Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-02-23
Miscellaneous Items.

Eighteen convicts escaped from
Sing Sing prison last year of whom
only one was recaptured.
A Mrs. Blanchard, of Walpole, N.
H., who is nearly eighty years of age,
is cutting her third set of teeth.
SHOCKING MURDER.-On Friday
last a man and his wife, who lived
near St. Louis, went to the city on
business, leaving their little boy, eight
years of age at hUme with the hired
man. On their return they found
their house had been robbed, and a
short search revealed the dead body
of the boy, covered up under pile
of corn and a couple of sacks of
wheat. His hands and feet had been
tied, and the wheat then thrown over
him. The hired man is missing, and
is supposed to be the thief and muir
derer
THE PRESIDENTS AMNESTY Proc
LAMATIoN.-Washington, Feb. IT,
Mr.. Edmund8, from the Judiciary com
mittee, has reported on the presidents
message regarding his christmas am
nesty proclamation, that it was not
authorized by the constitution or laws.
Letters from Russia give gloomy
accounts of the situation in Lithuania.
The population is said to be perish
ing of cold and hunger, the mortality
in the government of Kowno reaching
from six to seven hundred daily. A
murrain is also apprehended.
Patrick Killela of Lee, known as
the blackberry man, and seventy years
old, went home very drunk from
wake Tuesday night, tried to get into
his house through a window, stuck
half way and died there.
The star Eta Argus, which a few
years ago rivalled Sirius in briIEancy,
is now scarcely visible on a dark
night, while the nebula round it has
greatly changed its form and augment
ed its brilliancy. 1t presents the most
remarkable astronomical phenomena
to be met with in the southern hemis-
phere.
A man from the interior of Penn
sylvania lost his pocket book a day
or two ago. a bystander saw the
thief, but refused to describe the pick
pocket. In explanation of this strange
refusal, he asked the victim "Why
did you charge me ten cents for a
drink of water when | was in the
army at Gettysburgh ?" There was
nothing more said after that.
DR.. Jules Hast has lately been ex-
pIOring a swamp in New Zealand for
the fossil bones of the dinorniS, the
gigantic bird which not very long ago
became extinct there. The largest
entire skeleton is over ten feet high,
and single bones have been found
which indicates an even greater size
The French papers are amusing
themselves over the old story about
an English woman who lost her little
boy, and on some one conSOling her
with the thought that he was happy
with the saints in Heaven, replied
'Oh, yes. he is in Heaven; but Tom
my always was shy boy, as shy can
be and he's now among perfect stran-
gers Oh dear! Oh DEAR"
Du Brunfant, in Paris, recently ex-
hibitcd articles made of spun glass,
such as head-dresses, watch chains,
curled and smooth ostrich feathers,
etc. The usual objections to glass
fabrics of brittleness does not apply
here. as the thread is as fine as a
spiders web. 1t is not inferior in
/, strength to the best wool, while far
exceeding it in beauty. The Aexibil-
J ity of the thread is such that it may
be worked in the sewing machine.
RECKLESS MURDER OF A CHILD
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. Michael
Kaufman, a German barber of this
city, shot little boy named Edward
Miller, last evening. The boy was
looking into Kaufman shop window
r and after being ordered away by
Kaufman, the latter fired a revolver
, through the window, killing the boy
: almost instantly. Kaufman narrow.
+, y e7odpUu iJnoTIrnS uy IuU oIOIAO'i7'
but was hurried off to Jail.
t DEATH OF A PRIZE FIGHTER-OUT.
RACES IN KENTUCKY-Louisville, KY
: Feb. 17.-Aaron Jones, a noted
prize fighter, died early yesterday
+ morning, at Leavenworth, Ind.
t Advices from Harlan county, KY.
, state that an armed party, headed by
S Lie Baker, and other desperadocs
t have been committing depredation'
y in the neighborhood of Mount Pleas
ant, and peaceable citizens have beer
driven from their homes. A few day
f since the party met David Middleton
s. on the road and shot him to pieces.
; A Mrs. Norms, Brentwood Eng
7 land) shopkeeper, recently expostula
G ted with some boys who were throw
q ing peas at her shop windows. On
e of these urchins snapped a pistol a
i the woman's head, when she droppe
y dead.
- Salaratus has caused trouble out ives
a A Wisconsin couple quarreled abou
- whether there should be salaratus
- "fapjacks," and applied for divorc,