Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-09-01
Miscellaneous Items.

Napoleon III is said to be engaged
upon life of Charlemagne.
During July, 326,972 persons used
the free public baths in Boston.
Chewing tobacco is to go up 30
per cent.
San Francisco built its first house
in 1845.
Victoria has joined the carpet-bag-
gers.
Pendleton is stumping Illinois and
Kentucky.
The grass crop of Northern Ohio
is excellent.
Sweet clover grows eight feet high
in St. Paul.
Blueberries are twenty-five cents
a quart in Boston.
The Pittsburg cattle disease ex-
citement is subsiding.
Colored Democratic clubs are
forming in West Virginia.
The circulation of the weekly Trib-
une is over 100000.
The last new thing in ladies fash
ions is patent eyelashes.
Iowa has no native born Congress
men. A frst-class carpet-bag State.
The Daily Witness of Montreal is
the only religious daily in America.
Thirty-fve marriageable daugh-
ters of Brigham Young attended the
Salt Lake Theatre in a row.
Up to Sunday night $4,000 cart
loads of mud and dirt left by the late
food in Baltimore has been removed.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison used to be a
shoemaker, but he struck for higher
wages.
The Hartford Post announces that
Mcclellan will take the spade for Sey-
mour and Blair.
The Democracy have been trying
to raise the wind for a long time.
They got a whole bag full when they
secured Frank Blair.
The New York Herald has again
become the lusty champion Of Democ-
racy. 1t goes the entire animal Sey-
mour and Blair.
A man in Tennessee lately called
upon an editor to get some postage
stamps printed.
There were a great many carpet
baggers in New York, about the time
the hotels were set on fire.
A burglar in Weedsport, last week,
was green enough to force his way
into an editors domicll, IN hope of
plunder!
Mr. Robert Sullivan, the we'll
known Irish writer of works on edu-
cational subjects, is dead.
The British cruisers captured eight
cen slavers off the coast of Africa
last year, with 333 slaves on board.
1t takes seven men one week to
dust the great organ in Boston.
Their wages for the week are over
$500.
England has mosquitoes for the
| first time. The little insects find the
weather admirable, and English blood
very wholesome.
An act of the Legislature of Ten
nessee now makes habitual drunken
ness a cause for divorce on the part
Of either man or wife.
/ Wisconsin has double hop crop
this year. The yield is estimated at
10000 to $4,000 bales.
A Prussian chemist has invented
new method of warfare on the battle
field it is powder shat makes whole
regiment sneeze for half an hour.
Horatio Seymour and Frank P.
Blair are both Episcopalians. Grant
attends the Methodist church and
Colfax is a member of the Dutch Re-
formed school.
A New York publishing house ad-
vertises Pollard's "Lost Cause" as
"The Only Democratic History of the
War" That house has proper ap-
probation of the fitness OF things.
Hon. G. W. Hendee has been re-
, nominated for third term in the
, State Senate by the Republican Con-
/. vention of Lamoille County. There
was big fight over the matter. but
Hendee bore off the palm.
| In 1860, Blair, in campaign
! speech, pronounced the Democratic
party "the most miserable and cor
rupt party that ever existed" And
now, after having got into it, he was
;, never so much at home.
A thirty-two months girl in Wor-
cester thus accosted her paternal rel
ative day or two ago: Papa, will
you buy me some holes to put in my
ears, so | can have some earrings p
! Papa is now looking for the holes.
r In Nevada, a contemplative Digger
e Indian sat watching party of base
s ball players, who seemed to him to be
working very hard. Turning to one
of them, he asked: allow much you
e get one day p
One of our Democratic exchanges,
! after noticing a Seymour ratification
. meeting, exultingly exclaims; "The
] goose hangs highr' Wise goose; he
+ knows his danger when Seymour's