Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-18
State News.

above the ocean.
twenty-five persons united with
the Congregational church in Char
lotte, last Sunday.
A genius has written to the P. M.
at Lowell to know "who keeps the
factory there"
The next annual convention OF the
Diocese of Vermont will be held in
Trinity church, Rutland, on the first
Wednesday of June next.
Observation-Disclosures Harvey was
the first representative from this town
in 1888. He was also representa-
tive in 1871, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1902
and 1903.
There we're 938 tubs of butter sold
at st. Adams on Tuesday-the largest
quantity of the season. Prices rang
ed from 80 to rs cents, a very choice
lot bringing 81 cents.
The Vermont State Eclectic Medi-
cal Society will hold its fourth annual
meeting at the State House, Montpe-
lier, on Wednesday, the second day
of June, 1869, commencing at 10
o'clock in the forenoon.
MICE.-The mice made dreadful
work with the fruit and other young
trees the past winter. One of the
largest fruit raisers in this county
says more than half of his young trees
are completely ruined. The snow
was so deep and light that these pes
tiferous little animals girdled some
trees three or four feet from the
ground CdIed0nlan.
A Frenchman named Moses Cotey
from Lincoln, visited Burlington on
Wednesday to "see the sights" He
fell in with one Clement Mitchell,
who SHOWED him round" After be-
ing in company several hours, and
partaking of several beverages, he
was induced to visit a lonely part of
the city, when Mitchell knocked him
down and robbed him of $13. Mitch
ell was arraigned il the City Court
before Judge Shaw on Thursday, and
placed under 5000 bonds to appear
at the County Court.
The WAY He DID IT.-One night
last week a badly discouraged indi
vidual fell down the stairs just south
of the new engine house at Bellows
Falls, and a pasSer by ran to pick
him up, suppoSing him to have been
seriously injured, at least. But the
drunken man majesticaIly staggered
to his feet, and, in response to the
profered assistance, roared out. "Now
you jes lem me lone. Want nc
slobb'rin round me. l aLLus com,
doaCn stairs that o0ay! "-Argus.
John McCosco, the oldest iuhaoit
ant of Danville, died on the 26th ulti
mo, aged 80 years. He was a ma
tive of Poland, and at the age Of L
was conScripted into the Austrian ar
my. He witnessed the triumphan
entry of Bonaparte from Elba int
Paris, in April, 1914 Soon after TIN
battle of Waterloo he enlisted int
the British army, and mustered witt
troops then about being transported
to Canada. He received his discharg,
from the army after about | s month
service. He came to Danvillc il
1917, and settled on the farm wher
he died.
CURIOUS CAVE IN NERMONT.-Th
St. Adams Transcript says that SwaG
ton, has a phenomenon of nature i
her Gland cave" situated about on
mile from the Falls, on the p!easan
, river road leading from that place t
. Highgate, which is really well wort
the trouble of going to see. 1t take
= in several acres of land, in a windin
l course. The spectator beholds enti'
ing rivulets of clear looking waite
, running over the narrow bottom Q
e the cave, over treacherous quicksand
e Several persons who went to visit I'll
S "cave" had very narrow escaE
n from death, caused by getting too ne;
e the bottom. One look down inr
+ this dismal, enchanted place, won
u cure any person of suicidal turn {
mind.
BEAR KILLED.-We clip the folio
ing from the Burlington Free Pre-
~ & Times:
4 ga bear was killed in a hamlet
the town of Starksboro, known as j
y rusalem, on Wednesday last. Bru
d came down from the mountains Il
n previous night and made raids on t
/ sheepfolds of several farmers, KILN
h three belonging to one man, and Sc
s. en- in all. In the morning some for
oI neighbors started in pursuit of hi
W and by means Of fresh-fallen sno
lie tracked him to a small piece I
d woods, where well-directed h o
., - from the guns of John Orvis and Sc
d eca Brown put an end to his caret
ut His carcass, weighing over three hu
81 dred pounds, was dressed, and
grand barbecue and dance indulg
in at Browns hotel, in honor of t
hunters. The skin and bounty f
n the scalp of his bearship were don'
u ed to the party who had suffer
y most from his nocturnal visits. |
is believed to be the same animal W
10 last fall destroyed twenty-five or tn
ty sheep in the same neighborhood.
The BUTTER CAsE.-A year a
t. last fall, Mr.. A. B. Nelson, of Der
w Line. VT, had a large quantity of B
er ter seized at Newport, Vt, for an
a. legged attempt to evade the payne
Of duties. Nelson gave a bond t
in the value of the property seized, a
r. commenced an action for its recove
nd before the .. S. District Court.
al was alleged in his favor that the
ng was no evidence of intended fraud, a
e. a representation of the affair was ma
'se to the Treasury Department at Wa
!. ington. The Secretary of Treasr
no finally authorized one of the agents
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