Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-02-28
Miscellaneous Items.

Inc Hllduelpula UerLndnS nave
raised $4,000 for their theatre.
St. Louis is making large bid for
the Democratic National Convention.
Some s25O,OOO have been sub
scribed for now paper in Chicago.
A gentleman, 10 years old, in |
Texas, is reported to have raised l.
600 bushels of corn, doing all the |
cultivation himself with a single cul-
tivator.
From Lexington, KY, during the
last six months of 1867, there were
shipped 1851 carloads of cattle, 426
of hogs, so of sheep, and 20 of mules.
The enJ1re value of the potato
crop of the countrv in a favorable
season is 150,O0O,0OO bushels; it is
estimated that the past season not
more than half crop was harvested.
In all the countries of Europe there
were planted last year 6,754,472
acres to potatoes, while in the United
States there were planted T5,000,O00
TO the same vegetable.
There are Al churches, worth about
s., 100000, in Detroit.
A Swiss inventor thinks he has
found better power than steam, and
wants to sell the secret for S10,000,-
900.
Mr.. Adams held the office of Min
lister to England longer than any 9TH
er person since 1925.
! The Philadelphia Freemasons are
to take five years to build a $750,000
temple, with tower 800 feet high.
In the six counties of Jasper, Nah
aska, Henry, Washington, Wapellc
and Jefferson in Iowa, there were
389,5S3 sheep, according to oficia
returns made last June.
Mosby, the infamous guerilla chief
is successfully engaged as agent of
the United States Emigration Com
) pany, in populating Virginia by i'm
portation. A fitting reward for igno
BILE deeds
e Over 80 persons have been receiv
ed on probation by the Methods
Church in Fairhaven.
Rev, Pliny N. Granger of Waldo
has been nominated for County Con
missioner in Caledonia county.
The salary of Hon. Geo. P. Mars
Of Burlington, the American Minis
9 ter to Italy, is $4,000 per annum.
y Mr.. E. I'll. Griffin was ordaine
e pastor Of the Calyanistic Qongregf
e tional Church at Burlington, on th
:; 9th inst.
k John Bunyan was confined
y years in Jail, his crime, being obi
" senting Preacher All this time
: had but two books, the Bible, an
= Fox's Book of Martyrs. While thu
III in prison, he wrote his beautiful a
s. legory of "Pilgrim's Progress"
u At the outbreak of the war W
IN man ran away from her husband
If Mississippi, taking with her $1,000
She has just been discovered in D
q troit, living honestly alone, and it
supposed that she is partially insan
She can give no reason for her has
q departure from home. a s u
in Paris has population of abo
b. 2,150,000 inhabitants. But, wondt
7 full to say, less than $4,000 of the
= are Parisians. There are $40,
10 Germans; nearly as many Belgian
+ q third as many Swiss, 5000 En-
III fish, half as many thousand Anne
or cans, and Italians, Dutch, Poles al
,al Russians enough to make up the 81
st total of over two millions of reside
;tv inhabitants in that modern Babel.
ow DR.. A. Johnson, in an extensi
ay practice Of oyer twenty years, inve
er, ed and used Johns6p's Anodyne LII
Ter ment. It has now been in use me
OF than forty years, and has establish
W. a reputation unsurpassed by OIL
zen medicine. 1900
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