Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
+ Florida has admitted Negro to the bar.
Yates takes his juIeps without straw.
A nine cent stamp is now called for.
Anna Dickinson is lecturing III Califor-
MIA. Han
Willard Fillmore and Thurlow Weed are
at Saratoga.
John Bright is expected in America. in
a few months
Steam has been defined as bucket of
water in tremendous perspiration.
White flannel shirts are affected by the
swells at the seaside.
Lord Mayo has decided that Hindoos
may be made Free Masons.
The Viceroy of Egypt gave away $50, 900
in London.
Madame Sass. received $4,000 necklace
from the Viceroy.
Kentucky has snake with two heads
and no tail
There are ten Indians to one Russian in
Alaska.
The brakemen on the Swedish railways
are instructed in surgery and bandaging.
The postmaster of San Francisco gives
bonds Of $500, 000-the highest given.
The leader of recent camp meeting in
Ohio announced, 'The brother-in-law of
president Grant will now lead us in prayer"
The fishing at Au-sau-au-qu n-go-
mon-go-t on-go lake, in Oxford county, Me.
is reported as first rate.
The Alaska Times, printed at Sitka,
boasts of representing more territory than
any other paper in the world.
The collection of old bones on the battle
fields of Virginia, to be used as fertilizers,
is now prosecuted as regular business.
1t cost just S20S to try a negro at Column
bus, Georgia, for stealing chicken valued
at 81 cents.
A white girl twelve years old, and col
Ored girl, eleven years old, were kidnap-
ped in New Haven on Wednesday evening.
The grand jury of Owen county, KY, has
presented true bill of witchcraft against
an aged woman. .. s...
1t is said that Sunday was the first tim e
in fifty years that it has not rained on the
25th of July.
80 great has been the clanship of Scot
land, that $50 surnames represent 3,000,-
600, or one-half of her inhabitants.
There is talk of enforcing the English
laws against betting, as the only way to
save the peerage from financial extinction.
An Austrian editor has been fined five
forms for calling Andrew johnson the
most corrupt scoundrel in America.
i In Great Britain, to population of "a,
$685. goo persons, there are sc, 200 ministers
of all denominations, 34,7OO churches and
chapels
The Dixon illinois Democrat says that
a tombstone in the cemetery in that city
bears simply the suggestive epitaph :
''Gone up"
A young gentleman of Logansport, Ill.
has sued barber for spelling his nous
tache in trying to color it, and laid hi,
damages at $50.
''Why should we celebrate Washington.
birth day more than mine?" asked a teach
er. Because he never told lie :" shouted
, little boy.
Ezra Streeter of Westmoreland, n. H.
hung himself on the 18th inst Long con
tinued bodily infrmity is thought to hav'
melted the act. He was Ga years of age.
e A Georgia boy, twelve years old, perfect
0 ly well and healthy in other respects, i
able to breathe only about four times
/ a minute. His case puzzles the doctors.
A farmer at Fort Smith, Arkansas, re
Gently plowcd up a key containing 5000
;, in Spanish silver dollars of the date OF
Y about 1906. and American half dollars o.
;, old date. The keg was probably burie
twenty or thirty years ago.
The car of Russia, by recent ukast
n has abolished at one sweep the hereditar
+ character of the Russian priesthood, a bod
e numbering, with their families, not les
l than seven hundred thousand.
/ The heat in California was so great o
st the last days of June that the grape Gro
/ was injured to the extent of several thou,
- and dollars.
n Chicago has company for distilling a
l. cohol and extracting soap grease from cit
- garbage. Each barrel of swill will produC
n three pounds of grease and four gallons o
E. proof spirits.
,o The number of Poles exiled and impri!
" oned for participating in the last rebellio
IN amounts to 10000, most of whom wei
$ sent to Siberia.
&c Daniel Kinsley of Auburn, Me-, SO yea
in of age, has pair of boots So years OLE
ct which he still wears on festal occasion
Is Is and sound in every particular.
lg Recently twenty-eight young Chimes
ht have arrived at Toulon, from Cochin CHR
y for the purpose of studying theology in tt
~ ~ city of Marseilles.
re The atrocities committed by the Spar
e. iards in Cuba are horrible. One captain {
"a volunteers boasts of having himself mu
d. dered more than 200 defenceless victims.
u Some narrow souled person has discove
- ed that Rev. Mr. Haleck, who was killt
40 on the Erie railroad recently, was the vi
us tim ola special providence because he WI
u in the smoking car.
fe Tennessee contains 37,700,99 acres {
as land, valued at $170,0S4, 054-other pro
en- erty valued at $37, 959, 1859. The aggr
- gate value of all the property owned by Il
state is S207 ,O53, 969,69.
h The editor of the Waterbury, (Ct.) Anne
in lean telegraphed the other day to COL
I'll. Fem, at Plymouth: "Send us fl
particulars of the food" Fem replie
re- You'll find them in Genesis"
Oh A snake sixteen feet long and propc
tionately large, which has been affrighte
tie ing people near Columbus, o., was d
H. patched last week by two boys whom
es- had chased for half mile
W The closest calculations made by t