Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-03-15

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A little daughter of Oliver Gobine
Of Burlington, on Monday last, was
burned so severely by her clothes tax
inc fire that she died in short time
afterwards.
The cotton mill at Winooski is at
the present time manufacturing about
thirty thousand yards Of print cloth
a week.
A shawl factory to cost half a mil
lion dollars is being built at Burling-
ton by Seth Hunt Of New York.
Gov. Orr says 100000 bushels of |
corn are needed in Sonth Carolina to
keep off starvation while the next
crop is maturing.
Fairbanks and Co., the scale max
ers at st. Johnsbury, have taken Sl0O-
900 stock in the proposed railroad
from that place to Montpelier.
Gen. Dix has been confirmed as
minister to France.
The new Academy of Music at
New York, was Opened last week
by the annual ball of the fremen; on
which occasion there was brilliant
gathering of "fair women and brave
men," As to the dress of the ladies
always a point of vital interest
an eyewitness declares that there
were sylphs in satin, fairies in founces,
seraphs in silks, and peris in pearls,
The ''Fireman's Ball" however, was
but a prelule to the more general
opening of the Academy, when the
Grand Bal d'Opera" came off with
great eclat.
At a recent lecture given by John
G. Sake. before the medical students
of Bellevue Hospital, he related the
following little incident, illustrative of
the original meaning of the word
"cure:" "a few years ago an Eng
lish practitioner presented bill to q
widow for services rendered her de-
ceased husband, in which the word
cure was employed in its original
and appropriate sense. There was
in the account but one item, pre-
cedinr modest sum in C. S. d., which
read as follows:
To curing your husband till he
died."
There are II SAT school houses in
New York State, of which 181 are
built of logs.
The editor of the Commonwealth
the Republican paper at Frankfort
KY, has been warned that his paper
will be broken up by the mob unless
he changes its tone. If liberty of
speech and the press is yet to be won
in this country, Kentucky is proper
place to begin the fight.
The Illinois Legislature has appro
| priated three millions of dollars fol
new State House at Springfield, tel
millions for a ship canal from Lake
, Michigan to the Mississippi River
and twelve millions more for other
improvements.
A Chicago dispatch shows that Mr.
Crosby made $650,00O net profit by
his recent lottery.
A Mr.. Burt, of Keene, n. H., has &
calf some three weeks old, with two
heads, one body and six legs. The
heads are entirely separate and look
as many ways as the double headed
Eagle of Russia.
Green oats four feet high anG
potatoes as big as goose eggs are re
corded in San Jose, California, Jan
uary IT.
Fred Douglas was treated with
distinguished honors, recently, at Ian
sing, the capitol of Michigan. By g
formal vote Of the House of Assem-
bly,, he was invited to a seat on the
floor, where he received the compli
ments fthe members. Some twenty
five years ago, he made a featuring
tour in those regions, and was receiv
| ed with honors of different sort
volleys of bric&bats and showers of
rotten eggs. The world moves.
| Three hundred Scotch Farmers are
on their way to settle in Texas.
q have not loved lightly" as the
man said when he married a widow
weighing three hundred pounds.
Age islike the air we breathe
everybody feels it but nobody sees it.
Never place so much confidence in
your minister as to sleep during the
sermon.
A bold burglar in Milwaukee, turns
out to be a handsome girl of nineteen.
} We may always joke when we
please, if we are careful to please
when we joke.
The birds are the most successful
agriculturists, as their crops never
fail. ~,
DESIGNING MEN.--Architects.