Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-01
Canada News.
We take the following items from
the Stanstead Journal:

the Stanstead Journal:
A large portion of Laprairie is
flooded. Several houses have had to
be abandoned and in most of the
others the residents have moved to
the second story. When the thaw
took place the other day the Lake
St. Louis ice came down and two or
three houses, several barns and many
fences were then carried away. The
water has not been so high in that
locality since 1886 and, most extra
ordinary thing, the Lachine rapids
are frozen over or at least covered
with an ice Jam.
ACCIDENTs.-The late slippery 60
ing has been productive Of some &C
cidents. We hear of two in this Vi
cinity. T. w. Wyman was thrown
from a sleigh while turning the corner
near Morrill, & Judd's Shoe Factory
on Friday, at too fast pace, and was
severely bruised. l. Wood, ESQ,
while returning with his team, having
taken his family TO church on Sunday
morning, was thrown from his sleigh
and badly bruised. Both are recov-
ering.
There seems to be something of a
revival of an interest in the Temper
ance cause. New lodges of Good
Templars have been organized at
Beebe Plain, Grifin'S Corner and
Smiths Mills, Stanstead.
The Quebec Legislature are spend.
ing considerable time over a bill in
troduced by Mr.. Picard to annex a
part of Tingwick to Wotton. The
territory in question is in the limits
of Mr.. Hemmings constituency, and
he very naturally objects to the in.
reference of Mr.. Picard in the matter
The only plea set up for the change
is that four individuals living in Ting
wick are nearer the Catholic church
in Wotton than Tingwick. BY the
terms of the Confederation act, twelve
counties IN Lower Canada have then
limits prescribed in the act, and these
cannot be changed without the con.
sent of the representatives of those
: Counties. These two counties art
among the twelve. and it is not very
probable that the twelve represent
atives will consent to a new division
thus establishing a precedent which
may be troublesome hereafter. /
these four persons are restrained
from attending church at WOtton, b,
some ecclesiastical rule, let the Bishop
give them dispensation adapted t
their case, instead of taking up tn
time of the Legislature about so triv
ial a matter.
t MANsLAUGHTER.- shocking affai
took place at Brompton Falls on tn
: evening Of the 18th. 1t appears fror
testimony taken before the Coroner
e jury, that on the evening in question
! two employees of the Grand Trun
!, Railway, Terance McGowan, forema
It on the section at the Boundary Linz
e and Hiram Knapp, late conductor
!. were at Tetd's tavern, and ate
drinking together, got into a discu;
h sion in regard to the merits of certai
Of the employees, and finally, McGowa
5. commenced an assault upon KNAPP
h with his fists, Knapp warning him, t
1t stand off at his peril The ma
n clinched, and Knapp, Selling MEG,
vans right hand with his left, Stable
st him m the abdomen with a peck,
< knife he has been using to cut tobacc,
% He then showed MCGOWAN aero.
N the room and struck him TWO or tire
ID blows on the head with his knife, cut
- ing to the bones each time. I'll
sr wounded man exclaimed that he VIZ
of stabbed, and physician was pr
10 cured. He fingered until Monda
il night when he died. A post morte
lie examination showed that the cut
y the bowels was sufficient to eau,
q; aa death, the contents of the bowels ha
he ing escaped into the cavity of the a
Id domen.
"a ID The verdict of the jury was in a
rs cordance with the facts, and that NJ
tt. Gowan came to bis death by certa
I'd cuts, wounds and bruises at the hant
w Of Hiram Knapp, 'feloniously al
he wilfully given with the intent to
OF some grievous bodily harm.
OF On Tuesday, Knapp was broug
he before Judge Short on a writ of h
r. beas corpus, when an order was mat
OF admitting him to bail in two surcti,
~ Of $500 each and himself in $500.
Id The Sherbrooke Gazette, in viii
x the report of the Coroner is publishe
he censures the Judge for taking
~, ~ small bail, and states that the Queer
tie Attorney objected to bail altogeth
e. as the coroner's jury evidently con,
I. dered it case of wilful murder.
ne The senteuce of death which was to ha