Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-01-11
Miscellaneous Items.


suffering creatures, to strong, healthy
and happy men and women, and inva-
lids cannot reasonably hesitate to give
it trial. For Dyspepsia and Debili-
ty it is specific.
! There are now some four hundred
pupils receiving free education and
maintcnance-moStly orphans in the
Cfirard College in Philadelphia. 1t is
estimated that the income of the
Girard property will be $4,000 in
1867, and enable the directors to in
crease the college pupils to 900.
There is a 1900 acre cranberry
farm in Michigan.
An Indiana soldier during the war
was discharged for disability" His
wife recently gave birth to four chill
3ren.
Gen. Grant has just paid $4,000
for his tather-in- laws farm. on the
Goose road, ten miles from st. Louis.
and will make il his and his family's
homestead
A levy is to be mace in Russia
which will increase the army to l..
$4,000 men.
The Rocky Mountain News tells of
an enthusiastic young Missourian,
who, culogizing his gals beauty said,
I'LL be doggOned if she amt as purity
as red wagon"
A Leavenworth dispatch OF the Sd.
says that advices from Salt Lake to
December p states that twc1ty-three
Gentle business firms have expressed
their Willingness to leave the terrific
j ~, provided they receive cost on out
SlaEdmg accounts against the Nor
mons, and that Brigham Young paws
them seventy-ive per cent. OF the cost
value OF their property in the terrific
ry. The Gentiles have been forced
20 take this course, owing to late in
Structlons from Brigham, warning the
faithful to have no dealings with them. |
II this statement is true and the propo-
sltlon Is accepted, it will rive the |
territory exclusively to the Mormons. |
ooh, pa, Mr.. Smith was here this
morning, aud when ma told him that
you would not be home ill late. he
SAID her lips were like honey, and |
that he wished he was bee, and
then he kissed her. They gave me a
stick OF candy not to tell any one, /
but don't think they'd mind YOU. |
you're So well acquainted with ma"
y circus performance was given in /
Memphis recently, for the benefit of a .
church.
Bobby, why don't Won 20 home .
and have your mo her sew up that
hole III yonr trousers ?" oh, 90
along, old woman, our folks are at
the sewing circle. working for the
heathen."
HE Fool AND HIS MONEY. When
the first oil fever broke out in Penn
SylVania in 1863, one OF the. earliest
aud best oii-producing farms was
that OF the widow McCiintock. in We
mango county. Several wells with
products ranging from 200 to $500
barrels u day were struck at intervals
during 1868 and 1864. aud the in
come In money from the territory was
almost fabulous in amount. The old II
lady owning the property did not
i've long to enjoy her good fortune
but died in 1854, and lett her all with
out reservation to her adopted son.
John ". Steele, then about twenty
years old. This youth,--like the
hero Of Miss Edwards pleasant novel.
'Half Million Of Money" who came
into possession of a like
1mou1t,-had not been taught to nm
ierStand the value of dollars and y
cents; and unlike that character. he Z
had no refined tastes, and threw away !,
with the most lavish folly. OF course
ne rushed to New York; and there
n year and half he squandered i.
.Wo millions of dollars. OF course /
he most ingenious extravaganza was 0
necessary to accomplish this enormous s
amount. Johnny Steele, as his asso-
hates called him, not only entered in
o every species Of debaucherv, not u /"
'nly lost hundred thousand dollars II II
n two nights at faro with Hon. John L
dorsey, but bought superb teams =
nd gave them away after an hours
supported a swarm human q
9echeS OF both sexes, aud even equip OF
ed negro minstrel troupe, present bl
lg each member with a costly dia- 81
lond ring and pin. Stecle's brilliant SC
areer Is now over, and oddly enough,
y i'''S wv I'OoitiOu vi uOOi-kceDEr To
he travelling minstrel company which II
IS own munifcence organized, and ST
Is farm on Oil Creek has been dis dl
osed of at public sale for arrears of Ii
Overnmcnt tax. u
m,
A FULL FLOODED RAsCAL.-A short to
me since, a chap calling himself
Gorge W. Sprague, tried to Get on -
the police in Troy, but did not va
!cceed. But he did succeed in ras- al a.
lily forming the acquaintance of ". va
'ung lady In the city, and after IT. IT.
'ry short conrtship, he married her 80
Christmas, having "beat" one firm ~
1t OF sl2 in money. another out Of a ~ "''
'ess for his fair love, and still an 'n'
her out of nice set of furs. He u"
en- set out on his bridal tour, com. a ~
g to North Bennington by cars, and J;l
ing from thence to Pownal where u''
n :