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Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
Letter from Nebraska.

OMAHA, Dec. 6, 1869
Friend Edrle-I will neither waste time
nor space in giving an account of my Jour
ney here, or detailed description of the
country over which have passed to reach
here. My rout lay over the Passumsic,
Vermont Central, Ogdensburgh, Grand
Trunk, Michigan Central and North West
ern Railroads. Time from Detroit to Chi
cago 1885 miles y hours 45 minutes
From Chicago to Omaha (495 miles %
hours IS minutes. Saw nothing that par
ticularly attracted my attention until | left
Chicago and entered the apparently bound
less prairies of Illinois, covered with extern
sive fields of mharvested corn, beautiful
orchards, huge piles of straw, hay stacks in
profusion and large herds of fine Durham
cattle. The want of wood and water are
my greatest objections to the country
Through Iowa the face of the country and
the soil are much the same as in Illinois.
1t has the sane disadvantages, with less
capital, and consequently less improve
ments.
House rent is very high in Omaha, but
provisions are no higher here than in Yer,
mont. Corn is worth 70 cts. a bushel
wheat 50; oats IS; state -four from 81 tC
50 barrel; butter 40 to 40 cts pound
cheese II cts. lard 20 cts; apples So tt
81 barrel; potatoes 40 cts; tallow 10 cts
beans SO bushel; hay IS ton live cat
tie $3.50 to $500 hundred; hogs IS
hundred; sheep $3.50 to So; poultry dres
sed IS to 20 cts; dressed pork so hun
dred refined sugar II to 20 cts; codfsl
9 cts; coarse salt 81 a hundred; dairy sal
s. hundred; prints - to IS cts yard
and so on; wood 81 to So a cord lumbe
$50 to $50 thousand. All articles manu-
featured here are high in consequence G
the high price of labor, common laborer
commanding $3.50 per day, while goo
mechanics receive 81.
l intend to spend one or two weeks i
this vicinity before crossing the plains an
will write you again previous to leaving.
A. B. MATHEwsoN.
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Letter from Europe.
0. T. STILES,
PARIS Nov. 30. lS6

PARIS, Nov. 80, 1869
You wonder what has become of me.
Well, am once more enjoying Paris, af-
ter taking run through the country to
look at the vineyards, to criticize the beau
ty of the French peasant girls, and to study
ruins and human nature. My notebook
is full of memoranda, and my memory
crowded with the most pleasing reminis-
cences of my trip. | really don't know
where to commence.
We lit was a jolly party, you know
reached Tours one afternoon at about
o'clock. 1t is the capital city of Touraiue
and inhabited by old fogies. The main
street is very wide one and cuts through
the city in a straight line to the new bridge
of fifteen fiat arches, each of rs feet span.
This street is lined with old houses which
have never been finished. They were pro-
jected away back in the middle ages, and
the owners will not incur the expense of
building. Old Arthur Young, the travel
er, said good many years ago that Fronts
without houses behind them have ridicu-
lous appearance" Notwithstanding the
oddity of the buildings, the Rue Royale OF
Tours is a fine street for French provin-
cial town, being little less than four miles
long from the point where it enters tc
where it quits the city on the high road
between Paris and Bordeaux. The ''nev
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

A NEW Book-"The New World COM
pared with the Old" by Geo Alfred Town
send is the title of book of great interest
which has appeared from the American
press during the closing month of the pres
ent year
The author has seized upon and present.
ed in vivid and happy manner certain
comparisons and contrasts between the
United States and her leading rivals over
the water The conception is new one,
and has been delightfully."- carried out in
the $50 pages which the book contains. 1t
is believed by the present writer that no
score of books even can be found which
can furnish the peculiar and interesting
! facts which this volume presents to its
readers. 1t is the product not only of re-
research among books, but of travel and
personal observation in the different coun-
tries that come into review in the book.
The publishers notice gives brief but
sufficient outline of the volume in the fol-
lowing words: "This is at once a guide
book, blue book, a statesman's year book,
a manual of international politics, series
of pictures, and criticism. The salaries
of the officials of the world, the cost of pub
lie buildings, the speed and size of mer-
chant ships and ships of war, the rise of
contemporary monopolies, the existing po-
litical parties Of all nations, the estimates
in which America is held by the foremost
minds of Christendom, the abuses of our
system and the abuses of other govern
ments, the management of the press, the
progress of liberty and invention, the splen-
dor of cities and the cost of lie: these and
thousand kindred subjects are depicted
with all the minuteness, vigor and pictur-
sequences of one of the most travelled OBJ
servants and brilliant writer's of our coun-
try The daily life of the Queen is placed
beside that of the President, the Senate
House is compared with the House Of
Lords, New York city with Paris, Chicago
with st. Petersburg, California with Aus
tralia, the Pacific Railway with the Suei
Canal, the Mississippi with the Volga, anC
, Oxford with Harvard" As to printing
: and binding the work has been well done
e and we have closely printed and heav,
y octave with no wide margin of waste pa
! per such as often appears in sham books
! Its eighty engrayings add very much t
If its value. This volume, through the con
1t trasted knowledge it gives of our own coun
E try and Europe, will do its part,we believe
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
STANDARD and STOCK JOURNAL.

For $500 we will send the Standard and
the American Stock Journal to January /,
1871. The Stock Journal is 30 page
monthly, printed at Parksburg, Penn, at
one dollar year. 1t is devoted entirely
to the interests of stock raisers and is the
best thing Of its kind published. The OBJ
ject Of the publisher in offering it to us 50
cheap is to introduce it, even at loss in
hope of keeping the subscriber thus OBJ
tanned second year. 1t should be in the
hands of every one who owns one animal
or one fowl. Old subscribers as well as new
can have the benefit of this offer
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

MORE RAsCALITY.-W. E. Gray & Co.,
who have been doing business for a month
or more on Wall street, have astonished
that not over pious street with a new ras-
cality, which was in buying up $1,000 L.
s. bonds and altering them to SIC, 900, and
then selling them, thus realizing hand
some..proft for the enterprise. The coun-
terfeits were so nice as to almost defy de-
lection. Among those who lost most hea-
Willy in buying these bonds are Howes &
Macy $4,000, Brown & Loveridge $4,000,
Vermyle & Co. $4,000, Mechanics Bank
$4,000, Coleman & Benedict $4,000, J.
w. Ewell & %. $25 600, and F. P. Scott
$4,000. Wicked.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

The above offers are open to January
next. The terms are cash in advance in
all cases. We have offered no poor publ
cations. We have offered them all cheap.
We make no money on any Of them, but
do lose on two. Ifany one thinks himself
unable to pay so much for the highest
priced ones we offer, get your neighbor to
go halves with you on them, but do not
stop the Standard We are trying to print
a good paper, and have the vanity to be-
lieve that we offer the best reading and the
most of it for the money Of any paper in
the state, with the exception of the Mont
pelier Journal and the Burlington Free
Press. We have as all can see, and as all
acknowledge, made great Improvements in
the paper the last year, for which we have
made no extra charge, although these i'm
provements have cost Us heavily and have
added no less than Sl2 to our weekly bills.
Yet in the face and eyes of these facts we
promise our readers that if they will only
help us 10 more advance paying subscribers,
and will also pay for their own in advance,
we will before another year rolls around
make greater improvements than any yet
made. We have faith to believe that Or
leans County can and will support big
ger and better paper than she now has, and
at the same price. At any rate we are the
man to risk it if people will pay us in ad
vance and not put us to the cruel expense
of paying an agent three dollars a day t
collect what is our due and not get fourth
of it then. Come friends, send us money
as fast as your subscriptions expire, speal
good word for us and thus help your
selves. If you can get better paper thai
ours for the same money we ask we shall
not blame you for changing, but do no
change merely for the sake of changing
If we are doing well stand by us; that en-
courages us to do still better; but do no
stop your paper, that's depressing and free
yes every earnest attempt at well doing.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND.

Towards the close of the last admins
tration, a convention was signed at Lon
don for the settlement of all outstanding
claims between Great Britain and the
United States, which failed to receive the
advice and consent of the senate to its rat
ifcation. The tone and the circumstances
attending the negotiation of the treaty were
unfavorable to its acceptance by the people
of the United States, and its provisions
were wholly inadequate for the settlement
of the grave wrongs that had been sustain
ed by the government as. well as by its cit
liens.
The injuries resulting to the United
States by reason of the course adopted by
Great Britain during our late civil war, in
the increased rates Of insurance, in the
diminution of exports and imports and
other Instructions to domestic industry and
production, in its effect upon foreign COM
merce of the country, in the decrease and
transfer to Great Britain of our CONNER
cial marine to the prolongation of the war
and the increased cost, both in treasure and
in lives, of its suppression, could not be
justified and satisfied as ordinary CONNER
cial claims which continually arise between
commercial nations, and yet the conven-
ton treated them simply as such ordinary
claims, from which they differ more widely
in the gravity of their character than in
the magnitude of their amount. Great
even as is that difference not word was
found in the treaty and not an inference
could be drawn from it to remove the sense
of the unfriendliness of the course of Great
Britain in our struggle for existence which
had so deeply and universally impressed
itself upon the people of this country. Be
lieving that convention thus misconceiv
ed in its scopes and inadequate in its pro
visions would not have produced the hear
ty cordial settlement of the pending quest
ions which alone is consistent with the re
lations which | desire to have establishes
between the United States and Great Brit
ain. | regarded the action of the senat
in rejecting the treaty to have been wisel
taken i'll the interest of peace and as anec
essary step in the direction of perfect an
cordial friendship between the two coun
tries. A sensitive people, conscious G
| their powers, are more at ease under grea
wrong wholly unatoned than under the II
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Cost OF THE WAR. -Commissioner
Wells, in his report lately presented to con-
gress, gives an estimate of the total expen-
ses of the war and expenses growing out Of
it, up to June, 1869, including the direct
cost to the general government, to states,
cities, counties and towns, and including
the losses to industry, losses of the confed-
crate states by reason of the war, and the
figures foot up into grand total of nine
thousand millions of dollars, as the cost
of that little fun. We are not much at
cyphering but we will do small sum now
we are among the figures. At the com
mencement Of the war there were five mil
lions of negroes, which if we had bought
at $500 per head, would have amounted to
two thousand five hundred millions of dol
lars; we could have set them all at liberty
and then have had six thousand and five
hundred millions left to start them in bu
siness with their old masters could now
have the price of their negroes to jingle il
their pockets, instead of mourning owe
persisted hopes and fond ambition. But i
was not to be. Was there ever such a stu
pendous folly? And we may ask, too, wa
there ever grander results?
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
STANDARD and HOMESTEAD.

For $3.50 we will send the Standard and
the New England Homestead to January
/, 1871. The Homestead is a large eight
page paper, printed at Springfield, Mass,
price $3.50 year; it is splendid paper
in every particular, is printed weekly, We
make this offer to those who do not now
take it, Send is $3.50 and secure the
Homestead and Standard to January l.,
1871.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
Cheap Reading! Good Reading
FARMERS SAVE YOUR MONEY!

We have never heretofore offered any in
ducements to new subscribers to the Stan
dard in the way of clubbing with other pa
pers, but as it is getting to be quite fash
ionable with those editors who cannot sue
cessfully compete with their neighbors
without the aid of such props, we have in
this regard concluded to follow in the wake
of Others and therefore make the follow
ing propositions, which are not excelled by
any publisher in Vermont, and in one or
two respects are far ahead Of any.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

SAVE Your DOCToR's BILLs.-When
DIR. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry Will
cure coughs, colds, bleeding at the lungs,
and arrest the fell destroyer, consumption,
it does more than most physicians can Do.
The use of a single bottle, costing one dol
lar, will satisfy the incredulous that they
need look no further for the required aid.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
AT AUCTION.

The subscriber being DESTROYS Of quittng farm
ing and giving his whole attention to the car
penter and Joiner business, will sell at pubic
auction, on WEDNESDAY, DEC. p, 1863, the
following property My FARM Of 40 acres Of
the best of grass land, situated on the Creek
Road, mile from East Albany, and four miles
from Irasburgh, the county seat, with so acres
under improvement. and 10 acres OF good mead
Ow that flows. The upland is well divided into
moving, pasture andtillage. Forty acres ottim-
Der land, with a nice lot Of cedar, spruce, hem
lock and hard wood timber. Also a good Sugar
Orchard. The farm is well warercd wiki a good
stream Of water running into the house and barn
yard; good buildings and fences, 4 good young
Apple Orchard that bore Is bushels OF apples
this year. Terms on the farm made easy for the
purchaser, Also Will be sold about 30 tons hay,
so bushels potatoes, yoke four years Old oxen,
l four years old horse, l two years old colt, 2
cows, 7 yearling heiers that are with calf, one
horse lumber WAGON buggy wagon | pair OK
traverse sleds, slelgh.2 harnesses, one OK cart,
sugar tools, few hundred feet OF spruce and
hemlock lumber, chains, plOws, harrow, horse
rake and other things too numerous TO mention
Call and look the property over before the day
of sale. Ten months credit can be had on all
sums over ten dollars on the personal property
with approved notes. This sale is )3ua tide
sale; the property must and will be sold. sale
commences at I0A. NJ. CHAS MOXLEY.
w. L. BARROWS, AuctiOneer. 49w3
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

TEXAS ELECTIoN.-We were mistaken
a couple OF weeks since when we stated
that Gen. Hamilton, the democratic candi-
date, was elected governor by 10000 ma
jority. 1t was so reported in the daily pa
pers at the time but latest advices render
it certain that Gen. Davis, republican, is
elected governor by a fair majority, while
the legislature is Of the same political
strinn
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

A GOOD MovE.-Hon. c. w. Willard of
Vermont has introduced bill in the house
of representatives, looking to the abolition
Of the ranking privilege 1t Is move
in the right direction, and would gladly
have the pleasure Of recording its passage
at an early day, though we have small hope
Of being able to do so, for congressman are
not much given to voting away any of the
privileges they possess. The ranking
privilege, to the extent it is used is an I'M
mitigated nuisance. Tons and tons ofpub-
lie documents are daily sent abroad under
congressional frank that are of little use to
anybody; they burden the mails to the ex-
clusion of matter that Is of vital import
ance to those interested, and add enormous
ly to the expenses of the government, to
be filched in the end from the hard earned
wages Of the poor. And why should con-
gressmen have special privileges that are
not enjoyed by their constituents? Why
should they send letters and papers and
books free when their constituents have tC
pay for the same service? Is not a salary
Of $4,000 a year and mileage enough, with
out demanding the free use Of the mails
Are they any better than those they claim
to represent? These questions will one of
these days begin to be asked in earnest by
the ones who give them their lease of pow
er, and the united voices of the laboring
masses will ere long be heard thunderin:
at the doors OF the national capital anC
calling for a reform in these matters. Mr.
Willard has the thanks Of the nation 70
the beginning he has made, and we hop
he may push it through to final success.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
STANDARD and WESTERN HOME.

For s., 2j we will send the Standard and
Western Home to January l, 1871. The
Western Home is a literary monthly of l6
pages, and has four columns to the page
is printed at Chicago, Ill.,, at 81 90 year,
but we will let you have it for 2j cts. pro-
vided you pay one year in advance for the
Standard.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Every farmer who owns a good stock Of
horses, cattle and sheep, and intends to
keep them through the winter, should get
at once good stock of Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders. One dollars worth
will save at least half ton of hay.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
DE. Lohnson,s cali.aya BItters,
DEATH TO PlN-WORMS.

DIR. GOULD'S PIN-WQRM SYRUP is the
only known remedy fer these most troublesome
and dangerous of all worms that infest the human
system It is also the most efeclual vermituge
for all other kinds ofworms in children. Purely
vegetable; safe and certain. A valuable cathart-
ic, and beneficial 10 health. Warranted to cure.
Price rs cts. GEO. C. GOODWIN & CO., Bos-
on, and all druggist 5. 42m6
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Persons who have became thoroughly
chilled from any cause, may have their
circulation at once restored by taking into
the stomach teaspoonful of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment mixed in little cold
water, well sweetened
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21
s.VT WORKS LIKE A CHARM"

Have you Lameness Use Renne's Magic Oil
This is the Best Family Remedy, TO cure al
kinds of Pain, you ever tried.
1t is clean safe and delicious to use, ana II ""
use it faithfully, it viii do you good!
Directions on each bottle. Buy it OF the "a ny
cist or merchant where you trade. Ii they nave
not got it on hand they will send for it, at your
request, and sell you the Genuine Pan-klllnS
Magic Oil. at the manufacturers lowest price
retail.
VIM RENNE, Sole Proprietor and Manuiac-
turer, Pittsfeld Mass.
UTSod by Druggists, N erchants and GroeeIss
and by VIM. JOSI.YN & SONS, B arton, lyo
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

In describing a new organ, a country
editor SAYS: The swell died away in de
Hcious sutiocation, like one singing sweet
song under the bed clothes"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

STOCK JoURSAL.-Our readers will not
fail TO notice the new terms we offer on the
Stock Journal Read them carefully
Those who have already paid for the Stan
dard to 1871, can have the Stock Journal
free by letting US know it Immediately.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Doct Barker, chairman Of the committee
appointed by the Scott County Medical
Society to investigate the causes which led
10 the death of Doct Whitewax at Daven-
port, Iowa, reports; 1--WE are unanimous
" of the opinion that Doct. WIS death was
caused by LEAD POISON, introduced into
the system through the use of Hair Renew
ers, and adds, all of the various Renew
ers, except one, contain LEAD" This one
exception is de GRATIS Crystal Hair Re-
newer, which does not contain trace Of
lead, sulphur or silver.
VIM. Joslyn & Sons, general agents fol
Vermont For sale everywhere.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

The profits of the Baden Baden gamb-
ling bank last year were 5000, 600, and of
Wiesbaden bank, S6j0000.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

"What is pride, my dear" Walking
with a cane when you amt lame, replied
the intelligent juvenile.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

J. Ross Browne says it is a common prac-
tice among the Chinese TO steal children.
and cut their eyes out for medicinal pur-
poses.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

The wife of Nathan Wilcox of North
Pownal, committed suicide on the llth, by
hanging herself to a bed post in her room.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Bath, is in proportion to its population
the richest town of Maine. The valuation
gives So, SOB to each inhabitant
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A few days since, married man in
Poultney, undertook to whip his wife, when
she turned the tables completely by giving
him sound thrashing.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Rev. J. X Cobb, who commenced preach
ing at STAFFORD, recently died at Madison,
Wis. He was a rative Of Randolph.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

Iowa has an incorporated city" con-
tanning 2lS people. In this way Iowa
manages to count up - cities.
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Stillman Blanchard of Braintree, one
night last week had forty turkeys and five
chickens stolen from his premises.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

\ Montana girl rode sixty-tvc miles on
horseback in one night to wed against the
wishes other parents.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-12-21

According to a recent decision, board
ing house keepers who serve hash are OBJ
iged to take out license a. manufact-
urprS
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS PRACTICE

In the treatment of Diseases incident to Females,
has placed DIR. DOW at the head of all pbysi
clans making such practice a specially, and en-
ables him to guarantee speedy and permanent
cure in the worst cases Of Suppression and all
other Menstrual Derangenepts from whatever
causes. All letters for advice must contain 81.
Office, No. 9 ENDICoTT STREET, Boston.
n. B.-Board furnished to those desiring to
remain under treatment.
Boston, July. 1865. 29yl
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CABoT.-Some IS individuals joined the
Congregational church in this village on
Sunday, the 9th inst.
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Amos Pike of Mendon, had both bones
of one leg broken Tuesday of last week, by
getting it caught under a log he was draw
ing.