Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-08
Canada News.

FIRE.. E. Ainsworth's store,
house and barn, at East Bolton, were
destroyed by fire on Saturday night,
the 22nd January. Hardly anything
was saved, the inmates having only
time to save themselves, and the
books and papers in the store. In
sured in the Mutual.-Stanstead
Journal.
BILLIARD.-A match has been ar
ranged between Mr.. J. L. johnson of
Coaticook, and Mr.. G W Butterfeld
Of Derby Line, for the championship
of the District Of St. Francis and the
Counties of Essex and Orleans, Vt.
and 800. Best two games in three
of 1000 points each, the first to be
played at Coaticook on the Sth of
February, and the second at Derby
Line on the 18th Stanstead Journal.
New HoTEL.-A movement has
been in progress here for a few days
to provide means for building a large
hotel on the farm of Carlos Pierce,
Esq, on the border of the hill west of
his house. The proposition is to
make a donation of $l2,5O0 in paid
up stock of the NJ. V. R. R. to parties
connected with the Passumpsic Rail-
way, and they to build and furnish
the house, according to plans aud spe-
cifcations furnished by some Boston
architects. The proposed building
is 100 feet long by So feet wide and
t stories high. On the part of the
subscribers here the proposition is
accepted, the amount being raised
Pierce with his usual iberality, came
down with % shares of stock and a
donation of the necessary land. The
enterprise is an important one in
view Of the near completion of the
Railroad, and the prospect ofan In
ternational Fair.-.SLanstead Journal.
A SINGULAR CAsE.-Mr. John H.
Rand formely lived near Chamberlin's 5,
now Parsons Mills, Stanstead. Asa
hel c. Rand, his son, left home p
years ago in January last, and started
on a whaling voyage in July follow
ing, and was never heard from since,
until in the month Of January just en-
ded, when a person calling himself
Amos c. Rogers. came to Fitch Bay,
where Mr.. j. Ii. Rand now lives, and
brought intelligence of the long lost
son. He says he met with Asahel
Rand in Cochin, Hindostan, in 1S47.
From there they went together to
Bombay, where Asahel G. died in
June, 1850. Mr.. Rogers returned to
America in 80, and has been located
in different States until the present
time. Now the mystery connected
with the case is this. Rogers resem.
bles the Rand brothers so closely that
every one who sees him thinks him
one Of the family, and he has scars on
his person answering exactly to those
known to have existed Oh the person
of Asahel G. Rand. He was claimed
by the father and mother as their long
lost son, but denies the relationship.
He says that A. c. Rand furnished
him with a chart showing where his
parents lived, also the roads and pla-
ces Of note so infinitely that he did
not have to inquire when he reached
Stanstead. This chart was destroy
ed by the burning Of his shop in 1865.
Rogers knows all about the early life
Of A. c. Rand, and says that it was
communicated by Rand while they
were together. Notwithstanding these
explanations, there are those who be.
lieve he is the veritable Rand himself
although the object Of representing
himself as somebody else is not appar.
ent.-Stanstead Journal.