Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-06

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A Kentuckian named James Ben
nett has just eloped with his twelfth
bride.
An editor in Illinois was obliged to
shoot man dead for disturbing him
in his sanctum.
Two hundred and thirty four farms
Will be sold in Bedford county, Va,
for arrears of taxes.
There is no prospect of an early
trial of Surratt.
"The actions of men are like the
index of book: they point out what
is most remarkable in them"
Wisdom is the principal thing, there
fore get wisdom.
Japan will not exchange seeds with
our government unless we send first.
Some English people have just CIV
en- their rector's baby silver cradle
worth $500.
The bank of England has On hand
cancelled notes of the nominal vaiIe
of $3,000,000,O00.
The Danubian principalities are per-
scouting the Israelites with determi-
nation to eXterminate.
1t is estimated that 100000 bush
els of grain were ahoat on the New
York canals last week. M .
The state tax voted by the general
assembly is so cents.
Horatio Seymour declines to be a
candidate for the presidency.
Japan has shipped 100000 lbs.
more tea to New York this year than
last, mostly direct.
A Nevada man recently got drunk,
killed friend, and was hung by Judge
Lynch-all within six hours.
A horse recently bit a boys head
off in Quakerville, Pa.
Lazy men, like sporting characters
think great deal Of the home stretch.
Vice stings US even in our pleas
ure, but virtue consoles US even in
our pain.
The United States own 100000
900 acres of land.
In Jamaica coolies are sold for
seventy dollars apiece.
Roses are blooming On the Mount
Vernon farm at Washington.
The horses are dying by hundreds
in Wisconsin.
The Odd Fellows in the United
States number 100000.
An immense eagle, measuring eight
feet across its wings has been shot in
! Wisconsin.
In New Mexico BARRIERS unite pro.
fessional dentistry with tonsorial
dexterity, as in the days of Romola.
English woolgrowers have all their
jealousy excited by the introduction
of the Angora goat into this coun-
try.
Twelve thousand freedmen are
educating themselves in the evening
school in Florida.
Iodine OF silver possesses the sim
gular property of contracting by
heat and expanding by its withdrawal.
1t is reported that the purchase of
the island of st. Thomas has been
concluded, our government paying
therefor the sum Of S7,500,000.
Bills actually passed at the last ses-
sion of the Vermont Legislature, and
after becoming laws were amended by
other bills introduced for the purpose;
and the governor has had to veto two
bills.
: A lady was telling a young man Of
child few weeks old, whose grand
mother was only thirty eight years old.
The young man replied that was no.
thing. He knew young lady whose
grand child was not born yet.
One night in a thunder shower,
: little voice from the trundle bed called
: out, 90 mother, the dark is wiuking
: first it shuts up and then it shuts
: down.
0 BUTTER.-In the St. Albans market
/ on Tuesday, the ruling price for butter
was from 35 to 40 cts. per pound
A few extra lots brought AZ cents.
No man should complain of being
poor, or Of hard times, who can afford
! to use rum and tobacco.
e Labors of the body free us from
+? pain of the mind. That is what con-
stitutes the happiness of the poor.
Y /" We see,"s says Swift, in one of his
5 most sarcastic moods, what G o d
d thinks of riches by the people he gives
Y them to." !" ..'i
A man and his wife in Montreal
went to bed tipsy, the house took fire
and burned up, and SO did they, with
!, their two children. g q Ass -