Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-08-18
Miscellaneous Items.

The London Times uses 10 tons
of paper weekly.
Montana farmers are yoking and
working buffalo calves.
A boy of sixteen is in prison at
Chicago for highway robbery.
The Illinois Central Railroad en-
ploys 1900 men in its shops.
All the prisoners in the jail at Al
ton, ILL.,, escaped last week.
The mosquitoes are holding a
Sangerfest in New York city.
1t is said dead locusts lie foot
deep on the shores of Salt Lake.
We shall get third more rice this
year than last from the South
The Hon. Reverdy Johnson sailed
for England Saturday afternoon.
Maryland and Virginia wheat does
not thresh as well as was expected.
Somerset county. Me-, has purchas-
ed 23O moving machines this year.
Grant acts, Seymour talks, aud
Blair blows.
A motto for the Blair family =
Omitted we stand"
Frank Blair says: "Revolutions
cannot 90 backward" But the Blairs
can.
The cost of putting down Dem
ocratic rebellion was over $3,000,-
100000.
Like many other serpentine pro
auctions, the Democratic ticket car
ries its sting in its tail.
One Carson Sethman was found
murdered in a canal boat at Jersey
City.
The prisoners in the Cleveland
Jail have organized a temperance So
ciety.
$4,000 worth of human hair was
stolen from a store in New York last
week.
A Brooklyn street car conductor
was recently shot by a drunken pas
senger.
Receipts on Western railroads
average twenty per cent more than
last year.
But two deaths from yellow fever
have occurred in New Orleans this
season.
The total number o f graduates
from Yale, in all departments, is near
10000.
A large number Of Minnesota farm
ers talk of sending to Texas for their
cattle.
Two lads aged Is and II year:
committed a $4,000 bond robbery
at Philadelphia
The New York Times has won it
suit against the city for $4,000 TO
advertising.
Mr.. j. P. Alexander, called th,
Cattle King" of Illinois, owns IS,
600 head of cattle.
A Cadiz audience smashed the am
phitheater, because the bulls wer,
too mild hammered.
1t is said that the census embrace
seventeen millions of women" VIII
wouldn't be a census
The Schenectady Evening Star put
the Democratic nominees at the hea
of its column. and directly under
meath says, "The Road to Rum"
Answer to a correspondent-Yo
are entirely mistaken. Postage wi
not be reduced to one cent on lie
ter in case of the election of Seymour
"But your candidate | cannot be.
: Seymour, July 8, 1868. But you
President | cannot be.-Novembe
s, 1868.
, Edward A. Stevens, the Hoboke
, millionaire, who died in Paris las
week, leaves fortune estimated f.;
$18,000,000.
d In Centre, Green county, Pa, SON
5 days since, a lad Of fourteen veal
s killed his father with butcher knit
f while the later was choking his wifi
f the boys mother.
! Since 1900 this country has +
ceived 1,487 SOS immigrants. Tn
is at the rate of lS6,946 per annul
and would consequently give near
two millions for the decade; precis
!, ly, 1,869,460. This is a heavy ia
Ing off from the immigration of pr
> viOus years.
a There recently visited at the hou
IS of G. D. Willard in Westminster,
5, one time, six ladies whose united az
y amounted to 49, years, being
n average of 81 years. The olde
d was sc, the youngest 70. Three
3, them are natives of Westminster, al
d we believe all live in one neighbc
a. hood-a fact at least which spea
Is something for the longevity of tn
town.-BelIoaos Falls Times.
" A LYNX KILLED. = Eleazer NJ
a. rill, of North DanviIle, shot Tyr
a. on the 10th ult., measuring 3 feet
:" inches in length, and weighing Is Il
1t was first seen near one of the op
windows of his house, somewt