Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-31
Miscellaneous Items.
Walkers official majority in Virgin
nj.

eruption.
The British Parliament will reas-
semble on the 2Sth of October.
The water in the river Nile is low
er than it has been in $50 years.
Advices from Russia indicate large
wheat crop in that country.
The Spanish government is shooting
rebels as fast as they are caught,
1t is proposed to measure distances
by the number of car-wheel rotations.
Thirteen out of twenty-one new ap-
pointees in the Charleston custom
house are colored.
The Democratic press is already at
loggerheads on the subject Of Chinese
immigration.
A man in California has been ar
rested for profanity, at the complaint
of his son.
A band of five hundred Carlists, I'M
der Estartus, have entered Spain from
France.
A steamboat exploded, the 18th on
the Ohio river, killing twelve and
wounding fifteen.
They make hay in ten minutes in
England, by means of heated air, set
in motion by fan.
The United States produced, in
1865, 100000 tons of pig iron,
against the 100000 tons of Great
Britain.
An eagle can be taxidermized for
$40, 9nd canary bird for 81, but a
turkey can be stuffed for much less
price.
Somebody suggests that, if Grants
courage was ever doubted, it is salts
factorily established by his venturing
to ride on an Erie train.
The car has banishcd the stern
father from Russian novels by declar-
ing that no girl shall be made to mar
ry anybody whom she does not like.
The value OF boots and shoes mau-
ufactured in Massachusetts the pres
ent year will amount, probably, to over
| $95,000000.
VIM. D. Man, of Mobile, the Demo
cratic carpet-baggcr, spent, it is said.
$4,000 to secure his election to Con-
gress, but in vain.
A sherif~s officer, in executing a
writ against the goods of an ahscond,
ing debtor in Andy vile, Canada
seized the artificial teeth of the debt
or'S vile while they were temporarily
removed from her mouth.
A man named Julian Sispcc came
to a horrible death at Lawrence, on
Sunday, by falling into a vault while
in an intoxicated condition. A board
broke and let him down.
A loaf of Indian bread has beer
found in Indiana, buried in the earth
and geologists are trying to ascertain
its age. A thick bark has grown
over it.
Four men and three girls in De:
Moines, Iowa, were fined q few day.
ago for disturbing religious meeting
The men disturbed to the amount 0
so each, and the girls s..
A lad escaped from the county iai
at Chicago, a few days since, by soap
ing himselfall over and then squeez
ing himself between the bar of TIN
/ window and wall. Another lad tric,
to get out the same way, but failed.
A family Of jay birds, seven in nun
t Der, will consume in one hundred day
twenty thousand insects. A singl
pair of sparrows is reported to hav
carried to their nest five hundred il
sects in one hour.
Three hundred soldiers of the l00t
/ regiment OF foot, in India, have with
drawn from the church of England
. They don't like the ritualistic pract
ces of the chaplain.
DR.. Austin Flint, in the Journal c
Psychological Medicine, cndcavors t
2 prove that the Fox girls, the origina
y spiritualist mediums, caused their raj
; ping by rafting their kneejoints.
: A great many people have aske
y US Of late, How do you keep you
horse looking SO sleek and glossy ?
i We tell them, its the easiest thing
t the world; give Sheridan's Cond
# tion Powder " two or three times
/ week
d A gentleman in the eastern part
, the State, who was about having h
. leg amputated on account of its bcin
I bent at right angles and stiff at Il
Il knee, heard of " JohnSon's Anodyn
IS Liniment." Alter using it a sho
IS time, his leg became straight, and
- now as seryiceable as the other.
. The year 1869 was remarkable fC
the birth offour of the most ilustriol
men of modern times: Napolco
y Wellington, Cuvier and Humboldt
e two great military leaders and tW
Of NEST eminent DaturalistS of this
o any age.
n. English locomotives are reckonc
! to last for about 100000 train mile
- though on some roads this may 20 L
lie to 100000 or even 100000 miles,
the wear and tear depend greatly c
IN circumstances.
m A woman has been arrested in
d emma for decoying young girls in
her house and then bleeding thel
The blood was used by this WON;
d tiend TO wash herself with in order
IN preserve her beauty.
os A young girl of Norwicbtown Com
lg named Louisa Dowdall, found a sp,
ted adder coiled upon the floor at t
foot of her bed,o arising few NOR
ingS since. Instead Of shrieking, al
70 fainting away, she coolly went doy
Al a stairs, got an axe, and killed the re
D. tile.
y, y, A review of 10000 men under arr
- will take place at Brussels during t
- month Of September. The object
~ to test the resources Of the railroa
ov in Belgium respecting their faciliti
II for uniting large number of men
% a given point in short space of tin
~ Another indication of peace,