Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-02
Miscellaneous Items.
Maryland farmers are blowing.

miscellaneous Items.
Maryland farmers are blowing.
Bee cholera prevails in Tennessee.
Americans use a million postage
stamps year.
The Office hunters are focking to
Washington.
Kentucky has never lost a cent by
defalcation.
Boston welcomed 1884 little Bos-
tonians last year.
Albany is making four huge fire.
bells for Boston.
Pickpockets attend church profess
sionally in Chicago.
Shad sell in Goldsborough, N. c.,
for one dollar a pair.
The only woman in Boise city, Ida
no, is physician.
A conspiracy to rob the Mazatlan
mint has been frustrated.
The Nevada tanners are to have a
parade and ball, March 4.
One CINCINNATI firm is said to be
making $500 velocipedes a week.
Excellent chalk deposits have been
found in Fayette county, Ind.
A Wyoming valley blacksmith first
used anthracite coal in 1T08.
Twenty rebels were lately caught
in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and shot.
The "oId settlers" of Rock Island
held meeting on the 1st inst.
The New York Sun was the first
paper printed by steam in this coun-
try.
Fifteen million feet of lumber are
manufactured at Lowell annually.
During 1868 England imported
nearly G180,000 worth of works OF
art.
Oroville, Cal, has built an "agri-
cultural locomotive" or steam plow.
The old court house at Portland.
Me-. built in 1875, is being torn down.
Montreal had nearly five hundred
deaths from small pox in January.
Horses to the number of 4,044
were killed for food in Berlin during
1868.
The Nebraska senate has voted
down the abolition of capital punish
mcnt.
The Irish Episcopal Bishops have
been denied permission to hold a con-
vocation.
The conspirator Benitez, who at
tempted the life of President Juarez,
has been shot.
The Oregon Legislature forbids
the employment of Cinnamon on the
public works.
The Naumkeag Steam Mills, Salem,
Mass, produced IL 100000 yards of
cloth in 1868.
A Hebrew Bible, printed on parch-
ment in 1491 or 1892, recently sold
in London for $500.
Tons of perch are caught in Great
Pond, Edgartown, Mass, for the New
York market.
1t is thought that over million of
acres of new prairie will be cultivated
in Iowa this year.
The Kansas Agricultural College
has seventy-one lady and ninety-seven
gentlemen students.
A letter-box in Pennington, Me-,
was recently filled with water and
froze solid, letters and all.
An advertisement in New York
daily reads: Indian meal is too
heating. What will you do ?"
There is a movements in Mexico,
under direction of Quiroga and other
generals, in favor of Santa Anna.
Avigorous application of otleath.
er was Missouri physicians success
! full prescription for delirium tremens.
A Minnesota minister has been pre-
sented with a watch-guard made from
one hair from each lady parishioner.
JOSH BILLINGS ON THE ROOSTER
Josh Billings has joined the Woman s
Rights movement. He says:
Yu kant git rooster to pay emmy
attenshun to yung chicken; they
spend their time in Growing, strutting,
and occasionally find worm, which
) they make a remarkable fuss over,
> calling their wives from a distance,
: apparently tew treat them, but just
az the hens git there, the cuss bends
: over and gobbles up the morsel.
II Just like man for all the world.