Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-07


Among the victims of cholera at
st. Louis, Missouri, was a son of
Gov. Gamble.
Elephant trampling as means of
capital punishment has been abolish
I'd in Hindoostan.
The citizens of Montreal have gen.
erously contributed nearly $4,000 to
the Portland sufferers.
The amount subscribed for the
Portland sufferers, including sums
not forwarded, it is estimated, will be
close on 100000.
A little daughter of Apollos Miller
was burned to death at New Haven
on Wednesday, while playing with
After separation of nineteen
years, the Grand Odd Fellow Lodges
of Southern and Northern New York
have reunited.
Miss Josephine L. Jackson, col,
ored young lady, graduated recently
at Adrian College, Adrian, Mich, with
high honors.
1t is reported in Washington, that
Judge Holt, Judge Advocate, is to be
removed, and Gen. Fullerton appoint
ed in his stead.
A meteor passed over San Antonio,
Texas, on the night of the 25th ult.,
which was so brilliant as to illumin-
ate the whole city.
The Johnson Soldiers and Sailors
Convention, called by Steadman, Gus
tar, &c, will be held at Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 18th of September.
Two Pittsburg PA girls have
been put under bonds for knocking
down and pummeling man who,
they assert, had DETAINED their charac-
ter,
The cholera is so bad in St. Louis
that the Board of Health decline to
make reports of the number of cases,
and the police make only partial re-
turns.
The City of New Orleans, which
was for four years kept in excellent
sanitary condition by the military au-
thorities, is again relapsing into its
former filthiness.
The cholera on the continent of
Europe is increasing its ravages, es-
pecially at Paris and st. Petersburg.
In England it's fatal march is justly
creating alarm.
1t is gratifying to state that the
Commissioners of Agriculture report
that the crops of the North and North
West, and portions of the South are
unusually large.
A dispatch over the cable says the
Empress of Mexico will not return to
that country, and Napoleon is prepar-
ing for the dissolution of Maximilians
throne,
Befort College, Wisconsin, sent
two hundred men to the war, and
proposes to raise $4,000 for memo
rial edifce, which shall serve also as
a library or hall of reunion for the
alumni.
The Philadelphia wigwam contrac-
tors were fined $75 for erecting a
wooden building contrary to law. II
it is not removed within thirty days
an additional fine of $50 will be i'm
posed.
Last week, little girl, only child
of Mr.. Wesley Roberts, of Muskingum
Co., Ohio, was killed, while sitting
in the lap of her aunt, by the dis
charge Of a gun in the hands of a
young boy.
The Augusta Ga. ConStitutiOnalist
speaks of the stars and stripes as "a
Flag all over befouled with wrong
and a BLACKBOARD despotism that
daily affronts God by the villianies il
does his poor and prosecuted PEG.
pie"
A lot of land in Lynn, Mass, which
thirty years ago was apprised at $3.50,
is set down this year by the assessors
at valuation of $4,000. The Lynn
Reporter says other real estate there
has risen value even more than
that.
The world moves. In New York
on Saturday two milkmen, named
George Sherman and G. Lansmirik
were fined $50 each in the Court Of
Special Sessions, for putting water in
to their milk.
Gen. Sickles writes from Charles
ton d fear the most serious check
the Presidents policy will receive is
coming from the South itself. The
South makes Radicals faster than the
President can make Conservatives.
A newspaper correspondent says
that in Georgia, where Sherman.
army made a sweep of all the car
riages, the ladies, the ladies 60 visit
ling in carts. They call them cart
de uisites, and console themselves will
the thought that they are in tn
height of fashion.
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