Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-06-26
Miscellaneous Items.


A gallon of strong ley put in bar
rel of hard water will make 1t as soft
as rain water.
If your fat-irons are rough, rub
them with fine salt, and it will make
them smooth.
Franklin Pierce is now the only
man living who was ever elected to
the office of President of the United
States.
Parsons Purgative Pills may be
used in all forms of diseases with the
most decided benefit, and without fear
of injury. Try them.
Persons troubled with cramp in
the stomach, side or bowels, sore
throat, &C., by a combined internal
and external application of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment cannot fail of GER
tain and speedy cure.
Mischief that may be helped is
hard to know" said Lord Brooke
But the mischief that time would work
and the human hair may be forever
avoided by the use of "Barretts We
getable Hair Restorative" which new
er fails to bring back the hair to its
original beauty.-Rochester Democrat.
w o Ioarn that eo.As; 1e--a L1o dope
dations have recently been committed
among the sheep in the East and South
part of Bolton by bears. Two or
three of the animals have been seen,
or the same one two or three times,
and Mr. Israel Young came in contact
with one while burying some sheep
which had been killed. Using his
shovel as a means of defense, he sue
ceeded in driving the bear away
Stanstead Journal.
FIVE PERSONS DROwNED.-PoRT-
LAND, Me, June 2O.-A boat contain
ing eight men upset at the mouth OF
Saco river yesterday afternoon, and
five of them, all Frenchmen, were
drowned Four leave families.
A lady in Western New York
city publishes a card stating that it
gives her pleasure to acknowledge the
receipt Of the amount Of an accident
policy on the life of her husband, who
was killed in late railroad disaster
Pennsylvania Democratic politi
clans are talking about Senator Buck
alew for the Vice Presidency.
The New York Sun, formerly fol
: Chase, now thinks that Thomas A
: Hendricks Of Indiana, will be the dem
, ocratic candidate for President, anC
: of course that all other candidate!
+ will 90 by the board.
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry
is "a combination and a form indeed,
for healing and curing diseases of th,
throat, lungs, and chest. 1t cures
; cough by loosening and cleansing tn
+ lungs, and allaying irritation; thu
:, removing the cause, instead of dryin
up the cough and leaving the disea8
behind.
. ABsNTHE.-Of all strong drinks
:. absinthe is said to be the least palf
-, table at first tho most subtitle in 1t
4 immediate effect, the most fascinatin
t. in its continued influence, the mos
.. absolute in the bondage it enfOrce
q and the most fearful in its results
= Yet the Parisians are becoming NOR
+ and more addicted to it. Its ravage
It are increasing every year, and al
Il seen in the growing lists of idiocy, II
~. macy, furious madness and suicide.
I. A CARNIvEROUs CHIPMUNK.-A fe
% days ago, as NJ. A. Taft was passin
e the house of David Trull, of We
p Burke, he saw common stri ped soul
i rel attack a small chicken near II
81 coop of the brood. The chicken r
IN leased itself twice, but the third tin
ne the squirrel throttled his victim al
T. LETT him dead on the field. An exar
inatioG of the chick showed that Il
little bloodthirsty squirrel had bite
A. him through the leg and nose, befo
Ill he seized him by the neck. Mr.. Tru
had previously lost two or three chic
IL ems, and he has no doubt now but
~ has discovered the depredator, as tt
~ squirrel returned to the coop in We
f few minutes after being driven ava
!, Are squirrels carnivorous ?-CGie0
Il. man.
"a THE CONFIDENCE GAME.-A We
| monter, an elderly man, who had be-
nd to New York on a business tour, {
lie rived in Troy, Friday morning la
he on his way home. Before leaving t
at depot he was cheated out of $50
u means of the confidence game. VIII
mt waiting for the train in the dep
'm three men approached him, one
Y? whom wanted to borrow $50 in
ut der to pay the same money, and of,
NC ed as security for the immediate
es, turn of the money three ten dol
Up, gold pieces. The countryman loan
ak the money as desired and the THEY
of went off to arrange their matters, lie;
IN ing the victim IN possession of
of gold pieces. 1t is needless to s
hit, they were counterfeits, and that
es, greeney will never see his $50
the greenbacks again.
'ii0 BISHOP HOPKINs.-The Rev. J.
er-
"a Hopkins, Jr., in a letter to the Phi
delphia Ledger, thus denies the
ports that his father died in the c,
pre- munion of the Roman Catholic chur
me Ohio +ho+ Tho Da,oo - =,