Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-15
Miscellaneous Items.

Horse cars are to be introduced into t
China. i
A Miss Ray, colored, is studying law at f
Washington. /
Many Illinois farmers have begun their 8
spring work.
Chicago has 40 goo voters and only 1900 !
tax payers.
A monument to Lincoln's mother is pro-
posed in Illinois.
The Maine legislature is discussing a
radical liquor bill.
The Prince of Wales has been Kissed in
a London theatre.
Rich silver mines have just been discov-
cred in Kentucky.
Olive Logan received 5000 for herrecent
lecture at Chicago.
There were $50 applications for divorce
in Philadelphia last year.
Don Piatt calls Garrett Davis "yener-
able wind instrument"
Butter sells in Philadelphia ut 20 cents
per pound-best 80 cents. +
The ice crop in Alaska is an excellent /
one-a quarter of a mile thick.
The Constantinople police have added .
women to their detective force.
Three persons have died in Bridgeport, |
Conn, recently from trichina-
1t is thought that gold Will soon cease to
be medium Of speculation,
The lunatic asylums of the Southern
States are filled to overlooking.
One New York dealer sold seventy ght
valentines valued at $50 each.
An Indiana barber had to pay SO for
cutting a customers hair too short.
Since January lst, 1874 emigrants have
arrived in New York.
Iowa has given about one-ftth Of its
area to aid railroads.
Emigration to the United States is rap
idly depopulating Sweden.
| The demand for laborers is constantly
on the increase in Virginia.
The divorces in Cleveland last week out
numbered the marriages.
Gen. Longstreet is president of RePub-
! lican club in New Orleans.
The New York founding hospital re-
ceives nineteen babies a week.
a mail agent Of Chicago has robbed the
mails Of over 100000 in drafts.
The engrossing clerks of four IVES tern
legislatures are women.
Minneapolis has begun TO build its fifth
500, 900 school house.
A Pittsburg man has paid $50 for kiss
ing young lady in the street.
The West Point Military Academy has
not a single graduate in Congress.
| Iowa farmers are sowing wheat, and
Georgia farmers are planting corn.
A pair of Georgia lovers have correspond
ed d long time by writing on eggs.
The coal fields of America are estimated
to contain 3,500, 900, 100000 tons Of coal.
Fifty out of one hundred students in the
Minnesota State University are women.
The new Roman Catholic Cathedral now
building IN New York IS TO cost =, 600 GOO.
\ man in Allegheny, Penn, broke his
arm last Saturday night in pulling off his
boot.
4 home Is tobe provided for the disabled
soldiers Of the rebellion, in New York
/ State.
Senator sumner IS preparing a speech in
favor of reducing letter postage to one
cent.
1t Is stated that the winter campaign Of
: the Spaniards in Cuba has ended disas-
trouslv
Mobile has lost all confidence in our
r winters. and viii hereafter manufacture it
I own ice.
Snuff dipping is said to be the predomi-
! mating cause Of insanity among Southern
women.
: Philadelphia has ex ported +, $50, 969 gal
Ions of petroleum. oil since the lst Of Jan
uary.
: A California paper reports arecent fist
: shower" near Monterey, in which the fish
varied in length from six inches to feet.
r \ colored Justice of the peace in Jeffer
r son county, Florida, named Pembrook
t grants divorces for the reasonable sum o.
-.
= 4 coIored lad AIMED Joseph BakemaI
e has been arrested at \ orthampton for plac
= ing Instructions on the Connecticut Rive
e railroad. He contes~es his guilt
e St. Louis is bringing the law to bear up
- on its intelligence Office men who tax
:, money from persons seeking position with
4 out being of any service to them.
is 4 Mississippi negro worked on shares
e but got muffin" because" said he, i"
6 worked for the seventh, and we only mad
d the fifth-crop short"
Il In 1860 the total population Of Soutl
Carolina, of all colors and classes, was 703,
708. In 1869, as shown by recent cen
d sus, it was 703.022, Of whom 295,3l4 ar
P, whites.
- A new door has recently been opened t
~ wOmen-that of ticket agent in the cOuntr
- railroad offices. Several roads have adopte
y, - the system, and are making the changes 8
70 quietly as possible.
III The windward side of San Francisco hal
re Dor is filling up with sand and dust drift
sd ing into 1t during the prevalence Of tn
le westerly winds which last through half
NJ year.
or A Chinese thus describes trial in Ii
at English law courts: One man is quite 5
lent. another talks all the time, and twely
,o wise men condemn the man who has NJ
70 said a word.
n Miss Annie Osgood Of Derry, y. H.,
AT lady Of seventy five years, who lives in til
d family of VIM. Anderson, was found dea
or on the morning of the 4th, in her roOm,-
he She had evidently died in fit, while II,
g ing to build fire.
ay James Borden, brakeman on the Rutlan
n and Burlington railroad, died Saturda
d, from injuries received while coupling ca
ay in the depot yard at Burlington, VT, FIR
st, day. He was about 80 years of age, an
leaves wife and two children.
ds The leader of the democracy in the Ne
ba York legislature is Senator Blood Of Sar:
toga, sixty years Of age, and worth SIC
ie- 100000. Heoccupies the best rooms in tt
Of finest hotel in Albany Over 500 of IL
ds, most prominent politicians call on hi
Tvs weekly.
at A piously inclined person was exhortil
. Pat on the subject of religion. He indi
:, nantly answered, Sure, an didn't iii
.n- the Methodist? Fax, and l did. / jim,
III for six months, and behaved myselfso We
lh- they let me off with three
lily A smart mulatto member of the Virgin
legislature made quite a sensation the OF
ers er day by declaring, in debate, 'GentleEe
the ] have some of the best white blood of vi
wv ginia coursing in my veins. On one side
,ev can claim as high and honorable desce
md as any senator in this chamber Gent
ht- men, | am your brother! | am also the c.