Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-06
Miscellaneous Items.

General Fitzpatrick is to return to Chill.
Fall River has 523,90O spindles in oper-
alton.
There was quite a heavy earthquake in
the north of England on the 10th ult.
Hon. Abiah w. Palmer of Armenia, n.
Y. has been appointed Minister to Sweden.
A large emigration of Swiss colonists to
Tennessee IS reported.
The Arkansas Legislature has ratified
the Constitutional Amendment.
Delaware promises large peach crop
this year.
St Petersburgh, Russia, has eight hun
dred male and three thousand female teach
ers Of the piano.
Six hundred men are working at Provi-
dence on locomotives for the Pacific Rail
road.
1t is estimated that of every hundred Of
fice-seekers in Washington, ninety-nine
drew blanks
One thousand eight hundred and seven
ty-four buildings We're erected i'll New York
during 1868.
Bamboos have been imported from Chi
ma to California with a design to cultivate
them in that state.
Nevada is becoming interested in silk
culture. There are a million and a quar-
ter mulberry trees in the state.
The customary annual return Of om
old friends, the Seventeen year locust,
this summer, is already announced.
In one window of Trinity church, New
Haven, there are 10000 pieces Of stained
glass, each prepared and cut separately.
OF the 36.O00O00 acres of land in Hi
nois, q 100000 acres are improved, anC
10, ,O0O, 900 acres are under actual cultiva
ton.
Kansas boasts that its salt springs arr
ineXhaustible and produce the purest sal
to be obtained in the United States.
The Military Committee of the House
as now constituted, is believed to be in ia
vor of a yet more sweeping reduction OF
the army.
The Berkshire Mass Agricultural So
ciety has instructed its executive commit
! tee to take measures to protect farmer
against imposition, in the purchase OF com
merclal manures.
There are signs, says the Pittsburgh Dis
patch, Of great emigration Southwark II
the early spring. Many families are pre-
pairing to leave Pittsburgh ior Virginia
Kentucky, and Georgia.
The school bill, passed by the Louisian
legislature which provides for nike
schools, has become :. law, and the Cover
nor has appointed two negroes on the com
mission to carry it into effect.
Oregon begs two hundred and fifty sci
want girls to come and do its housework
wages S25 in gold per month, and frOr
four to ten suitors each.
Missouri is being rapidly settled, $50, 90
having been added to its population sine
the war. Large bodies of industrious In
migrants are taking up the land in tn
western counties.
Two thousand three hundred bills hav
been introduced in the Illinois Legislator
Iduring the present session. Such luxur
ant legislation is bad for the Taxpayer
but good for the State printers.
Several of the western papers, on the a
! sumption that Andrew Johnson was dea'
: have published biographies of that ind
vidual-some of them much more cOmpl
mentary to his character than could hay
been expected.
, Melbourn, Australia, has newspap,
printed in Chinese characters, edited by 9
Algerine and corrected by a native of Blu
nos Ayres.
In Bulgaria, when a person dies, on
the women wear mourning. They EXPIRE
their grief by wearing their clothes insl'
out.
The Gar has given 100 free SCHOLARSHIP
to the university OF st. Petersburgh. Ih'
will cost him each 300 roubles year.
AS Patrick Kinds, accompanied by b
wife and granddaughter, II years OF ae
= were fOrdlng Cascade creek, near Roche
i ter, Mimi, few days since, with tea
of horses, by some means the wagon W
/ upset. and Mrs. Kinds and the girl we
drowned. together with the team, valu
: at S4OU. Mr.. Hinds succeeded i'll gaini
the shore.