Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-13

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after The trees commence bearing.
Gen. Geo. w. Chambers of Louis
Vile, was, seventy four years old on
the 3lst uIt. Ga the same day. his '
wife presented him with ten pounds
and one ounce Of girl baby-his four
teGnth child. II
JACKSON JUMBLEs.-Take one cup
Of butter, three cups OF sugar, six cups
OF flour, half a cup Of cream, two eggs,
one teaspooniul Of potash, and a quar-
ter Of pound Of peach kernels; beat
the sugar and eggs together, and the
butter to a cream.
BIG SHOOTING.-At a turkey shoot
held at West Cornwall last week, A.
Hemanway, jr., of Bridport, shot
turkey dead at 105 rods, off hand, the
second shot he made.
A GOOD YEAELING.-E. A. Eldridgc |
Of East Warren raised a bull which,
at fifteen months and one day old, dres- |
sed $50 lbs, and was sold at II Cts
per h., dressed weight. . ...
Adam awhile in Paradise -..
Enjoyed his novel life
He was caught mapping in trice
His rib made his wife.
Poor father Adam! Whet guest
This most unlucky doze.
Made the first minute of thy rest
The last Of thy repose.
If you ask the way to the crown
It's by the cross To the mountain
It's by the valley To exaltation-
tits The that humbleth hi4seIfr
The creditors of the ten national
banks which have failed thus far will
realize about 10 per cent, and the
total loss to the public will be under
$l000,000. The circulation will of
course be paid in full.
JEFF. Davis bail bond has been
Autographed and is for sale in Rich
mond.
Cooking corn for swine doubles its
value; and steaming straw, hay or
other fodder for cattle, after being cut
increases Its value at least fifty per
cent.
Half cranberry on a corn will
soon kill it.
Charles G. Gordon, a laborcr at
Providence, was found dead in his
house Wednesday morning, after his
body had been attacked and partly
deyoured by rats.
The post Office records show 49,
500 changes Of postmasterS during
the past year, or half Of all in the
country. ..-. ...
New York averages Sc inhabitants
per square acres; Boston So; Lon
don only 40.
A German girl at New York com.
mittcd suicide, Wednesday, by eating
the tips Of friction matches. She
died in few hours.
The planters in Claiborne county,
Miss, have organized a detective po
lice to protect their stock, which i,
constantly run off by thieves.
Horace Greeley states that since
he commenced the New York Tribune
in 1871, there have been not less thar
two hundred new journals started il
New York, and two only can be saiC
to be alive to-day.
A Presbyterian church in Ohio
having suspended a member for join
ing the Masonic order, an appeal wa
taken to the Presbytery. This body
10y vote of fifteen to ten sustaine
the appeal, and restored the part
appealing to the communion of tn
church.
Two colored boys got into quar-
rel few days since in Lima, ALE
county, Ohio, when one of them dre'
penknile and stabbed his oppone1
to the heart, killing him instantly.
To MAKE GOOD VINEGAR. - On
pint of strained honey and two ga
Ions of soft water. Let it stand in
moderately warm place. In thre
weeks 1t will be excellent vinegar.
A Democratic paper in La Gross
WiSconsin--the Democrat court
ously allades to Gen. Sherman as
mushroom of civil war, bloo5- waite
ed, rank with the corruption al
wickencs5 engeudered in the hell,
crusade Tor the eHslayement and d
graduation of white men and the II
umph OF niggers."
HoNEY-Sarplus honey should
sold of each year, as by long kee
ing, unless stored in Uniform tempe
atnre as near the natural heat oil u
hive as possible, it is apt to crystali2
and II separated from the comb
liable to icrment with change of teI