Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-11-15

IA suit winch mas fingered 10 the
Albany courts for forty years has just
Idled OF exhaustion, and tbs wonder
that the court that tried it doesn't
follow suit. !.
Last Friday evening Joseph Mer-
rick of Lowell, was Intoxicated and
in endeavoring to swallow LARGE
mouthlul of tripe he was 'strangled
A physician was called but too late
to save Merrick The tripe was
afterwards taken from the throat and
found to weigh about two ounces.
New YORK, Nov. At is stated
that the War Department disbursed
between Jan. l and Oct 20 the fol-
lowing sums; Pay Department, $685.
$4,000 Bounty, l0,500,000; Quar-
termaster, s36,O24,O00; Subsistence,
| S10,947'000; Miscellaneous, S26,781,-
900.
DEPRESSION OF MANUFACTURERS
The Providence Journal says the
wages of the operative are to be re-
duced this week in several Of the
largest cotton factories in Rhode Is
land, and that if the times do not i'm
prove an entire or partial suspension
of work must soon occur by the con-
certed action of the manufacturers.
The large wooden mill of Edward
Harris, known as the Harris Wooden
Company, in Woonsocket, will com
mence to run on three-quarters time
next Monday, and some portions OF
the machinery will be entirely stop
ped until there is a more encouraging
prospect for its productions. The
old mills continue their usual time at
present. The Lippitt Wooden Com
pany have run but two-thirds of their
looms for several months, but at
present are running fifteen of eighteen
sets of machinery. '3c' sF2..<
HUMoRs OF Texas LIFE.-A Texas
correspondent of the Memphis Post
describes the following pleasant little
incident Of life in that region
ave had a regular Texas street
fight here the other day. Two men
were waiting an hour or so at a hotel
for one man. When he came out one
Of the two pulled Derringer, fired
and missed; then pulled a six-shooter
and empted every barrel at the ad-
vancing man, who was shot in four
places, and who then, in spite of his
wounds, pulled bowie-knife and
made two insertions in the left breast
of Brown, the commeucer of the row.
whose companion then pulled a re-
volyer and absolutely broke the skull
OF the boWie-knife man and laid him
low. Brown breathed his last III IF
teen minutes. Pruitt-the other man
fingered for three days. The cause
was a pretty miliner named Sallie St.
Clair, who nursed Pruitt until his
death.
; On Sunday, as two men and a boy
were hunting on the mountains in
Shelburne, one of the men, Curtis
Tanner, was accidentally shot bv a
discharge from his own gun. The
, !, others seeing him stagger, approached
him, when he exclaimed Il slipped
and instantly expired.
The Catholics held fair at Rutland
last week, and realized about three
thousand dollars therefrom
+ A stupid fellow tried to annoy {
= popular preacher asking him whether
e the fatted calf Of the parable wa.
/, male or female. Female, to besure,
v was the reply; 'for see the MALE
looking his questioner full in the fact
e -'yet alive in the flesh before me"
: The State Auditor in Illinois re
, ports that the assessed value of nea
cattle in Illinois for 1867 is $17,144,
597; sheep, $3.5l0,777; hogs, So
It 22l, $50 manufactured articles, 81
t. 240,536; capital stock of bank, 81
W 270,326; total, $32,387,7SS. TIL
e value Of horses in the State foots u
n more than all combined, the figure
E. being $32,57S,223.
- On Sunday evening, about eigt
O'Clock, Mr.. Goodelrs boy, aged Sc,
e enteen, stepped to the door to pr,
n cure some article hung out on tire
II in the yard, and as he opened it h
= says man presented a pistol to h
y breast and fired. The ball passe
- through his coat sleeve, between tt
~ arm and chest, setting the coat on fir
: but doing no Other injury. TT
- neighborhood was instantly arouse
a. and strict watch kept, but no or
~ was discovered lurking about, and Il
;E whole transaction remains a myster
~ The boy supposes the attack upc
% him was made by the parties wi
10 were stealing his fathers turkies
50 few evenings before, and upon who
- he fired at that time. The Office
- and neighbors have their suspicion
- but as they may not be we'll founde
af nc names should be given. Woc
" stock Standard. ~ taia
:" a GalL4 4I4e ais6I
IN Agents for the sale of Sheridan
he Cavalry Condition Powders are hel
by authorized to refund the money
any person whom they believe to
honestly dissatisfied after giving tbs
* fair trial. ara-5.e34I i
FsrI A WONDERFUL MEDICINE N
akel wnhstanding it has never had the q
~7 aS(1l1 1ll ell, EgE.1f5e 1 sfsE -. . FEt.