Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-07-27
State News.

d. SnlIuS, VI hCuHucIldHu. estimates MS
strawberry crop at 100 bushels this season.
Butter is selling in the Vergennes mar
ket at from 30 to 30 cents per pound.
At St. Adams, w., on Tuesday, the
usual rate for butter was 30 cents.
HARDwICK.-M. A. Carlisle has sold
out his tin and hardware business to j. Fl.
Drew.
The Baptist Church in this town in SO
made benevolent contributions to the
amount of 1872 %.
J. H. Drew has sold his farm of 100
acres, situated on West Hill, about three
miles from this village, to NJ. A. Carlisle
for S11, 900.
Henry d. etacy, OF Burlington, late IT,.
S. Consul at Revel, Russia, died suddenly
at the latter city, June To-
Amasa Campbell, of Pownal, aged rs
years, was so badly stung by bees on the
9TH inst, that he died in few hours.
Thefts and robberies have become so
numerous in BrattleborO that night pa
troll has been employed.
LEROY Elwell, of SALISBURY, hung him
self on Friday of last week. Cause.-The
wives, and fear of the consequences.
A new track is being laid on the B. and
R. railroad between Bennington and North
Bennington.
A building at Danville, owned by Mr..
VIM. Barnwell, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. Insured. ..
A lecherous Irish tramp nearly strangled
and then violated a young girl of Mari
boro, a few days ago. The brute Is IN
Newfane Jail.
The Caledonia County Medical Society
held a meeting at Walkers hotel, in Lyn-
donville, few days since, at which most
of the physicians in the county were pres
ent.
Seven swarms of bees belonging to NJ.
S. Boies, of Weybridge, have almost quad
rupled their number the present season.
There are now twenty-seven swarms.
4 man in SALISBURY, the other day, in
carelessly attempting to poison rats, poi
soned his whole family severely, and him
self fatally.
VIM. Preston, of North Pownal, tried &c
hang himself on Wednesday, June 24th
but was cut downin time to save his life.
There is not a place in Pownal where
intoxicating liquors are sold.
The 18th Annual Fair of the Orange Co
Agricultural Association will be held al
their grounds in Bradford, on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 9TH, 9Th
and 9TH.
J. H. Trask of Rochester has a cow from
which he has made, from the ODD of May
to the 10th Of July, 20 pounds of butter tC
sell, besides using all that was wanted in {
family of six and selling three quarts O
milk per day.
The fourteenth fair of the Connecticnt
River Valley Agricultural Association will
be held at Brattleboro, from September It'll
to 9th. Prof C. w. Gushing of Auburn
dale, will deliver an address ON the seconC
day of the fair.
Michael Shay, Of Pownal, was badly
burned on the 9th while discharging {
cannon. His face was torn so that he vii
be disfgured for life He was leaning
over the cannon when some ashes dropped
from his cigar, thus firing it off before h,
was ready.
Mr.. L. Richmond Lindsay, formerly OF
Derby, but for several years a resident OF
Boston, committed suicide at his residenc,
on Tuesday of last week. Pecuniary diff
fculties are supposed to have been tht
/ cause
J Mrs. Poor. a widow, aged about fifty
years, and residing with her son in Ar
lingtOn. hung herself in the Glebe wood
near the railroad in that town, on Sunday
the 18th. She had been for some time
low spirited and partially deranged.
The Musical Festival and Picnic an
nounced to come off at Railroad Grove
Lyndonville, August 10, II, II and 18th
promises to be grand affair. The Anvil
Chorus, and music performed at the Bos
ton Peace Jubilee, will be repeated here.
LIQUOR LAW IN WooDBURY.-Clarl
Trow and Martin Goodwin were recently
| brought before f. G. Putnam, Esq, anC
fined each SO and costs for violations 0
the prohibitory liquor law, and both made
| the good resolve to hereinafter let the for
hidden thing alone.
Large deposits of lead or plumbago hay,
been discovered on mountain in tn,
towns of Shrewsbury and Wallingford
which promise to be very valuable. Spec
linens of the ore are now awaiting analyza
ton at the hands Of several distinguished
chemists.
A GooD Cow.-Jonah Swan of Milton
has grade Durham COW, five years old
that averaged through the month of Jun,
43 pounds of milk per day, and did it with
out any extra feed, running with l9othe
cows, and having the same feed.
Mrs. Winfield Wright, of South Lon
dOnderry, committed Suicide on the 9TH b,
hanging herself to the limb of q tree. Sht
had been partially insane for number OF
years, and had previously made several at
tempts to destroy her life. She was abou
45 years of age.
LYNN KILLED.-The Burritt Brother
of Manchester, trapped an6 killed lynn
on the East Mountain, near the steam mil
on I've brook, Tuesday of last week. Th'
animal measured feet in length, 20 inch
es in heighth, and weighed 23a pounds
SUsPENsIoN.-T Montpelier Dali,
Journal has suspended publication, it no
proving paying investment. Hencefortl
the Messrs, Poland will publish week.,
paper only, the Waterman, except durin!
the session of the Legislature, when tn
publication of the daily will be resumed 70
the session only.
Rutland boasts of its smart Master 7
Donnegap, ten years old, who has perform
ed nearly all the problems in Greenleaf
higher arithmetic, and passed all the old
er and best scholars in the school In gram
mar, geography and other branches. FL
is an orphan, his father having been kille'
In the quarries few years ago. a
| LYNDoN.-In the case of VIM. F. Rug
giles, bankrupt, a hearing was had befor
the Register, which lasted several DAYS, o.
the question of preferring some of tn
claims. The decision is reserved. TIL
auction for selling off the pr operty com
menced on Tuesday We learn that muc
of it sold at low rate-S. syohnsbbr-
Times. @ 1if
James Mansfield and Pat McCarty as
saulted and brutality beat hostler a
Phelps livery stable, Bellows Falls, a fe1
nights since. In the absence of the shel
if, the States Attorney Of the county at
tempted to arrest Mansfield. and oot . y
we're whipping for his pains, while M s,,(
ceeaea y escaping to New Hampshire.