Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-06
News and General Items.


Gold has been found in digging a
we'll in Bureau County, Illinois.
Salt Lake contains $4,000 Nor
mons and 5000 Gentiles.
Wild beasts are becoming very plen-
tiful in the neighborhood of Vicksburg.
Mr.. William B. F. Prescott of Con
cord, N. H., has been appointed Spec
ial Treasury Agent for New England.
Prizes are awarded in Paris to the
most careful nurses and to the latest
and healthiest babies.
Two of the newly elected Trustees
of the South Carolina University are
colored.
A gallon of strong ley put in a
barrel of hard water will make it as
soft as rain water.
A common sight in Italy is dirty
nurse maid leading along little boy
baby two or three years old who has
cigar in his mouth.
An Ohio man recently made the
run from Akron to Toledo on a velO-
cipede, about ninety miles, in fifteen
hours.
An entire family in Montreal last
Wednesday were attacked with trioh-
inosis from eating ham. None of the
patients show any signs of recovery.
The Salt Lake papers are making
merry over fight in the household
of a Mormon bishop, in which the
"saint" got fearfully thrashed by sew
eral enraged wives.
General Thomas G. Polk, elder
brother of Bishop Leonidas Polk of
Louisiana, who was also Confeder-
ate General during the war, died at
Holly Springs, Miss, on the 18th ult.
A young woman in Georgia has
been the bride of two brothers since
August, 1866, and is now engaged to
the third. The fourth is waiting his
turn.
Geo. Folsom of New York, who
lately died at Rome, has the credit
of helping to bring about arrange
ments which carried New York for
James K. Polk in 1874
Just as the body of negro was
being lowered into the grave at Wei
don, n. c., few days since, color
ed woman stepped up and claimed the
lowering-rope around the coffin, prov
ing that it was her clothes line, but
recently stolen from her.
Imprisonment for debt is abolished
in Belgium. The vote lii the Cham
Der was II to II in favor of the alb
clifton, and an amendment exempting
newspapers condemned to pay fine
from the operation of the law was re,
Jected.
r The Michigan Legislature has pass
5 ed law to punish the careless use
Of firearms, which provides for the
fine and Imprisonment Of any person
who shall aim, though without malice
any lirearm at another.
Four men at Pink Hill, Kansas
had a quarrel last week, which result
ed in killing one of them, MORALLY
! wn@nding another, and wounding the
: other two. The bystanders regarded
it as a very pretty fight"
A Pennsylvania girl thinks the ad
e vertisement of agricultural societies
4 are the commentaries on the manage
= ment of their fairs. Look at the
t premiums" she says, I" for the fastest
: trotting horse, $50; for the next fast
e est, S35; for the best team of work
0 horses, So; for the best loaf of bread
: so cents"
Fair tresses mans imperial race
ensnare, and beauty draws us with q
) single hair. Ladies of this coun
try nowadays are losing their magi
cal tresses by the use of vile nostrums
, or by neglecting to apply the proper
t remedy to preserve their beautiful
n charms. "Barrett's Vegetable Hail
! Restorative" is the only safeguard
5 Syracuse Journal.
f Veterinary surgeons all over thu
n country are recommending Sheridan
Cavalry Condition Powders for thu
: following trouble in horses Loss o
appetite, roughness of the hair, stop
n page of bowels or water, thick water
g coughs and colds, swelling of thu
D glands, worms, horse all, thick wind
:, and heaves.
: A friend of ours who is chief clerE
IL in the Governmental Dispensatory
+ says that no medicine chest is nov
! complete without Johnson's Anodynt
h Liniment. We always supposed i
y was prescribed by law; if it is not
{ it ought to be, for certainly there il
: nothing in the whole materia medict
e of so much Importance to the soldie
n and the sailor as "Johnson's Anodyn,
:. Liniment.' y
@ MAYORS OFFICE, New York, }
y March 81, 1869. :
e To the Press of the United States
II | beg to caution strangers agains
!, New York circulars, tickets, shares
; chances and prospectuses in co-opera
y tive unions or gift enterprises, of dol
h lar stores, or in any other possibl
= scheme whereby property or value i
t. promised greater than the price ask
e ed to be paid. Every such advertii
!, ed scheme is necessarily a swindl
and false pretence. There does no
l. and cannot tangibly exist any sue
e schemes in this city. Country news
j; papers which advertise them simpl
n aid in the swindle. If all the news
1t papers in the Union would now max
3 a point of publishing and reiteratin
l. this information, they will charitably
/ and think etfectually, counterfeit tn
n swlndling intentions of those who US
It the mails for the false pretences, an,
10 will also save to the country hundred
# of thOusando of doI1aro