Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-11-29
Miscellaneous Items.


laire, prominent criminal lawyer in
this city, and formerly Circuit Attor-
ney, was shot last night by Isaace NJ.
Ruth, clerk in the Post Office. The
affair grew out Of unpleasant relations
between Voullaire and his wife, re-
sulting in a divorce from her last
week, Ruth being her most important
witness. Yesterday Voullaire and
Ruth met in the post Office. Angry
alteration ensued, and Voullaire
threatened to shoot Ruth the first
time he should meet him on the street.
Last nigh Ruth accompanied the d.
vorced wife to the theatre, and when
returning home they were met by
Voullaire, who fred at Ruth. Missing
him, Ruth returned the fire, the ball
entering Voullaire's right breast near
The nipple, lodging against the Shout
der blade, and inficting dangerous
wound. He now lies in critical con-
dition. Ruth gave himself up and
was released on bail. The affair
created great sensation, all the par
ties occupying highly respectable po-
Sitions in society.
LEAvENwoRTH, KANSAS, Nov. 10
Eighty-three Representative districts
in this State elect twenty-five Demo
Gratis and the remainder are Repub-
licans and Independents. Forty cour-
tics give the following result: For
negro suffrage, 1891; against, &c.
ia; for femal e suffrage, 667O :;
against, II 1862; for DISTINGUISHING dis
loyalists, II, 800; against, 1O,368.
A man in Toledo, Ohio, lost his
wife by death at o'clock, Thursday
forenoon, at in the afternoon he
buried her, and at o'clock in the
evening he was married again.
What a blessing it is when the liv-
ing water makes spring within the
Christian What a curse to be one
of the stagnant ponds of formality
exhaling the putridity Of hypocrisy.
IMfEAcHMENT.-A special dispatch
to a New York paper says that the
Judiciary Committee stand on i'm
peachment-for: Boutwell,, Churchill,
Williams, Thomas and Lawrence
and against: Wilson, Woodbridge,
NJ ar h all and Eldredge. Judge
/ Churchill, who in June last voted
against, now votes for it.
New YORK, Nov. pa special
| dispatch, dated Naples 81, says that
Mount Vesuvius, famous for it's vol.
canic eruptions, is still pouring forth
an immense volume of fire. Seven
distinct streams of the molten mass
have been formed, and as they press
, on in their winding paths down the
sides Of the tremulous mountain, a
scene is presented which is magnif
cent In the extreme.
4 Oberlin College has six hundred
2 and forty male and four hundred and
ninety-four females students.
The winter wheat in Indiana looks
: very promisingly.
The sheriff of one district (coun
ty) in South Carolina has sixteen
t hundred executions for non-payment
t of taxes in his hands.
: There are only six deaths annually
: for each five hundred whites in the
United States.
A box was found in the river a.
Dixon, Ill, few days since, in which
Y were found the remains of a man witt
the head and feet chopped off. NJ
t clue to the mystery has yet been dis
covered.
J, Judge Chase has been nominated
i for the Presidency by meeting of
J. loyal citizens of Atlanta, Ca, auC
. also by Republican meeting a
Jacksonville, Fla,
o The Marion (Ill.) Flag hoists tn,
name of Gen. John A. Logan for Pres
ident of the United States in 1868.
s The Chicago Times Democratic
e makes the following admission =
!, wherever the negro has been teste,
as slave, as a freedman, as either
: as an employee, as soldier, as a votel
| he has not failed to come up to til
1 fullest requirements of those variou
d positions"
If A couple of female practical Joker
4 frightened a young married woma
h into insanity, at Milwaukee, the othe
i. day, by telling her that her husban
was dead.
ir 1t has been judicially determine
If in New Albany, Indiana, that it cos
- man SO rs to whip his wife.
u Why is an author the most won,
Or erful man in the world :? Because b
% tail comes out of his head.
II The total receipts from Interra
Revenue for The week were 81, ia
i. 600, and the total since the begin
h ing OF the present fiscal year, July
= $82,O00,O00.
r A man named Weber died in Oh
:, cago on Friday from the effects o
= chloroform administered by comp'
l. tent surgeons, while performing a
y operation N.