Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-08-18
Miscellaneous Items.
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Pomeroy.
The Raleigh Standard says that
North Carolina is sure to give $4,000
majority for Grant.
Queen Victoria has proclaimed her
assent to the extradition treaty be-
tween Canada and the United States.
Rev. DIR. John Marsh, the well
known temperance advocate, died at
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 5th instant,
aged 80 years.
A beggar in Havana has just won
100000 in lottery. He will doubt
less forthwith get on horseback and
go to his proverbial destination.
The Department of Agriculture
says that ten million bushels of wheat
are wasted in this country annually
by bad sowing-too deep, too shall
low, too thick, too thin, too uneven.
James Clifford, an employe of
Eagle Slate Company at Hydeville,
Vt, On Thursday, threw himself from
the rocks above into the quarry, and
was instantly killed. He was
blacksmith by trade.
A Democratic paper in Illinois
urges the election of Gen. Singleton
to Congress from the 4th Illinois Dis
trict, on the ground that he had the
confidence of Jefferson Davis during
the rebellion
Francis FL. Paine of Douglas has
caught during the summer, from one
hole, eleven woodchucks and five
skunks. The varmints were all
caught with one trap and the wood
chucks were all old ones save three.
That 'hole'' is a valuable one.
In the depts of the sea the waters
are still; the heaviest grief is that
borne in silence, the deepest love flows
through the eye and touch; the pur-
est JOY is unspeakle; the impressive
prayer is silent, and the most solemn
preacher at funeral is the silent one
whose lips are cold.
The Vicksburg Times speaks out
about the Blair letter as follows:
COLLECTION is made down this way
70 the Endorsement of the Blair let
ter, by a few tlmid people on the score
of prudence, and yet it was this iden-
tial letter of Frank Blair to his fricad
Col Brodhead that secured the Mis-
souri, hero the nomination for Vice
President. We want just such am
munation as Frank Blair uses"
Ono of the best democratic choruses
we have seen is the following, re-
Gently sung at meeting in Newark,
e New Jersey:
= We Polked them once,
l We Pierced them well,
: And then we Bucked them sore;
~ And with Frank Blair
Well make them stare,
That they may all Seymour.
Some time ago house at the cor
ner of Lafayette and Carlton avenues,
= Brooklyn, was purchased by Mr.
: Toxell OF that city. In tearing it
down he discovered underneath the
: floor some fleings, which proved to
be gold dust and fileings from form
er jewelry establishment which once
a u occupied the premises. 1t is said
y that Sl2 900 in gold has already been
taken from the old building
y The notorious Albert Pike still re-
: tains the rebel venom which he man.
Il ifested by his conduct at the battle
- of Pea Ridge. In recent speech
O at Centre Hill, Mississippi, he. urged
II the young men to swear that any
y Northern man attempting to cross the
l. Ohio River to come Southwark should
" not be allowed to live. And In an
e editorial article in the Memphis APP
/, peal he says;
It young men, it is for you to bring
4 back to the country these golden
It days. The South is our land; the
e, North is foreign and hostile realm.
Stand at the altar of our country
Swear eternal hatred of its oppres-
m sors. Swear that the day shall come
n. when the Susquehannah and Ohio
shall be rivers OF fire, as they now
are rivers of blood, between your ma
lt tive land and that of Northern Huns
u which no man shall attempt to cross
a. and live"