Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-07-19
State News.
Several bears have been seen in Rip
ton and Hancock this summer.

were shipped from New Haven.
Small pox is reported at Wind Mill |
Point.
Rutland proposes to hold a centen-
NAL celebration the coming autumn.
Vergennes is agitating the introduc-
ton of fountain into the public park.
Mrs. Geo. Babba, of Alburgh, re-
Gently presented her husband with
their nineteenth child.
There is to be a large sabbath
school gathering in Vergennes the last
week in July.
Saturday, butter brought 26 cents
liz the Vergennes market. The ship
ments were over $4,000 pounds.
A man named Edward Quinn, of
Clarendon, was drowned recently in
creek near Rutland.
The barn of Mr.. j. W. Wright, of
Addison, was recently damaged by
lightning.
An extensive furniture and uphOl-
stery establishment is about to COM
mence operations in Middlebury.
The dwelling house of Alonzo Da-
Wis of Waterville, was burned recent
ly, with nearly all its contents.
Ground was broken on Tuesday,
July 5, at St. Adams for the Missis-
quot Railroad.
An old man, his son and grandson,
three generations, were lately seen in
Salisbury at work in the bayfield, to-
gether moving.
Mr.. James Brown, of FelchvilIe,
fell from the roof of a building on the
30th ult., and was killed. He fell
a distance of 80 feet.
Wool is being purchased in Grand
Isle County at from IS to 40 cents per
pound. Some of the farmers are
waiting for higher prices.
The Bishop of the Episcopal Church
in Vermont confirmed SIS persons the
past year. Bennington contributed
next the highest number ofcandidates.
Osmar Chase killed in the highway
of Springfield, on Tuesday of last
week, rattlesnake four feet aud three
inches long, with eleven rattle8.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has been in
vited to deliver the annual address
at the State Fair to be held at Burl-
; ington, September IS, IA, Is and I6.
Aaron f. Clark, who was commit
ted to the State Prison over a yeaI
ago, for burglary in the Central House
in Rutland, died recently in prison.
Miss Ellen Gray, the Fort Edward
heiress, has bought lot in Middle
town, and commenced building {
house upon it.
The races on the Island course a
Richford, commenced Monday, 4tl
inst, and closed Tuesday. The at
5 tendance was quite large and the re
ceipts were larger than ever before.
( In the vicinity of Pawlet, during
the dry weather, farmers have in som
instances turned their COWS into tn
meadows, pastures being completed.
: used up.
! On Saturday of week before lasI
2, Samuel Jones, Of Bradford, had $l3,
o taken from his pants pockets, Will
they were hanging in the work sho
of II. Farr & Co.
John Collins of Rutland was ru
. over and killed 10y an engine used i
: making up trains at Rutland on Sat
: urday last. He leaves a wife an
t. three children in INDECENT circuu
4 stances.
Richardson's lumber mills in Brun;
wick, owned by Lynch, Barker & Co
e and NJ. R. Richardson, of Portland
J. Me-, were burned Thursday night o
t, last week; loss $4,000; insured
If The fire also destroyed a covere
t. bridge over the Nulhegan river on tn
- Grand Trunk railroad.
As Freeman Bassett of West Fai
, lee, was at work on a ladder place
IL against his barn, on Saturday of wee
g before last, the wind blew the bar
IT door against the ladder, throwing VI
n. Bassett to the ground and breakin
, his neck. He leaves a wife and thre
, children.
~ Mrs. Michael Griffin, of Bradfor
III village, aged 81 years, while sick wit
y typhoid fever, cut her throat last Sa
Or urday with razor which she Q,
from an adjoining room while her hu
If band who was watching with her w
asleep. She had been very mela
! choly for some time. She lived unt
F" Saturday night about 10 o'clock.
10 The Farmers Mutual Insurance C
s. of Montpelier, last week receive
e. 800 conscience money through Il
nt inStrumentality of Rev. Father Cl
-, vier, of Mortified. No one W
. doubt that dishonest people ext
70 among the Protestants as well ;
ne Roman Catholics, but we never het
al of these cases Of restitution amor
them.
o. Mr.. Robert Collins of West Ha
% fax lost a valuable horse recently
the following manner: He took hi
au to pasture, wound the halter arour
is his neck with the loose end of Il
i'll rope about foot long. 1t is suppc
re ed that the horse in striking flies wi
no his foot, caught the halter under
q loose shoe and threw him down, as
u was dead when found.
III Two gentlemen of color who arr
US ed at St. Adams on the train recent
at found that the lock of their trunk hi
e8- given way, and they attempted
ID play sharp game on the "a
+,n road by demanding pay for four ne
" suits of clothes that they claimed h
re- been taken out. The trunks we
ok opened and found to be so full tn
in nothing could De added. When call
upon to explain how they were to 9
70 the four new suits in the trunk, tn
y dropped the subject and departed.
Chester has recently been enliv(
''0 ed by unusual combats and frictiC
or A week or two since, Constable
nst P. Spaulding called upon Oran
oil. Hutchinson for taxes, which call W
;cb refused, followed with words and
% nally Hutchinson struck Spaldi
~ with q hoo cnttinoe q onnh In LIZ Co q