Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-02

A thoroughly reliable gentleman,
who breakfasted with Grant the other
day, came away full of waffies-but
no cabinet information to speak OF.
A Chicago paper argues that fash
ionable women ought not to he allow
ed to vote. Make that the test, and
what woman would appear at the
polls?
Sing Sing IN. " state prison,
which contains only 1900 cells, has
1926 prisoners, and new ones are ar
irving daily.
An Augusta, Me-, paper says that
when three stars can be recognized
in the armament at night the city
lamps are ordered to be put out. Re
markable economy!
Mr.. Aipheus Adams of New Bed
ford died on Tuesday of last week,
aged 81, and on Monday last, Abigail,
his wife, aged SO, also died.
The bank of Baltimore has lost a
clerk who has been in its service for
sixty four years.
A negro was sent to Jail in Peters
burg, Va, the other day, for sixty
days, tor stealing seven ears of corn.
Baltimore has new Masonic TEN
pie nearly completed, that will cost
$360000, with the land, which cost
100000
A black snake FIVE feet four inches
long was found crawling in the snow
at Montague, Ma s., on the 9th inst.
and killed.
The coffin which contained the re
mains of Mrs. Surratt, from the day
OF her execution until they were re
moved few days ago, has been de
nolished and divided by the relic
hunters.
Capt. E. B. Ward of Detroit, Mich.
the champion fnancier, has lately beer
divorced, on the petition Of his wife
on the ground of adultery. Alimon.
of $4,000 yearly was awarded, anC
no defense was made.
West Virginia has built three thous
and school houses within a year
and very few are substitutes for oil,
ones.
One district in Kentucky has nine
ty-four distilleries, of which twenty
five were in operation in January
The product of seventeen of them wa
$4,000 gallons Of whiskey.
A contemporary justly wonder
why, now that envelopes for letter
are in universal use, paper maker
continue TO rule writing paper on tire
sides only.
A Wild woman who was capture
9 from The Indians on the Plains wa
brought into Jefferson City, No, o
the 18th inst, by detachment of til
, til.h L. ;. infantry. She was hal
clad and nearly demented, and coul
give no account of herself further tina
that her name was Sarah Griffin, an
}, thai she came from Ireland. 1t
/ supposed that she was carried Of
: macy years ago by the Savages an
!. has lost her reason by ill-treatment,
: IL is stated that in the bank of En-
+ laud sixty folio volumes Or ledger
y are daily filled with writing in kee
ing the accounts. To produce thes
sixty volumes, the paper having bee
+ previously manufactured .clsewher
: eight men, three steam presses an
: two hand presses are continually keI
going within the bank.
J. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A PRIs0NE
y New YORK, Feb. 25,-Donati N
e gallo, the Italian recently c0nvictt
Of the murder of John Ryland, attem
!, ted TO commit suicide last night in tt
t rombS by cutting his throat wi
Il pieces Of broken glass. The fact ";
discovered this morning by the office
conveying him to Sing Sing, who,
YonkerS, noticing the deadly paIor {
his face, removed the neckcloth al
v discovered the wound. The par
> reached Sing Sing at 4 O'Clock tt
morning, and Magaldo was deIiverC
! to the warden evidently in a dyil
: condition.
The fungus" of Siberia and Mort
; ern Asia supplies the means of into
ication to 4OO0O,000 people. Opiu
u III Southern Asia enables 100000 pc
" pie to get drunk. Persia, lndia, Tt
le key and Africa, with 100000
le people, use hasheesh. Cocoa is DO
v uIar IN South America betel pepp
among the Pacific and Indian Ocear