Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-09
Miscellaneous Items.

The Western corn crop is turning out
better than was expected.
A man in St Louis wants divorce be-
cause she lets the cat eat his supper.
Toledo will ship 5000, 900 slaves to Phil
adelphia this year.
There are over 40, 900 gallons of lager
beer brewed in Washington weekly.
jeff Davis says hewill never visit Wash
ington again. Too bad.
A travelling menagerie in Pennsylvania |
has "COwawalpos" on exhibition.
\ Nevada editor looks into nest of rat
tlesnakes from his bedroom window.
Corn stalks, Is feet 10 inches high, were
on exhibition at the Marysville (Cal.J fair.
One late issue of the London Times con-
tanned 10000 advertisements from as many
different persons.
Gassett, the county clerk of Cook (Chi-
cago) county, gets fees and salary amount
ing to nearly 100000.
Belle Boyd, the notorious rebel spy, has
been sent to the California State insane
asylum.
The valuation of the State of Indiana is
5143, AS, 653. The valuation of Boston is
S549, 81 500.
1t is probable that an American discov-
cred Columbus before Columbus discover
ed America.
They have musical genius in Roches-
ter, who whistles the first and second parts
of a tune at the same time.
A Norfolk va paper says, There is a
man in this city so ugly that with six
frowns he can kill bull dog"
The total value of all the horses in TWEEN
ty-one Northern States in 1865, was over
three hundred millions of dollars.
A San Franciscan wanted to work TWEEN
! ty-fOHr hours a day, and his friends sent
him to the lunatic asylum.
| The Windsor and Annapolis railroad,
recently opened in Nova Scotia, has been
| equipped its entire length with Fairbanks
| Standard Scales.
E. H. Wade Is n Tennessee gentleman
who is the father Of p children by three
wives, and vet not contented, has married
again.
The women of Murfreesboro are raising
a fund of $4,000 with which TO erect mon
ument to the 2000 confederate dead in Muir
freesboro cemetery.
Albert D...Pike, the Fitchburg wife muir
deler, was sentenced at Worcester, Thurs
day, to three years in the state prison for
adultery. He pleaded guilty.
young wife of Il, in Chicago, has got
a divorce. She married fellow who said
he had $500, GOO, when he hadn't cent
Besides that, he pinched her.
Miss Baylor, aged 81 years, was found
Thursday near Sharon, Va, in Bland Co.,
with her throat cut The murderer is I'M
known.
Cleveland, Ohio, contains sixty-two
churches, and it is said that there are but
four cities in Europe which contain more
than this. Boston has one hundred and
thirty.
Lung fever, common cold, catarrh fever,
and nasal discharge of brownish color in
horses, may be checked at once by liberal
use of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Pow
ders.
\ Roman Catholic priest in Bolivia
municated by his Bishop, who has ordered
him to be imprisoned until he should ab.
jure masonry and fulfill the penance i'm
posed upon him."
The sleeping girl in Kentucky is NO
dead, but still sleeping, and so soundly that
according to a local paper, not the mos
terrible shock of an earthquake or the loud
est thunders of heaven could arouse her.
Nathan I'VE of Stoddard, y. H., 73year
of age, and in comfortable circumstances
committed suicide by hanging last Sunday
He was agreat sufferer from asthma, which
is supposed to have induced him to MAKE
: way with himself
: In Dakotah territory nearly a million
: acres of land have been taken up by actua
, settlers, under the preemptiOn and home
stead laws, since last spring. immigration
continues, and among the late arrivals is
: colony of farmers from Wisconsin.
The sweetest word in our language i
health. At the first indication of disease
4 use we'll known and approved remedies
, For dyspepsia or indigestion, use 'Parson'
Purgative Pills" For coughs, colds, sor
or lame stomach, use 'Johnson's AnOdyn
e Liniment"
During the past fiscal year 760,0O0,0 90
: letters passed through the mails of tn
e United States, being an increase of 40 600
r 600 over any previous year. This is abou
20 letters per head for every man, woma
and child in the United States.
1t appears that ancient maps of Afric
. contain the great lakes about which ther
n has been so much talk of late years, as ney
n discoveries, with the Nile flowing into then
: There is one in the Doges palace at Ven
! ice which has these lakes on it and tn
course of the Nile.
The tusks of mastodon were found i
l. the bed of Straight Greek, Ohio, last weel
e One of them is entire and the other nearl
: so. They each measure three and One-ha
It feet long and twenty and one-half incht
: in circumference. The perfect one weigh
: nearly fifty pounds.
o A clergyman writing to friend says
n ''My voyage to Europe is indefinitely pos
g poned. | have discovered the fountain {
j health on this side of the Atlantic. Thre
q bottles of the Peruvian Syrup have rescue
q me from the fangs of the iend dyspepsia.
% Dyspeptics should drink from this fountain
n Portland, Me-, claims the CHAMPIONSHIP
l. of the world on old folks. 1t has over Is
inhabitants above II years of age, and
y business firms which have not change
e. their style for the past quarter ola centur,
n The Kanaks are fond of baked French
)t men. They cut off the Frenchman's hea,
10 hang him up by the heels to let the bloc
:. run out, cut into pieces foot long, wrap
: leaves with cocoanuts and bananas, an
y bake after the manner of Rhode Islam
t. CLANS
lie Antoine Maurer, who was convicted la
l. week and sentenced to be hanged for th
q, murder of Joachim Furrter in Spring Va
n ley, Roekland county, n. Y, has made
"A confession, stating that he and compan
D ion Whose name he refuses to divulge
st committed the murder for Furrter's none,
One T. r. Freeman, convicted last wee
of deliberate murder in Missouri, whe
is asked why sentence of death should not b
N pronounced upon him, said: 1--WE NJ
1 much to say. Suppose, if | am to be hung
| will be hung innocent. There is sol
l. of grudge against me. Don't care for my
ut self; have some little children that I'd lik
W to have raised. Nothing more at present.
4 Boston has philanthropst who visit
le the prisons. Said he to prisoner: "Mos
! of your friends think that your sentenc
:, was excessive; nothing like it was eve
u known" "Yes, | suppose So" was tn
re prisoners reply; but then, you know, ey
h erything has gone up since the war;