Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-10-25

/ O6OTBe w els Is tue InOSI extensive
farmer in Iowa. His farm embraces
eight thousand acres, nearly all under
cultivation.
There are in the State of Illinois
two hundred and fifty lodges of Good
Templars, and seventy-four lodges
have surrendered their charters dur
ing the year.
Bears are ravaging the oat fields in
Osgood and Templeton. Canada, the
late fires in the woods having driven
them from their runs.
The largest farm in England con-
SiSts of three thousand acres. The
live stock kept on this farm is valued
at sixty-lour thousand five hundred
dollars.
The foot and mouth disease has at
tackled over a thousand cattle in ad-
joining farms in Dorsetshire, England,
and a panic prevails among the far
mers.
Mary Krumpasistizkosoki was re-
Gently divorced from her husband at
Jacksonville, Ind, and now finds re-
lief in her maiden name Ponvintama-
towski.
There will be a total eclipse Of the
sun on the 2lst of December, which
will, however, be visible only in Eu-
rope, and, in all its completeness on
the Mediterranean.
A man named Baxter, who lives
away down in Tennessee, has sued
five papers of his native State for
$4,000 each for publishing remarks
derogatory to his character.
Although there has been a large
decrease in the population of the
State of New Hampshire, its agricul-
tural wealth has increased with the
past ten years $20,00O,0O0.
The new hammer in the Bessemer
Steel Works, at Harrisonburg, Pa,
weighs 35,008 pounds. 1t cost $92,-
600, and is the largest in the United
States.
Last year, up to August, the Boston
beer and ale manufacture amounted
to 2,793 barrels. This year, ending
also in August, the amount foots up
25,5l3.
A notorious sharper having observ-
ed that there was no knowing ones
friends till they We're tried, was ask
ed if most of his friends had not been
tried already.
The Chicago Times calls upon the
authorities to bury man who was
beaten to death by rufians at Hyde
Park, and has lain upon the prairies
for full week, feasting the flies.
The decayed bodies of three per-
sons, all in one pile, were found in
the woods in Jasper county, Indiana.
No clue to their identity or the cause
of their death has been discovered.
At Lafayette, Tenn, on Saturday
night, NJ. 5. Dover, while attempting
to murder his wife, was shot and NOR
tally wounded by her brother, Andrew
kincaid, aged sixteen.
Census returns from Minnesota are
nearly complete, and show a popula-
ton Of 1851, a gain of $50 per
cent. since 1860. The total area for
the State is $4,000 square miles.
A young lady of Richmond was so
determined on suicide that she bit off
the tube of the stomach pump and
swallowed it when the doctor attempt
ed to relieve her Of tie laudanum she
had taken.
A Michigan census taker came across
man who had been married FIVE
years, but had never inquired his
wife'S christian name. He always
called her Say
On Monday evening a respectable
old lady residing on Third Street,
South Troy, and who is aged 65 years,
was delivered of a child the first
fruits Of her marriage over forty years
ago.
: They had a horSe-shoeing match at
the county fair at Fond du Lac, Wis.
One man put on four shoes in twelve
minutes and forty-eight seconds. and
another the same number in thirteen
minutes.
: There are 232, $50 carriages and
= wagons in Illinois, the aggregate as
sessed value OF which is $5,518,002
/ There are 243, S03 clocks and watch
: Is, valued at $S66,139; and 1920
! pianos, valued at 1896, 1914.
. Halls Journal says: "If a man car
: sleep soundly, has good appetite
with no unpleasant reminders after
q meals, the bodily habits being regular
a every day, he had better let himsel
t alone, whether he be as big as a hogs
| head or as thin and dry as fence
. rail-"
:. The sleeping Beauty of Tennes
u see," who has passed twenty-on
e years in state of somnolence, wit
e the exception of a few waking mo
> ments daily, is now in St. Louis, an,
+ the doctors have her in hand. 1t i
II thought that even if their treatmen
Z produces no beneficial effects, th
"rousing bill' they present will Gel
Is tainly make the patient open he
e eyes.
o In the Pennsylvania oil regions
:, one nabob who survived the deIug
v and now has an oleaginous income {
a, $4,000 per day. Another is in sti
q 81 easier circumstances, receiving, a
n regular wages, S. minute. He fol
er merly fabricated wagon wheels for
OF living, but has shaved his last spok
a 4 and given up the business. His vii
1t now wears her bonnet only one yea
or makes her pie-crust with butter il
le stead of beefs suet, and INDUCES
= other extravagant luxuries.