Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-23

NOHICIl
Miss Kate Field has raised a fund to
purchase the John Brown farm. Her elo-
quent appeal was irresistible.
General Wool left property valued at
$3.50, 900, which will be divided principally
between his nephews and nieces.
1t is said that 81 900 900 of Northern cap
ital is being expended this year in improve
ments in Georgia.
The search for the dead of the Stonewall
disaster has been given up. Only sixty
one bodies have been recovered.
J. c. Buell., the defaulting cashier of the
Second National Bank of Cleveland shot
and killed himself on Monday.
Amos Kendall, postmaster general of the
United States under president Van Buren,,
died in Washington last week.
The treasurer of Peoria county, Illinois,
Is defaulter to the extent Of $50, 600. The
loss was caused by specializing in whisky.
A man died in Amherst, Va. a few days
since of well developed case of CHAMBERS.
1t is supposed he contracted the disease
from some horse.
There are on the Tennessee river !, 120,- /
/ 600 acres of land, now a wilderness, which |
would be occupied but for the Instructions /
in the river.
/ According to the assessment returns in !
! 1869, the total number of hogs in Illinois
/ is 2,036, 304 in 1868 the number was ? 1922
/ 82S, beings decrease of 246, 524.
Rev. James T. Hyde of Middlebury, has
been elected to the Protessorship of Pasto-
raj Theology and Special Studies of the
Chicago Congregational Theological Sem
mary.
Michael Crowley, boy of 10, while
catching rides on the freight train at Suth
erland Falls, on Friday, fell under the cars
and was almost instantly killed.
A man in Illinois, a short time since, was
afflicted with rheumatism, and swallowed
four spoonsful of a nOstrum given him by a
travelling quack. The dose cured the rheu-
matism, but the patient was buried the
next day.
The well known magnificent Gar Of
Russia was always fond in winter time Of
sitting with his feet on the fender. Hence
his laughter loving people called him Pc
ter the Crate. If he caught anybody say
ing this, he at once sent him to Siberia.
An Irishman with a heavy bundle on his
shoulder, riding on the front Of horse car
was asked why he did not set his bundle
on the platform. He replied, "Be jabers,
the horses have enough 10 drag me. I'll
carry the bundle"
Edward OBaldwin, the prize fighter,
was sentenced Monday, by Judge Wilkin-
son in the superior court at Lawrence, to
eighteen months imprisonment in the
2 House Of Correction.for prize fighting with
= Wormald at Lynfeld, October, 1868.
t Robert H. Goldsborough, convicted of
| murder and sentenced to be hanged on
December 10th, escaped from the Jail in
Georgetown, Del, on Sunday night, by
filing off the irons and digging through
! three walls He was helped by outside
E friends, who had a carriage waiting.
A late paper from Switzerland states that
= Madame Goldscmidt Jenny Lind is verg-
e ing on poverty, and infers that she is in
, duced to reenter her professional vocation
as a matter of necessity. Her husband is
t spoken of as a dissolute and profigate
: spouse, who has wasted the savings of his
5 wifes artistic life.
n Butter and cheese are almost indispensa-
= Bile articles of food. Properly used they
: are nutritious and healthy; but an inordi-
nate use of either cause indigestion and
t dyspepsia. Parsons Purgative Pills, ju-
d diciouslv used. will remove both of these
e troubles.
n Have you ague in the face; and is it
d badly swollen? Have you severe pain in
y the chest, back or side? Have you cramps
: or pains in the stomach or bowels? Have
i you bilious collie or severe gripping pains
n If so, use Johnsons Anodyne Liniment
At Westfeld on Saturday night, drunk
> en- Irishman beat his horse with a rail till
n he had nearly exhausted his strength, and
', then getting a red hot iron from black
> smiths shop, began to pierce the animal
with it in the most terrible manner, when
1t he was arrested and locked up by police
IL man.
y Out west they tell a story about dog
L which was greatly interested in music
% which attended a singing school and wa,
o. subsequently found in the back yard witt
a music book in front of him, beating time
ie with his tail on tin pan and howling
n "Old Hundred"
Oh Thousands have been changed by tn
1. use of the Peruvian Syrup Ia protoxide o
III from from weak, sckly, suffering creatures
er to strong, healthy, and happy men ant
OF women, and invalids cannot REASONABLE
SO hesitate to give it trial. For dyspepsi
81 and debility it is a specific.
% Investigations now in progress show tina
~ the government has been cheated out G
IS, nearly a million of dollars by means q
of fraudulent drawbacks passing through tn
n New York custom house. Samuel II
: Blatchford, deputy collector, who ha
o been implicated in the business, has disaI
od peared from the city.
le ST. Petersburgh was lately threatene
Ill with total inundation, and the inhabi
H. tants deserted the place. 1t is the frs
oil since 1924, when 462 houses were destroy
g ed, and 5000 seriously damaged 20,00
u people were then left without shelter, an
Is. 600 were drowned As the municipal ad
n ministration of the city is better now tina
yn in 1924, it is hoped that there will be muc
bo less suffering.
- While Mr.. Silas Corwin, gentlema
os of eighty three, was amusing himself b
as digging out clay in the yard of his res
Ia dence by the river bank, at New Windsor
le on the Hudson, he discovered large earth
n en- jar covered by a fiat stone. This ia
o. contained $50 Spanish dollars, bearing dat
% from 1920 to 1873. The coins were sti
o. bright, and probably were never in circr
es lation. Since the discovery, in the neigh
u IN borhood of New Windsor, spades have be
: come trumps.
The New York returns thus far show
, majority for Nelson over Sigel of %, 25C
W. Allen over Greeley, 25,560. The majorit
against the constitution, with Hamilton
Greene, Kings, New York and Tioga to b
heard from, is II, 296. There are hope
+, that the Judiciary article of the new cor
Ike stitution has been carried fifty five cour
IN ties give a majority in its favor of Al 40.
IS The counties to be heard from are Esse1
m Greene, Kings, New York and Tioga TIL
~ other articles have been rejected.
ter
he DRowNED.-The Burlington Free Pres
IT. says GAS the steamer United States wa
his crossing the lake from Essex, N. Y, t
Sc, Burlington, last Monday evening, an
to when about six miles north of the forme
rot place, a man by the name of John Duga
Ter stepped out upon the forward deck of th
ed. boat. His hat blew off, and in attemptin
aw to recover it he ran toward the gangway
nd slipped under the rail and fell overheard
RS, A passenger, who saw him fall, claims thu
h. e1n To he r.. l.