Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-30
Miscellaneous Items.


The loafng population of Chicago
is set down at $4,000.
The state prisons of New York cost
100000 over and above their earn
ings last year.
The American Bible Society print
ed last year 100000 copies of the
Holy Scriptures.
Never run down your opponents
goods in public. Let him pay for his
own advertising.
The residence of Mr.. Stevenson at
Eugene City, Oregon, was burned on
March Is. Mrs. Stevenson and three
children persisted in the flames.
President Johnson takes his son
Robert with him to Europe. The
young man is naturally brilliant, but
is slave to drink.
Josh Billings says: when a mans
dOrg deserts him on account of his
poverty he can't get any lower in this
world-not by land.
A man recently brought a bill of
81 against his brothers estate in San
Francisco "for the loss Of time in at
tending the funeral.
Minneapolis, MIMI, has voted unan-
imously in favor Of issuing 100000
in bonds for the improvement Of the
falls Of St. Anthony.
Some provincial papers are of the
opinion that the Ten Commandments
have hard time of it in the city of
New York.
Sugar planting has been very sue
cessful in Louisiana this season, and
the crop is estimated at from 100000
to 100000 hogSheads.
Kossuth makes precarious living
as copyist of legal documents in Turin.
He refuses all pecuniary assistance at
the hands of his friends.
Hon. James Guthrie of Kentucky
left all estate of $1,000,000, which
his will divides among his children
and grandchildren.
The New York Mail reports the
marriage of a grandson of Washing
ton Irving, which is funny, in view Of
the fact that Irving died a bachelor
A Memphis jury, having convicted
a man Of numbering man who is still
alive, were in a quandary whether to
rescind their verdict or let the prison
er kill his man,
The Friends in Pennsylvania are
decreasing i'll numbers. Since 1880
but five new meetings have been es-
tablished, while 81 have been aban.
dOned.
Some Of the white boys at the Brook
Ign Newsboys' Home lately demand
ed, but did not secure, the expulsion
of the few colored boys who were
among the dodgers there.
John Sanford Young shot Richard
Powell, son of Ex-Governor Powell,
through the heart at Henderson, KY,
on Thursday, killing him instantly
Both had been drinking.
A state prison bird, on his way
from Troy to Dennamora prison,
jumped from the train in Whiting on
Saturday and made his escape. The
train was running 20 miles an hour.
Seventy bags of letters from
San Francisco, which had been snow.
ed up in the Rocky Mountains for
three weeks, arrived in New York
Sunday morning.
The cashier of the First National
Bank at Rockford, ILL.,, is said to have
absconded with the funds of the de
positors. The bank will probably
fail.
Dean Swift used to say that little
souled people were like narrow neck
ed bottles; the less they have in then
the more noise they make III pouring
it out.
The Oregon papers report thai
smoke is issuing from the volcanic
mountains of Hood, Jefferson anC
Three Brothers, and earthquakes are
expected as a consequence.
A dispatch from Omaha says the
Union Pacific Railroad will commence
carrying passengers and mails to Og
den, one thousand and twenty -four
miles west from Omaha, on Thursday
next.
The women voted at a recent cleo
ton in Vineland, n. j., and while one
of them was at the polls, it is said
her husband was at home doing thu
family ironing.
Frank Hardy the young man whC
lately murdered his step-father, J. H
Rice, near Rome, Ohio, confesSeS tn,
crime, and says that he dug his step
fathers grave a week before he kill
ed him.
A tract of land in Logan and ada
cent counties, in West Virginia, con
tanning $4,000 acres, was lately solo
for % cents per acre. The land i
of the finest quality, heavily wooded
aud some of it plain.
Narrow-minded men, who have no
a thought beyond the sphere of thei
own outlook, remind one of the Hin
doc maxim: "The snail sees nothing
but its own shell, and thinks it tn,
grandest palace in the universe"
One night last week policeman il
Chicago detected two students en-
deavoring to smuggle two dead bod
les into a medical college. He al
R rested the students and secured on
Of the bodies, which proved to be tina
Of young woman, evidently but re