Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-11-09
WHOLE NUMBER 656.

o. VI oCfCHICcll J cars ue JUS
tlce asked the usual questions, and
received correct answers until the
following was propounded to the
would-be bridegroom:
"Have you ever been married be-
'ore ?"
Yes"
'1s your wife still living?"
"Yes."
Are you divorced from her ?"
"No."
"Where is she ?'
"I sold her."
GLOW much did you get for her ?"
"None of your business"
"Well, can't marry you if your
wife is living"
DuU onU TinUu J yvunSoI 1U1,v. uoU-.
5er than she did me, and was willing
TO be sold for 500 if he bought her,
so | let her go."-Chicago Republi-
cdn.
Mr.. A. q. Bigelow of Hubbardston,
Mass, a teacher of freedmen, has been
driven away from Aiken, S. c., by a
Vigilance Committee, who would not
permit him to begin his labors.
There is nothing upon earth more
miserable than she who has a son and
sees him err.
"lf there is anybody under the can
lister of heaven that [ have in utter ex-
crescence," says Mrs. Partington, "it
is the slander gong about like a boy
constructor circulating his calomel up
On honest folks"
W. W. Ellis, merchant of North
field was robbed a few days since of
money to the amount of between 81
900 or $4,000.
Some friends of the Rev. T. w.
of Montpelier, presented him
with Sl66 on Monday, on the occasion
of his removing from the place.
Prof. A. Wood, with party of gen
tlemen, lately ascended Mount Hood,
in Oregon. His report establishes
the fact that Mount Hood is really a
volcano, and that it is the highest
mountain in the United States, being
1860.
Take the inner or white husks of
corn and after cutting off and throwing
away the butts, clip the remainder into
pieces from one-eighth TO one-half an
inch wide, mix them we'll as they are
put into the tick. and you will have a
bed as elastic and far healthier than
feathers.
A. NJ. Knapp, of Poultney, Vt, in
forms the American Agriculturist thai
he has used with entire satisfaction. as
grease for cowhide boots, a compound
of one pint linseed oil, two ounces tai
low, one ounce bees wax and three
table spOonfuls of lampblack, wei
melted and stirred In an iron vessel
In the neighborhood of Vincennes
Ind, where cattle are wintered on corr
and corn fodder when prairie hay i
not to be had for the cutting, the price
Of wintering cattle in stock fields wa
formerly 81 so per head, it is nov
twice as much.
The census of 1861 revealed tn
fact that in the whole southwest of Ire
land there were but two Jews. On
of them lived in Munster, and the 9th
er two in Connaught. In the easter
provinces there are more. In tn
metropolitan districts of Leinster tw
hundred Jews were found, and Jew
ish colony had settled about Belfast
These are the rising districts Of Ire
land.
There is something exquisite in a
Americans reply to the Europea
traveller, when he asked him if he ha
i, just crossed the Alps: "Wal, now yo
call my attention to the fact, | guess
did pass risin' ground"
The opposition of the democrac
to disfranchising deserters from til
: Union army is kin to their zeal ft
enfranchising rebels at the expen;
not ouly of the Union men of the Sout
) but Of the North also. Avery prett
l record.
T Belknap & Collisions saw mill, ne'
West Burke, was consumed by fire {
D Thursday night of last week. III
:. mill had recently been thoroughly I
i, paired, and supplied with considerab
.. new machinery. but everything W;
: burned, including a large pie of lul
. Der adjoining. Loss over $1,000, al
no insurance.
Hogs should be we'll fed now.
/ will pay better to buy feed even, th;
[ to allow them to 60 without prop
/ amount of food. Hogs fatten al
[ grow much more rapidly in war
It weather than in the extreme cold (
y mid winter.
e My way of keeping potatoes f
summer use, may be benefit to son
of your readers. Early in the spril
s | select good, hard, sound potatot
e and pack them in dry sawdust In ba
y rels, and place them in cool celia
g Put up in this manner, they are
n hard and fresh in August as when p
3 up in March, do not sprout nor WI
# Dry tan, and perhaps dry sand wou
,e answer the purpose as well.
Z Mr.. Geo. H. Bradford, who we
, from this place to Chicago fe1
weeks ago has since had the cholel
! and writes us that for while he hi
!. !, all he could do to keep from @goil
= under" but he says II still live"
Opinion.