Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-05-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Of N. Y, has appointed as one OF the
tax commissioners Of New York city,
Ira O. Miller, who graduated from the
of Vermont in ls4o. The
position is lucrative one. MIR. Mil
Ter is a son of Jesse Miller, of Coven-
try, and his many friends will be
pleased to hear of his good fortune.
The N. Y. Evening Post in speaking
of him says, "he is a lawyer OF unblem-
ished character, great energy and sa-
gacity."-Newport Express.
The dying words of Bishop Timon,
of Buffalo, were "Jesus, love thee
Jesus. adore thee! Jesus, Mary and
Joseph, pray for me!'
A young lady named Lizzie Smith,
aged twenty. three, was brutally out
ragged on Friday night, near Bergen,
N. j., by sixteen ruffians in succession.
1t is generally remarked by travel
ers that the wheat crop looks splen-
did all over the West. There was
never better promise of an abundant
yield: especially is this the case in
northern Indiana, where an unusually
great breadth of land has been devot-
ed to staple cereals.
A drunken woman in Paterson, n.
j., dashed her little boy head fore
most upon the sidewalk and after
ward flung him through window in
to the house, wnere he was picked up
in sensible and remained so several
days. The unnatural mother was
sent to Jail.
Mrs. Witmeyer was accidently kill
ed in Philadelphia yesterday morning
by pistol-shot, fired by man named
D. Erwin, at a rabid dog, which had
run up an alley adjoining her house.
Erwin gave himself up to await ex-
animation.
A man convicted at London, G. W.,
Of violating the person of girl IA
years Of age, has been sentenced to
oe hanged on the 1st of August.
A negress, named Ella Garvin, was
arrested at Memphis, Tenn, on Sat
urday, charged with poisoning three
negroes by mixing arsenic with -four.
| The people of Bennington have
raised a fund of over $1,000, to be
used in suppressing the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors in that town.
Irwin Davis, formerly waiter in a
Springfield, Illinois, hotel, is now a
San Francisco millionaire, enjoying
an income from a single silver mining
company of $4,000 to 100000 a
, month.
Stanley Monk of Whistler, Ala, was
one hundred and four years old on the
10th day of March last. He has been
a man of remarkably vigorous con
stitution.
Colorado has $4,000 inhabitants
and newspaper for every 1000 Of
, them,
An Iowa woman, becoming iealou,
of her husband, came behind him anC
bent his head back, kissed him, ant
, Immediately atterward emptied bot
tie vitriol in his face, intending to pu
out his eyes. She failed in this, bu
, succeeded in burning his forehead anC
a portion of the scalp in a shockin.
y manner.
n Among the large vegetables OF
J. record grown in California are tn
following: A mangel-wurtzel tina
= weighed lis pounds, cabbage hea'
. of So pounds, a turnip of 26 pounds
I a potato of pounds, a sweet potat
D of Is pounds, a carrot of 10 pounds
an onion of At ounces, and a pumpki
% OF 260 pounds.
$ Black river, Wisconsin, is complete
4 ly jamued with logs for fifteen mile
le 1t is estimated that there were nc
n less than 225,000,000 feet in the rive
IS at the opening of spring, of whic
h, about l20,000,000 have already gon
n. down.
il If you wish to run for Congress
[c run along-you couldn't run dow
It hill faster.
W A Mississippi paper states that Go
:, Scott, one Of the prisoners sent to ii
i Dry Tortugas, pa: sed Holly Spring
" in that State recently and reports tt
treatment of the prisoners at that po
a. to be of a very barbarous natur
s. They are logged for the least indi
Id erection and otherwise cruelty dea
Dr. with.
-. A Lenox farmer exchanged farm
f. with a neighbor, this spring, receiv n
- as boot $4,000. After moving to h
- new home be became dissatisfied vii
the arrangement, and traded back pa
ing $500 for the privilege. He shor
ly after traded again for the san
'e premises, and moved again, but
now trying to negotiate still aga
Of for his old home, offering $1,000 to h
q neighbor to swap back.
cf A clergyman gave toast that WI
3, not very gallant at a late fremen
es celebration: "Our fire engines-Ms
u they be like old maids, ever read
n but never wanted p
There are about 100000 Jews
Sii the world. half of whom live in r.