Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-16

Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
RobertJ. Walker is reported seriously
i'll at Washington.
Fifty fires took place in New York in
October, involving total loss of S432, 200.
The internal revenue receipts from July
1st to date 3rs Se9f72,64s!
He who ceases to enjoy his friend supe!
riority has ceased to love him. FL
Miss Ella Yates took the first premium
for pistol shooting at the Danville, Va, fair.
The Ohio official canvass shows the ma
jority for Gov. Hays, rep, to be 1901.
The democratic majority in Maryland is
2S,076, with one county to hear from.
The intimidation of the Nile has been
greater this year than usual
Apple butter boilings are the country
sport in Pennsylvania.
Brigham Young does the divorce in his |
dominions at ten dollars case
Commissioner Delano refuses to recon-
slider his decision that pork packers are
manufacturers
The Canada Pacific railroad is to be 3
800 miles long, and the amount of capital
E20,000,000
The handsomest man in Washington is
said to be Lieut-Col. Audenried, of Gen.
Sherman's staff.
The Providence Journal tells of an &C
count recently filed in the city on d sheet
Of paper 105 feet long.
The keeper of peanut stand in Wash
ington recently died, leaving his Daughter,
Jefferson Davis received one vote for
Comptroller ofNew York, Horace Greeley
was scratched" to make place for it.
Gregg Harper, a negro, claiming to be
123 years old, died at Vernon, Ind, a few
days ago.
To cure corns: Hold your foot near the
fire till the corn pops. This is said to be a
sure cure.
The Sultan has been giving his three
cabinet ministers $4,000 apiece to keep
them from stealing.
Prairie fires have been raging for the
past week in the interior of Iowa, but thus
far no damage has been done.
There is a colored man in New Orleans
said to be 11S years old, who began as a
pirate and is now dock rat.
Bootblacks stood in the streets of New
York on Tuesday, promising a free shine
to all who would vote for Mr.. Greeley.
Mr.. Geo. Peabody ordered the building
of tomb for himself in Harmony Grove
Cemetery, in Salem, Mass, last spring.
/ 4 passenger train was recently run from
Chicago to Omaha, 472 miles in II hours
and 10 minutes, including stoppages.
Splendid easy chairs covered with red
velvet have been ordered in Paris for the
4 prelates attending the Ecumenical Council.
California claims to have room for many
more farmers. and is about to send agents
to the East to offer inducements to settlers.
\ girl must certainly be getting into the
lumber business when she pines fora spruce
young man ofwhom she thinks a great deal.
The first article of tin ware manufactur-
ed from tin mined in the United States,
has just been completed in San Francisco
Richard Grosvenor, the lately deceased
marquis Of Westminster, was the richest
man in England. His rent roll footed So
100000.
An experienced Iowa wool grower give,
81 80 As the probable average cost Of keep
ing a sheep q year in that State.
The Hartford Courant claims that mex
to the ministry of the christian religion
there is no nobler profession that that o
the politician"
There are $40, 600 tenant farmers in Ire
land. Of these 272, 900 hold less than fiji
teen acres each, and 122, 900 more hold les
than thirty acres each.
Scandals Of the Stowe sort are rife; anC
now up turns q chap out West who claim
to be the son Of Anna Dickinson by he
first wife.
Miss Martha Jellison of Ellsworth, Ne.
has been an active teacher for fftyfv
years. She Is still engaged in teaching
: and is now seventy-two years of age.
An Irish paper says: Or Hays wishe
TO 90 North again. No Arctic explorer !
really happy until he has failed to com
back
\ man who lost his mule, and offered
/ heavy reward for it, discovery, upon its be
I ing found and restored to him, gave tn
: finder fifty old fashioned cents.
. There are u of Protestant Sisterhoods
| with over 500 members. in the establishe
2 church in England. The work and organ
ization corresponds with the Roman Cath
Ole Sisters Of Mercy.
The oldest man in Indiana is name
Sluder He has lived to witness l06 HAP
py returns of the seasons, and expects t
be present at many more.
In 1851 France had seventeen telegrap
Offices, and now there are l701. The mile
T. Of telegraph lines increased during tn
. same time from 1866 to 2059.
n The province of Galicia, in Austrian PC
d land, produces a great quantity of egg
9 most Of which are exported. The numbe
e exported last year was 5000, 900.
q Over one hundred men and women al
. about to leave the south of Ireland to mai
: their homes among the Arabs and Berbe
:, of Algeria A Catholic priest goes wit
them.
W 4 gentleman in Branfeld, Peoria count,
e H., obtained 1900 pounds of honey tn
I, year from forty swarms of bees, an avera!
v of 105 pounds TO each swarm.
A negro nurse of Henry Creecy, in Be-
/ ford county, threw Mr.. Creecy's child in
le the fire yesterday. 1t was burnt to deaf
The nurse was arrested.
e A man was recently found dead in h
m cellar in Princeville, ILL.,, with two bull
r. holes in his body, and on his coat collar
lie paper pinned, which read, "He max
ID No. 2"
l. The revenue of Prussia amounts to for
l. per cent. of its national debt; that of Ru
If STA, twenty-seven, while those of Franc
IS England and Austria, range from ten
N sixteen.
'e At Cannelton, Ind, few days since,
P youth named H. Stanley Clark, commits
suicide because his mother would not gi
J. him money with which to attend t
sc Owensboro Fair
n A South Carolina youth of aristocrat
le lineage, while on a "spree," recently, ma
as ried the inmate of a workhouse, and tn,
tn decided her his property in such way tn
is no one can get cent of it.
ie A Mormon newspaper boastfully declal
Is that the Salt Lake theatre has the credit
le being, ''the first and only theatre upon tt
tx continent that was ever dedicated by pra
W err" The good book says THE prayt
~ of the wicked" &c.