Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-18
Miscellaneous Items.

Ill oil buc uTklSu LOWuO.
Methodist schools and colleges have
nearly $4,000 students.
Congregational music is becoming
daily more and more popular in Eng
land.
"Boston cucumbers" are quoted at
three and four dollars a dozen in
Washington Market, New York.
A police judge in Pittsburg descen
ded from his lofty position and kicked
threatening witness into che street.
The Lewiston Journal says that
butter has fallen six to eight cents
per pound there within the past two
weeks.
Thirty-two biographies of Presi-
dent Lincoln have been published in
Germany since he was murdered.
Cuba pays Spain over $32,OOO,O0O
annually in taxes. The cost of col
lection will equal the receipts, this
year.
Potatoes in Maine sell at forty
cents per bushel, and have a slow mar
ket at that rate. In Boston they sell
for $l.20 per bushel.
By the recent heavy rains large
portions of the best cotton lands il
Mississippi have been flooded, destroy
ing the cotton planted, and making a
re-planting necessary.
Rev. John R. Smith has been ar
rested at Bath, Me-, and placed un-
der $4,000 bonds to answer a charge
of forging and uttering check for
$24O0 on parties in New York.
Two Hawaiians attempted to de-
sert 10 tub from barque Oriole, of
New Bedford, one evening, when Is
miles off the Marquesas Islands,
They returned, swimming. in about
eleven hours, having lost the tub.
The total amount of the gifts pre-
scented to the Pope on the occasion of
the fiftieth anniversary OF his entering
the priesthood is estimated at 10000,
900 fir.
Mauna Loa, a dome-shaped volcan
} ic mountain on the island of Hawaii
J contains two lakes, side by side, one
of fresh water and the other salt
Both are far above the level of the
, sea.
: Rev. t. L. Cuyler says: "a poor
: juiceless sermon should never bt
= preached after the first time; but {
: nutritious, savory discourse may bt
all the better on second delivery"
Andersonville, Georgia, has a col
ored postmaster. No respectable col
ored man would care to serve towI
: which holds such place in history
: unless it was TO aid in its Thorough
: reconstruction.
A boy, seven years OF age. residing
- at Lake Village, on Lake Winnipe
= saukee, was standing on a plank i
: the water last week, when he wa
i blown out into the lake, and was tw
I hours afoat ere he was discovere
and rescued in a chilled condition.
In England recently, minor wa
f sued for breach of promise. 1t wa
:, contendcd that "A minor could contrac
for necessaries, but the Judge deciC
y ed that a wife did not come With
|, the meaning of necessaries for an il
q FAINT.
o On the Oath ult the wife Of Judg
q? James Human of Humansville, Pol
re county, Missouri, gave birth to tw
D. boys and girl, averaging over 81
f pounds each. The father of this tri
- of babies is sixty-nine years of ag
n has had three wives, and is the pate
, ! nal relative of some Twenty-Five chi
le dreu.
u Protect your melon, squash, an
5, cucumber vines thus: Take stict
al four inches long and one half inch
diameter-pine is best. Wrap OF
W inch of one end In a piece OF cote
IS or linen. Dip this in turpentine, al
e. stick one or two in each hill, leavir
only the wrapped part above groun
The odor of the turpentine does Il
o. business.
h About seven years ago two sister
% in.law, in Detroit, got into a dispu
n over baking they were engaged
- and vowed never to speak to ca,
i other again. Though they have DO
~ lived together in the same house sin
"a then, eating at the same table and c
Nc gagged in work side by side, they ha'
- never once addressed a remark
81 each other, or in any way recognize
f. each others presence.
ne A SHOWER OF WoRMs.-The POI
lis land (Oregon) Courier Gays that du
20 ing a brisk shower at Sheridan,
e Yamhill county, on the 18th of Marc
1y there fell what seemed to be a kir
in of hail, but on examination was four
err to be composed of peculiar whiti
IN wormS-millions of them. Fac
be worm had the power of doubling
tx and skipping a foot or more. Thu
es were from an eighth to- quarter {
N an inch long, with small dark
I'D spot about the head. They appear,
n to die very soon.
If LARGE INCOMES AT New YORK
Among the large incomes returned
the Sixth New York District for Ia
u year are the following: William
81 -, Astor, 81 ,O79,212; William w. CO
- nell, s149,l31; Joseph 81. Choat
ne $19,942; II. T. Helmbold, 1852, 20
az Samuel N. Pike, $4,000; Henry
VI Raymond, $25,150: Sinclair Swase
el $23,6I6; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sc
'e 23O; Udolpho Wolfe, $71,916.
NJ In the California wine district the
is made, on an average, from $50
IN $50 gallons of wine to the acre. T
,ol four most productive of the wi
int growing districts of Europe are: TIA
ks' giving to the acre AL IL gallon