Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-28
Miscellaneous Items.
Birds are held sacred in Japan.

Chief Justice Chase Is an EplSc0- |
palian.
John Morrissey is going to Con-
gress again.
Good farms are selling in Virginia
for about $50 an acre.
California is producing strawber-
ries weighing five to the pound.
Three dry goods clerks of New
York are paid $4,000 year each.
Congress Hall, Saratoga, has 500
boarders.
The latest novelty is fan that
can be used as parasol, veil or bon
net.
A woman in Joliet, ILL.,, gave birth
to child, a few days ago, that weigh
ed IL IL pounds.
The Senate has confirmed the NOM
ination of VIM. NJ. Evarts as Attor-
ney General.
Mr.. Zenas Frost of Brattleboro,
died from the effect of: sun-stroke on
the 18th inst.
The San Francisco Bulletin says
California is full of starving clerks
and thriving laborers.
Over one-seventh of the State of
Mississippi is advertised for sale un-
der execution.
Florida has ratified the 18th amend
ment, and the State turned over to
the civil authorities.
A grandson of the late President
Harrison has just committed suicide
near Cincinnati.
Gen. Mcclellan desires that no moi
sy demonstration may be made on his
return.
About half the newly appointed ca
diets at West Point failed to pass ex-
, animation.
Rev. VIM. FL. Lord, D. D., has re-
turned to Montpelier from his Euro
pean trip, with his health fully re-
stored.
The st. Louis Democrat says that
the nomination of Frank Blair by the
Democrats will add 5000 to the Re
publican majority in Missouri.
Mrs. Victor, the Cleveland murder.
2 ess, has lost in weight since her con
} viction from one hundred and thirty
to sixty pounds.
: Jennie Burckhart died in Chicago
, from swallowing the point of a needle
which broke off while she was pick
: ing her teeth it.
!. In Oxford, a few days ago, the light
n Mug struck a tree under which Il
|. sheep and lambs had gathered, anC
Il killed every one of them.
t, Patrick Burns was shot throug
o the lungs at Rutland, on Sunday eve
Il ming, in free fight, byone Flanagan
Il and died next day.
A liquor dealer in Chester ha
been convicted of the third otfens,
- aud sentenced to three months i'll
- prisonment aud $3.50 fine.
d A Southern Republican pape
Is shrewdly places its hopes of success
n. in Ian abiding faith in the stupidit
st OF the democratic party"
y One-ifth of the population Of tia
III part of Algeria visited by the choler
l c have been carried off by the ep
u dcmic.
49, The ratification of the Seymou
= and Blair tickets has been very gel
. eral all over the county-by the r
publicans.
On The only copy of the first new
re paper printed in America, known
ce be in existence, is in the British arc
ives in London.
ed Seymour gained the Democrat
it. nomination by declining it; ChaS
nd lost the nomination by seeking it,
OF Tactics win among the Democracy.
III A gentleman in Yonkers, Ne
ne York, is building monument to tt
W. memory of his wife which is to CO
two hundred thousand dollars.
on The Cleveland Leader says: I"
~ w. you want to make an Ohio Democr
~ mad, say Blair to him. 1t is wor
- than a red rag to turkey rooster.
40. A Southerner pretty nearly hit t
Ike general feeling of his section VIII
III. he said he was converted rebel, b
los "liable to backslide."
les BEwARE.-New counterfeit I'll
i'm, cent bills have made their appearan,
vas They are splendidly executed, a
not will easily deceive.
on Egypt is in a blaze of enthusia
NV NV for Seymour. "-SpringfeLd Regist
air So was New York city during
,ar draft riot of 1S63.-Chicago Journ
18th John Gordon, a boy only f,
i'm years of age, was recently found d.
'av- in a mill wheel at Winhall, whit
;ov- be had floated in the stream.
0io The Sandusky Register publis
free the following advertisement:
the "WANTED.-H Knot Hole, of
200 usually small size, Address,
ard S. P. CHASE, Washington, D. c
ooo The Louisville Journal says t
'oo when two or three Democrats
~ gathered together, there will the So
o :: of Democracy be also. That's t