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

vond the Red Village with loao
of wood, a tug unhitched, his morse
began to run, and the sled to slew
The result was, the horse with the
load ran into the ditch, throwing Mr.:
Lawrence of, and badly cutting his
head.-URiOn.
CONFERENCE.-The United States
Senate has confirmed George w. So
per as P. NJ. at Mortified; James l.
Cutler Cook at Bennington; and JUS
tin w. Moody at Waterbury.
FATALITY Recently John Holms,
of Lexington, and John Brown OF
Canaan, were killed while cutting
wood, by large limb falling on them
TRIPLETs.-A woman residing at
Forestdale. in Brandon, recently gave
birth to three children at one time,
mother and triplets all living.
DIvoRCEs.-Twenty divorces were
granted by the Supreme Court at its
recent session in Windsor county.
ERRORS IN THE PRINTED BIBLE.-A
London paper notices q curious mis-
print in one of the editions of the
New Testament printed at Oxford,
where the word glad was converted
into clad. The person who detected
the error received the reward OF one
guina which the Oxford press offers
for such q discovery 1t is an extra
ordinary fact that, with this standing
offer Of reward, and all the vigilance
of readers, Sunday School teachers
and scholars. this error of a single
letter is the only one that has been
detected in upward Of sixty different
editions.
Wagner, who murdered his wife at
New York, nearly two years ago, was
hung in that city Friday afternoon
He acknowledged the justice Of his
sentence, and met his fate with resig
nation.
Four quarts of Oats with six o.
eight good sized carrots, will go far
Their in feeding a horse than s quarts
Of oats without the carrots. Alone
the roots are excellent feed for cows
in the Spring before grass comes
Also, chopped fine, and mixed will
ground oats, they make the best OF
feed for sheep having early lambs.
REBEL PERSECUTION OF UNION Me
IN KENTUCKY.-In relation to the re
cent expulsion of Union men fror
the vicinity of Danville, KY, a dc
spatch from Frankfort, Of Februar
Goth, says; "The rebels in Boyl
county recently sent letters to Genel
al Speed, S. Fry, Captain Goodla,
Wellington Harlan, and the officer
of the Freedmcn's Bureau. to leav
the county, under penalty of dealt
Application to General Thomas ha
been made for protection of Unio
men against these rebel regulators
General Fry is the officer pOpuIarl
believed to have Killed Zollicoffer a
Mill Springs in January, 1862, an
Wellington Harlan recruited the frs
company Of Union troops raised o
Kentucky soil during the war
Neither Of them is an extreme Radica
politically, and their most probabI
offence is their record during til
war"
The rumOr that Horace Creole
was offered the Postmaster Genera
ship received general credit in Was
ingtOn. 1t is stated that he had mt
Tuesday noon to decide, and that
declined.
Several Washington ladies are vi
orously engaged making up clothes
baby dimensions for Mrs. Jeffersc
Davis, who for some time has bee
living at Fortress Monroe with HI
husband. The rumors about his d,
ing condition there, must have be,
somewhat exaggerated.
The Senate spotted" the renegaC
Cowan, of Pennsylvania, on last Thur
day, most handsomely, by refusing
confirm his nomination as minister
Austria. Cowan d Co., find lord;
q "hard road to travel"
Mary Harris, who shot her love
Burroughs, in the treasury departing
in Washington, two years ago, al
was acquitted by a Washington jur
has been committed to an insal
asylum. .--~.-
A man named Douglas, was di
covered on Saturday morning at
window in an upper room of tt
Franklin Hotel, Providence, enrobt
in a single white garment, and shou
ing, 81 am almost there" and wavir
a white flag. He. thought he WI
about to rise to higher sphere, b
was taken to the insane asylum
stead.
FIVE THOUSAND COPIES DAILY
The American Bible Society emplo,
at the building in Astor place, TWEEN
Adams power presses and four hui
dred hands in the different depal
ments of printing binding, etc, an
IS ableto print between four and fl,
thousand copies Of the Scriptur,
every day. The great work of DIR
pairing the stereotype plates for ii
Arabic Scriptures will be finished
about six months.
VIRGINIA TO LEAD THE RECol
sTRUCuoN CoLUMN.-The Richmon
Dispatch intilnates that Virginia wi
probably he tho first SOuthern Stat