Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-03
Miscellaneous Items.

A cavern or grotto about 20 miles
north of Ottawa, Canada, is said to
rival the Mammoth Cave.
Kit Carson died of a rupture of an
artery in the throat.
The New Jersey Republican State
Convention has been postponed from
July 9th, to July 10Th.
A Kansas man offers the pistol Jim
Lane shot his brains out with to Ross.
Sir Robert Napier is to get the
freedom of London and a sword
worth 200 guineas.
Forney is said to owe his present
affiuence and position to the late ex-
president Buchanan.
A number of prisoners are in At
lanta, Ga, supposed to have been
connected with the Ashburn murder.
Gov. Yarmouth Of Louisiana, re-
publican, received 26,955 majority,
and Lieut.. Gov. Down 38,027. The
total vote was about $4,000.
Five men were killed outright and
about 40 wounded by the explosion
of the boiler Of steam fire engine at
New York city last week.
A monument to the memory of
Rector Pierson, the first president of
Yale College, is soon to be erected
in Clinton.
The California iron foundry at San
Francisco was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire last week. Loss $4,000.
Most of the machinery was saved.
A Richmond editor says that NJ
COItaX is not Ill the true acceptation
of the term "a gentleman because he
began life as printer On!
The general trade of San Francis
co is moderately active, The demano
for iaborerS on change is still largely
III excess Of the supply.
The two largest incomes in Mime
sofa are those of John Robson and
John NJ. Bolt both of whom return
$4,000.
Only $5 were coined in 1904, and
one of them lately sold at Newark,
n. J., for $400, and another for 1864.
The ringing of the great bell of
Nortre Dame, at South Bend, Indiana,
can be distinctly heard Is miles.
The steamer City of New York
from Liverpool arrived at New York
last week with two cases of small
pox on board. and is detained at quar-
antine.
Troy, n. Y, last week, for the mur-
der of Patrick Gum about two years
ago.
On Saturday, June 6, Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe gave reading before
the inmates of the Inebriate Asylum
at Binghampton, n. Y.
James L. Rufin, the chief of police
of Cincinnati, denies over his own
signature, that he was offered 81 900
by John Franklin if he would arrest
Joe Coburn.
A number of persons in White coun-
ty, Arkansas, have been poisoned by
eating mulberries on which locusts
had deposited their eggs. Several
have died.
Michael McKeefe was arrested at
St Louis last week, on a requisition
from Gov. Baker of Louisiana, for
setting fire to the steamer Starlight,
in April.
George Ballou. a Montana miner,
fatally stabbed a fellow rough, at Rey-
roIdS city, few days since, and was
captured, tried, convicted aud hung
by the people within an hour.
The president of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Walne and Ciicagn railroad de-
nics that any arrangement is in prog
rcss to consolidate tLlt rna! with rin
Peltus, wanna CgnrraJ j. ha, "-,., .e-
| ported
The CHIEF of police of New Orleans
refuses to give up his office to the new
mayor, on the ground that the military
commander alone has power to re-
move him.
Our Canadian border neighbors are
vigorously preparing to ward off
Fenian raid, of which they profess
to have premonition. Meanwhile the
New York authors of the latest Fe-
nian rumors are laughing in their
sleeves. .
On farm near Albany, N. Y, on
the sand plans between there and
| Schenectady, sixty bushels of oats
per acre have been raised. This was
done by first raising turnips, feeding
them off by sheep, and turning in a
green crop of clover.
The Turf, Field and Farm says
the following letter, written by an in
dignant Kanuck, was received a short
time ago by Mayor Hoffman of New
York: laa a. ll
KANADY, May the first
His excclensy the honorable mair
of the sitty Of New Yorrick! re-
spected sir-too id raskulls stole
a dorg from me when var in ure
sitty-the presidin of the rale rode