Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-05
Miscellaneous Items.


whipping post in South Carolina,
which is now forbidden by the laws
of the United States.
PORK PACKING AT THE WEsT.--Cin-
cinnati, March 81. The Price Cur.
rent publishes to day the annual re-
port Of pork packing in the vest
Total number of hogs packed, 2,425,.
254; against 1,705,955 last season.
Shipment of hogs east, on the Balti
more and Ohio, and Pennsylvania
Central Railroads during the season,
was 512,1S4 head, against 1862
head last season.
MURDER AT PLATTsBURGH, N. Y
a correspondent sends US the follow
ing account of an affair which occur
red at Plattsburgh on Monday night
Of last week:
About ten o'clock on Monday night
a sergeant from the garrison station
ed here was going the rounds of the
town to pick up stragglers absent
from the barracks and return them to
their quarters. On calling at drink
ing saloon in place known as Church
alley, the sergeant and his guard
were met by party Of roughs known
as the Z. X society, between whom
and the soldiers in garrison there
seems to have been a feud for some
time. \ fight ensued. The soldiers
were armed with knives or dirks, and
used them freely, and VIM. Reed, lea
der Of the p. X society, was stab
bed in the neck and died almost in
stantly. Another of the fruits of the
rum traffic.
There are ninety two divorce petit
tons pending in the supreme court for
Providence county, R. l. All but 90
OF the petitioners are women.
in 1864 there were S83 blast fur
naces in Great Britain, and 613 were
then in blast producing 4, 100000 tons
OF pig iron, valued at G11,920,000.
A trial at Canandaigua, n. Y, de.
veIoped the existence of Mutual
Retreshment Club, with SO members
who, IN fifteen months. drank 832
casks of lager beer and wore out 60
packs OF playing cards.
The French sold splendid cavalry
horses for So piece before leaving
Vera Cruz.
Twelve of the wealthiest young la.
dies OF Nashville have married feder.
al officers the past year.
According to the most Trustworthy
accounts from Crete the insurgents
have been successful in two important
batties,and the whole Island was again
II arms. The people were more de-
termined than ever to be satisfied with
nothing short OF annexation to Greece
Germany will send clock to Paris
that viii show the time at 26 different
points in all parts of the world. 1t
also shows the looms changes. the
hour OF noon at any spot on the globe s
surface, and the state of the thermo-
meter and barometer.
The Catholic clergy Of the county
Kerry, Ireland. have been ordered bv
their superiors 10 announce to their
congregations that all persons joining
the tenian Society, whether sworn or
answorn, incur a Papal eXcommunica-
ton.
MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.-On Sunday
morning. last, Mrs G. w. Brain, who
lives near Ernst Station, Ohio, went to
the residence Of her father on Pleas
ant Hill, taking with her two of her
four children, a blind girl of three
/ years, and an infant of eight months.
In the kitchen Of her fathers house
there IS a cistern with trap door,
i and into this the blind child acciden-
tally Tell. Her screams Immediately
attracted the mother to the spot, and
she, IN the delirium of her fright and
grief, is supposed to have fallen in.
head first, with the infant in her arms
IN her efforts to rescue the other child
When the people of the house reached
The scene, the mother and her two
children were dead.
The Midnight Mission in New York
Tor the purpose of reforming the fe-
male outcasts of society, is. meeting
with great success.
To cure poison from ivy, rub the
part poisoned with sweet oil.
A woman was killed on the Grand
Trunk Railroad near Portland, Sat
urday, and on Monday her husband
was seeking the smartest LAWYER in
Portland to sue the Company, his
ground of action being as he stated
that "his wife was his only support"
A plantation in Wilcox county
Alabama, of from fifteen hundred or
two thousand acres, which before the
war produced from eight thousand to
ten thousand bushels of corn. and
from three hundred and fifty to five
hundred bales of cotton, was rented
the other day for one hundred and
thirty dollars.
President Johnson, in his lecture
in behalf of reputation, said there
was no instance of war debt bav;no
been paid. He said the thing which
s not. The war of 1S13-'I5 faston
I'd a heavy debt on this country every
foI lar of which ,,r;no,aJ