Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-03-02
Miscellaneous Items.

Cincinnati has $4,000 loafers.
Russia runs locomotives on ice.
Kansas won't abolish hanging.
Omaha is to be Nebraska's capital.
Alabama wants to get rid of the
Ku-Klux-Klan.
War between Turkey and Persia
seems imminent.
Massachusetts spent over $1,000
900 for school houses last year.
Horace Greeley is said to give
away thrice what he spends for him.
self.
The Missouri legislature has pass
ed law prohibiting prize fighting.
Louis Napoleon has opened the
medical schools of France to the hon.
epathists.
There were FIVE hundred and sew.
enty methodist churches dedicated in
1868.
1t takes twenty-five miles of cars to
do the transportation OF Chicago ev-
cry day.
The standing army of Bolivia is
said to consist of eleven men, one of
whom is captain.
Senator Salisbury of Delaware fell
from his carriage while ridisg on Sat,
urday and broke one of his legs.
A bill has been introduced into
the Kentucky Legislature prohibiting
the marriage of first cousins.
A Buffalo thief, asked to account
for a bar of iron in his possession,
said he found it floating III the canal.
There was not a single Roman
Catholic in Mr.. DiSraeli government.
| In Mr.. GladstOne's there are SIX.
Sweden is seriously considering
the prohibition OF liquor manufacture,
on account of the spread OF lntcmper-
ance.
The body of Wm. Penn was buried
in eadcn coffin, and d Pcnnsylva-
MAN wishes it to be removed to this
country,
A Texas paper advises the war de-
partment to supply Gen. Sheridan
with velocipedes for the pursuit Of
Indians.
A New Orleans lawyer has mar.
ried a pretty girl whom he found beg
ging i'll the streets ten years ago, and
educated her.
Brownlow calls East Tennessee q
political paradise. Prentice say:
it resembles the ancient Eden only il
having The devil in it.
Wives in the suburbs of Cincinna
ii are .jubiIant at the presence OF high
, waymen. Their husbands do not dare
to be out after dark.
} There is house III the town OF
/ Greenland, \. H., the bricks for which
were brought from England in 1888
1t is still in good repair
Thomas Button, now centenarIau
is the only living person who hearC
the bell Of independence Hall PRO
, claim liberty throughout all the land
, 1t was resolved at the late temper
= ance meeting in Wisconsin that "tcm
. perance is natural virtue. and indis
pensable to raise men to the level oil
: other animals"
Charles Earl a physician of Chica
' 90, Is being tried in that city on charg
eS preferred 10y his wife of profession
al child murder.
! Scion Robinson asserts that the al
pie trees in this country are slowI
o dying out and that nothing can say
= them.
t A negro, Furnishing a pistol i
t Natchez, Miss, the other day. sho
=. himself through The heart, and the
l. gracefully yielded up the ghost.
u The figures show that an increas
4 in drunkenness and in crime in Mas
Ii sachusetts under the new license la,
? for the six months ending Oct.
|, 1868, was about 20 per cent.
) Isaac Angerice, a blacksmith o
Tarrytown, n. Y, died a few day
. ago at the great age of l05 years. =
= Up to few days ago he did nearI
=, all the work on small farm.
It A deaf and dumb negro murderc
: a woman of his own race in Ch0cta,
4 county, Ala, on the oath nit. I'll
" murderer chopped tne woman il til
r face with an axe, and cut out her bow
o els and attempted to burn them.
E. A man in Dayton, Ohio, tried su
Is eide last Saturday night by jumpin
e, into the vault OF privy, but betor
lie suffocation ensutd for some reason h
l. changed his mind, and roared lustil
for help. A devoted policeman foI
ed him out, and he returned HON
i thoroughly cured.
10 A man in Portsmouth, n. H., DO
: ten tickets in iottery-the prize b,
# ing a beautiful trotting mare-one c
~ which be sold to a friend few hour
, before the drawing which drew tt
a prize and $1,000 to the fortunate hol,
! er.
IS There are probably a hundred {
e. mure persons Id this and neighbo
lie ing towns who daily suffer from til
d distressing effects of kidney trouble
x who do not know that Johnson;s An,
<. dyne Liniment is almost a certai
ot cure. In severe cases, great relic
e. may be obtained, if not a perfe,
n cure.
ly We notice that the agricultural p
ID pers all over the country recommen
rs the use of Sheridan's Cavalry Cond
lie ton Notwithstanding.
ID Farmers and others in this sectio
Il. have long known and appreciated Ii