Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-09-20
State News.

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bardston was burned early Wednes-
day morning; loss $1,000, insured for
$240.
Curtis Brown, Of Belvidere, killed
bear in Montgomery on the 9Th inst,
it being the third bear he has killed
within a week, and the twenty-third
within the last eight years.
John 7. Ballard of Milton commit
ted suicide by hanging. He was
found in his barn suspended from a
beam, Saturday morning, and he had
not been seen since Thursday. He
was a poor dissipated man.
The track is laid on the MiSsisquoi
Railroad, as far as the East Swanton
meeting house, and supply trains are
running res ularly to transport ties
and rails.
St. Adams shipped, during the
month of August, 9540 tubs Of butter,
weighing over 267 tons, and, at the
average price Of 80 cents a pound,
selling for $160,406.
Charles Dow, of East Richford,
while at work on Spafford Stanhope's
house, fell from staging to the ground,
distance CT twenty-five feet, and
struck on his head. He was taken
up in a senseless condition, and his
injuries were so severe that he has
since died. He was fifty years Of
age.
News has been received of the muir
der by Indians Of w. B. Shipman, Of
Alden, Iowa. Mr.. s., was in Washing
ton territory, mining, and was quite
sick at the time of his murder Geo.
Van Dyke, who was caring for Mr.. s,
remained with him and shared his
fate. 1t is feared that Mr.. Shipman's
only son, Harvey, has shared the fate
of his father Nj. Shipman married
the widow Henry Lovejoy, formerly
of Fairbanks village.
That is a very singular case-that
crab apple tree of Chas. p. Carpen-
ter's. 1t is a fair sized tree of the
large Canada crab variety, and has
borne apples like other trees, hereto
fore; but this spring it did not bios
som. After the Goth of August, how
ever, the tree bIossomed full, and now
it is covered with apples about the
size ofpeas. Mr.. Carpenter thinks he
will have some good winter apples.
-Caledoniaa.
Job Lyman of Burlington, and for.
merly of Woodstock, died in BurIing.
ton on Saturday last, at the age Of
So years. He was a college mate Of
Daniel Webster at Dartmouth Col
lege where he graduated in 1904
lie lived the prime OF his life at Wood.
stock but removed to Burlington in
1850, and retired from business. HC
attended the election there on Tues
day of last week, and was only at
tackled with sickness on Friday wher
he rapidly sunk away and died about
noon on Saturday.
The express train going north las
/ Sabbath morning came in contact witt
a drove of cattle, pastured for tht
night on the farm Of Mr.. Chauncey
Alden in Ryegate, sixteen were killed
and three more badly hurt, yet strang,
to say the train sustained little dam
age.
Thieves who stole about one hun
dCed dollars worth of property from
the premises Of Maj W. J. Henderson
and two harnesses from John Carbee
have suspended operations, with tn.
exception Of stealing a few squashe
and melons.
The I. P. church Of this town whicl
is now unsupp!ied, will have preach
ing for four Sabbaths by Rev. Hug
Brown Of Observation-Disclosures
A fire destroyed the house of VI. F
Pike in Newfane on the Both ult, anC
nearly all its contents. The fire tool
from an arch in the ell, where a fir
had been made to cook swill. TIL
loss includes some IS tubs of butte
in the cellar, and a barn. Mr. Pix
is a young farmer and had fairly 90
started for himself, and the loss is
severe hardship upon him. The fam
, lily were absent at the time, and Nh
Pike saw his house in flames in q dis
tant field, and only got to it 10 seaso
to save a few clothes and beddin
and a few articles in the barn Be
J0lrs Falls Times.
Horace R. Piumiey, the Shrewsbur
. murderer, who was to have been hun
, on the 29th, has had his sentenc
p committed to Imprisonment for lif
The murder for which he was unde
p sentence occurred at Shrewsbury. Al
= gust l, 1868, and was the result {
, an old feud between the family {
> Ziba PIumley and Isaac Fl. BalcI
: Appraisers had met and were engage
j 10 settling upon damages occasione
: by Balch's horses, when a disput
arose and terminated in the shootin
and killing of John Gilman, Jr., a
q innocent and DISTINGUISHED young maj
/, Both factions were armed, EVIDENT
4 having anticipated trouble, and upo
e the death of Gilman, indiscriminat
a shooting ensued, and John Gilma
V Sem, and Horace R. PlumIey wei
wounded before the affray could
stopped. At the trial Ziba Plumlc
received a life sentence. Fred
> Plumley, one Of his sons, was senten
: ed twenty years Imprisonment, an
y Horace R.. Plumley, his other so
Il was sentenced to be hung at IL
i state prison in Windsor, Septembe
I 20, 1870. Much sympathy was ma
. ifested for him at the time, and Il
{ result has been the Communication
his sentence.
Mr.. Wizards majority in the Fir
l. District will lack little of a clea
10 5000. The figures with nine tow
G. to hear FROM stand as follows:
l. Willard, $40
IS Miner, 1921
r Cain, 1928
Il Scattering, 279
4 Wizards majority, 4,702
. Mrs. Georgianna, wife of John
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