Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-08
Miscellaneous Items.

The war claims due the State
amount to 100000
Ebert Sherman of Dandy, has been
arrested for adultery and bound up
for trial. g.
There are 10 families connected
with the First Congregational Church
at Vergennes.
E. j. Durant's furniture rooms in
Lebanon cover 1000 square feet of
flooring.
A woman has been indicted as a
witch, in Carver County. KY. The
grand jurors were no conJurors.
A sturgeon weighing one hundred
and three pounds was recently caught
in the Wisconsin river near Sank city.
Ole Bull, the celebrated master of
the violin, is announced to take part
in the great Jubilee, at Boston, week
after next.
An account received at ASCENSION,
Paraguay, reads as follows: "The
American minister has escaped from
Lopez and is now under the protec,
ton Of the Brazilian authorities at
ASCENSION"
The body Of Roxana Chase, of
Fitzwilliam, an insane woman who has
been missing since October last, was
found on the 18th inst, in the woods
near "Sip Pond" She had probably
wandered away and died of exhaus
ton and starvation.
Frank Howe, a lad II or Is year;
of age, living in Haverhill, went GU
hunting a week ago last Sunday, anc
by an accidental discharge of his gun
had his whole hand blown off He
will probably lose his arm and per
haps his life. This is another warn
ing to Sabbath breakers.
In many parts OF Indiana the pota
zoe bugs are making fearful havoc
among the potatoes and tomatoes
and in some instances they have de
voured the green leaves of the rec
pepper.
Noxubee county, Mississippi, ha
had the champion hail storm. Tn
stones were the size of a mans head
and it is graphically remarked, "where
ever the tornado OF frozen missile
touched field, universal ruin follow
ed"
The quarrel between Gov Reid o.
Florida, and the state Legislature ha
resulted in a virtual reputation Of
the state debt, the governor navin
arranged with the state treasurer t
refuse to pay the interest accruing o.
large amount of bonds issued by
rectiou of the legislature for the pul
pose OF carrying on the state bushes.
Paris trades to the figure Of 5000
100000 francs year, gives employ
meat 10 100000 workpeople, and pay
2,OOO,000,000 francs in wages. Their
are 1000 goldsmlthS and jeweIler
who annually dispose OF 30O.OO0,0O
Traces worth. &c, aud the 5lighte,
political agitation affects all this pc,
pie and all this wealth.
1t is said that a house in Chicag
. lIa- sent out an agent to China TO Co
tract for fifty thousand Chinese, to |
sent East by the railroad from Sa
r. Francisco. They are needed to MOI
T. the southern plantations. 1t is qui
X. probable that, for the next three year
n the Increase Of Chinese populate
: viii he limited only by the means {
: transportation.
INDIAN MAssACREE.- Fort Smi
n special dispatch to the Chicago Tri
g unc says a party OF $50 Cheyenn,
5 attacked an unprotected settlemer
e 100 miles west of Topeka, on Sundf
n morning. They came toward evenin
d under the pretense of friendship, al
d mas5acred thirteen men, women. al
+ children. The women were outrage
, and their bodies horribly mutilated.
d In Watertown, Wis, there is be
e thirteen years Of age. who Guido
o Tom Thumb-even in Toms forte
e littleness. He is 30 10 inches
{ height and weighs only eighteen Ii
When seven months old he was
large as children Of that age ordinG
= lily are, but from that time he CEASE
to grow, and has gained only two II
+ Ia weight III twelve years, He b
J. one club foot and no thumbs.
p BARRETT's VEGETABLE HAIR REST
: RATIvE.-The amount of attention
= slowed upon the human hair is son
! thing marvellous to contemplate
Poets have made it the burden
e many a sweet refrain, and bloomi
d maidens Of many anxious though
=. and sleepless nights. At last, howe
n er, the question of how to obtain, al
# once obtained, bow to retain beau
,e full head Of luxuriant and glossy la
r has been set at rest, by the introdI
E. ton Of "Barrett's Vegetable Hair +
,e storative" into general use. This a
d mirable preparation needs only to
e. tried to be never denied place in t
% toilet.-Cincinnati Daily Gazette.
s. If Johnson's Amodyne Liniment
half as valuable as people say it is,
family should be without it. Certa
C ly no person, be he Lawyer, Doct
ar Minister, or of any other protest.,
re should start on a journey without
r No Sailor, Fisherman, or Woodsm
le should be without it. In fact ii
u needed wherever there is an Ac
lie Sprain, Cut, Bruise, Cough, or Col,
as Farmers and "Horse Men," are c.
tinually enquiring, what we know
90 the utility Of "Sheridan's Cava
50 Condition Powders" and in reply
"a. would say, through the columns of
%. Standard that we have heard fir
hun0radS who have mead tbon, =,