Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-01-04
Miscellaneous Items.


population of Liverpool and Glass.
gov that it is thought advisable, as a
measure of precaution, to send troops
to those places Meanwhile martial
law has been proclaimed in Limerick,
and re-enforcements, both military
and naval continue to be dispatched
to Ireland.
CAT SToRIEs.-A cat was put into a
bag at the house of Erastus Woodruff,
in Newark. and taken to that of Mr..
johnson Quimby, in Lyndon, a dis
tance of ten miles, and in year from
that time it found its way back to its
former home Another of these ami
mails was bagged at Robert Moultons S
IN Newark, carried into Morgan, 20
miles away, and in six weeks was
back again, considerably emaciated,
but otherwise all right.
John Shultz, of Pleasant Mills, NJ.
is one hundred and seventeen years
old. He has been blind seventeen
years, but his mental and physical fac
ulties are otherwise unimpaired. He
constantly attends the Methodist
church, Of which he has been a men,
Der almost a century.
The shipwreck of a cargo of rum
near the NJ ersey, England, a few days
since, lead to hideous consequences.
The cargo was beached at New Brigh-
to-, a well known bathing place. As
the barrels,were washed ashore they
were broached on the beach, and the
oystanders drank till they dropped.
| One young man died on the spot
Nearly one hundred suffered drspe-
rately from the effects of the debauch.
4 scene of violence and debauchery
cnsued such as has never blotted the
annals of civilization; and, even as
described in the most respectable
English papers, utterly unfit for pub
llcatiOn in detail.
The Cable furnishes a detailed ac-
count Of an explosion which occurred
recently in a colIiery at Barnsley.
England. It was followed the next
morning by another explosion in the
same mine. and by a third explosion
in a colIiery in Stafford, The loss Of
life by this extraordinary concurrence
Of disasters is very great. At least
400, if not 500 luckless miners, and
their friends who attempted to rescue
them, were killed.
A principal agent Of prominent
life insurance company recently died
and had no insurance upon his life.
This Is almost as bad IS the bald
headed man selling his ointment for
res oring the hair.
There is much legal controversy
and ill-leeling in Florida on account
Of property confscated by the confed-
crate government. The courts in
some counties sustain the holders Of
such property, but issue writs of ejec-
ton against persons holding property
confscated and sold by the United
States Government. Gen. Foster,
commanding the state, thinks the
troops cannot safely be removed.
A rich bachelor recently died in
England, at the age of 65, who for
twenty years had been an inordinate
taker of medicines. In 1910 he took
over 10000 pills, and in all he had
taken 10000 bottles of different mix
lures. He hadn't time to get mar
ried.
Our public speakers are richer than
the Arabs, who are said to have only
thousand words for one thought.
Beneath a blue sky we long for the
pinions of an eagle; but beneath a
cloudy one we desire only a gcose's
wing for writing.
A writer in the Country Gentle
man, says is costs him s1,T5 each, a
year, to keep hens.
And his neighbors more.
A colored preacher in Virginia, on
ly lis years old, has just married a
gushing beauty of so years.
A man was asked what induced him
to make a law student of his son.
20, he was always lying little cuss,
and | thought I'd humor his leading
propensity
Josh Billings says if man is 60
ing to make a business of serving the
! Lord, he likes to see him do it when
he measures onions as well as when
: he hollers halleluyar.
A Mr.. Bates of Kentucky, 20 years
of age, is seven feet high and still
growing. He is the "baby" of eleven
children.
Everybody, probably, has forgot
ten Sister Nichols, who lived some
fifty years since near Hog Island fer
ry. She was then well known for ten
miles around as most excellent
motherly old lady, who was actuatec
by the kindest feelings towards every
s human being. She was strict Meth
/ odist, and very much attached to hel
e church and its ministers. Her house
was their home, as once in four weeks
they came around to that part Of th'
- circuit. Her means were somewha
: limited, but whatever she had, wa
offered with large hearted hospital
in ity. In those early days, when store
/ were not plenty, her stock OF foreigl
# delicacies were confined to two artl
ID cles-tea and molasses. OF these,
N seems, she gave the preference to Tn
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