Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-01
Miscellaneous Items.

hlcO letter says tnat the island is ON
the verge of an insurrection.' The
principal streets of Ponce have been
burned by incendiaries. Spanish SOL
diers are assassinated and business
suspended. The negroes are leaving
their masters to join the insurgents,
and the principal families are leaving
as fast as possible.
REPORTED VICTORIES BY THE CUBAN
INsURGENTs.-New York, May Is.
A Trinidad letter of the 21st of April
says the Spaniards attacked force of
1900 Cubans near there, but were
thoroughly defeated, the Cubans con-
tinuing on their route to Palmarejo,
which place they occupied. The town
of Las Tunas had been captured by
the patriots, together with several
hundred Spaniards and some artillery.
The question as to pensions due to
widows of soldiers, who subsequently
marry, has been under advisement
lately, and was discussed Saturday by
the Pension Commissioner and Secre-
tary Cox. The point was whether
widow, after her marriage, could
claim for pension due to date of mar
riage, where the claim could not have
been previously made. By reference
to the opinion of a previous Attorney
General she would be so entitled.
A negro woman who was fixing
up to be baptized, at Athens, Ga,
on Sunday, was arrested for stealing
clothes to wear during the baptismal
ceremony.
A teacher in trying to explain pas
sive verbs to a class, said to one of
the boys:
"Now observe, if l say John is beat
en-, what is Johns relation to the
verb ?"
John gets licked" answered the
boy.
mo, no, you blockhead; what does
John do?'
a dunno, unless he hollers."
Josh Billings welcomes spring as
follows: "Spring came this year as
mutch as usual, hail butuous virgin,
5000 years old and upwards, hale and
harty old gal, welcum tew York State
and parts adjacent. Now the birds
jaw, now the cattle holler, now the
pigs skream, now the geese warhle,
now the kats sigh. and natur is frisky;
the virtuous bed-bug and the nobby
cockroach are singing Yankee Doodle
and coming thru the rhi.' Now may
be seen the musketeer, that gray out
lined critter ov destiny, solitary and
alone, examining his last years bill,
and now may be heard, with the ma
ked ear, the hoarse shanghigh bawl-
ing in the barnyard."
OMAHA, MAY 17th.-The wagon
train Of the 5th cavalry arrived at
Fort Mcpherson yesterday, under
command of Lieut.. Forbush. 1t was
reported that seven companies of the
5th cavalry, under command of Gen
eral Carr, while in movement from
Kansas toward Fort Mcpherson,
struck camp of about 500 Indians
(Cheyenne), on the 18th inst, and
fight ensued, in which the Indians were
badly defeated, leaving 25 warriors
on the field and carrying off large
number of wounded. Gen. Carr lost
three men kille, and one officer and
two privates wounded. Gen. Carr is
still in pursuit, near Medicine Lake
| Greek.
A rumor has come across the cable
that England, France and Spain have
entered into triple alliance against
the United States. 1t is probably un-
true, but should it prove the contrary
mo one here will feel very bad. ALI
ances are clumsy things, and if Eng
land especially, after her experience
in the Crimea wishes to help the
French Emperor pull more chestnuts
out of the fire, we can afford to wait
till they get well started, and then
settle our claims without diplomacy.
SINGULAR FULFILLMENT OF A DREAM.
About six weeks ago resident of
Lawrence, says the American of that
city, told his friends a dream which
he had the night before. 1t was that
he was very soon to leave this world,
and take with him his grandson, then
healthy boy at school. About two
weeks after, the lad was taken sick,
and the grandfather was so firmly
convinced that his dream would be
fulfilled that he warned those about
him that medicine could do the boy
no good. The lad died day or two
ago, Notwithstanding all efforts to
save him, and his relative remarked
| that he should follow him in a few
hours. He died the next day.
The beautiful city of Tacna, Peru,
after having escaped the earthquake
that completely destroyed africa, only
40 miles distant, is now experiencing
a terrible visitation of yellow fever.
OF population of 10000, 5000 had
i fallen victims to the epidemic, at last
accounts and between 5000 and g.
900 had fed to the interior, leaving
hardly 1900 persons in the place.
| OF these some 46 were dying daily,
it is stated, and the terror of the peo-
pie was so great that no such thing
as nursing or assistance could be pro-
cured. The physicians sent by the
J, Government found it impossible to do
anything effectively. 5li-ll9' l--3 t. ~