Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-07-13
Miscellaneous Items.

ance agent in California.
The Ballet troupe at the Berlin OPP
era House consists OF AS persons.
1t is said that the Bible was never
published in Japanese.
There are forty Mormon missiona-
ries in New York en- route for Eu-
rope. ue. - --.--~ ...
An Asiatic colt travelled fifty five
English miles on the day of its birth.
Florida has an immense amount of
land adapted to the culture of coffee.
Fifty-seven thousand acres of pra-
irie will be broken in one county of
Iowa this year. .a
Portland, Oregon, on the parallel
of Montreal and Quebec, was eating
its own new potatoes the first week
in June.
Sugar is largely manufactured from
pumpkins in Hungary, by the same
process as the extraction of sugar
from beets
Spectators are passing through
the State of Maine buying up all the
old spare hay at ten to twelve dol
lars ton.
In a new town in Iowa all the deeds
stipulate that Intoxicating liquor shall
never be sold on the premises sold.
Spiinters from six ''last ties" of the
Pacific Railroad have been sold, and
the supply is still equal 10 any posi-
bic demand.
There are now 22l7 assistant as
SCISSORS In the internal revenue service,
or nearly 1000 less than in Novem-
Der of last year.
A Young man named Gray had one
hand blown off at Lake Village, n. H.,
yesterday by the explosion Of a can
non while firing a salute
The fires in the United States du-
ring the month of June in which the
loss was $4,000 and upwards,
amounted to sl,060,000.
Illinois has ninety-two cities vary
ing in size from the mighty Chicago
to the petty village whose poll list
contains but l57 names.
Eight years ago the Iowa Wesleyan
University was $4,000 in debt. Thar
has been paid, and it now has an en-
dowment fund of $4,000.
A sugar planter in the Sandwich
; Islands set out fifty thousand forest
: trees on a dry and sandy plain, anC
: has succeeded in making it very pro
ductive.
4 New YORK, July 1.-TWO Irish
5 men were arrested in the City Hal
: Park yesterday while emptying revol
yers at each other
J On Sunday afternoon VIM. Wheel
;, er, aged Is, was killed 10y the burst
j ing of cannon at West Stockbridgt
: Mass, while a salute was being fired
). No less than seven persons hav,
been lyncbed in Jersey County, Iii
nois, Within two years on suspicion Of
: horse stealing.
Sugar plums, rich food, wine an,
beer are among the things which til
=, royal children in Prussia are neve
r allowed to taste.
l. The Kansas Indians are repOrte,
l. to be dissatisfied with their reserva
d ton, in want of food, and attacking
d steamers, driving off stock, and threat
5 ening death to all whites.
It The best endorsement of Mr.. Bout
t wells financial policy is the fact tha
: during the month of June the nation
d al debt was reduced by the sum 0
e SIG, 100000.
Near Knoxville, Tenn, have bee
|. found the fossil remains of the hea
+ of a sea turtle, so large that it is est
mated that the reptile when aliv
:. must have weighed several tons.
= A man lately appeared in an Ind
: ana town wearing vest made cut @
. the skins of ten rattlesnakes, part o
D a nest OF one hundred and six snake
killed in one day by Kentucky fal
mer
-, The Freewill Baptists in Main
. have three annual conferences, an
+; anticipate forming another soon cas-
- of the Penobscot river. The tota
, membership III Maine is l4,242.
D. New YORK, July 1.-TWO it'll
IS girls were killed, a boy had his eye
IS blown out, and several other mino
J. accidents from crackers and frework
s, are additional to those reported thi
j. morning.
y A man in Adair county, Iowa, ha
invented a cannon, which he claim
will shoot fourteen miles. He is no
<. on his way to Washington to get
IN patent. He proposes to offer it t
N the government Tor 81 ,OOO,OOO.
is By the explosion of a fire cracke
IN on Monday morning, Cook & Son
10 lumber house at Whitehall, New YorI
p was damaged to the amount of $75
is 900. The village was i'll great dal
g ger of being destroyed.
~ An Austrian mother has been a
u rested for exposing near a bee-hiY
10 her infant child, of which she wishe
III to rid herself The babe was re
C cued, but not until it had been bad
10 stung.
~ Weaver, who was recently sente
~ ced to be hanged for murder by tt
- military commission in Texas, and u
IN on whose case Attorney General Hos
,s gave an option not long ago, has c
= capped. One of his guards ran ava
- with him.
is The receipts of the great FrenC
e. steamship company, the Messagerit
as lmperiales, last year, were $9,09s
B. 900, gold, and the expenses, includiu
a fund and assurances, $7,820,O
3 which affords a dividend of 10 =,
,g cent.