Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-01
State News.

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Marrying and giving in marriage is
epidemic in Montpelier this winter.
A farmer in Woodbury. made and
sold $1,000 worth of butter last year.
The recent gale made sad havoc in
the cemetery at Newbury, breaking
down trees and tombstones.
There are thirteen ponds in the
town of Woodbury., some of them very
large, and well-stocked with fish.
Butter at St. Adams, Tuesday Jan.
25th, Fall s. to 3S cents, Winter rs |
to 32 cents.
Mark Chaplin OF Poulsney. while
recently using horsepower saw, was
struck in his forehead by piece of
wood and probably fatally injured.
A young man of Franklin County
is dangerously sick on account of his
love who left him.
Darling & Deans soap-stone works
at Perkinsville. were destroyed by
fire on Monday night. The loss is
$4,000 and the insurance amounts
to $4,000.
The ice in the Winooski river at
Montpelier, broke up on Tuesday and
half of the railroad bridge, in course
of construction, was carried away.
Mr.. Samuel W. Green recently
caught a large snowy owl, near
Danville. ltlgaS almost perfectly
white, and measured from tip to tip
of wings, nearly five feet.
The Good Templars of Pawlet are
doing a good work, dram drinking
having been almost totally stopped IN
the place by their efforts.
The money obtained for oil and
skins of three bears killed at Hunting
ton, last week, with the State bounty
Melted the hunters 800.
Mrs. Woodward of Woodstock has
brought $4,000 claim against
fellow named Walter, for damaging
her character.
A Williamstown dwelling house,
nearly completed, valued at about
$4,000, has been built from the pro-
ceeds of one Norway oat found in a
newspaper about five years ago.
John Finnegan of the Trotter
House, at Bradford, died in a fit last
Wednesday forenoon.
A young man named Prescott, 20
years of age, so injured himself coast
ing in Corinth, that inflammation of
bowels set in, causing his death.
The store Of A. Green in Franklin,
was robbed of 800 on Wednesday
night. The :ogues blew open the
safe with powder, but the explosion
was so loud that they did not dare
tc stop to obtain further booty.
Hon. E. NJ. Aylesworth of East Ar.
lington, and late one of the Assistant
Judges of Bennington County Court
attempted suicide last Friday by
cutting his throat. He had been par
TALLY insane for some time. and had
been watched. Hopes Of his recovery
! are entertained.
A man named French set a trap
last ia | that mysteriously disappeared
Recently neighbor OF his, missing
, fowls, also set a trap, and caught a
large owl, to one leg Of which wa
attached the missing trap Of Mr.
4 French.
George Mann lost SIS at Yves
Randolph very easily last Thursday
a He bet that amount against $ll tina
: Sam. Bass 5 grey four year old Nellie
d could not trot from West Bethel t.
t West Randolph, seven and one-hal
d miles, inside 40 minutes. The mar
did it without any urging, in 291-:
i, minutes, coming in fresh as daisy.
/ A CHILD MURDERER.-Quite al
a excitement has been created by III
e arrest at Stowe of a man named Rol
S Inns, charged with numbering his new
G " born child in SwantOn last May
/ The principal witnesses are tn
r. mother and grandmother Of the infant
2, and the midwife who assisted at tn
: accouchment. The parties are OF
n low status of morality. Rollins ha
e been examined at st. Adams, bOunr
e over for trial, and in default of bal
II committed to jail-Freeman.
'e John Z. Cole, of, Walden was
! member of the 10th Vt. Regiment
'0 He came very near losing his life,
t bullet passing through his hea d i
! such a manner, as to cause the loss {
Z both eyes. He chops wood, cut
D. bushes, hoes and digs potatoe
u threshes his grain, takes care of hi
II stock, and, whenever he has any lei:
IL ure time, canvasSeS for some goo
y book. Where is the blind man tina
p can beat him ?-Union.
Peter Fountain, Winooski polio
:, y man, has been found not guilty of a
"unwarrantable entry Of a privat
dwelling" He went into Mrs. Abr
ir ham Kenfeld's bedroom in search
he a Sheldon lawyer but as he foun
m him, the jury decided that he va
s right in thus invading the siren
q, nest.
IN The citizens of Peacham have raj
Ill ed funds for suitable slab to |
~ erected over the grave of those thrt
H. unfortunates who were frozen to deaf
ct near that town on tie 4th of Marc
10 last.
ln On Saturday last, Albert Coats
oil Windsor was arrested for bigam
1p and while he was in charge of the Q
10 fcer, in an effort to get $500 bono
Oh for trial at the County Court, he su
~ denly leapcd towards the railroa
eu and at last accounts he was takiI
,e' 'leg bail most vigorously in the {
-. rection Of New Hampshire
~, GREAT FIRE AT NORTON MILLS
- The Steam Lumber Mill at Mort,
10 Mills were burned at II o'clock (
.as Saturday night last Special trai
:" from Sherbrooke and Island POI
az brought fire engines from these place
-, A trench was cut around the stea
- mill to prevent the fire reaching t
100 large water mill, which was save
~ The loss is estimated at $4,000, a
m is said to be fully insured. The mi
were the property of the Norton Mi
a. Lumber Company. Flying rep(
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