Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-08-02

wrong, and he took them home with
him. fa
The next day he was so anxious to
forward them On their journey that
he carried them ten miles, and left
them at the house of another unfor-
tunate minister.
Of course the affair made a great
deal of scandal in Brookville; but
some people were sensible enough to
commend aunt Peggy.
But Mr.. Granger is still keeping
hotel, and is well patronized by the
travelling public.
If you should happen to pass thro'
Brookville, you will save a dollar or
two by stopping all night with Mr..
Granger. He won't mind it in the
least-for he is used to it.
There are nearly $4,000 more males
than females in the city of st. Peters
burg.
Tar sleeps noses to prevent the
gad-fy laying eggs which breed grubs
in the head.
is estimated that Sauk county,
Wis, will yield $2,000,0O0 worth of
hops this year.
John Clarke, of Baltimore, has left
S750,000 to St. Johns Methodist
church in that city.
New York is investing in the
cholera. Some 1900 watermclons
were recently imported from Savan-
nah.
Pickpockets are plenty, around cir
Icuses. A man in Bellows Falls lost
5000, and at Rutland pocket-books,
watches and breast-pins were stolen.
The hippopotamus attached to
Bailey's Menagerie was Frustrated by
excessive heat in a small town in
Canada, recently, and has since died.
A cut finger is best protected by
being encased with a rag moistened
with flour and water. This will
harden and remain firm till the heal
ing is complete.
DR.. Hall says that the secrets Of
health are six. Keep warm. Eat
regular and slow. Maintain regular
bodily habits. Keep clean skim
Get plenty of sleep at night.
Hon. Norman Williams has resign.
ed the Office of Clerk Of Windsor
County, owing to failing health. He
has held the Office continuously for
twenty-eight years.
Though the theaters and circuses of
Paris have room for 100000 visitors
they are all nightly thronged, and il
some places seats must be engaged
several days in advance.
Rufus Mead, of Middlebury, late
editor of the Register, has been nomi
mated to and confirmed by the Sen
ate at San Juan Del Sur, vice Geo
W. Grandey, declined.
The young man who sang, a an
lonely since my mother died" ism
Iquite so lonely now. The old maj
married again, and his step-mothel
makes it lively enough for him.
By experiments, at Elgin, ILL.,, i
was proved that the milk of an irritat
ed cow soon gets sour; that added tt
the milk ofquiet cows, it quickly sour
the whole, and that it makes inferio
butter.
The farmers, in view of the extra
ordinary growing weather and thu
progress of vegetation after a late
spring and rainy June, are beginning
to think that they have distrusteC
Providence without reason.
General Sheridan says incidentally
in one of his communications to tn
Government, that in the interior pal
is hes of Louisiana, in proportion t.
the number, more blacks than white
write their names in registering.
DR.. j. FL. Baxter, son of Hon. POI
, tus Baxter, late Chief Medicinal Off
Ger of the Provost Marshal General
Office, has been confirmed by the Ser
ate as Assistant Medical Surveyor o.
the United States Army, with tn
rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
!, When General Bragg was defenC
ing United States fort against tel
rible attack in the Mexican war, a nj
gro servant made his escape from tn
danger, fled to the Mexican lines an
! joined the Mexican service. No'
General Bragg is disfranchised an
the negro servant is one of the Boar
of Registration for the County G
t Mobile.
/; The Tidiout (Pa.) Journal tells
story of a dying man at whose reques
: a dance was held the night previou
to his decease, in the building whic
q he occupied, for the purpose of raisin
e funds to pay for "a decent funeral.
t The receipts were $56. "Glory be
: Godr' said the dying man, ''now L
have a decent burying, and the chile
rem can ride in a hack"
Mary and Keziah Hicks, of Roam
q l.