Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-30


ing a case in which he was opposed
to Mr.. Writ, when the latter tried a
somewhat novel mode of disrcediting
the evidence of Mr.. Corwin's chief
witness, on whose accuracy and dis
elimination everything turned. by
showing that he was person OF as
tonishing credulity.
Wirt-"Have you read Robinson
Crusoe ?"
Witness-"Yes."
Wirt-"Do you believe it all ?"
Wit.-"Well, yes, Squire; [ don't
know but what | do"
The same answer was returned as
to Gulliver's Travels, and several
other works of fiction, Corwin all the
while fidgeting and getting hot. Pres
emily Mr.. Writ, considering the man
entirely hattened out, resigned him
with a bland smile.
Mr.. Corwin said he had only one
question to ask, and put it
Corwin-"Have you read Wirt's
Life of Patrick Henry ?"
Witness-"Yes."
Corwin-"Do you believe it all ?'
Wit.-"Why, no, Squire; Ican't 60
that"
1t is beauty's privilege to kill time,
and time kills beauty.
Prayers and provender never him
der any mans journey.
Words are but poor fg-leaves to
cover the nakedness of deeds.
WIVES FOR CoNvICTs.-The French
Government is taking pains to sup
ply some Of the best behaved con-
victs at Cayenne with partners. A
van arrived at Toulo the other day,
containing twelve tall, fine young girls
from eighteen to twenty five years of
age, coming from the central house
or penitentiary at Claremont, Disc.
About sixty more girls are expected,
and are to be shipped for Cayenne,
which it is now proposed to populate
in a practical manner. These young
girlS-amOng whom is one who is a
remarkable beauty-are destined to
contract legitimate unions with those
of the condemned in the penal colony
who have distinguished themselves bv
their work and their good conduct
Each couple will receive a concession
of plat of land, &C., to begin life
anew with.
The envious lose the enjoyment of
life by the discomfort they feel at what
others enjoy.
IMMORAL BOYs.-Look out for your
boys, fathers an d mothers, when
night comes on. There is nothing
more ruinous to their morals than run
ming about at that time. Under COW
er OF darkness they acquire their edu-
cation in crime, they learn to be row
dyish if not absolutely vicious, they
can catch up loose talk, they hear sin
fuI expressions, they see obscene
things, they become reckless and vi
cious. If you would save them from
vulgarity. save them from vice, save
them from prison, see to it that night
finds them at home.
Sheridan said to his son: "TOm,
it is time you were settling down and
took wife"
"Yes, whose wife shall [ take ?"
A lady seeing a drunken man in
the gutter said she was afraid he was
dead. Pat, who had been near
enough to smell his breath exclaimed:
Faith, and | wish [ had half of his
disease"
Two good-natured Irishmen, on a
certain occasion, occupied the same
bed. In the morning one of them in
quired of the other: dennis, did YOU
hear the thunder last night ?" "No,
Pat; did it railley thunder ?" "Yes,
it thundered as if hiven and airth
would come togither'' "Why in the
divil, thin, didn't ye wake me, for ye
know [ cant slape whin it thunders." "
James Shattuck was found dead in
, a pond at Brattleboro, on Tuesday
He was about so years of age, of con-
irmed Incorporate habits, n d is
supposed to have been drowned while
5 intoxicated.
CYRUS W. FIELD.--Cyrus W.
| Field of cable notoriety, invested SO
largely in the enterprise that his pa
3 per ware house in New York was
' forced to suspend busines, and ask a
r compromise of its creditors, which was
agreed to, and all the creditors set
tied for a per cent, giving receipts in
@ full for the several outstanding debts.
n The last Banner says that Fletch-
er & yelling, North Bennington,
?. were among the number of these cred
. itors and that few days since they
received a letter from Messrs. Field
& Co., asking them to send state
ment of their actual loss by the fail
ure of Field & Co. in 1850, adding in
terest to date. They did so, and
have received Mr.. Fields check for
the amount. An instance of marked
fairness and business probity as this
deserves notice.
An old woman on steamboat OBJ
r served two men pumping up water to
d wash the deck, and the captain being
e near by, she accosted him as follows :
"Well, captain, got well aboard,
eh ?"
"Yes, ma'am, always carry one, y
said the polite captain.
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