Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-01-04
News Of the Week.

\ fire in Philadelphia on Christmas NOR
ming, destroyed property to the value of
$500, 600.
Hon. Edwin VI. Stanton, late Secretary
of War, and a recently appointed Judge of
the Supreme Court, with whose name the
whole country is familiar, died in Wash
ington, Dec. oath, aged fifty four years.
He had been in i'll health for some months,
though able to be about to the last. Going
inlo the cabinet early in the commence
ment of the war, he was in consequence Of
his position as secretary Of war identified
with all the war measures of president Lin
coin, was stirring, active and determined,
drawing upon himself the curses of those
who imagined they knew more than the
secretary as to how the war should be con-
Quoted. OF him we think it may safely be
said that he was the best and most constant
~ abused man of any that can be named
He died poor, which is conclusive proof
that he did not, like too many, make his
country's troubles the occasion for filling
his own purse. Let us reverence him for
that.
Geo. Washington, negro, who was SEN
| fenced to serve out term of ten years in
the New Hampshire state prison, for shoot
ing a rebel in Kentucky, after the close of
the war, has been pardoned on the order
Of Gen. Sherman, after having served three
years of his term.
The following figures will show the mag
nitude of the lumber trade of Michigan,
there being manufactured during the year
just closed, on her eastern shore alone, not
not less than 736, 541 700 feet of lumber in
boards and planks; of shingles, 243, S2O,-
600 feet; of lath, ia, $50, 800 feet. Even
the manufacture of pickets foots up 80, 500
feet. Many myriads of trees will fall this
winter before the AK. 1t is calculated that
at this rate Of slaughtering the forests, it
will require but little more than a dozen
years to devastate the vast pine fields. Dor
dering upon Lake Huron. This is a view
Of facts not pleasant to contemplate. The
vampires Of the woods are entailinga curse
upon posterity that it will take century
or two to remove. 1t is the American pol
icy to live too much for the present and of
taking no heed for the future. When the
pine forests are all destroyed, what then ?
Better be wise in time and plant trees for
posterity.
There was a terrible murder in Detroit
on Christmas evening, when an ex-police-
man named Kane, had his throat cut from
ear to ear, by Michael Costello, next door
neighbor, who has confessed the crime and
is under arrest.
The Baptist church of America have sus-
tanned a loss in the death of Rev. Baron
Stow, d. D., who died in Boston on Mon
day morning of last week, aged sixty eight
years. He resigned the pastoral care OF
his church, we think, in 1867 and since
then has been available contributor to the
columns of the Christian Waterman and
Reflector, the organ Of that church. His
loss Will be severely felt.
A fire in Syracuse, New York, on the
morning of the 9th December, destroyed
property to the value of S45O,OOO.
The Merchants Exchange Bank of New
York, is the loser of $4,000 by the dis
honesty Of its cashier. The roguery was
made known to the public last Tuesday
The frauds had been conducted quietly fol
term of years and it seems that the pres
ident and one or two officers of the bank
who Of course shared in the plumber haC
knowledge of the frauds.
Rev. Father Dunn of st. Johns Catho
lie Church, Philadelphia died in that city
i last Tuesday, aged 81 years.
| The public debt statement about to b.
+ issued, it is said will show a decrease il
the debt during the month of December 0
= over 81 $780, 900.