Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-08-11
Miscellaneous Items


THE agricultural prospects OF Can
oda are highly encouraging.
Southern papers speak of excessive
rains all through the South.
Mr.. John Saunders, near Mt. Pleas
ant, Mich, has timothy A feet 10 inch
es high.
Paris has a new journal which
hears the astounding title of Bed Bugs
IN the Butter.
A number Of hogs have died in
various parts OF Ohio, it is supposed,
from eating the II year locusts.
The Prussian capital in 1861 con-
tanned $4,000 inhabitants; in 1864,
$4,000, and on the Sd December,
1867, 7O2,437.
Col. Estil of Madison county, KY,
recently sold two bull calves, Short
Horns, and two heiferS, for $1,000
The cattle were to go to Missouri.
A good dog is often a pleasant
companion, but during dog days rath-
er an unsafe one without a muzzle.
Do not kick even a hog when he
does not deserve it. Beasts are af-
fected by ill treatment as well as the
"genus homo"
The present hot weather is splend
ia how rnoHinn Ra cnra onH not
dry the grass too much, and thus
evaporate the best portion Of it.
The cotton crop promises a yield
of over 100000 bales. Other crops
in the South are also good. Louisiana
will produce 100000 hogshead5 of
sugar. This will go far towards put
ting Dixie on its feet.
Upwards of 200 acres of horse rad
ish are grown in the vicinity of New
York, and it has proved very remun-
erative to the market gardeners. l.
needs a deep, rich soil to produce
abundantly.
An orchard in Massachusetts which
has been used as hog pasture for 20
years has never failed to produce a
fine crop of fruit. A worm eaten ap.
pie is a rarity in that orchard
Last season a poultry dealer in
Norfolk, England, fattened 10000
geese for market. The fattening COM
menced the middle of November
barley, meal and brewers grains be-
ing used.
On farm near Albany, New York,
on the sand plains between there and
Schenectady, 60 bushels of oats per
acre have been raised This was
done by first raising turnips, feeding
them off by Sheep and turning a
green crop Of clover.
The Germantown Telegraph thinks
it never knew so few complaints as
to crops as this year, nor 50 general
statements of good prospects, taking
the country in mass
Over 400 barges left St. Louis for
New Orleans in one week, all heavily
laden with grain, flour, &c, and bust
ness is 40 per cent better than it was
a year ago. A large trade between
st. Louis and the South is anticipated
this fall.
A Western politician, in speaking
of rival, said "PilkinS is of great
use to observing men. Straws show
which way the wind blows; and as u
StraU, Pilkins has no equal in the
country"
In San Francisco, recently, some
laborors, in digging for foundation
for new building exhumed a heavy
barrel, and great was the excitement
when it became rumored that barrel
Of gold dust had been hidden there
some twenty years ago. When open
ed it proved to be full of putrid -four.
A sailor exhorting at a prayer meet
ing in a London chapel, said that on
dark, stormy nights, on the sea, he
had often been comiorted by that
beautiful passage Of scripture, "a faint
heart never won a fair lady"
Brick Pomeroy has made enough
out of his democratic sheet to erect a
large hotel in La Crosse, and he is so
investing it. The cost will be $780,
600.
Seymour Mani tell you what, sir,
democracy is looking up. Grant Man
We'll, your bogus democracy is so
fiat on its back that it can't look any
other way.
A man named Lemmons was out
turkey hunting in Howell Co., Mo,
recently, and hid himseIfin the bushes
to call the birds up, when a fellow
gunner, installing the call for that of
genuine turkey, fired upon and shot
him, the wound proving fatal.
Democratic stumpers and editors
tell us the bonds are held by the rich,
while the poor pay the taxes. Sey-
mour says the bonds "have gone into
the hands of innocent holders, who to
vast amount, are compulsory own
erS. IL IS q mistake TO suppose that
they are mostly heldd By capitalists"
In Michigan recently thirty-ive
men went into harvest field to cut
grain. About ten a. m, no less than
sixteen Of them had been sun strick.
en-, the majority Of whom died under
the exposure. Such an instance of
wholesale casualty has hardly par
allel in the history of this country.