Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-16
Miscellaneous Items,


spring, full blood Durham bull calf,
which was born the last of March
The first of October the calf was
weighed, and his weight was $50 lbs.
He is in every respect a splendid ami
NAL. His color is white, with fre-
quent dark red spots. We hope he
will grace our next county, and if pos
sible state, fair.
To MAKE PURE APPLE VINE
Take good, new cider, fresh from the
press; dissolve in it 60 pounds of
common brown sugar to each fifteen
gallons of wine, and let it SETTLE
Then put this fifteen gallons into a
clean barrel, and ELL the barrel up
with clear cider, to within two gal
luus or being full; leave Lho bung cut
for forty-eight hours; then put the
bung in, with small vent. Let the
barrel stand year-the wine is then
fit for use. 1t needs no racking. The
longer it stands the better.
We give the above receipt On the
principle On which Moses tolerated
concubinage. 1t is so much better tc
drink pure wine which will cost
but twenty or twenty-five cents gal
lon, than the vile poisons which cos
from So to $5 a gallon, that we think
the change woule be an improvement
Indus. and Com. Gazette.
AMERICAN CHEESE IN EUROPE
Within a few years there has beer
such a demand for American chees,
in Europe, that factories for its manu-
facture have been lately established
in Vermont and also some at tn
West, and there are one or two il
Massachusetts. By this process bet
ter cheese, Of more comely shape, i
made, and it demands a higher pric
"a cent a pound more.
A fine coat may cover a fool, bu
Inever cOnceals one.
On Saturday night a man name
Allen, living in Taghanica, near Hue
son, n. Y, killed his wife by chokin
her. Allen has been crazy for fe7
weeks past, but it was not until will
in a few days that his lunacy too
any form that rendered him danger
Gus.
i By way of London we have INTEL
| gence of great battle in Paragua
on the 22d ult. The gunboats engay
ed the forts Of Curuguary, and tt
. stOrming columne gavo showers {
musketry, and took the first line bl
failed at the second, and retired wit
a loss of nearly 5000 men. Sever;
/ gunboats were disabled in the figh
Gen. Flores had gone back to Mont
video with the rest of the army.
Good men generally reap more su
, stantial benefits from their aff1ictioi
than bad men do from their prosper
+ ty; and what they lose in wealt
7 pleasure, and honor, they gain wi
q most advantage in wisdom, and goo
q ness, and tranquility of mind.
: The Young Mems Christian Ass
> citation of Washington have in proie
the erection of a building during t
coming winter for a clubhouse for t
society. 1t is intended to have Il
ture room, and reading rooms wi
files of all the principal newspape
aud magazines of the country, a lib
ry of 10000 volumes, and a GYM
! SUM.
II Punch suggests as national cole
y for Germany, Prussian blue.
: The story that Mrs. John G. Bret
i enridgc has lately given birth to twi
O is only half true.
h A dead infant was found in a schC
y house in SALISBURY recently. It "
d left there by woman from BENIN
# ton.
e, e, A little girl in the employ of
~ Wolcotville (Ct.) Manufacturing c
~ possesses wonderful arithmetical pc
u ers. She counts 1000 percussi
le caps and puts them in twenty boz
~ 200 in each) in one minute and n
~ , er makes a mistake.
to A correspondent says: "There
le many things about Spiritualism wh
ne [ eagerly embrace-chief among wh
oy are mediums"
lg
he A Couple were divorced in Nj
de igan on Monday after only twenty-f
re, hours of married life. The wife
ID. her husband on the ground that
to was bald headed and a Catholic,
ID, would not give her a deed of
on farm; the court gave him divorc
ST.
oo BUTTER.-Butter sold at about
60 weeks prices in market Tuesday,
cept summer butter, which is lower
Good fall lots sold for 40 cents, e.
IRE for-42. Summer lots for rs to
co. cents.-St. AIbdnS Messenger.
In,
roc Melvin Wadsworth of Benning
oo lost his dog a month ago, and 70
we it after twenty two days in a pit
mo feet deep, where it had lived and
ve. most died, on roots and grubs.
,ne The Waterloo Advertiser says
no' no one believes that the sentence
.s .Se death, passed upon Col. Robert
JUG Lynch and Rev. Mr.. McMahon,
Iu' ~, be carried out. The Episcopal
NY gyman tried as a Fenian has been
;a@ ~ quilted.
but New York consumes daily $36
'ut' worth of eggs poultry and game.
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