Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-09

A farmer in Pennsylvania writes to
one of our exchanges the following
memorandum of
WORK FOR WET DAY:
Barnyard to shovel up and man.
ure to haul to next falls wheat
ground.
"Go over and fix up all fences.
Barn doors, yard gates, &c, to
mend.
drains and wash water outlets to
be attended to.
Moving machine to be put in or
der--also horse rake and hay-ted-
der.
Grease wagons; mend harness
and bags wash carriages.
Cut and haul wood and clean out
the cellar; whitewaSh, &c.
Hen-house to clean out, and CON-
post for corn to make"
Make the heart right, and the man
will be right, the child will be right :;
make the men, women and children
right, and the home will be right !;
make the home right, and the town
and city will be right; make the town
and cities right, and the States will
be right, and the nations will be right,
and the world will be right.
No grindStone should be exposed
to the weather, as it only Injuries the
wood work, but the suns rays harden
the stone so much as, in time. to rend-
er it useless. Neither should it run
in water as the part in the water soft
ems so much that it wears away fast,
err than the other side; and many a
soft place in stone has arisen from
this cause alone, and not from any
inequality in the grit.
A prisoner named Franz Ecker
under sentence of death in the New
City (Rockland county, New York
Jail for murder, on Monday last sho'
the Sheriff Thomas De Noyelles, who
was on his accustomed rounds anC
then committed suicide by shooting
himself. Mr.. De Noyelles is still alive
The wife of the prisoner had visited
r him on Sunday, and she was arrested
on suspicion of having procured thu
weapon, a revolver, for him.
One of Lambs best things was hi
; reply to a French infdel, who pre-
sumed in his presence to set up tn
character of Voltaire in opposition t.
that of Christ. EYES," stammere'
: Lamb, "Voltaire was a very goo,
Jesus Christ-for the F-F-F-French !!
7 A man named Walker went to
l Dutch tailor and had his measur
taken for pair of pantaloons. Ell
a gave directions to have them mad
a large and full. Walker was heav
y man and liked his clothes loose, an
e when he came to try on the new III
3 mentionables, found that they stuc
2 tight to his legs, whereat he thus re
5 monstrated: II told you to max
s these pants full" After some objul
o gatory expression of profane ns
ture, the tailor ended the controvers
y by declaring; i" | dink desc pants
/ full enough; if dey was any fuller de
t, would shplit !"
q The New Orleans Bee says tn;
q Gen. Mcclellan was the only one G
all the Federal generals that tt
- South really feared. The rest wei
; the subjects of common jest. On tt
~ other hand the Crescent says: "W
- may have laughed at Grant, Sherma
"A Sheridan, Thomas, Mcpherson, and
: few others, but wasn't it out of I'll
10 wrong side of the mouth, neighb'
~ Bee p a
I'd The last, best fruit that comes
in late fruition, even in the kindlie
90 soul, is the tenderness towards t
hard, forbearance towards the unft
as bearing, warmth of heart towards t
IS. cold, philanthropy towards the m
as anthropic.
to-
On Mississippi sent $4,000 into the
W. rebel army, 5 900 more than her VIII
nd vote, and lost $4,000 of them.