Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-10-19
Miscellaneous Items.
The hinder pest-the Grecian bend.

The hinder pe.t-the Grecian bend.
Brick Pomeroy is dangerously i'll.
Wisconsin has grown a squash vine 40
feet long.
In 1898, Chicago had just twcnty-six
voters.
Emigration to the West is largely on the
increase.
Brigham Youngis called the richest man
in America.
Iowa has multiplied its population by
one hundred in thirty-five years.
A fire in San Francisco yesterday de-
str5ycd 100000 worth Of property.
An Iowa orchard contains sixty thous-
and bearing apple trees.
The bank of Montreal, Canada, loses
| $40 600 from recent detalcations.
Seizures of stills continue in Virginia.
| AT the last accounts, forty stills had been
/ taken and almost as many distillers.
Prince Napoleon has an income from his
Swiss estate of $4,000 francs, which he
says he keeps gin case of accident"
In the California Senate the democrats
have IA majority, and in the House %, or
ON joint ballot, majority of sixty-six.
Some one calls Sherman the coming
man. whereupon a Georgia journal hopes
that he is not coming that way again
Horace Greeley has accepted the nomi-
nation for comptroller Of the State of New
York.
4 Western mother thought her little
| child had been guilty Of cruelty to a dog,
and whipped it until the little one tainted
from exhaustion.
The Proof-Shcet estimates that there are
printed in States and Territories 542 daily
and 4, 42j weekly papers The number of
monthly publications is 227. Total 5,244
Utah had a severe earthquake shock on
the evening Of October1 The Saints need
q pretty severe shaking, that they may be
brought 60 reflect on their sins.
An Indiana town boasts giant who has
by his great size vanquished the ague. That
embarrassing affection attacked him the
other day and worked four DAYS to shake
him all over, but failed and left in disgust
Ireland's potato crop is the best that has
been known for many years. Irish potatoes
are so good that this news is doubly good.
Engand's potato crop is reported a COM
paratiye failure.
Sitka already experiences the blessings OF
annexation to the United States. Her pop
ulation hes increased to six hundred and
eighty, and the number of her grogshops
to sixty.
According to Rev. DR.. Osgood, gorgeous
, " dressed bcadlcs, with sword and staff
move around in the German churches, anC
give the faithful poke by way Of ,rebukC
/ when they twist their heads around to looE
= at the ladies or see who is coming in.
e The workmen in the Fulton street sewer
i near Lincoln street, Chicago found a ceda
To- swamp II feet below the surface, lately
= Layers Of sand and rotten leaves wer
n found, showing the annual fall of iolag
n and the drifting Of the sand.
Gold has been discovered in Montgom
cry county, Maryland, and in a very quee
way. little fellow who was driving som
COWS picked up a stone to throw at then
when 10! the pebble was found to be COL
d nugget worth $3.50.
n In McHenry. county, Illinois, there ar
a eleven cheese factories, which use the mil
= of about 3400 cows, and the past seaso
=, have made about 10000 pounds
Ii cheese. In addition there are a number
private diaries.
/. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is still at Franl
N fort, Germany, living in great retiremen
in and in very unpretending quarters. 81
ne sees but few persons, and these general
r American ladies whom she knew durir
Mr.. Lincoln's administration.
A Frenchman tested his wife's affectiC
by jumping from a New York ferry-bOa
10 Saturday, and is now perfectly Statistic
rs Her affection stood the test without mu
O. muir, and she said, Let him go-he's {
lis old fool"
lis HAYS, the Texan outlaw, committed ST
IT. eide in Collin county, in that state, on Il
no 10th of September. 1t is supposed Ha
" was leader of the gang that assaulted Jud
Hart.
Koopmanschoop, the Chinese contract
ITS is flying around all about the country. |
TO- has contracts on hand already for delivC
:, ing ten thousand Cinnamon, to work
NJ five years, and then renew their contract
he return home as they choose.
ne The betting on the Tennessee Senator
we election stands as follows: Andy Johnsc
vs., $500; Emerson Ethridge. S225; and A.
MS p. Nicholson, SIP. On the general b,
Mo ting the ex-president stands at two to o
'lo against the field.
.bo Mrs. Carter, Il colored woman, aged
~" years, died in Des Moines, Iowa, on t
led 26th ult. The mother of this aged won;
nj who was one hundred and twelce years
re- last July, was present, and witnessed I
i death Of her daughter This remarkal
- woman is still in the possession of the f;
my ulties of mind and body, was born in
the eastern part of Virginia. and was a sla
{ is until her seventy-fifth year
ars The hide ola beeve recently slau.
aid tered in Texas measured Z feet
ter length by Is in width, and weigh
hat when green 263 pounds. The a
~ ~ NAL weighed 3717 pounds.