Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-01

enIly dead. lie at once embarrassed 1t
and rolling it one side of the path went
home. Returning with neighbor or two
some two or three hours after, the horse
was found still dead. About this time
Charles Worthen came along with a yoke
of oxen and load of wood and by request
hitched his oxen to the dead brute fasten-
ing the chain about its neck with logging
hitch and started for the edge of some
woodland some thirty or forty rods distant
In passing by pile of timber the horses
head caught and doubled up the neck suf-
ficiently to have broken the neck OK live
horse dozen times. At length the woods
were reached and the poor old mare left
in her last resting place. Knights went
home and some time after went to his barn
to take care of his stock, when to his sur
prise, and we imagine a little to his alright,
too, he found the old mare at the stable
door awaiting admission as if nothing had
happened. She is surely entitled to the
first premium on frances. She appears to
have pretty much recovered from her i'll
usage and was driven into the village by
Mr.. Knights last Saturday.
A Mr.. Davis and son, from Haverhill,
Mass, have bought the Union House and
grist mill of G. II. Chase, at the East vii
lage, for $4,000 They have also bought
the old Melvin mill7 site for 500, andru-
NOR says that a saw mill and chair factory
are going to be erected.
DERBY.
A paragraph having gore the rounds of
most The Vermont papers, to the effect
that J. II. skinner of Derby had been COM
mtted for forgery in Middebury, he comes
out and denies "the soft impeachment" as
follows in the Freeman:
DERBY, Feb. 10, 1870.
Some poor rascal has been using my
name in an unlawful manner down at
NIiddlebury, so says your paper. | read
in it that j. II. Skinner Of Derby was eX-
amined by Justice Simonds and Knapp,
and bound up in $500 for forgery. /
want to set this matter right before the
public; for | am not at all pleased that my
name should be published in such man
ner. | am quite sure, according to my best
recollection and belief, that | never did
commit forgery in the good town of Mid
dlebury, and never yet have | set foot on
her soil. j. II. SKINNER.
Looking the matter all over, we guess it
wasn't him. He has taken the Standard
too long to be such fool as that.
IRASBURGH.
Amos Metcalf has sold out his interest
in the farm-one-half-to his son, T. G..
Metcalt, for $500.
During the last thaw the water made its
way into a number of cellars in town. f.
G. Metcalf's cellar filled up nearly full, so
their apples were ahoat and some of them
lodged on the third stair from the floor.
LOWELL.
Frank Harding has sold his stock of gro
ceries and the goodwill of the trade, to
John Blake, for about 500. and Blake has
let his farm to his brother, Joseph Blake,
for a year, and has taken his family into
the rear part Of the brick building at the
Corners, which he occupies as a store
The selectmen of Lowell have just bro't
to town a very neat and apparently well
built hearse, which the town, last March
voted them the authority to purchase. 1t
was built at Stowe. Entire cost, including
/ wheels and sleds $3.50
The new parsonage at Lowell, for few
weeks occupied by the family of the min
/ lister, Rev. A. \. Smith was tried on Tues
day night, Feb. -, as to its capacity to ac-
commodate the parish. An oyster supper
was served to some 80 people, who
seemed to have room enough and good
time generally, leaving with the occupants
of the house over SS3, cash. which with
other useful articles that have found their
way to this dwelling as special favors,
amount to upwards of 500.
MORGAN.
A short time since, while Mr.. John Hill
was at the saw mill loading slabs from a
large pile, they fell, completely covering
Mr.. Hill so that he was unable to move.
Fortunately for him, three men were at the
mill, and hearing his cries for help soon
released him. His face was considerably
bruised and the blood flowed quite freely
after going to a neighbors and having his
face cared for he was able to take his
l tom, and rro homo
A brisk business is being done at the
Beach by way of numbering, and both mill,
are in a fair way to have all the work they
want.
NEWPORT.
Mr.. Benona Mudgett has sold his house
and village lot to Mr. Ezra Sias for $500
Mr. Sas takes possession Immediately.
The sale of Babcock & Co.'S stock o
goods to Charles s. Bean, fell through a
last. We are told that Mr.. Bean is going
to Lowell, Mass, to engage in the produc,
commission business.
NEWPORT, VT, Feb. 10, 1870.
4. 4. Earle, Esq,
Dear cir II Dy no means con
slider it necessary to write over every false
hood that is circulated about me, this
A LIE" or under the authors portal
"THIs Is A LIAR" Such things rectif
) themselves. But as am credibly inform
ed that your friend Camp is circulating
privately a charge he dare not print, to tn
effect that am the author of the loca
item in the STANDARD in regard to tn
! Ball affair, | trust you will do me the IA
vor to print in the same place the trut
that have neither directly nor Indirect
furnished you with that Tor any other lo
cal item for your paper. When | wish t
! publish anything rejecting upon any pei
son or place it will not be anonymous, bU
! plainly signed
T. II. HOsKINs.
You will permit me to add, perhaps, thu
I in my opinion you are too indiscriminat
c in your censures. There are many peopl
in Newport who are by no means scamp
either with or without the =, =" and ougl
not to be ranked in that crowd.
DR.. Hoskins did not furnish US the loo;
in the Ball matter; nor has he ever fu
nished one of any description whateve
He did not even tell us that news. "
were told it by one of the Second famili'
!. of Newport, and we then wrote it ourselve
t When there is anything in the Standal
S that some one don't like, it is always sa
. 3 to lay it to us.
r NORTON.
n The large lumber mill at Norton w
: burned on Friday evening of week beto
last The loss was heavy in machinery al
: lumber. The steam mill was burned Sc
n eral weeks ago On Saturday evening
man was caught trying to set fire to Il
d boarding house when full of inmates. I