Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-08
Miscellaneous Items.


about two hundred thousand Ameri-
cans in Europe.
A Woman's Suffrage Convention is
called to meet at Indianapolis on the
18th of June next.
General Mcclellan has written a
very able article on General Jomini
for the June Galaxy.
1t is computed that 100000 persons
are employed in different countries in
Europe getting out coal.
A French chemist has discovered
that the essence of turpentine is an
antidote for poisoning by phosphorus.
1t is stated that Mr.. Fisk has dis
continued bis libel suits against the
Springfield Republican and New York
Tribune.
Democratic politicians have got an
other cramp in the stomach They
have just found out that Texas con-
tains 10000 negro voters.
A convict in the Illinois prison
smuggled himself outside the other day
in coffin, having ousted the dead man
and nicely slowed him in a barrel
1t is not until the flower has fallen
off that the fruit begins to ripen. So
in life it is when the romance is past
that the practical usefulness begins.
The poorly paid public teachers of
North Germany have formed associa-
tions in some places, in order to raise
funds to enable teachers families to
emigrate to America.
Among the Court files at Taunton,
Mass, is the finding OF a Corouer's ju-
ry which concludes that "the said
-came to his death by visitation
of the aforesaid God
A man half white and half black
has arrived in New York from Arkan-
sas. One entire side of his body is
almost black as ebony, while the 9th.
er side is Of the pure Caucasian hue.
A Catholic priest has given a saw
ings bank in Charlestown, Mass, two
sums of fifty dollars each, received
through the confessional, and ac-
knowledged as taken from the bank
under false pretences.
At May-day celebration in Hous-
ton, child was bitten on the hand by
a rattle-snake. A heroic little girl
Immediately applied her lips to the
wound and sucked the poison out, thus
saving the others life.
During the past winter not fake
of snow fell in Portland, Oregon.
: Only three or four nights did ice form,
: and then only of the thickness of win
| dow glass. Sowing and planting
. were going on all winter.
In the Austrian empire about 3O,-
100000 barrels of wine, most of it
Hungary, worth their about 100000
900 forms 52,000,00O), are raised
every year, of which product only one
per cent. was exported in 1867.
Internal Revenue receipts for this
! month to date are $16,S62,292. Gus
toms receips from May II to the 22d
are as follows: Boston, $354,978; !;
New York, 81 ,S44, ,O36; Philadelphia,
: $124,O85; Bal imor ,$1O8,6s2 !;
New Orleans, from May IL to "a,
! $24l, $50; total, $2,673,451.
The wool clip of Iowa for this year
will not reach the figures OF last wear
, by at least 125,000 pounds. Three
hundred thousand pounds of wool
were shipped from Des Moines last
! year, besides supplying home demand ;
!, and the clip this season will barely
3 supply the Iowa factories.
' At Enterprise, Iowa, the other day,
= a woman entered beer shop where
! her husband was loa6ng, and, with a
e substantial piece of board padded him
D into the street. As they proceeded
!. homeward, she continued to apply the
/ lumber industriously, and particularly
emphatic was the last whack she gave
e him as he disappeared over the thresh-
;. old.
+ The influence of the American mis-.
: sion in some parts of Turkey has been
e so great, that in the majority of the
e American churches, the Scriptures in
e the modern version are regularly read
i. and expounded every Sabbath. A
It class of young natives recently gradu.
e ated from theological school at Mar
l. soyan, near the Black Sea, and SO
great was the demand for their servi-
J. ces, that it was extremely difficult to
r determine where they should be locat.
t ed SO as to satisfy the most urgent
+ calls.