Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-15

A Vermont woman braided 1000 straw
hats last year.
vt the Supreme Court in Rutland last
week y divorces were granted.
Shoreham has voted to bond for $780,
600 in aid of the Addison County railroad.
The number of births in Burlington re-
ported for 1869 IS 269; and of deaths, 145.
4 woman suffrage convention will be
held at St Johnsbury, March Sd and 4th.
Ina Ward. an old citizen of Woodstock,
was found dead in bed Thursday morning
Of last week.
Lewis Dawson of Pekinsville recently
killed an Is months old hog that dressed
81 pounds.
Frank Busbee of Rutland has been ar
rested for being accessory to recent burgla-
ries in that village and was released on
$1,000 bail.
Several young men from the Methodist
church in this village have been assisting
in the meetings at Benson where there is
considerable religious interest.-Register.
VIM C. Bugbee of Bridgewater, raised,
the past season, from five bushels of seed
on the same number of acres, 800 bushels
of Norway oats.
The safe of Ripley & Sons of West Rut-
land was blown open recently by burglars
and S25 in money taken. No clue to the
scamps.
4 young man in Rutland is suffering
from paralysis of the nerves of the eve,
consequent upon the excessive use of tobac-
co.
Butter brought in st. Adams. on Tues
day of last week, from 80 to SO cents per
pound for fall made, and Is to 80 cents for
winter dairy.
Potatoes haze been offered for sale by
the wagon load in st. Adams for 80 cents
per bushel without being able to find any
purchasers.
The wagon shop, dry house and saw mill
offs. A. Smith at Guilford Centre were de-
stroyed by fire Monday night. Loss $4,000
No insurance.
1t is claimed that the Oldest legal docu-
ment in the State is deed on record in
Rutland, conveying land from Francis Page
to Amos Rand, and is dated July, 1873.
Messrs. Downer, Bolton & Allen of Mid.
dlebury, sawed 10000 feet of lumber be-
tween Tuesday morning and Saturday eve.
ming of last week.
The annual meeting of the Essex Coun-
| ty Temperance Society will be held at Lun.
enburg, Saturday, the 18th inst. at |
o'clock p. M, for the choice of officers. and
to nominate candidate for County Com.
| missioner.
During the past season, John Cofran o.
East Calais has sold 907 pounds of butter
| from native COWS, besides the milk and
butter used in a family averaging four per
| sons.
| Charles +. Remick. Boston drummer
and son of j. K. Remick of this place, wa,
stabbed at Plattsburgh few nights ago
| by man named Barry. The wound was
slight CdLedonian.
The Nashua Iron Co, at Barnet have
just purchased some 16 tons of wrought
iron taken from the ruins of the factory
recently burnt here. About 80 tons of cas-
iron still remain unsold-C d1sdoniaa.
Michael Shay, who lives two miles north
of ST. Johnsbury Centre, has worked ovel
20 years for the Passumpsic railroad, anC
during the time has lost only days, ex
cept on one occasion, when he froze hi
toes and was laid up several weeks Union
| A. G. Chandler, of Saxton's river diec
very suddenly on Tuesday night of las
week, of heart disease. His wife was awak
ened by his hard breathing and tried to d,
something for him, but he almost immedi
ately expired.