Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-09-13
State News.

The exact population of St. Johnsbury
is 1869.
1t is proposed to build a Free VIII Bap-
fist church in Hardwick.
VIM. Randall of Lyndon, has a pair of
5 years old cattle tina. weigh $40.
Bradford, for the first time in several
years, sends A Republican Representative.
Apples in Caledonia county are more
plentiful than they have been for many
years.
-Four young men in Putney were arrest
ed recently and fined so each for stealing
watermelons.
The census of 1870 shows that the popu-
lation of Essex county Is 6Sl7, gain since
1860, 1880.
Liatus Farnham of Waterford attended
| town meeting on Tuesday; was taken sick
and carried home, and died Wednesday
morning.
The Vermont Central camp meeting
held at Mortified, the past week, was very
orderly and well attended. Average at
tendance 1000.
| MONTPELIER BUTTER MARKET.-The
butter market yesterday, being election
day, was not as active as last week. Only
407 package ,2l1 pounds-being ship
| ped. StOrrs q Jones Of this village had
255 packages; Bailey & Park Il; Morton
Marvin of Berlin, Il. Prices ranged from
| 80 to IS cents.
Z. A. Parks of Passumpsic has made
| from cows from June to September / .
| 730 pounds Of butter and 100 pounds cheese
| besides what has been consumed in two
| families. The cows ale grade Alderney
| two Of them being two years old. two were
| three years old, and two four years Old
| The remaining three were COWS that had
arrived at maturity.-jaj0a
Our County Fair in this town the 9th,
| 2Sth and Doth of this months attracting
| a good deal of attention at this early day.
| The demand for room by exhibitors IS so
| great that the Fair Ground Company feel
| that there IS a necessity for more build
/ ings, and they are erecting q large addi-
| tiOnal building to meet this demand. For
two years the buildings have been over
| full, and now as there IS to be more room.
we hope every one who has something
worth seeing will take it to the Fair Cal-
| eioHian.
We learn that Gen. De White Clinton
| Clarke of Burlington, died suddenly on
| Wednesday morning last. Gen. Clarke
| has long been widely known twenty years
ago he was the publisher and editor OF the
! Burlington Free Press. and afterwards es-
tablished the Times in the same place, and
for some years Of late, was executive clerk
| of the L. 5. Senate. He was clerk of the
| Constitutional Convention of 1857, and al
so of the one of 1870, which assembled last
June.
Last week Thursday, Sheriff Pike arrest
ed a man at Lynd0nvilIe, who had on Joel
Fletcherfs bosom pin, stolen from him a
year ago The pin was observed on the
man at the st. JOhnsbury House, Pike was
notified, and, with Fletcher, followed him
| to Walkers hotel When informed that
he was arrested and what for, he appeared
quite surprised, and told Fletcher if it was
his pin to take it. But this was not all
which was wanted of him. He was taken
to the st. Johnsbury Jail, and got out of il
by paying the sum of So and lot of Jew
elry, as security for his fees Union.
The railroad received $15S6.50 for tick
cts from persons going to the Camp Meet
ing last week-S6791 10 from the north and
1907 40 from the south. The number Of
tickets sold from the several stations were
as follows w. R. Junction 16, Norwich ,
Pompanoosuc 4, Thetford Z, North Thet-
ford IL, Fairlee "a, Bradford 81, Newbury
p, Wells River 80, McIndoes 80, Barnet
Al, McLerans Is, st. Johnsbury 400, St
Johnsbury Centre 185, West Burke 155
South Barton 81, Barton 215, Barton Land
ing 14S, Coventry sc, Newport 50, North
Derby 10.
We are indebted to assistant marshal;
Parks and Bowman for the complete fig.
ures from several towns in this county: