Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-03-01

The latest novelty is a hot skate,
provided with a chamber for holding
hot water to keep the foot warm.
In st. Johnsbury rum and rumsel-
lers are at discount, and the Good
Templars rule the day.
An impression prevails that the
fortieth Congress will remain in ses-
sion two or three months, which indi-
Gates work ahead.
The detectives of the Treasury
Department have discovered a new
counterfeit on the ten dollar note of
the Flour City National bank of
Rochester.
Gen. Sheridan is on his way back
to New Orleans.
George Bancroft declines the Bos-
ton Collectorship.
The house of Horace Barry in Rut-
land, was entered on Wednesday eve-
ming, OF last week and $400 in q. S.
Bonds stolen.
A high school for colored girls has
been opened by the Episcopalians at
Louisville, KY, with Miss Cornelia
Jennings, a graduate of the colored
institute at Philadelphia, as principal.
The depot master at Hartland was
assailed by three ruffians and robbed
of 5000 on the night of the 18th inst.
The next day a brass knuckle was
picked up at White River Junction.
Senator Sumner is reported as in
tending to retire from the Senate at
the close of the present term. two
years hence, 60 to Europe for five
years and write history of the down
fall of slavery.
The hotel keepers at Cavendish
and Proctorsville have been fined one
SO and costs and the other $40 and
costs (it being his second offense) for
selling liquor to a citizen of Chester,
who after he had started for home
wonld have froze to death if he had
not been found and carried home by a
neighbor. The Chester man was al
so fined five dollars for being drunk.
.Josheph Tower, of Rutland Tap
ped 100 trees in his sugar orchard,
and on the 9th and 10th inst. made
81 pounds of the very best Of maple
sugar.
Mr.. E. ". Goodnow, of Springfield,
claims to have COW, eight quarts of
whose milk will make two pounds of
butter.
John Field, of Springfield, son Of
Lincoln Field, dislocated his elbow
recently while scuff1ing with his school
mates.
The Minnesota Legislature has
amended the State Constitution by
striking out the word ''white." 4
proposition for a similar amendment
is now before the Missouri Legisia-
tUre.
Hon. P. T. Barnum has been pnan-
imously nominated as a Republican
candidate for Congress from the 4th
Congressional District Of Connecticut.
There will be no special election
ordered in California this spring, and
that State will therefore not be repre-
sented in the Fortieth Congress until
after the regular election in Septen-
Der next.
Wendall Phillips is for once pleas
ed with something. In bis last letter
to the Anti-Slavery Standard he says:
awe consider Stevens bill the best
thing yet offered. Congress has new
er before got SO near to the real basis
Of settlement"
The Boston Journal of the 10th
says that Horace Greeley is to be
| Postmaster General.
GIRL LosT.-A correspondent Of
the Burlington Times says ali Bran
don is out searching for Miss Good
now, a young lady Of nineteen, sub
iect to fits of insanity, who has been
missing since the Goth, when she start
ed to see her brothers, chopping wood
a short distance of. Four hundred
men were in the woods and swamps
looking for her on Saturday.
i Specimens of coins of the United
States have been struck at the Mint IL
Philadelphia, to be exhibited at the
Paris exhibition, and compare favora-
bly, with the coinage Of any other
country.
A case of spontaneous combustion
in the human body is reported from
J indianapolis. A man named Andrew
, Noelte, a German, was found dead In
his shop in the town of Columbus, In
5 diana, his mouth having been burnt
| out. He was of Incorporate habits.
t New YORK, Feb. 26.-The Fenian
$ excitement in this and adjacent cities
:, throughout yesterday was OF the most
) intense character. i is supposed
e that Stephens is in some part OF Eng
e land and is about to inaugurate co
n operative movement in that country or
j. a very extensive scale.
Alabama has made herself a new
r county. and christened it Dixie"