Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-06-15
Miscellaneous Items.

person pays an income tax.
Mr.. Burlingame spent $4,000 of
the Emperor of China's money on two
balls in Paris.
The number of converts to Chris
tianity in China, amounts to 5000, In
GLIDING men of all classes.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety have published in Chinese, $780,
900 copies of the New Testament.
The Vermont Baptist Association
was organized in 1885, in Manchest-
er, "in Elder Joseph Cornell's barn.
The Bostonian who lately sent
$4,000 to the United States con |
science fund, signed himself a. NJ.
Square
A wise man OF Canada finds that
the frogs are building their nests In
the middle Of bitches, aud predicts a
dry summer.
Mccormick, the reaper man, who is
as conservative as he is rich, has re-
Gently contributed $4,000 to Gen.
Lees college and $4,000 to the Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary.
The bonded debt OF Brooklyn. n.
Y, was increased 100000 the past
year, and is likely to be increased 3d.
100000 more this year. The taxes
Cor the coming year are $4,057,879.
John Neal, of Elizabeth, n. j., late
ly sent to drug store for some med
icines for his horses, and the clerk, by
mistake, put up something which kill
ed four horses valued at $1,000.
Anna Dickinson said in her last
lecture at New York, Friday night,
that in five years she would vote, and
i. in ten be member of Congress. The
strongest argument yet against wo-
man suffrage.
A little girl begged to give her
pennies to the missionary, and to do
it ''noa0, that it may BEGIN quick to do
good" A good hint to those inclined
to by-and-by benevolence.
A vote on the introduction of lay
delegations with the Methodist EpiS-
copal church, was taken in a portion
Of the churches of Chicago, H., Sun
day. There was but one vote against
the proposition.
The Methodist church South, has
rejected the offer Of the church North,
: for reunion. the Southern church COM
planning that the action of the other
: since the war has been such as to
3. promote a state of feeling which
l makes reunion impossible.
Salt, when mixed with manure, it is
stated 10y Belgian journal, will in
crease the natural productivenesS of
; the soil to the extent of $50 per cent.
Sea water is said to be equally efic-
;, ieat. These results were obtained
l from series of experiments ranging
= over 26 years.
The indianapolis Sentinel of the
, 24th ult. says: "A saioon-keeper in
+ the southern part of the city opened
his place yesterday, displaying an
y open Bible and a pitcher of clear
e cold water on his counter. As hi;
f regular customers dropped in he inyi
d ted them to quench their thirst from
y the waters OF life
The predicament of the Romst
4 priests in Spain is certainly becoming
g awkward. The Archbishop of Seville
has suspended four Romish priests be
4 cause they preached against Protest
a antism, thereby inducing several tC
5 investigate the subject for themselves
and, IN consequence, to become Prot
d estants.
s MURDER IN acknowledgement
:. Ga. June 9. A letter from Sanders
r, vile, Washington county, to the Chron
5 icie, states that Col. r. W. Howners
the Democratic Representative to The
n Legislature, was murdered in his owl
!. field yesterday by a negro man in hi.
10 employ. The negro has been commit
+ ted to Jail.
C A somewhat serious insurrectiol
n has broken out among the Kirghi
Is tribes Of the Russian Asiatic frontier
1t All the hordes of what is called tn
f Great Steppe, east Of Orenburg, anC
a north Of the Caspian Sea, have takel
:, part in this rising. The insurgent
y pillage the conveys, attack the isola
C. ted posts and burn the Russian villa
e ge5 on the frontier.
d. The RECENT MURDER IN JACKSON
is MIss.-Jackson, Miss, June 8. Th
he body of Col Crane was forwarded t.
d Dayton, Ohio, this morning. TIL
a Board of Aldermen Of this city passe,
y, resolutions condemning his murde
IA and synpathizing with the family OF
IL the victim, concluded as follows "W
ut but reflect the pervading sentiment o
ne all classes in deprecating the crime.
re The SHAKERS AND THE VELoCIPEDE
y The verdict of the Presiding Eide
/ of one of the Maine families of Shak
le ers, upon a velocipede which had bee
T. made by one of the younger brothers
v was that Shaker upon a velociped
VI could ride only in one direction, an
;" that would be straight to destruction
j. ThereupOn the Elder smashed the ms
" chine with an ak, and the velocipt
"a destrian shook off the Shaker RI
Is straints and went out to the wicke
q world, where velocipedes can be mad
~ and ridden.
~ R. A. McMurry, of the internal re,
d enue department, at Washington, is
w natural lightning calculator. He ca
n. do the figuring which requires fourtee
at ordinary clerks, and in much less time
IN and his daughter, only nine years oil
ID can multiply number of any twent
,t figures by another twenty figures an
he note the result in a single line, as fai
en- as she can make the figures. Wha
on will this come to in the next gener,
"a ton
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