Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-02
Complete official returns from Ohio
make the republican majority 1856,
in total of 469,90S votes.

Complete official returns from Ohio
make the republican majority AZ, 1896,
in a total of 469,9OS votes.
The Texas House of Representa-
tives has rejected the Constitutional
amendment by vote of 81 to 5.
The New York Herald speaking
OF the coming election in that state
says that 1.-The probabilities are in IA
vor OF the republican ticket by ma
Jorlty OF between thirty-five and forty
five thousand"
A writer in the Nashville Tenn. }
Press and Times, says:
"A Northern man came down here
to sell an engraving of Christ. He
thought he could sell one at the Meth.
odist publishing house, where there
were so. many preachers, but they
treated him with contempt. He saw
they had a good many pictures in gilt
frames hanging around the room. He
looked and saw Gen. Lee, Gen. John
son, President jeff. Davis, Stonewal
jackson and Company. He made
some remarks about their pictures
They told him that they hung picture;
about their house to suit themselves
chat they had no use for his"
II. W. COrbctt is the Senator cleo
from Oregon, succeeding j. W. Mes
NTH.
The benevolent Millionaire, Mr.
Peabody, adds to his princely gifts tt
the worlds poor and to science tn,
sum Of $150,000 to Yale College, at
ter having endowed Harvard witt
equal generosity.
A. Perrot, Frenchman. has invent
ed three terribly destructive engines
the first a three-barrelled air-gun, fiji
ing 1000 bullets per minute, the buI
lets dropping from a hopper, withou
intermissiOn, into the gun; the SeGon'
is similar but mounted on wheels: tn
third is a steam locomotive, discharo
ing 2 lbs. weight of projectiIe per sec
ond, and capable Of killing 172.8Ot
men in "a hours, if but one man wa
killed in every hundred shots di,
charged.
A terrible hurricane commenced i
the Bahamas on the Both ult., an
lasted two days. Almost half Of tn
town of Nassau. n. P. was DESTROYED
Houses we're blown down. roofs cal
ried away, and large number olive:
sells were lost or damaged. This hui
ricane was the severest which has bee
experienced since 1913.
A series of forgeries on sever;
banks, amounting to 100000, ha
come to light in New York, in whic
the North American, Park, Merchant
and Chemical banks are among tt
victims. An importer named Eu9er
E Durand is the principal engaged
the transaction, and has not yet bee
arrested. Only about $4,000 hay
been secured.
The Providence Journal referrir
to the 5candalous report that Senate
Sprague's wife was about to apply f
, a divorce. SAYS Of Mr.. Sprague and h
domestic relations: There is not
the country man happier in his d
mcstic relations, and nothing has G
CURED to afford even a preteXt for Il
SANDERS which have been invented
malice and circulated by scandal
- A COWARDLY CRIME WITHOUT Az
n APPARENT MOTIvE.-The details
the murder of Luther G. Thompst
at West Hartford, on Saturday eve
+ ing, While they fail to discover a
reasonable motive for the deed, pro
5 it to have been of deliberate intent a
T.: cowardIy execution. Mr.. Thomps
k was a quiet and always peaceable m;
$, living retired, with his mother and
J. sister 16 years old, on the road lea
= inc to Talcott mountain, about fl
J. rods from the Pennington road
le West Hartford. He had not a ore
amount of property, and at the til
ofbiS dooth had worry little money