Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-01-03
Miscellaneous Items.

A seamstress in Michigan has fallen
heiress to $4,000. r..a ....-. l.
Special religious interest is said TO
continue at Saxton's River village.
The Baptists are erecting house
of worship at Peaseyille, in Andover.
The invention Of circular saws or
iginated in Middlebury.
Two new starch factories are in
contemplation In Eden. .-.-.
The best thing Gu tan aching
tooth. .......... ..-.... -.... .-..... ..s-
The works of the Camden, New
Jersey, Rolling mills were burnt Dec.
%. Loss $4,000.
A fire at Chateaugay, n Y, Dec.
20, destroyed stores and dwellings to
the amount of $4,000. ....-..
Cotton thread enough is made in
England every minute to encompass
the earth four times. .s-.-
The New York Times estimates the
cost of the impeachment farce at
S500,O00.
A rich Chinaman of San Francisco
was recently buried in a coffin which
cost $1,000 in gold.
The walrns in the London Zeolog-
ical Gardens eats ten quarts of oxs-
ters daily. r-.-~.
An injudicious but perfectly inno-
cent kiss cost rising young minister
at Cleveland, his pulpit.
A son of Hoel Sayre of Thetford,
was SO injured by log rolling upon
him that death ensued.
| Zaccheus Greeley, father of Horace
Greeley, died at Fort Wayne, Pa,
Wednesday, aged S6. ata
A paper which has lately exchanged
presses says: awe have sold one of
our presses to go to India, where it
will continue to print for the benefit
Of the heather" .+r.. ..-....
There are $500 miles of printed
calico made in Fall River, Mass, eve
ry year. This would go roul d the
earth three breadths wide.
Gen. Sheridan announces that he has
stopped the habit of swearing. He
reserves the right to be profane when
putting up stove pipe, or when left
to take care of anybody's baby.
The lewiston (Mame) Journal says
several prominent business men of
Belfast have been arrested on the
charge of smuggling.
/ Special religious interest is, report
ed Of the Methodist Society at Under
hill. There are some twelve or four
teen hopeful conversions f7h
, A man from Cornwall named Flan-
agan lost $3.50 in green backs and $40
in Canada bills, at Rouse's Point, the
other day, betting on three card
monte" and the snuff box arrangement.
Seven hundred thousand dollars are
said to have been already spent upon
the new fort in the harbor of New
Bedford, Mass ol l9 af-s' oU~5
Wednesday night of last week John
/. shea, jr., aged ten years, brutalIy muir
dered his motherin Springfield, Mass.
The family are Irish, and father and
, mother were both drunk at the time.
Ten thousand persons were drown
ed in the typhoon that recently swept
over Hong Kong, Manila, &C., in Chi
ma. L1ji7G egz -!L .EoJ
James l.. Locke of Rockingham,
was. brought before Justice L. G. Hub
bard last week, on charge of adultery,
and held to bail in the sum of $500
for his appearance at county court.
Prairie life in the West has its
& drawback, one of which is want of
j water. A journey of ten miles to
draw water is not uncommon.
/ A young woman being asked by a
: politician which part she was most in
favor of, replied that she preferred a
wedding party. ~
, During the past seven years. the
monks of Mont St. Gothard have CIV
EN- more than 10000 rations to needy
travellers, besides, many articles, of
! Clothing; and the total expense has
been less than $1700. .'D = =
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Il Minnesota has already sent to mar
: ket this year about 100000 bushels
: of wheat, and nearly as much more
: is supposed to be in farmers hands.
Il The production is less than in 1867.
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