Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-09-20

but on liquors are allowed to be sold
in the township. Virtuous VineIand!
The progress of virtue in England
is illustrated by the decreasing amount
of conscience money annually remitted
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Coffee leaves are now extensively
sold in London for tea leaves, and
afford not unpleasant and innocnous
beverage, very greateful to the palates
of the poor.
A young man in Western town
lately opened clothing store and was
sent to Jail for it. The clothing store,
it should be mentioned. belonged to
an other man.
The London Saturday Review says
that, waving prejudice and principle,
it is inclined to hold the profession
of spy preferable to that of war cor
respondent.
Every lady who educates her SER
Wants in to greater truthfulness,
fidelity, self-respect, and orderly ways
of life is doing missionary work of
the best sort.
A New England spinster, who
went out to Nevada about year ago,
writes home that she has already "a
husband and a pair of twins, and
hasn't really got acquainted yet"
A tender-hearted (?) lady at Mon
treal, Canada, tried to pour lead into
the ear of her husband the other night
while he slept. He caught her in the
act and disfgured her for life.
A rich German from Oshkosh went
down to Fond du Lac lately, and mar
ried servant girl atthe Potter House,
on ten minutes acquaintance and the
landlady's recommendation.
A thunderbolt weighisg thirty-fve
pounds was picked up in Green. coun-
ty Penn, some short time since, by a
farmer named Banhard, who had seen
it fall. 1t resembles hard sandstone.
A duel between two colored gen.
tlemen of Augusta, Ca, has just been
averted, after a correspondence ex-
tending over three weeks and eight
sheets of brown paper.
A Southern census taker says that
they generally have to guess at the
ages of the negroes. The freedmen
date their ages by family events, the
time Of which they cannot recollect.
George Augustus Sala. who knows
whereof he speaks, says; "a drunken
man cannot enjoy cigar at all and
sober one cannot appreciate any
wine save thin claret while he is
smoking"
Leavenworth is said to boast of a
man who is so tall that his likeness
cannot be got into one picture. A local
artist has painted his head and shoul-
ders, and announces that he will be
continued next week"
A girl in St. Louis, who failed to
receive a letter from her lover during
an interval of twenty-four hours, CON-
mitted suicide. The lover, who had
been in Jail for getting drunk, got
out just in time to attend the funeral.
A smart girl in Minnesota popped
the question to her lover, asked the
consent of her parents, procured a
marriage license, ordered the we'd
ding breakfast, the carriage to convey
them to the depot, and had private
conversation with the parson all the
same day. The young man had occu-
pied seven years in the effort to ask
her to have him, and had failed every
time.
Eaton Rapids has magnetic spring
so charged with electricity that man,
after drinking a quantity of the water,
went into a blacksmith shop, and,
while talking with the blacksmith, sat
down on the anvil. When he got up
the anvil stuck fast to him, and he had
to have it amputated. The people
are going to build hotel there, and
drive all the blacksmiths away.
A man in Harrison county, Mo-, but
an end to his existence the other day
: in a novel manner. In his travels he
came to a farm where men were
threshing out grain, and asked leave
to drive the machine. Finally he
, got permission to feed it, and having
fed for some time nodded to the driv-
er to put on more power. Standing
still until the cylinder was flying ar
= ound at rapid rate, and every one
had become alarmed at the swift mo-
ton, he jumped head foremost against
! the butt of the cylinder and was in
E stantly killed.
A man named James Jason, recent,
ly returned from prison in Indiana
, after serving sentence of twenty.
, three years, to find his old home occu
pied by his son, grandson and great
grandsons. He was fifty-two year;
of age when he was sent to prison