Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-01-11
News Of the Week.

There was a terrible tragedy at larry
town. New York, on New Years day, when
Alfred Kendall, Charles Kendall, and Mrs. /
Buckhout, the wife Of Isaac Van Wart .
Buckhout were murdered by the latter in
a most shocking manner 1t appears that .
the two men We're invited to come to the .
house Of Buckhout to spend friendly hour,
"a, they had often done. They had been F.
in the house but about ten minutes when
Alfred Kendall was shot in the neck and
expired instantly, and Charles Kendall was
shot so as to be unconscious, and will not
live, while the head of the woman was
smashed in with the stock Of the gun which
was ,pIintcred by the violence Of the blow
The two families had always lived on the
most friendly terms, and the theory is that
The author of the triple murder was in
sane.
Since the above was in type later news
is that Buckhout's insanity was feigned.-
He was put under the influence Of chloro-
FORM and when its effects had passed off,
he confessed that he murdered his wife be-
cause Of her inidelity, and that he killed
Kendall because of his intimacy with his
wife. The younger Kendall is recovering
Buckhout says he does not wish to live,
and we guess he wont live a great many
months, or no longer than till the hang
man gets him.
According to mayor Shurtlef of Boston,
the debt of that city is over $4,000 900
showing an increase Of the debt of ten mil
lions in the last two years. Boston is not
afraid to owe, evidently.
The wind and rain experienced here ten
days ago, was by no manner Of means con-
fined to this particular locality, but extend
ed over nearly the whole north, and was
particularly severe in Maine, the Saco riv-
er rising three feet in two hours. In the
town Of Sharon, Vermont, heavy accumu-
lation of ice above the Berlin Mills, broke
away and swept off the bridge. it being the
one erected in place of that carried away
by the October freshet. A freight engine
and two or three cars were also thrown
from the track by a great land slide, and
engineer Hassam ofNorthfeld, was instant
ly killed.
John Lawrence of Bangor, Maine, shot
his mistress with a revolver four times, on
the I'd inst and then cut his own throat
just enough to let out great amount of
bad rum mixed with poor blood, but not
enough to end his worthless life. The wo-
man is not dead, but will probably die
Rum and jealousy was the cause of the
crime.
They have had floods in England as well
as here, and was probably the same one,
though happening about a week earlier
Itcaused immense destruction. Thousands
of acres in the lowland counties have been
submerged, so that only the tops of trees
were visible, and even in the city of Lon
don the food has been terrible, the water
at one time standing five feet in St. Paul's
church. The damage by its ravages in
England are put at s., 100000
The New York Legislature assembled at
Albany, JAN 4th. Gov. Hofman's mes
sage shows the state debt to be little less
than S35 100000. Not much of debt for
so great q state. The state tax the last year
was nearly S1O,5O 900 Mr.. Tweed dem
ocrat) introduced joint resolution repeal
;r,r +bo rogy1ut;,,, ,,oesoJ 90 .Lo Io-4 400; -
adopting the 10Th amendment, which was
made the special order for the next day,
Jan. 5th
At a sale Of pews in Henry Ward Beech
er's church on the 18th inst, over $50, 900
was realized. Nice church; rich christ
ians popular pastor but the beggar in
his rags may have that which at the final
judgment will far outweigh them all
In that day their tawdry trappings shall go
for naught.
By the recent message of Gov. McClurg
of Missouri, we learn that the debt of that
state in 1869 was $1,000, 900, which shows
her finances to be in healthy condition
for these hard times. The governor say:
that $50 miles of railroad have been built
the past year, and 1895 miles put in course
of construction. Missouri is destined to be
one of the noblest and richest states in the
, Union.
The receipts from customs at New Yorl
city for the week ending Dec. 3lst, wer,
81 Sl,3H,000.