Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-04
Miscellaneous Items.

AZ IeCeut Hre III LiVtfpoOI IoO,
900 worth of hops were destroyed.
Chicago has had four million dol.
lar failure.
Six hundred go out of Office at
Washington.
Stewart, Astor and the Lorillards
own $16,OO0,O0O of property On
Broadway.
The lumber product of the Upper
Mississippi and its tributaries for this
year is estimated at 620,OO0,OOO.
Grant is cruel. The other day a
new consul got drunk in honor of bis
appointment, and Grant recalled his
name.
THE MCGEE MURDER.-The part
les held under arrest for trial as &C.
completes of Whelan have all been
discharged since the acquittal of Buck.
ley.
George L. Dalton, a New York
stock broker, shot himself On Satur.
day, while riding in hack to the
Manhattan Club. He recently lost
100000 in stock speculations.
Uriah 81. Crosby of Chicago hav-
ing recovered from his financial EN-.
barrassments which induced him three
years ago to rattle off the opera house
bearing his name, has repurchased
the building, and now draws an annu.
al income of from $4,000 to $780,.
600 from it.
HORRIBLE Accidental horrible
accident occurred at Alexanders brick
yard, at Dayville, Conn, on Friday.
Some of the knives in the tub in
which the clay is cut up became de.
ranged, and James Toomey, son of
the superintendent, having stopped
them from running, got into the tub
to remedy the difficulty. The other
machinery in the building was in mo.
ton at the time, and the jar therefrom
caused the belt to slip back upon the
pulley. The knives were set in mo-
ton again, aud Toomey's body was
severed in two just below his arms,
and otherwise fearfully mangled.
A couple of negro preachers in Tex
as have experienced the evils of too
Jealous a devotion to duty. Saturday
night they caught and hung up an un-
fortunate white man, Sunday they
preached and baptized fourteen per-
sons, on Monday they were arrested,
and on Tuesday taken from Jail by a
mob and hung.
WORCESTER, Mass, April 26.-On
Saturday night, while an adopted
daughter of Edward Hilton of North
Oxford was proceeding to oed, her
clothing took fire from a candle in
her hands. The girl was burned to
death, and the house and barn adjoin-
ing were consumed. Loss, $4,000
insured for $1,000.
Brick Pomeroy is still severe upon
the leading Democrats of New York.
He says: "If buying and selling, if
fraud and corruption, if double-deal-
ing, trickery, dishonesty, and nothing
but love for gain is to mark the
course of the leading Democrats of
New York, | just ask God to spare
my life for the next two years"
ARREST FOR Observation-Disclosures
Sprague (white) and Alexander Cor
nell (colored) of Peekskill, n. Y,
have been arrested, charged with
numbering an infant belonging to the
former. The woman states that Cor.
nell took the child alive, sewed it up
in a bag and carried it away from the
house. The body was found in Found.
ry pond, on Monday evening, partly
encased in bag or sheet.
MOBILE, Ala, April 26,-T e
steamer st. Elmo, belonging to the
Mobile and Montgomery railroad
while on her way to the city this A.
NJ, exploded her boiler.
Mr.. Clay, the steward, was blown
overheard and drowned. Six other
officers of the boat were seriously
burned and bruised. No passengers
were hurt. The boat is now being
towed to the city.
CRIMINAL AssAULT.-NEw HAVEN
Conn, April 27::-A girl named Ri
ley, living in Orange, four miles from
this city, while passing along the road
near Arlington, between this city and
Orange, last evening, was assaulted
by negro, who dragged her into the
woods and violated her. AfterwarG
the girl hurried home and informed
her parents. A search for the vii
lain was at once made, but up to mid
night he had not been found. He
was traced to this city, and efforts
are being made to secure his arrest.
The Springfield Republican say
Lydia l.. A. Pratt was tried at Wind
sor last week, for numbering her bab'
at Grafton, in October, 1857. 1t wa
proved that she in company with Oh
Ebenezer Kingsbury, first abandoned
the child on a doorstep in Townsend
and that being compelled to take i
again, they on the next day left it i
some Grafton woods where five day a
ter Kingsbury found and buried il
The defense attempted to show tina
the unnatural mother was sufferin
under puorperal mania, and the sap
ent jury declared her not guilty
KiEgsbury is in State prison for hi
share in the crime convicted on hi
own confession.
FRIGHTFUL CAsE.-The followin az
count of most frightful case, is fror
the Progress de Lewis We are il
formed that an unfortunate man i
Quebec has been living in his coffi
for the last eight days. His body
decomposing and is in a putrid state
INT he still liuas The Stannh uhio