Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-02-28
Miscellaneous Items.
the reyivalist, has crowded
houses in California. s;1. s.E -e5s

There are 3S,851 miles of railroad
in this country, representing $l,655,-
4S3,S2O Of capital. 10 l4es 9dT
There is danger of being too neat.
An old lady in Holland scrubbed her
sitting room floor until she fell thro'
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). Ohio has, 1856, ,507 sheep, valued
at SIC, ,S60,302, and Licking county
leads with $315,886.
% The hotel part of the Astor House
in New York rents for $4,000 per
annum, and the stores pay extra.
The steamer Montana sailed from
San Francisco'for Panama, lately, with
$1,059,000 in treasure, 81 ,039,000 of
which goes to New York. -''
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The New York Herald has gone
over, bag and baggage, to Gen. Grant,
and now abuses the President roundly
every morning. as s''" sa'a OH
.
Gov. Pickering of Washington Ter
ritory, says that 4O,O0O,0O0 feet of
lumber are annually sawed in Puget's
Sound. .GsuMs1 al fHd .hiB09 9b
The st. Paul Press estimates that
the amount of wheat now in Minneso-
ia, awaiting shipment, is 3,175,0OO
bushels. Gls9 SID ~ uoi1smTitnoo
The famous " bloody sixth" ward in
New York formerly contained 500
grog shops; under the excise regime
there are, but 200. sbuias snaa
1t was said by an Indiana paper
that upwards of 10000 persons have
become church members in that state
as the results of the reyivals expert
enced there.
| Rev. t. K. Beecher gives the follGa-
ing expression to an undoubted fact
The less man knows, and the more
liquor he drinks, the more determined
he is to make this white mans gov
ernment." $50 1aa roiJ11- t.aU
One of the most beautiful stained
windows Of the .Romanist Church in
Concord, N. H., is furnished entirely
by an Irish servant maid o. Such gen.
erosity on the part of Pretestants
would produce wonders. -
In Montreal, on Friday last, little
boy-a cripple, too, and but nine years
old-was sent to Jail for two months
to keep him from starvation, as no in
stitution would take him in. The Ga
zette well says, This is blot on the
Christianity of our city," q 81 9ih
/ Walter B. Rodman jr,, killed Absa-
lom Wright, an old man, at Salem, In
diana, last Saturday, by fracturing his
skull with the butt of a gun. The
murder was unprovoked, and the)mur-
derer is still at large. sn is4a SIS
+ A convict was lately discharged
from the Auburn, N. Y, State Prison,
who had served three terms of ten
years each, within its walls. He is
now IS, and helpless.
The gum business of Maine is esti-
mated at $4,000 year for raw ma
terial. Smart gummersn' clear from
So to 81 day gathering spruce gum,
the best of which is worth so cts. per
pound. Nsa 9sAhs2 aaj 9aa ,slsf22
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| Joseph Smiths widow pretendssto
have received a revised edition of the
! Mormon Bible, communicated to her
4 by a spiritual revelation from the de-
! ceased prophetsTbaA tgd5 ,setfTe
I Flax-seed occasionally given to
horses or cattle viii make them Shed
their old hair and whether young or
old, soon get sleek and fat.d tbs the
only thing which will fatten some old
horses. So says an exchange.
The following letter is "a perfect
model in its wayanW WescertainlyI hope
that it is a unique specimen: :asesa
IS Dear Brother, ! have got one of
the handsomest farms in the, state, and
! have it nearly paid for, Crops, are
I good. Prices never were better
I We have had a glorious revival Of re-
ligion in our church and both our chill
dren (the Lord be praised) are con-
verted. Father got to be rather an
incumbrance and last week took him
to the poor house. Your affectionate
brother" II g 9d9 ahl aIol9a
!, A FARM OF SIXTY AcREs.-Mr. L.
Fl. Tucker reports visiting the farm
\ Of a Mr., Horsfall, in. England, sixty
acres, upon which. are kept 90 milch
,fcows, 2l heifers and bullocks, 81 large
4 mutton sheep, 91O6 lambs, a pigs, 2
horses and Bpeny-218 8 head in all.
43 acres are in grass, IL in wheat,
i 4'1-2 acres Yinaroot crops,ii3 IL in
d beans.asH He manures highly and makes
bis manure rich by high feeding, using
oil cake and other purchased food
His meadow is top dressed every year
with stable dung, and in addition 200
4 pounds Of gqano is applied to each
acre. He cuts three tons of hay to
the acre and makes money rapidly.
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A Clergyman was sent for in the
middle Of the night by one of the Ia
4 dies of his congregation "a Ilig
i a.."s Wei, my poor woman said he,