Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-22

we ever saw or heard Of They are now
sold under the name of Parsons Purgative
Pills.
1t is said there is living in Harrodsburg
an old negro woman who is nearly or quite
white. She is over one hundred years of
age, and during the lapse of a century the
black pigment which gave color to her skin
has disappeared. Her face, hands, neck,
and arms are of pearly whiteness, and her
hair is snow white, besides having lost
much of the kinky appearance which IS
characteristic of the negroes wool.
The climatic influence of forests has been
observed in Australia. In the district of
Ballarat, where the work of decreasing
progressed rapidly from 1863 to 1868, the
annual rain fall has diminished from 81 to
IA inches, or more than one-half, and the
government has taken measures to prevent
further destruction of the forests.
Gen. Mcmahon lectured in New York
Monday evening, on Paraguay He de-
Tended Lopez from the charges of cruelty
and inhumanity. He said the Paraguayan
| soldiers were the best soldiers he ever saw.
Lopez, he said, now occupies an impreg-
|
force sufficiently strong to oyerturn the
Provisional Government at Asuncion.
Dyspepsia is a hydra headed monster
from which nearly all ''the ills of the hui
man flesh is heir to" originate. The Pc
ruvian Syrup, protected solution of the
protoxide of iron, is a long tried and well
established remedy for misunderstanding COM
plant: it has cured thousands when other
remedies have failed.
The question of purchasing common
school text books being before the South
Carolina legislature, a member read the
following extract from one of these books
in use
| Question Who was Abraham Lincoln ?
Answer. A republican who was elected
President by the people, and who issued a
proclamation emancipating the negroes,
| knowing at the time he did it he was do
ing wrong.
A Canada paper says that, on the 18th
of January, people living on the shore of
ST. Clair Lake heard two loud reports as
of cannon, Immediately after which they
felt gentle swaying of the earth, and dis
covered that ice and trees and logs from
the lake had been suddenly piled in ium-
bled mass on the shore. The waters also
suddenly rose, and it was a week before
they subsidized into their ordinary boundary
No explanation Of the phenomena has been
given.
Stephen Lamb of Jasper county, Ind,
recently deserted young woman whom he
promised to marry The girl got revolt
yer, rode twenty miles on horse back, and
made the young man, on pain of instant
death, accompany her to the Office OF a
county clerk, get license and marry her.
Then she retured home in triumph.
A negro named Legurne murdered a ne
gro boy at Hickory Grove, Va, i few days
since for losing some money while return
ing from an errand. The boy was first
badly beaten, and the next morning start
ed for Justice, but was followed by Lee
gurne, who cut ont his tongue, then cut
his throat and threw his body into the
woods. Legurne fed and has not yet been
arrested.
A servant woman near Troy, who was in
the habit of pilfering from her employer
stock of liquors in the cellar, went, as usu-
al, for her smile" the other morning, and
took a hearty swig from a small demijohn
of what she supposed to be whiskey. It
was bed bug poison, however, and it killed
the poor woman after imposing several
days suffering upon her. 1t is supposed
that her life would have been saved by
timely remedies, had she not been asham.
ed to confess what had happened.