Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-07-05
Miscellaneous Items.

Expatriation don't pay. Of the|
large number Of Southerners who, IN
the first pangs of disappointment az
the result Of the war, expatriated
themselves, very few now remain ID
voluntary ext e. Three-fourths OF
those who went to Mexico have re-
turned; some went to Europe, and a
very few may still remain in Mexico.
And it has been the same elsewhere
Southern colonies in Brazil and other
places have proved failurese---,--'-
At Frankfort, Indiana, the other
day, Frank Harvey caught a neigh
boris horse in his wheat field. lie
chased the brute till he got mad, put
it into his stable, cut off its ears and
tail, and left the poor creature almost
senseless.d YAfterwar he paid 1.-THE
owner $25 and gave him another
horse to compromise the affair, and
was # hen arrested OIL a criminal
charge. DIG
SooT.-Twelve quarts of SCOT in a
hogshead Of water, will make pow
rerful liquid manure, which will i'm
prove the growth Of flowers, garden
vegetables, or root crops. In either
liquid or solid state it makes an
excellent top-dressing for grass and
cereal crops.-Practicat Farmer. e
Chicago has two rivals, Cincinnati
and St. Louis but the returns Of sales
made by wholesale dealers in the
three cities show nimmense prepon
derance for Chicago. The heaviest
sales in single house amounted in
Chicago to $19,22O,967; in St. Louis
to So, 1888; and in Cincinnati to
$2,700,000. Chicago has fifty-nine
firms, whose sales in 1866 exceeded
a million dollars. Cincinnati and St.
Louis have each fifteen. Chicago has
fourteen houses whose sales exceed
two millions, Cincinnati four and St
Louis one. s 410f
PURGATIvE PILLS have become a
settled necessity with the American
people. Indeed, cathartics always
have been and always must be used
in some form, by all mankind. In this
country, the pilular form of admins
traJion has been growing in favor
since pills were first made of Aloe!
and Rhubarb, rolled into a ball
Their high position in the public con
! hdence has finally been secured ant
fastened into permanency, by AYERS
CATHARTIC PILLS, the most skillfu
combination of medicine for the dis
eases they are intended to cure, tina
science can devise or art produce
| Those who need pills, 10 longe
hesitate what pills to take if they ca
get AYERS PILLs.-WheeEing Ia.
Press.
The total loss of the Austria
army in the war with the Prussian
was S4,04l officers and men, or NOR
than one-fifth of the men put into th
field.
Delaware will have an immens
peach crop this year. The yield i
Kent County alone will be 10000
baskets.
Many hypocrites talk sanctimon
ously about the new Jerusalem VIII
would be kicked out of the old.
: A correspondent of the Londo
Times writes that 10000 persons hay
been carried off by yellow fever {
/ the Mauritius. The deaths were {
r the rate of 200 per day.
An extensive fire occurred at Cou
e Gil Bluffs, Iowa, on the night of Il
e oath ult., destroying property of tt
value of 100000. The fire W,
n caused by a number of boys fri
II fire-crackers and shooting off Roma
e candles in the immediate vicinity
: the buildings destroyed. The insu
4 ance on the property amounted to lie
D than one-quarter its value.
II The number of children in Co
r necticut between the ages of four al
10 sixteen is 11S,01S, and the numb
/ of public schools 1861. The schc
h fund amounts to 81, 043,S35, and t
e. total amount expended last year "
If s7l6,203; the average wages p
20 month of male teachers, includi
re- board, is S45, and female teache
$23. - .'
A Tennessee correspondent of t
IT. Chicago Tribune writes:
a "The joint canvass between StoE
he and Etheridge is now nearing tc
tn close. 1t has on the whole been b,
CHI efcial to the Republican cause. I
ry most sanguine of our. friends belle
20. that the Republican vote will req
le- 100000, giving US a majority of me-
IN than two to one. The vote will D
Sc badly be about 10000, Of which :
lst 900 will be cast by colored men
re The rebel Johnson vote cannot lee
tic ly reach $4,000, as SO many are
Ise franchised, but it is probable tina
u.s. will be about 10000, giving a Radi
nat majority of 10000. The populat
Sc of Tennessee, white and black, \
he be found, unlike that of most of
ng Southern States, to have increa
res since 1860. 2ai
France has sunk in the Mexi