Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-04-10
Miscellaneous Items.
New York city has an Irish popu-
lation of 100000.

"A I6IlOW named SWlGH was o0l W
and feathered in Demopolis, Ala, last
week, for having married a negro
woman.
Twenty thousand French seamen
are engaged in the fisheries on the
Great Bank of Newfoundland.
Weston the pedestrian, is said to
have walked one hundred and three
miles, finishing the distance at Buffalo
on Saturday afternoon, in 70 hours
and So minutes, and to have been
quite fresh at the close, although the
roads were heavy.
CoUNTERFEITs. - w ell executed
counterfeit ten dollar bills on the
Marine National Bank, New York
city, are now in circulation. There
is a great amount of counterfeit cur
rency in circulation.
The New York Observer states
that there have been $40 revivals re-
ported in it's columns since 1868 be-
gan, and that in these revivals 5000
persons have been hopefully convert
ed.
In the Ohio Legislature, a few days
sinoo, Chriotnrhnr Unghno- of Rntier
county, sturdy Democrat who is a
candidate for Congress, said in a
speech:
II would rather trust the Democra-
tic party in political matters than God
Almightyr'
Ninety-four million letters were
sent through the Chicago post-office
last year.
An avalanche came down the Sierra
Nevada Mountains a few days since,
near the town of Cisco, California, kill
ing six Cinnamon. Seven locomotives
belonging to the Pacific Railroad
were buried in the snow. The ava
lanche was between five and six miles
in extent.
The committee of elections heard
the arguments on Wednesday, in the
Utah case. 1t is charged that all the
) Mormons take an oath of undying
hatred to the United States govern
ment, and that Hooper, the presen
| delegate, has taken it, and should bt
elected from the House.
There are 1000 Government
bondholders in the Second District OF
4 Ohio-the amounts held by each vary
!, ing from $50 to $4,000. This show
!, in part what class hold the nationa
: securities.
The notorious detective Baker ha
brought a suit against the city c
Washington, D. c., to obtain the re
ward of $4,000 offered for the al
sassin of Mr.. Lincoln. There are 5
: others who claim a part or whole {
e the reward.
{ Large numbers Of emigrants al
q leaving Kentucky for Illinois, Mi
n souri, and other Western States, an
? many Northern men who went Sout
t trh linz At to tbs ef oss oGfth fe omaeEse
8 on account of the malignity of th
f rebel element in the Southern State
70 Those who are presumed to kno
III say that the Ku-Klux Khan has bee
established to counterfeit the hume
u Gus secret oath bound negro League
,e in the South, of which the RichmoI
, Examiner says there are eight hu
Il Il dred in Virginia alone.
D. At Dundee Scotland, recently mi
n forty years old, named David Cam
al cher, residing in Perth Road, al
be who had been deaf and dumb for mo
y. than thlrty-hve years, was seized t
IT. the third time with paralysis. Near
he ten minutes before his death, he 70
Of up in bed, and distinctly said, Gle
nd and plainly: 40 Mary, Mary. Mary
- The armies of Europe are said
be larger at present than at any til
49, since the wars of the First NapoleC
80 France has 100000 men, of whc
~ $4,000 are in the reserve; Engla
" has 100000 men; Prussia 10000
Italy about 215, 1000; Austria 10000
TX Russia 100000, with 100000 me
- in reserve; and Spain about 5000
f.
cd The Chronicle has recorded sill
he March 1st, the addition of two h.
raj dred and thirty persons to the Oh
ches Of Vermont, of which one h
no dred and eighty are to Congregati
mr.. al churches, thirty to the Baptist a
ist. twenty to the Methodist churches
10. In the months of January and Feb
to airy two hundred and thirty-four W
ks recorded-one hundred and eigt
of six Observation-Disclosures h r
Ma Baptist-eighteen Episcopal-se'
Methodist-Total since January
Ia four hundred and fourteen
on RICHMOND, Va, April 5.-A t
H.: gram to the Dispatch says that a !
for is apprehended at Midlothian c
IL pits tomorrow. About two humid
ued blacks struck for higher wages,
otal to-day, while idle, one of their n
rom Der got into fight with white II
ing The negro disappeared, and his C
ned, rades are now hunting the neigh
INKS hood, with threats against all VIII
tied unless he is found alive. The bla
ing are now III o'clock gathered {
OF hill near the pits. Troops have
sent for from Richmond.