Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-07-21
Miscellaneous Items.
Gov. Seymour is 81 years of age.
Frank Blair is As years of age.

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Frank Blair is AZ years of age.
Near Tolona, ILL.,, there is herd
of $4,000 Texas cattle grazing and
fattening for the eastern markets.
A tender hearted gentleman in
Maine disposes Of squash bugs by the
use of chloroform.
It is reported that Mr.. Cameron,
one of the Abyssinian prisoners, be-
lieyes that King Theodore is still liv-
ing, and that the body found belonged |
to another.
A horse lately fell into the sea at
an English town, and swan about
for nineteen hours and a distance of
more than ten miles 10 a straight line
before he was rescued.
LAFAYETTE G. Baker, the late chief
of the government force, died in Phil
adelphia, on the 9Th inst. 1t is said
he leaves a fortune of 100000.
1t is said that valerian or nervine,
if planted near infested vines, attracts
insects so that they may easily be
destroyed.
The Rural World recommends Civ
ing stock, especially those confined
to stables, a sod of earth foot square
once a week, or what they will eat up
clean.
The Ohio Farmer says that within
The last ninety days one auctionoor
in MahOning county, has sold at vari-
Gus times 239 cows at an average of
$58 80 per head.
A 5tatistician has figured out the
arabic land in the United States. 1t
amounts to 100000 farms of 100
acres each, or 8,32O,O00,OO0 acres.
The amount Of wool imported from
July l. 1861, to November l, was g.
4l0,926 pounds. Value, $1,578,853
Within the same time wooIen8 were
imported to the value Of SIT, l85,395.
1t is urged in Tennessee that a col
Ored man ought to be elected CON
gresham at large from that State. to
represent the 10000 coIored voters.
For marrying contrary to the wish
es of the Russian government a Polish
editor was sentenced to Siberia and
, his wife to q convent.
Laborers in South Carolina are do
ing better than IN any previous year
since the war closed,
A young woman in a western town
has been fined ten dollars for kissing
young man against his will.
A suit Of rooms in one Of the Sara
. toea hotels rents for $500 per week,
: and is taken for the season.
a benevolent gentleman OF Montre-
al has equipped an asylum for desti-
tute Old men aud homeless boys. ca
pabio Of containing five hundred per-
sons.
The characters of the outsiders
attending the democratic convention
is illustrated by the fact that 1000
admission tickets were stolen from
the secretarys room on Tuesday
Badges for delegates and reporters
were also stolen, and passes forged.
. At katzveler, Palatinate, two storks
= Iouut CHer nests Ior It serloo VI UuliUy
wears ON the roof OF a school house.
On the death Of the schoolmaster,
they destroyed every ve5tige OF the
nest and departed, and have never
since returned.
Mississippi is reported TO have been
= carried by the democrats, the Constl-
tuition being rejected by about 1000
. majority. 1t is alleged that fraud,
threats and intimidation of negro vo-
tiers secured this result.
2 1t is one Of the singular facts that
L does not often occur, that potatoes
Y are worth more than corn, cabbages
5 are worth more than wheat, and a
), barrel OF onions will purchase a bar
+ rel OF -four.
0 1t has been stated by some one Gu
T ri0us ii statistics, that the whole am
e cunt OF grain raised in New England
e each year would not supply its inhab.
$ itants SIX weeks.
u The Gardeners Monthly recommends
" enriching the soil for cabbages, by
making hole with a dibbe tor the
L plant, fill the holes with manure water
Il and after it has soaked into the eartt
10 set the plants as usual.
r California farms average 700 acre.
d each, while Massachusetts the average
IS is but 81 acres. New York has The
.e largest number of farms, 10000
while Rhode Island has the smallest
81 her total being less than 5000.
a. Not long ago a frightened sheer
Is ran into a bakers shop in Newton
e England, and into the heated oven
a. 1t was burned to death before it coul'
+ be taken out.
ie An Iowa paper says that the reason
: why Henry Clay Dean don't was
. himself is because he is afraid that il
10 he does the democratic party vii
i lose ground.
TT The whole number Of hogs packe,
r. in Cincinnati this season is 358,831
W average weight 2l0 lbs; average o
III leaf lard 25lbs: showing a falling of