Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-16
Miscellaneous Items.

Gen. Cole, VINO Is jail aC Albany
awaiting trial for the murder of Mr..
Hiscock, of Syracuse, is reported to
be spending his time in reading re-
ligious books and Shakespeare.
Chef Justice Chase, who six years
ago was not worth SIC, 900, now pays
taxes on an income of 100000.
Agassiz says the Florida reefs were
seventy thousand years in building.
A RELIC. - Master Charlie Blair,
while bathing in the Winooski, just
above Montpelier, found sword
which evidently must have seen serv-
ice in the Revolutionary War. 1t is
of the old Continental pattern, and
has every indication of having rested
at the bottom Of the river for half a |
century.
BoLT IN CHITTENDEN Ca bolt
has occurred in the Republican party
of Chittenden county, and the boilers
hold convention on the 18th. The
Times in speaking of the movement
says:
"The movement is purely factious,
and will be overwhelmingly repudi-
ated at the polls by the Republican
voters of Chittenden county, as it is
well understood to be mainly engin-
eered by the personal enemies Of
Messrs. E. r. Hard and jeremiah
French, gentlemen who were fairly
nominated by one of the largest and
most respectable Delegate Conyen-
tons ever held in the county.
| GUILDHALL.-Last Thursday noon,
as the family Of Mr.. VIM. Dewey, Of
this village. were seated at dinner, a
streak of electricity passed through
the house, overturning the table,
scattering the food and dishes pro-
miscuously about, breaking nearly all
of the latter, and affecting all the
family to a greater or less degree
VIM. Dewey and his brother John
were the persons most affected, the
former being rendered delirious for a
number of hours. Mrs. Hutchins was
also seriously affected. Drs. Benton
and Hubbard were promptly sum-
moned, and toward night reported
their patients out of danger, much
to the relief Of their anxious friends.
The occurrence was followed by a
loud report, though at the time the
sky was clear, or nearly so.-CaledO-
man.
SUICIDE.-Warren Briggs Of this
village committed suicide by hanging
himself in his barn little past noon
to-day, Thursday, Aug. Sth.) He
, was watering the streets as usual in
the forenoon, but borrowed a rope Of
J. W. Smith as he was going home,
embarrassed his horses and then com
mitted the deed. On the evening be-
fore he had complained of a severe
headache, and during the forenoon he
showed by one or two little incidents
that he was not in his right mind, and
t it is probable he did the deed in fit
| of insanity, brought on by the excess
: siVe heat.-Ph9nir.
Corn has fallen in Texas from two
dollars to seventy-five cents bushel
: One paper even reports that new corn
can be engaged at twenty-five cents a
bushel.
: A democratic paper calls Mr. Stan
ton "a low mule" and in the next in
stance accuses him of "riding the
high horse" A mule on horseback
would be a remarkable sight.
DISQUALIFICATION five o'clock last
evening, the black mare of Mr.. J. S.
5 Pierce, driven by Henry, the colored
Il boy in his employ, took fright from
:, disarrangement of the harness, in
Il Maiden Lane, and run into the front
: of Jacob Green's shop, shooting out
{ the boy, demolishing the bow window
u carrying away an awning post in fro2t
u OF Walton's harness shop, and finally
Il upsetting the wagon in front of
Il Blodgett d Sweets. The horse then
> broke from the vehicle and ran a short
: distance, when a passer-by stopped
= the animal, without much difficulty
The colored boy got an ugly cut il
his scalp, but otherwise was little in
' jured. The wagon was somewhat
:. broken. Jacobs show window was
" not as full of prepared horse-radisl
u as it is sometimes, or probably there
~ would have been more tears shed by
q J the crowd that gathered to look ovel
Il the wreck.-Free Press.
g. ACCEPTING THE SITUATION.-Ob
t, serving white in Danville VA,
!, holding an umbrella over a negr,
e. woman's head to protect her from tn
es rain, a facetious Virginian recent
a remarked to a correspondent of tn
II, New York Herald: "Mr. Stranger
to excuse me, but look at that, and the
: you can tell your people up Mort
Us Virginia accepts the situation"
ne Disease is simply obstruction
Of The man who can touch the bottol
al of his lung with bit of fresh air, an
he the end of his toe with a little bloc,
be may laugh at the doctor and brea
wv off acquaintance with undertaken
le- He is sure of getting into the min
in ties.
he Three men in Texas were convic
,e- ed of murder, and sentenced to
III. hanged within a month, unless the
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