Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-05-11
Miscellaneous Items.
Andrew Johnson is said to be worth
$4,000.

Ii IL SalO tnat Tue AlnS OF OWeutn
writes a poem every day, and they
are all pretty good.
The way of transgressors is hard.
A young lady in California broke her
neck while resisting the attempt of a
young man to kiss her.
Butler will be out in a day or two
against Summers Ala bama speech.
The Kentucky trotting horse "Tat-
tier" has been sold to New Yorker
for $1,000.
Texas has now within her border
100000 head of cattle, and exports
annually 1000 beeves.
A lynx was killed at Rouses Point
on the 23d of April.
A sweet potato from Cuba is said
to weigh 40 pounds and is "a inches
long.
Baron Rothschild's estate, which
has just been settled up, amounted to
$40, 100000 in gold.
Two Wesleyan ministers have been
travelling unmolested through China.
Twenty-six Cinnamon attend the
Bible class of Methodist church, at
Santa Clara, California. ...
The national debt statement for
May will show $2,OOO,OOO reduction
on the debt, last month.
The pew-rent of Grace church il N.
Y. city the past year amounted to
100000.
Massachusetts has had SIX Ministers
to England, the two Adamses, Ban
croft, Everett, Lawrence and Mot,
ley.
The ordinance of the Lords Supper
was publicly celebrated by the Prot
estants in Madrid, few weeks ago
for the first time since the reign oil
Phillip IL, more than $50 years ago.
Sixty-four candidates for member
ship in Plymouth church were propos.
ed by Mr.. Beecher on Sunday.
The Paris chiropodist who took out
a corn for the Nabob of Bengal charg
ed him $50.
Scandal is a bit of false money, anG
he who passes it frequently is as bad
as he who originally utters it.
ADVANCE IN GoLD.-Gold is higher
now than for four months, having ad
vanced five per cent. in a week, it'
present price being about 1856.
1t is said to cost the Methods
ministers OF this country q million dol
lars a year to remove from parish t.
parish.
Brown, of Minnesota, has attained
the climax of impudent infdelity. HI
not only left his wife to elope witt
another, but he stole his wife's clothe
for the other to wear.
Mrs. Jane Wilson persisted in tn
storm Saturday night on the highwa
in East Fairhaven, Mass. She wa
intoxicated when last seen alive.
The Richmond Wing has half col
umn of sales of land in Virginia, il
all cases to Northen men. 1t say
these lands have been purchased b
bona tide settlers, and not mere specl
lators.
The increase of convicts in the Ill
noiS State Penitentiary continues
The number on Saturday was 1854
and before the end of this week thcr
will probably be over 1300--the lal
gest number confined in any one pri;
on in the world.
Francis Crosby, 10 years old, wi
start upon pedestrian tour from Sa
Francisco to New York on the l5t
inst. He is an old hunter and trap
per.
John B. Wentworth of Salmon, \
FL. slaughtered a COW which dresse,
as follows: Meat, 965 pounds; Ia
low, 108; hide, IS. Total 1853.
Gen. Joe Lane, who was on tn
Democratic national ticket with Brec
kinridge in 1860, has joined the Re
man Catholic Church.
| The community of Miahawaka, Ind
are excited over the condition of
young German girl named Martin, liz
ing near that village, who has been te
weeks in a trance, with occasional Ii
cid intervals, during which, it is sale
she makes startling revelations. Th
doctor in charge pronounces it cata
lepsy.
The Portsmouth Chronicle say
for the last eighteen years Mr.. Isaia
Farwell has driven stage from tia
city to the neighboring towns o
Maine, and during that time has dri,
en- 157,752 miles, distance equal t
seven times around the world. Durin
twelve years of this time he only miss
ed four trips.
/ There are many natural causes tina
, are daily producing an injurious effec
: upon the hair, by slow but sure az
proaches. To those who are victim
of any disease of the scalp, a sure pr
ventive is public benefaction. Thi
= we are told, has been found in til
t discovery of the celebrated Barrett
? Vegetable Hair Restorative. no
| cester Spy.
The all-gone feeling which peopl
sometimes speak of, is caused by war
! of proper action of the liver and hear
These may be assisted, and the bowe
: regulated, by Parsons Pugatiue Phi
D in small doses
j Corn and Flour are staple articles
butnot more so than Johnson's Anodyn
; Lanament, where known. Il is goo
for children or adults, for any intern;
J soreness of the chest or bowels, an
; the best Pain Killer prepared, unds
whatever name.
: A Mrs. Arbuckle of Indiana draw
a pension for herself and sixteen chi