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

John B. Convey OF Sandgate recent
" slaughtered hog which made the
scales tip to the tune of $50 lbs.
Andy johnson is indignant because
it is not proposed to invite him to the
Grant Inauguration ball.
A new needle gun is reported in
Prussia, and cannon, which can fire
200 shots per minute, in Russia.
The largest Bible class in the world
is that conducted by Mrs. Bartlett, in
Mr.. Surgeons church in London,
which numbers 700.
A woman divorced from her fourth
husband at Chicago last week entered
matrimony for the fifth time the day
after. ...
The universal suffrage decree in
Spain gives that right to more than
100000 Spaniards who were de-
prived of it. :.
Mr.. Surratt has cost this country
s15O,O00, good price for bad ar
ticle. 1t would have been wiser to
have left him in Egypt, with a CON-
Portable pension.
The iron safe of the Phenix Elk
press Company, on the Galveston and
Houston Railroad, was robbed on the
18th inst. of $4,000 in gold, while
in transit from Galveston to Hons
ton.
John Montgomery, cook on board
the British barge Cornucopia on a
recent passage, secreted himself In
the hold of the vessel, and went four
teen days ana nights without food or
drink.
Sejest for President Johnson that
ne apply for the Spanish throne. He
wood be acceptable to the Spanish
people, for he hez been all his life put.
tin the Bourbon down.-Nas6y.
The Journal says that an ambitious
authoress of Belfast, Maine, of the
mature age of nine years, has written
the opening chapter of a novel Two
OF her characters are described as
twins, one five and the other si1
years old"
A New Orleans court awarded
$4,000 damages in the case of man
boy who hurt himself while swinging
on neighbours gate. which brok,
down! OF course al appeal wa;
taken 10y the neighbor.
The safe of Fl. R. Morris in Wurtz
boro, Sullivan county, n. Y, was open
ed at a late hour Sunday night. b,
burglars, and robbed of $4,000 il
five and ten dollar bills. The monev
stolen belonged to the town of Nav
akating.
/ BUTTER.-Butter is worth 80 cent
per pound in New York, in Salt LAX
| so. Beef in New York Is cents. il
Salt Lake so. Hay $40 per ton il
New York, in Salt Lake As. Sal
Lake is Ill the midst of farming ant
grazing country, inhabited by such a.
: " industrious and frugal people," Sal
Lake is inhabited by Saints" Ne,
York by Gentle sinners"
Edward Mcpherson, Clerk of tn
House, Washington City. D. c.,
actively engaged upon the Life an
Times Of Thaddeus Stevene, for Ss-rI
publication, and will be glad to r.
ceive copies OF letters of the decea;
ed on political topics from 1928 t
1868, and any personal incidents i
, Illustrating any point in his career c
any feature of his character.
Original letters or other document
if sent to him, will be returned afte
use.
I THE CLAREM0NT IN. II. J MURDER
The arrest OF Kenney, the real mu
y derer Of Mr. Wardell at CIaremon
. relieves entirely from suspicion Jane
u Horton oil Andoyer, who, it will |
l remembered, was arrested at Port
mouth end detained on suspicion {
e being implicated in the affair. NJ
II Horton was soldier in the Uni(
d army aud received an honorable di
d charge, and is wholly innocent of Il
Il ClaremOnt murder.
e The Coos On. II. Republican sa
that Richard ?. kent's mare recent
getting loos in her stable, the do,
y of which was open, trotted out throug
a the street to blacksmith's shop, e
l. tering which she trotted up to Il
e anvil block, at which a man was
n work, and held up her foot. ExaI
> inatiOn showed that the nails we
r loose, and they were properly fxe
ANOTHER FIRE IN LYNN.-The ash
T. of one alarming fire, which involv,
a destruction of property to the exte
a Of about 100000. have scarcely COZ
Is ed before the city has again suffer
1t from second conhagration, viii
20 has caused damage roughly estimate
It at $4,000. The total amount of
i. Surance on the first fire was $268,00
j., the amount of insurance on the ORE
- ent one cannot at present be asc,
4, tanned. but the probability is that
)" will be found TO be about in the sal
- proportion.
t. Mr.. Jenckes, the author of the eli
re service bill, has delivered an addre
in its support in New York.
= showed most incontestably that o
u hundred million dollars, or more
- come from taxation, was lost to t
-: 70 country by incompetency and frau
- He declares no such speculation
~ ever been known among the me
10 effete and corrupt aristocracies of t
u old world.
q A deluded citizen of Portland, NJ
H. becoming impressed with the i'd
" that the world is soon to be visit
by second deluge, has applied