Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-27
Miscellaneous Items.

Napoleon is the best horseman
among European sovereigns.
New York drinks 2OO,OOO,OOO
glasses of lager year.
The New Hampshire Agricultural
College, has six instructors and three
students.
Fire engine companies in New Or
leans contest publicly for prizes on
Sunday.
Ten per cent. of the population of
the city of Mexico has been in prison
the past year.
Painting in a gentlemans arms is a
shrewd dodge of female pickpockets
in the west.
Just in time-A woman over one
hundred years old was recently con-
verted at a revival meeting in Iowa.
A negro woman in Alabama had
twins lately, one of which was black
and the other white.
The London Saturday Review says
that the New York city government
is the most corrupt body in the CIV
ilized world"
James Cassels, an Englishman, has
been imprisoned in Portugal for hold
ing religious meetings at his own house
in Oporto.
Benjamin P. Johnson, Secretary Of
the New York State Agricultural So
ciety, died at Albany on Monday, aged
76.
At a recent fire in Helena, Monta.
ma, water being scarce, barrels of ci.
der and beer were poured upon the
flames, which licked them up with
great satisfaction.
A woman has been elected Com
missioner of Highways at Bonus
Boone county, H..
The Springfield Republican says
the income returns of the 10th Mass
district are 40 per cent. larger thar
they were last year.
My son." said an anxious father
4" what makes you use that nasty to
bacco?" ?" The boy, declining to consid
er the question in the spirit in which
it was asked, replied, "To get the
juice"
In the Michigan State Prison a
Jackson, during 1868, twenty-sever
convicts were punished with whips
thirty-four with paddle, forty-eigh
by being put in dark cell and six b.
being placed on bread and water diet
A number of men, directed by {
spiritualistic medium, have been fo
some time engaged in making an ex
cavation in Durgin's cave in Mt. Des
ert, Me-, after the buried treasures 0
Capt. Kidd, &c, which have so lon,
disturbed the dreams of the none
diggers, but no yellow deposits hav
yet been found.
Vesuvius, according to the jour
nails of Naples, has not returned t
the state of rest which usually follow
extensive eruptions. Columns o
smoke are still rising from the crs
ters and the assures, and the lava
still warm, though no eruption has ia
ken place for over month.
GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE SUI
RENDER OF JoHNsToN.-NEw YoRE
April 14.-General Sherman, in lei
ter to-day, denies that Lincoln, Breck
enridge or any one else had anythin
to do with the terms he himself wrot
relative to the surrender of Johnston
A little girl was very fond of preacl
ing to her dolls. Her mother hear
her one day reproving one of thel
for being so wicked. "Oh, you naught
! sinful child" said she, shaking th
T! waxen limbs; 'you'll go to the lake o
birthstone, and you won't burn up
: you'll just sizzle. ,a ~ FER, 5ar-s
$ In one of the rural towns in Rhod
Island through which swept recer
revival wave, there dwells a fathe
: and three sons, all of whom had Ion
J voted the democratic ticket. But {
{ the last election the father brougl
T but one son with him, and to querie
!, about the others, said with a mournfl
!. headshake, aThey don't vote with |
: any more; they've experienced reliI
ion."