Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-10-11
Miscellaneous Items.

glass Of wafer and said: "Oh, if it
were only wicked to drink this how
nice it would be p
A young man, by the name of John
son, has been arrested in Albany for
perpetrating a new dodge" He
fastened bristles on the tail of rat,
and then sold him for a squirrel
The purchaser was gentleman from
Germany.
A man in Connecticut has cleared
his house Of rats by catching one and
dipping him in red paint. He then
let him loose and the other rats left,
disgusted by his appearance.
A barrel of new cider in a state of
fermentation exploded in a store in
Paris, ILL.,. the other day, knocking one
man eight or ten feet, bursting the
barrel into fragments, and scattering
the contents in every direction.
Advice to Husbands. "How to
make home happy" Go off some
where.
A young ladv being asked where
was her native place, replied, Il have
none; | am daughter of a Methodist
minister"
A shrewd villain in Nashua on
Thursday, walked deliberately up to
store window and broke in a pane
Of French glass, and when asked to
pay for it as deliberately drew out a
800 bill. which the storekeeper took,
giving him so in change. The bill
proved to be counterfeit.
At St. Albans Tuesday, a good ar
ticle of butter brought 35 cents, and
some sold for 80 cents.
A young man named MuIlin, in
Bates County, Mo, deliberately shot
and fatally wounded his own sister. a
girl about II years OF age, on the , Ist
ult. 1t appears he was about to visit
woman Of doubtful reputation. when
his sister undertook to dissuade him
from his purpose. This so enraged
him that he drew a pistol and shot her
through the body. She died next
morning. MulIin made his escape.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln publishes the
unwelcome fact that her income-S1,-
700 a year-is insufficient for her
proper support, and that she has been
compelled to offer for sale many cost
ty articles which she would otherwise
gladly keep. She desires to return
to Springfield; but to dwell there, and
entertain the hosts of visitors that
would descend upon her, would re-
quire larger outlay than she can
afford.
During the last century there lived
a woman who dressed in male attire,
and was constantly going about capti-
waiting persons of her own sex and
marrying them. On the 9TH OF JULY
lT77, she was tried in criminal
court in London for thus Disgusting
herself. 1t was proved that at vari
Gus times she had been married to
three women. and defrauded them of
money, etc. The fair deceiver was
required to give the daughters Of citi
zen8 an opportunity of making them
selves acquainted with her features
by standing in the piIlory at Cheap
side, and to be imprisoned six months
A Chicago man refused to pay
$500 for pair of horses because they
did not suit him, but afterward paiC
| $1,000 for them at a horse fair, not
knowing that they were the same.
Idol worship III India is less popu
lar. AT the festival of Juggernaut
this year the crowds were compare
lively small.
The Santa Fe trade over the Plains
has become very large. The amount
paid for freighting on that route las
year is estimated at $22,000,000.
There arc thirty-two ordained Uni
versaliSt ministers in Vermont, five
of whom are not in active service.
! Thursday OF last week a son of
George Andrews of Bellows Falls
aged five years, fell into the canal anc
was drowned.
The funeral of Gen. Sterling Price
took place at St. Louis, Sept. 80, anC
was the largest ever seen in that city
The ceremonies took place in tht
First Church, by Rev. DR.. Roye, WHERE
the remains lay in state all the morn
ling, and were visited by a very large
number of citizens.
A DEMOCRAT WITHOUT DOUBT
Hon. j. A. j. CresSwell, in an elo
quent address before the Bordel
State Convention at Baltimore, mar
rates the following:
3" know but one black man il
Maryland whose position is doubtful
E Whose ?') The name is Abe Corts
in my county. Some one came to mi
some time ago and said Abe Cort
was Copperhead. 'Oh,' said |, .
think that's very untrue The mex
time | saw Abe [ told him. The,
say you're Copperhead, Abe 'Ol
: yes, Massa John, I'm a Copperhead.
Says l, ABE, you're fool No, mas
sa, say he, fI'm no fool. Just hea
what this nigger has to say. Yo'
know l am a pretty old man, and can
J read nor write, and amt got sens
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