Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-30
Miscellaneous Items.
Bismark grumbles at his taxes.
Mosby is in the tobacco business.


Mosby is in the tobacco business.
Father Hyacinthe is studying English.
Garibaldi's novel is announced in Lon
don.
The Gar of Russia hates to ride horse
back.
George Sand sperds half her income in
charity.
King William of Prussia Is frightened
BY thunder.
Lolita has invested 81 900 in real estate
in San Francisco.
General Lee has severe cold, and all
Virginia sneezes.
A Minnesota lady last week killed sew
enteen ducks at one shot.
Connecticut has two hundred and eighty
four cotton and wooden mills.
There is a firm in Augusta whose daily
mail averages 1900 letters.
The suicides in the British army in the
year 1868 were one in 10000.
One of the largest Sunday schools in Cal
ll'Ahia 10 ohIPOo0u VI CllhCoc ehiiuiCh'
The Germans in Chicago are about to
build a theatre to cost 1900.
Christmas this year falls on Saturday,
making with Sunday double holiday.
Cincinnati had an Notwithstanding
istical contest"
The salary of New York police Justice
is $4,000 per annum with 'perquisites."
The city of Buenos Ayres has popula-
ton of 100000 and the province 1,lS0,O00
souls.
A deaf man in Indiana is said to have
recovered his hearing by falling twenty
feet from a haymow.
A German physician has discovered
new anesthetic, which is administered by
absorption.
A young lady at Lake View, H., com
mitted suicide the other day by taking lau
danum to escape the toothache.
Large shipments of Texas cattle are be-
| ing made from the mouth of the Red river
into the west.
Wheat has been sold as low as thirty
cents in Iowa this fall the average price
in the State has been fifty cents.
\ Texas girl, Miss Mollie Stacy, of Ma
vasota, carried off Sunday school premi-
UNI the other day by memorizing $50 YER
ses of scripture.
Hops are scarce in Wisconsin, and pri
ces are advancing so rapidly that there is
quite an excitement among holders Of the
article.
Anna Gareschna, at Kieff has received
one thousand roubles from the Emperor of
Russia for saving seven children from a
burning house.
The American Minister in Paris is paid
/ ST., 500; the English Minister $4,000
yearly. The difference is disproportion-
ate.
An ovarian tumOr, weighing fifty six
pounds, was successfully taken from wo-
man in Burnham, Maine, a short time
since.
Thurlow Weed, it is said, is about to re-
sumo his connection with journalism by as
suming editorial charge of the Albany
N. " Journal.
, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, the
crown princess of Prussia, is said to be
showing signs of insanity, caused by do
nestle trouble.
Red River advices to November 6, state
that Gov. McDougall will 90 into winter
quarters at Pembina until the difficulty i,
settled.
? The Pope has written to the Grand Ouch
t ess of Olga, asking her TO intercede with
2 the Gar in behalf of the Catholics in Rus
: STA
The Dalmatian instruction IS not yet
2 quelled. The Austrian troops have recent
/ ly had q fight with the insurgents, who are
e making 4 stout resistance.
When Haddocks wife kicked him Out
of bed, he said Look here, now, if YOU
do that again it will be apt to cause a cold
q ness in the family
; David Colvin, blacksmith, committed
5 suicide at Woonsocket, R. l., on Saturday
T night by taking poison. Intemperanct
n and domestic trouble led to the act.
j Cattle stealing is not so common alons
: the Rio Grande as it has been. A com
: pany of cattle owners under the command
" of Mr.. King of Kings ranch, hung clever
:, thieves to one tree.
a A bride in Cheatham county, Tenn, ar
S rayed for the altar, concluded to marry al
# old lover who came hurrieGly. to see tn
ceremony, and she actually did it.
\ colored LAWYER in South Carolina hav
i ing horse whipped a white member of tn
e State government for insulting his wife
Z the legislature appointed an investigating
committee. The committee report tina
n 'the fogging was thoroughly and hand
Il somely done"
d An injured husband in Dayton, Ohio
;; caught his wife just on the point OF elopin
u with a handsome man. He took terribl
: vengeance by locking up all her goo
: clothes and then telling her to go.
g The meanest man has turned up in til
Y. shape of doctor at Erie, Pa, who refuse
a to do anything for boy run over by
y railroad train unless assured of his pay
re Before decent physician could be got th
id boy died.
te \ remarkable meteor was seen at Ithac.
4. \. Y, on Thursday evening last. It's Igl
: was nearly as great as that Of the moon.
g occupied from six to ten seconds in its pa
II sage and then burst into several fragment
e, According to the statement in court
Id an expert the gross receipts of the 400 10
H. terry and policy shops in New York con
ii bined has amounted to 5000 day du
n, ing the last half decade.
III III The convicts of the southern prison
he Indiana, have been living on wheat brea
~ for the past Notwithstanding unusus
ho They generally eat corn bread three inch
op1 n ha lf thiaI- hut rvb &c oh
on than corn.
IRIS The citizens of Washington, D. G., ha,
lie. subscribed S150,000 for the proposed
We ternational Exposition. 1t will take s.
i'll 100000 to place the enterprise fairly
ar its feet, which sum doubtless congress W
be asked to appropriate.
X, An Irishman called at drug stone
nd get a bottle OF Johnson's Anodyne Lii
er- ment for the rheumatism, the drugg
an asked him what part of the body it trou
lid led him most, "Be me SOUL" said he.
he have it in livery houl and corner er me"
Il For loss of cud, horn all, red water
he cows, loss of appetite, rot, or murrain
-o sheep, thick wind, broken wind, and rof
~ ing, and for all Instructions of the kidne
M in horses, use Sheridan's Cavalry Conc
W. ton Powders.
int A man and wife of German nativity, ag
lot seventy-fve years, attempted on Sunday
he commit suicide, by jumping arm in al
by into the water at the foot of Fourth sire
lid Hoboken, N. j. Luckily they were espi
he by a stranger near by and rescued.
o. DR.. WIsTAR's WILD CHERRY BALsA
me This Balsamic compound has becom
he home fixture. Let all who suffer, a
La have in vain attempted to cure their cougl
.n r1 colds, bronchial or pulmonary complain
g. make use of this uneoualed remedy II q