Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-12-20
Miscellaneous Items.

MCOleildu VIII not return nome Oe-
fore spring.
Juarez is. positively elected Presi.
dent OF Mexico.
New York city has four candidates
for Mayor.
New York city uses 100000 bar
reis OF flour annually.
Brooklyn is out of debt and has
$4,000 beside.
Theatre tickets cost s7.OOOOOO
per year in N. Y.
There are 100000 Catholics in
New York city.
Tobacco is used by 20O,0OO,0OO
men.
Covell jerks, South Adams, Mass,
has mare 35 years old, still in good
working condition.
JEFF. Davis's Executive Mansion,
at Richmond, is to be changed into a
| freedmcn's school house.
US. pensioners received this year
S1S,619,956 Sc.
| Peace with the Indians; hostilities
! discontinued.
| Government has bought two of the
Danish West India islands for $780,
900.
In st. Paul, MINI, during the pres
ent year $550,000 have been expend-
ed on new buildings.
| In France the subscriptions for the
Pope have reached 100000 francs.
! Sixteen thousand st. Louisians have
petitioned the city council to repeal
the Sunday law
James Stephens, once the Fenian
/ Head Center, is in Paris, faded, for
lorn and forgotten.
Two women had a duel in Kansas
recently, and one Of them was shot
through the head.
A Berlin merchant pays taxes on
$5,O00,000, all made from the sale
/ of medicine beer.
l. Paris streets are cleaned for moth
ing, and sl05.000 per annum is paid
the city for the sweepings.
/ Frozen potatoes make more starch
than fresh ones they also make nice
cake. Try them.
The temperance men of Maine are
more earnest in their opposition to
license law than ever before.
A Georgia woman recently defend
ed her house for some hours against
!, band of robbers.
i A revival is progressing in the
Baptist church in Bristol.
| Weston walked from Portland to
Chicago in 26 days, but failed to do
100 miles in "a hours, 5 trials.
! On a gate post in La Prairie town.
: ship, ILL.,, is the following curiosity:
"TOo coults For sail Hear"
Two barns in Burlington, Vt, one
occupied by D. G. Barber and owned
by VIM. Benns, and the other owned
t by Mrs. Seth Morse, were destroyed
by fire on Monday evening. Loss
partly covered by insurance.
/ Chicago is doing an immense busi-
ness in pork packing. The receipts
!, of hogs for the week ending Dec. s,
were al ,049 head, the largest num-
, Der it is said, ever received in any
: one week by any city in the world.
5 Evelyn P. Mussey, who robbed the
/ Rutland (Vt.) postoffice, confesses
q the deed and has told where he sold
: the stolen stamps, which will be re-
covered. He had 5000 worth of lot
. terry tickets, 1888 in money, and a
bill of $l32 for new clothing, in his
possession when arrested.
i Benjamin Bunker of kendall's
( Mills, Me-, had felon ON his finger;
it was very painful; he asked
t friend what he should do for it?
Put on gunpowper and vinegar"
He did put on lot of powder and
bound rag around it and went to
, bed got up in the morning and went
. to build a fire; the rag caught fire
q and exploded-the powder burned
. the finger to the bone. He says that
it cured the felon, and he don't ask
! anything for the recipe.
About two weeks ago an infant in
. Norfolk, Va, was attacked and bitten
in the night by rat. When the
child, which was about two months
old, received the wound, it screamed
I and awoke the parents, who discover
ed the wound near the temple. 1t
7 did not bleed, but began to swell, and
} finally the little sufferer was attacked
e with erysipelas, from which it suffer-
, ed about ten days and then died.
1t may surprise many to learn,
what is nevertheless fact, that fully