Ill Searsburgh
and intends raising him. He is now
about two months old, and playful a,
kitten. a large brindle bull dos
owned by Gore, and the cub, arr
great friends.
An attempt to break into the resi-
dence Of Hon. Dugald Stewart, o
Middlebury, on Friday night, during
the absence Of the family, awakened
the hired girls, and their screams
aroused the neighborhoood. and thu
wouId-be housebreakers were foiled
bat made good their escape.
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is now completed ready for the iron
which is every day expected. TWEEN
o ''. 1h;b iii 90" oj - ~ '',,@ , ~,
jcomnIete the other u miles nv uni,
of next YEAR
On tho o. inst child an I
Oninn of 81 A}hans two weeks ole
annarently dj and was clothed 70
the crave when it revived and CON
manced to cry, Later in tine dav III
child again reIapsed and was prepar
ed for burial. bnt after a deatbiy slice
Of two hours it again exhibited sion
of life. and is now apparently dom
well.
CrsTOu HOUSE ENLARGEMENT
The Free Press saws that the Cover
ment has determined to enlarge tn
Custom House at Burlington. at a cos
of some $4,000. to meet the increa,
ed demands of the costoms business
and also to accommodate the Inferno
Revenue denartmept The enlaro,
ment will consist of an additions
(third) story. with a French roof
T., O. AI,oas T,oodou l1nno -.
.bo o,0oun+ of h,ttor sb;nnod ,ras !
-92 +nbs Pr;cos ronno5 from 900 :
Ok fou- obo;oo 80 Iot, kr;n,;r
, III, o. NJ s - 70:
g. g. ,'a,Y9 IN oa,a,','t - eh;,e 49,,
49, adI, mos az t1ha 1aono t tbo
s.',9 .I; e vs. 49, ll.n '1O' 1 NV,
5'9 80 ol,o ~ - ''',,O I'.,
. es. Prices ranged from Is to
2 cents.
t CHEESE MAKING Nossrs Cha,
E and Wvman OF Derby Line re-onene
: their cheese factory on Monday ha
+ mo secured the services of Mr. Ston
!. who made their choose last wear TT
: bicl nrices of cheese dnrinc the ma
t season and at the present time won
annear to he q great inducement
! farmers ia send their milk to the "a
: torv this wear. We understand tn
- many farmers on both sides ofthe Ii,
;, will send their milk to the facto,
n dnrino the nresent season. ri
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