Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-07-12
State News.

q yearling bull that weighs 1920
pounds.
About G000 quarts Of milk are dali
" converted into cheese at the North
Fcrrisburgh cheese factory, and the
production amounts to about 900 lbs.
The Holyoke selectmen have paid
Miss Helen L. Smith, of Vergennes
Vt, SIG to withdraw her suit for
damages.
About 1900 tons of hay have been
pressed and shipped from Alburgh
since last December. Pretty well for
town containing only about 5000
acres Of land.
The population of Montpelier is
5000, being a gain of 25 per cent,
since the census of 1850; and that of
Worcester is $50, being a gain of 100
since 1860.
At the late term of the Orange
County Court a young man named
Andross, convicted Of stealing rail-
road freight, was sentenced to three
years service in the State Prison.
The subscriptions for the Wells
River railroad have reached $780,
600 by the bonding of towns and in
diyidual subscriptions of stock, and
there is now a fair prospect of its sue
ceeding. 1t is calculated 100000
will grade the road.
At the late term of the Orange
County Court young man by the
name of Smith, of STAFFORD, was
awarded $3,48O for injuries received
in April 1869, by his sleigh striking
stone in the highway by which he
was thrown out and manned for life.
Enos, eldest son of Francis S. Mills,
Of MOnkton, about II years of age,
was drowned while bathing in Suoi's
creek, about one mile above Edward
Daniels wooden factory, in North Fer
risburgh, Monday evening, q ult.
/ KILLED BYA FALL-Thursday of
last week James Brown, of Felchville,
fell from a staging on Prosper Mer-
riilS new house in Woodstock, and
was Immediately killed. He was
about 80 years old, and leaves a wife
and five children.
Thursday Of last week William
Brown, of Moretown, caught a cat
owl with his hands, in his barn, that
measured t feet 9 inches from tip to
tip Of its wings. 1t had caught three
fowls belonging to Mr.. Brown, and
that gentleman thought that would do
for one owl
\ boy about IG years old named
James Conlon Of Rutland, attempting
to jump aboard the midnight train at
. Salisbury Station last night, while
the train was in motion, fell between
the cars and was run over and in-
stantly killed. The body was cut
entirely into and badly mangled.-
Register.
Recently the heat made insane Jo-
mas, Oldest son Of |. B. Galusha, of
Jericho, and he mysteriously disap-
pearcd lust at evening. A thorough
search for him was kept up all night,
and the next morning he was found
crouching beside Browns river, a
mile from home.
The hail storm OF last week .Tues-
day, at Wilmington was the severe5t
ever experienced there. The growing
: crops were beaten down, and nearly
, ruined. while glass was demolished in
nearly every house in the village
The hail-stones whitened the ground
, and many were an inch il diameter
On the up train from Boston Tues.
day, a lady hailing from Canada, pre-.
scented her husband with a son and
j. heir. When the train reached thi:
d place, the woman, with her infant
j, wrapped in a shawl in one hand, and
her carpet bag in the other, walked
Il through the car she was in, alighteC
and walked to the other car, as i
nothing had happcned.-TranScr1pt.
+ As Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. Child8 o
J. Waltham were riding in their carriage
n last Monday evening during the thuu
Q der shower, the lightning seemed t
c strike one side of the face of Mrs
J Childs, and at the same instant thci
Il carriage was tipped over and the!
S were thrown out. They managed t.
tip il back again aud get home safe
p but the trimmings upon the hat 0
n Mrs. Childs were found to be meltet
,, or burned.
I ALLEGED WIFE BEATING.-We hav
y the report from Winhall Of an alleged
= wife beating which recently occurred
y in that town. The miserable apolog.
l. for a husband Richard Witherell, i
said to have beaten his wife, whom h
: but recently married, over the hea,
: with a tin dipper until she bled pre-
y fu5ely and inHicting quite severe il
y Juries.-hrgUs.
d Frank Sylvester an employee O.
# the P. d o. R. r., at work on the sex
D. ton just above Fairbanks village
It met with a serious accident. In ge
m ting out the stone after a blast, b
!. some mishap, large stone was role
1t upon one Of his legs crushing bot
g bones. 1t was a very bad fracture
If DR.. Brown has the case in charge.
=. is the first accident which we hav
le known on this line of the road
ID Iimcs
PC In Jamaica, June 20, L. II. BaI
g nard, of Pawlet was arrested o
r charge of breach Of promise of ma
riage to Mary Milburn, of Wardsbort
found guilty, and re-arrested On th
is 2lst on charge of bastardy by tn
70 same plaintiff. On this charge he wa
70 examined, and found guilty, and, fai
in ing to pay the sum Of $l050. was ser
Il to board with Thomas Evans, of Fa,
Of etteville, who keeps the Windhar
TO county Jail.
Edward Quinn, gardener, can
o. from Clarendon to Rutland on Tue
~ day last, with load Of green pea
1t He hired the horse and wagon of NJ
st ron Clark, In the evening the hor;
I'd returned home, with part of the ha
a ness, without the wagon. The wa