Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS Items.
Gold is advancing.

Gold is advancing. /,
The Canadians fear another Fenian raid.
1t cost S453, S24 to pave Broadway, n. Y.
Paris INDUCES in five duels every morn
ing.
England is sending elephant-plows to
India:
A gun at Fortress Mot,fee throws a / 100
pound ball.
San Francisco has had thirty-nlile cases
of suicide in year.
The Sandwich Islands are to import
$50, 900 worth of Coolies.
Seward thinks the people of Alaska need
a territorial government.
A girlnineteen years old owns and works
! a hundfed-acre farm in Iowa.
Two years more Of drilling will complete
the tunnel through the Alps.
An English chemist has discovered a
preparation to petrify human bodies.
A respectable" Mississippian lately |.
! killed another about some fried chicken.
Massachusetts, contains a Catholic popu- |
lation of $50, 900 souls.
Brick Pomeroy won $1,000 on the
Oxford crew.
A California savant predicts a mighty
shaking up of earthly things, in September
or October.
A Boston tooth pick factory has the mo-
nOpOly of the business, and sells 4, 100000
or 5,OOO,0 per day.
The price paid for the Boston Advertiser,
a few days ago, was S225,000. Six years
ago, the paper sold for 100000.
The name of one creek on the Pacific
Railroad is "Man- wounded-in -the-face-
Notwithstanding Creek"
Mrs. Sarah Boyle and daughter were
found in basementin Thirty-ninth street,
New York, last Sunday, starved to death.
The Baptists in Germany have increased
to ninety-six churches and over 1000
members.
1t is said that there is not vessel Of any
considerable size now building in New
York.
They have a coin in China, fifteen of
which equal cent. Wouldn't they be nice
to carry to church .-Erchangc
According to the New York Democrat
% papers have been started in New York
since 1910, all Of which have died, at an
expense of S9,000,0 900.
An Indiana editor through whose pre-
: cincts the new fast train runs, complains
that there is little too much hill con
nected with it."
There is said to be young lady in JEFF
/, fersonyiile who can easily swim across the
Ohio river and back again. without stop
ping to rest.
5 There are in England and Wales $4,000
: known thieves and depredators, $4,000
tramps, and 5000 houses of ill-fame, Of
c which last 1900 are in London.
: An amusing novelty is street-refector,
! which is attached to the window, enabling
: persons in the house to watch the passers-
= by without being seen from without.
:, 4 diving soldier few days since be-
d queathed his all, $40, TO the State Of New
# jersey, in gratitude for the kind treatment
It it had bestowed upon him during his sick
;, ness.
! The number of homicides in Southern
Italy, last year, was 1894 to every 100000
= inhabitants or ten times the proportion in
y, England, and more than a hundred times
i that in Belgium.
On Tuesday last a twelve-year-old son o
! DR.. Wm. b. Carpenter Of Leavenworth
Kansas. killed a servant girl by the acct
l. dental discharge of a gun. The top of tn,
y girls head was blown completely off,
&c Missionaries and others soiourning il
Of foreign lands should not fail to take witt
them a good supply of Johnson's Ano
. dyne Liniment." 1t Is the most reliable
n medicine for all purposes there is in tn
h. world.
y, Contagious diseases, such as horse all
n. glander, &c, may be prevented by the us
mt of Sheridan's Cavalary Condition Pow
IN ders." Persons travelling with Horses shoul,
re take note of this.
"a George Francis Train lately told tn
r. Mormons at Salt Lake that they were tn
N most outraged people on the face Of tn
he earth, and if the Government dared to in
a. terfere with any ftheir notions they mus
+ fight.
pr, The New York Herald says The Obi
at contest i, really between Grant and hi
~ IOllCN. DdthGl bN lllt ItluDilCIH IdlbN Z
BE the North, and by both parties in the South
Ia on the one side, and Pendleton for lS7.
mt on the Democratic platform of 1868 on tn
IN other side Uphill work this for Pendleto
all in Ohio in 1869. Rosecranz saw it at
ay glance and retired.
on The Wool CROP OF MICHIGAN.-Th
W. Detroit Tribune has statistics going to sho
,ra that the wool product of 1868 was frol
m 1900, 900 to 1880 600 pounds. while I'll
af product of 1869 is only 10 500 900 to /
bt 600, 600 pounds The product of the pre-
70. ent year was marketedm more prompt
mr. than that of last year, and it is estimate
c+ that not more than ten or fifteen per cen
orb of the years clip now remains in the han'
NV of the farmers.
of HORRIBLE DEATH.--John Miller,
)ut Jefferson, aged % years, met with horr
so bic death on the evening of the third ins
er- He was driving home from Lancaster in
Will light skeleton gig, and was badly intoXica
YES ed When about a mile beyond the Waur
the beck House, the gig jostled into a mi
out hole, causing AIiller's legs to slip throu:
lty the iron braces made as rests for the tet
while his body fell over the Cross-bar,
head close to the horses heels. In ii
the condition, the horse ran with him about
of mile, hnallY stopping AT house by |
md wayside. The skull of the unfortuna
lbs man was severely fractured, and complete
m scalped where the horses heels had hit
nm He died after twenty-fOur hours unco
the sciousness.-LiHlet0n Republic
and MALPRACTICE CAsE.-Among the ca,
ltty tried at Lancaster, at the August term
per the Supreme Court, was one which eXcit
gest considerable interest in the northern p
or of Coos County 1t was an action broue
by Nehemiah H. Flanders against Haz
an Bedel and Joseph E. Lombard, execut
this of the late Lyman Lombard, and was
lent appeal from the Commissioners report q
the allowing the claim of plaintiff against
net ceased, for alleged malpractice in his p
otal fessiOn as physician and surgeon.
plaintiff disIocated his ankle in 1861, b.
fall from a staging and DR.. Lombard, I'll
-, 70 years old, was Immediately sent for a
pad undertook to set it. The limb was not
2ihg however, but merely bandaged with splir
Law and Mr.. Flanders is crippled for life.
lrfd good deal of evidence was introduced
In show that the doctor was not to blame,
~ the jury thought he was, returning a V
saw diet for the plaintiff of 81, 51666l.- lit
WIZ ton Republic.
eve DoN CARLOS OF SPAIN.-A Madrid
lOl- ter SAWS that If is not only a OupStiOu whe