Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-20
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
A Louisville vagrant, who had been
ined regularly every week for drunk
enness, requested the magistrate to
fine him by the year at reduced
rate.
Official reports declare that 6,872
infants have been murdered, directly
or by abandonment, in Great Britain,
within a single year.
A man ninety-seven years old, at
Dryden, Mich, walked thirty miles in
one day last week, on private bust
ness, without the least Inconvenience
or subsequent injury. This is better
than Weston, differences OF age and
purpose considered.
A cheese is on exhibition in New
York which weighs 1000 pounds,
aud contains the substance of Sc
tons of milk. equal to one milking of
5000 cows. Its dimensions are =
Diameter 6 feet 10 inches; thickness
3 feet, and circumference 81 feet.
1t is reported that ex-Congress-
man Hickman Of Pennsylvania is now
at Washington, pressing the claims
of Gen. Hancock for the democratic
presidential nomination, the former
having gone back to the Democracy.
After twenty-Seven years Of con.
fnement in a criminal lunatic asylum
during which his conduct has been
exemplary, and no traces have APP;
peared of mental alteration, Oxford
the post-boy, who shot at Her Majesty
in st. James Park, has been liberated
A LARGE VOLUME would not con
tain the mass of testimony which ha:
accumulated in favor of Uister'S Bal
sam of Wild Che5rg as a safe, eff
cient, and reliable remedy in curin!
coughs, colds, and pulmonary disease
Many of the cures are truly wonder
full.
Furred tougne, heartburn, piles
distention of the stomach and bowels
dizziness at the stomach, loss of az
petite, pain in the side, back or limb,
can be cured by the use Of Parson,
Purgative Pills.
FoRTY-THREE YEARS is a long lif
for patent medicine; few of thei
in fact live to overcome the prejudice
with which they are met at the GU
/ set. Johnson's Anodyne Linimen
! however, is an honorable exception
, having increased in popularity durin
the period above mentioned.
T A letter is published in sever
papers, purporting to have been wri
> ten by one Gen. Dent, said to be
brother-in-law of Gen. Grant, to Il
:, effect that the General does not wi;
d to be either the Republican or Il
F.: Democratic candidate for the Pre-;
4 dency; and expressing several 9th
opinions on public matters.
is It takes a great mind to invent
4 novel mode of suicide now-a-day
10 but the feat was accomplished by
clown at Berlin, who blew his brai
u out with a pistol, while hanging
p his feet from the ceiling of t
W theatre, in the presence of 2,0'
81 spectators.
es OF the ia members thus far knov
N to be elected to the South Carroll
at Convention, so are white, and
Of negroes and mulattoes; of the whit
30 are of Southern and the rema
0o der Of Northen extraction. Nine
ne the blacks are of Northern birth.
III The Assize Court of the Doucl
: du Rhine, France, has sentenced
- hard labor for life an AmeriC
named Brown, young man of tw
in ty-five for having murdered yor
,ut Irishman named Rogers, in the sire
re of Marseilles. They had fight W
80 their fists, but the Irishman be
much more delicate in frame had
Ae worst of it, and tried to escape
ep The American pursued him and st
lee bed him in the stomach with a kni
WI "Moral suasion" is to be attemp
rm by the ladies of a Missouri town
lot They threaten to destroy all the
,cb auor in town unless the dealers cl
Iav their shops voluntarily.
ass The distractions sunk at the mo
will of the Savannah river during the
nv are partially removed, but emo
remain to form serious obstacl
navigation, and the people of Sa,
rs nah are anxious to have the gov
ef; ment authorities complete the o.
an ing of their harbor. AS they
of the distractions down, hadn't /
,tb. better remove them /?
There is one good wife in the G,
lrm try; let every married man think
ago hath her. aaait ~ 9fli4-l eI1.