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a MOTHERS DEATH.--Few who have
lost their "irst and dearest friend" can
read the following with unmoistened
eyes:
Death comes an unsought guest to
every board, and at his special bid
ding some beloved one goes home to
his mysterious home.
Time and philosophy may teach
resignation unto hearts made desolate
By his coming; but they can never till
the vacancy therein, when she that was
our mother no longer casts halo
about our darkened heart.
A mothers place-so loved, so wor-
shipped-once empty must be forever
so. A breast once panged by
mothers death, no medicine can reach
with healing. 1aae
No mind, however sacred, no heart,
however hardened, can forget the
gentle being whose suferings begot
his life.
A mother is truly our guardian
spirit upon earth. Her goodness
shields and protects; she walks with
our infancy, our youth and mature
e-ever sheltering US with her
absorbing love,and expiating our many
sins with her blessed prayers. e-7i
And when our mother with all her
burden of love, her angelic influence,
her sanity care ceases her beauteous
life, how much we lose of home, of hap
piness, of heaven, no one can reckon;
for our mother was none but ours, and
we only can know how holy she
was-how sacred her memory must
always be.
But may we not borrow consolation
from the thought that our loss is
heavens gain ? that surely one angel
watches over us, erasing with grateful
tears the records of our sin, and making
easy our path to her with blessed and
blessing prayers .s5.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

DIVORCE FRAUDS IN New YORK.
On the hearing of Mrs. Maria Nun
sells petition for leave to marry, be-
fore Chief Justice Chapman, a few
days since, it appeared that Mr.. Nun
sell had obtained a divorce for her in
New York, the notice being served
upon another woman, who falsely rep
resented herself as Mrs. MunselI, the
real Mrs. Munsell being kept in igno.
rance OF the case until it had been
finished. In granting the petition
Chief Justice Chapman took occasion
to express the strongest disapproba
tion of the manner in which such de
erees Of divorce were obtained in New
York. He mentioned that while in
practice he once had occasion to look
up the record of one such case, and
he found once thirty cases in consec
utive order on the same docket, all
entered by the same attorney, all re
ferred to the same referee, all ground
cd on allegations of adultery. all sup
ported by the same witnesses, and al
granted by the same judge on the same
day. Proceedings tainted with suct
manifest fraud were not entitled to the
least respect.
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Pity Pats Prayer.

We've dear little lassie we've named Pity Pat
She's got a wee kitten she calls Kitty Cat;
Now Pity Pat sleeps in gown snowy white,
While Kitty Cat wears her day clothing all night
But Pity Pat says she don't like it at all,
And pulling the fur out makes Kitty Cat squall
But still she persists in undressing her pet,
And failing to do it, quite angry will get.
While Kitty Cat cries at what Pity Pat does
To her one little coatee of silky soft fuz,
Then Pity Pets sorry and asks why she cries
At being fixed tidy for shutting her eyes.
Nor says "Now lay me" when going to bed,
But curling up softly sings "purr" instead.
So Pity Pat tells her in solemnest way,
you are a bad Kitty Cat, then must pray.
"Her lays her-dear Father-down softly-In bed
Her dosn't-do nuflin-and nufin--her said
'Cept pur-r-and pur-r-and then goes to sleep
But never mind Father her little soul keep"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16
A Romantic Incident.

Nearly thirteen years ago, there
lived on the banks Of the Ohio, but a
few miles from the city of Louisville,
a man by the name of Henry G. Dan
forth, the family consisting Of himself,
wife and one child, a daughter, only
a little more then two years Of age.
One day the child escaped the
vigilant eye of the mother, and wan
dered from the house. Search was
made, but no trace could be found
of their prattling darling, until reach
ing the banks of the river, her little
bonnet was seen near the margin of
the water. Then, indeed, the little
one was mourned as dead, and only
a mothers heart can fathom the agony
Of the bereaved parents. Other chill
dren came to take the place of the lost
one at the freside, and the first storm
of grief at the terrible affliction had
given place to quiet admission; still
the blue, dancing waters of the Ohio
always caused inexpressiblo sadness
to their bereaved hearts.
Five years ago the family removed
to st. Louis, where they have resided
ever since. Saturday, Mr.. Danforth
received an anonymous letter from
Kansas City, urging him to come up
Immediately, if he wished to find his
daughter, whom he supposed wa S
drowned, thirteen years before. He
arrived in the city Monday last, and
proceeded to the place designated III
the letter, and found a woman whom
he had known in other days, rapidly
nearing the grave, and young girl il
attendance upon her. She pointed tt
the child Immediately upon his en-
trance, saying, "that is your drowned
child" and entered upon an explana
ton which convinced him Of the trutl
other words.
1t seems that he himself was the limo
cent cause of the affair. The woman
had loved HIM previous to his marriage
and when the words were spokeI
binding him to another, all the wor8
passions of her nature were aroused
and she determined upon some re
vengo, and how faithfully she executet
her intention, the above facts vii
testify. She had kept herself inform
ed of his whereabouts, and when sh
knew that death would shortly clair
her as its victim, she determined t
make all the reparation in her power
Who can paint the JOY of the fathe
on finding the dead alive?
The woman, it seems, had onl
been in that city some six months, con
ing from Cincinnati, to which plac
she had first fled with the child. Sh
! said she had always treated her q
she would have done her own daughte
to which the child testified, and beg
ged that the woman might be take
with them. The result was, thG
yesterday evening the three took th
train on the North Missouri Railroa
for st. Louis, and ere this the waitin
G mother has received the embracess
her long lost daughter Such incident
were offrequent occurrence years ag'
but in this modern age it calls fort
no little astonishment.
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Leisure.

Sweet is the leisure of the bird;
She Graves no time for work deferred;
Her wings are not to aching stirred
Providing for her helpless ones.
Fair is the leisure of the wheat;
All night the damps about it fleet;
All day it basketh in the heat,
And grows, and whispers orisons.
Grand is the leisure OF the earth;
She gives her happy myriads birth,
And after harvest fears not dearth,
But goes to sleep in snow.wreaths dim,
Dread is the leisure up above
The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.
He waits for us while, houSeless things,
We beat about with bruised wings
On the dark floods and water-springs,
The ruined world the desolate sea
With open windows from the prime,
All night, all day, he waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.
Where is our leisure give us rest.
Where is the quiet we possessed?
We must have had it once-were blest
With peace whose phantoms yet entice.
Sorely the mother of mankind .. d.
Longed for the garden left behind;
For we still prove some yearnings blind
Inherited from Paradise.
Jean higelo,o.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

MORE ABOUT THE MUCH-VAUNTED
MITRAILLEUsEs-The Tribune CORE
spondent at Metz makes the following
reference to the new implement of war
to which the French accounts award so
much praise in the late affair at Saar-
bruck:
GAS we returned to Metz we passed a
battery of the much-talked of mitrail-
leuses coming in from the station
They had each tarpaulin over them,
but it was plain to any one who had
seen mitrailleuse what they were
Besides the care taken to prevent any
one from coming near them was suffi-
cient to show that they were not com.
mon six FOUNDER field pieces. 1t is
hardly necessary to tell your readers
that the tremendous secret about these
weapons is no secret at all, there being
drawings of the French weapons in ev
cry arsenal in Europe. 1t is beside well
known that the French Government
has adopted very inferior model tc
that chosenby the Belgian, Prussian and
British Governments. The Prussians
too, have model of their own which
is superior to the French. All artillery
officers are unanimous in declaring the
mitrailleuses will only be able to b.
used in peculiar places and circumstan
ces-in the breach of a fort in narrow
defile or in street fighting. It's doubt
less for this latter purpose that tn,
French Government think they ma,
want their present large stock. Th'
range of the mitrailleuse being far in
ferior to that of the light field pieces
| they would at once be silenced in tn
| field"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

The ARABS.-No Arab is ever
curious. Curiosity, with all Eastern
nations, is considered unmanly. No
Arab will stop in the street or turn his
head around to listen to the talk of
bystanders. No Arab will dance,play
On an instrument, or indulge in cards
or any game of chance, since games of
chance are forbidden by the Koran.
Never, moreover, invite an Arab to
take walk with you for pleasure.
Although the Arabs are, on occasion,
good walkers, they have no notion Of
walking for amusement they only
walk as a matter of business. Their
temperance, their constant outdoor
habits, render all exercise for exercise
sake unnecessary; they cannot, there
fore, understand the pleasure Of walk
ing for walking sake. What Arabs
like best is to sit still, and when they
see the Europeans walking up aud
down in public place in Algeria.
they say, 'Look, look, the Christians
are going mad !" The Arab does not
even mount on horseback except as
a matter of business or for his public
fetes and carousals. And when you
do walk you must never walk quickly,
just as in speaking you should never
talk fast or loud, for the Koran tells
you: "Endeavor to moderate thy step,
and to speak in low tone, for the
most disagreeable of voices is the voice
of the ass"
Indeed, it is observed by a famous
Arab, Counties are the vices of men,
but one thing will redeem them all,
propriety of speech" 1 +.
And again. "Of the word which is
not spoken l am the master; but OF
the word which is spoken I am the
slave" -...-
The famous proverb, @Speech is of
silver, but silence is Of gold, J" is motto
of Arab origin. --gr..
A silent, grave people, the Arabs,
ana a pOllte one, 100, as We Sald !;
very much given, nevertheless, to
highway robbery on large scale,
which they call razzias in Algeria ;
but the Arabs tent is always open to
you, and you get any amount of con-
scoussou, camel's milk, or even roasted
mutton, if he has it. You will be
treated as a "guest from God" as
long as you are under his roof, after
which "Your happiness is in your
hands" which means that your host,
who fed you in the evening. may, at a
decent distance from his tent, rifle
your saddle-bags in the morning, and
let the powder speak to you" if you
object, after which "Allah be merciful
to you"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16
WHOLE NUMBER 721.5

SO closely Slated up by the cross
boards as to allow not more than a
few square inches of opening for ven
tilation.
The floor was covered from half an
inch to two inches deep with moist,
repulsive filth, the stencil of which was
almost insupportable. DR.. Truman
Belts inspected the premises, and tes-
titled to their filthy condition !; stating
that most of the deposit on the floor
consisted of human excrement. Ad-
joining the cell was a small bed room
of about the same size, where the poor
idiot slept. The bed and pillows
were in the same condition as the
floors Of the rooms. In this vile den
John Herriges, the idiot, has passed
long period of his life, certainly
ten or twelve years, and reports say
that he has been there twenty two
years. So closely has he been i'm
INJURED, that nelghbors VINO nad lived
close by the house for years, had no
idea, until the expose of yesterday;
that such a person was there. The
miserable wretch was brought to the
central station by Lieut.. Thomas, and
his horrible condition, as he sat, num-
bling and driveling to himself, ava
kened the heartiest sympathies of the
lockers on. The defendant was bound
over in $4,000 bail to answer at court,
and the unfortunate victim of his cru
city was sent to the almshouse. The
Board of Health was notified of the
condition of affairs at the house, and
they will take the proper steps to i'm
prove its sanitary condition.-PhiIa-
GeIphia Inquirer.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

A LONG JoB.-This is from the
Bombay Gazette: "At Lahore, the
Maharajah of Cashmere presented
the Duke of Edinburgh with a shaw
for the Queen, the like of which &C
cording to our Lahore contemporary
was never made. Three hundred
shawl-weavers had worked on it in
cessantly for three years, and many o
them lost their sight through the
fneness of the work! Its actual cos
in Cashmere is estimated at 25,00(
harrisingha, the harrisingha being
equivalent in value to ten annas."
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A Man in a Filthy Cage.

A most distressing case Of cruelty
to an unfortunate relative was brought
to light Thursday afternoon. A man
named Joseph Herriges, who keeps a
cigar store in a miserable old wooden
building on the north east corner of
Fourth and Lombard streets, was ar
rested on the charge of extreme cru
city to his brother, John Herriges, and
of keeping and maintaining a nuis-
ance. The facts Of the case as devel-
oped at the hearing are as follows
On the first of the month, Thomas J.
Gibson rented from Joseph Herriges
the house No. 337 Lombard street, ad.
joining Herriges' cigar store. On
Monday last, Mr.. Gibson's little sister
was frightened by seeing man look
ing through crevice of window in
Herriges' house, closely barred by pie.
ces of plank crossing each other
The man was mumbling and singing
and making various strange motions
On Tuesday morning, at three O'Clock
Mr.. Gibson was awakened by noises
at the same window. He got up, dress
ed himself, and went out on a shed
which is under the window, and en-
deavored to get into conversation will
the occupant of the room, bnt all ht
could get out of him was, g Georg'
wants to get me out of the way
On Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Gibsol
went into Herriges' cigar store ant
asked who the man was. He was in
formed that it was none of his business
| He then LAID the matter before Mayo
Fox, who ordered an Investigation
The officers on proceeding to the plac
found the poor crazy wretch dresses
in a long white garment. Of som
coarse stuff, cut in shape, something
like a woman's dress. He was cor
fined in little room. about seven b
nine feet in area, with a small window
about a foot wide by two feet high, an
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A colored lad, who is now in Jail

A colored lad, who is now in Jail
in Hartford for incendiarism, is a Gu
riosity. he is only a triae over three
feet high, and is as thin as a match.
At the bottom of his cell door in the
jail is small hole six inches wide
and eight.high, through which rations
are passed to the prisoners. This
young fellow crawls through this hole
in his own cell with perfect ease, and
goes the rounds of his fellow-convicts,
entering any cell he pleases. BE has
not yet attempted to 60 through the
main door Of the prison.;
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THE NATIONAL REAL ESTATE AGENCY
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ed stock grain and fruit farms; rice, sugar and
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Write for Land Register containing a descrip-
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A rich old uncle who had two neph-
ews left his will as follows: "To my
nephew William / leave my whole
fortune, because know he will bestow
it on the poor. To my nephew Albert
| leave nothing, for the same reason"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

Kettenschleppschlpff pffahrtsgesellsch-
aft is an abbreviated German word
for the "Elbe Chain-Towing NaYiga-
tion Company
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The current impression as to my
partners dealings with me is also er-
roneous. He did not begin to treat
me coldly, as a poor simpleton, when
my uncle and | so fatally quarreled F.;
nor did he afterward gradually pos
sesS himself of our business and edge
me out. On the contrary he behaved
to me with the utmost good faith aud
honor.
Matters between US took this turn
On the day of my separation from my
uncle, and even before the arrival at
our countlng-house of my trunks
which he sent after me, not carriage
paid, | went down TO our room oI
business, on our little wharf over
looking the river; and there | told
John Spatter what had happened
John did not say, in reply, that rict
old relatives were palpable facts; anG
that love aad sentiment were moon
shine and fiction. He addressed me-
thus:
"Michael," said John, 1--WE were a
school together, and l generally hat
the knack of getting on better thar
you, and making higher reputation.
"You had, John," I returned.
although" said Johu, Il borrowed
your books, and lost them; borrowe,
your pocket-money, and never repai'
it; got you to buy damaged knives a
a higher price. than l gave for then
new; and to own to the window
that had broken"
"All not worth mentioning, job
Spatter," said |, ,"but certainly true.
"When you were first establishe'
in this infant business, which promi:
: es to pay so well,'' pursued John, q
came to you in search for almost an
: employment, and you made me you
) clerk" a
"Still not worth mentioning, m
) dear John Spatter," said /; "still,
is equally true"
8 "And finding that l had a goo
: head for business, you did not like
. retain me in that capacity, an
: thought it an act of justice soon
: make me your partner"
r aStill less worth mentioning tha
:. any Of those other little circumsta
f ces you have recalled, John Spatter
s said /; afor was and am, sensible
n your merits and my deficiencies"
Il 1Now, my good friend" said job
It drawing my arm through his, as |
/, had had habit of doing at schoo
while two vessels outside the window
It of our counting-house-which We
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

Paucuremata and Petitcodiac month.
ly journal is the name Of a paper in
Canada.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16

Also. connected with our Real Estate office we
lave a general claim and patent agency under
te supervision Of the we'l-known Thomas Tay-
or, late OF the ordnance department, who is
both a scientific aud practical mechanic, and well
Urluaiutcd in the different government depart
mentS, especially in the War and Navy, Ord
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PATENT OFFICE.

Patent papers carefully prepared, drawings
usty executed, and patents secured for invent
or, Iu the shortest possible time.
special attention given 10 rejected cases. also
eases for reissue, extension, interference, aban-
d.Umeut, &c.
Preliminary examination as to the patentabili-
y of an article made on receipt of a brief de-
,crpton OF the same-no model being required.
FAVOR SHOWN POOR INVENT
ORS
by assisting them in procuring patents and after
wards utilizing their inventions.
Confidential in our business relations with in
ventors.
Terms more reasonable than any other reliable
agency. Circular containing valuable informa-
ton sent free. Address B. W. CLARKE & co.
The National Real Estate Agency, All and 479
penna. Avenue, Washington, D. G.. 27yl
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SUMMER 1870.
& JOSLYN

Are happy 10 express thanks for a most liberal
patronage which has given them the most salts
factory assurance thar their Ready Pay System
Is approved by the community. Under its work
hcw we have had larger monthly receipts than
ever UNDER THE POOR OLD WAY! We
now offer
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With those who Deserve Confidence
through Long Experience.
The senior partner of this firm can refer with
success to many in this vicinity. and claims an
experience Of thirty years dealing in music prac
tcally, ought to induce patronage. Instruments
from all prominent firms. Satisfaction guaran-
tCed in every respect with deal. Write us for
catalogue and terms before purchasing. 27y1
l.. b. HARRINGTON, SONS & co.
st. JOhpsbury, Vt.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-17

JOSH BnLMas' FARMEn's A1LM1NN.
The following selections are from the
amusing work just published:
Marriage tew coquette liz often,
'letters oV marque and reprisal.'
It il very difikult for poor man tew
be superior tew hiz fortune, and more
diffkult for q rich one.
How menny people there liz whose
souls hang in them. like the pith in
oosequil
Adebt is alwus q growing; if it don't
gro In size, it gros in heft.
There iz lots of folks in the world who
covet misfortins, jst for the luxury of
grnnting. =.
I tha6k God most fervently for ono
thing, and that il, when everybody else
liz happy, am sure to be.
Love is said to be blind, but kno
lots oy phellows in love who kan see
twice as mutch in their sweethearts as
kan.
If yu want tew git sure krop, and
big yield, SOW wild oats.
In youth we run into diffikultys; in
old age difikultys run into us.
When roosters are observed before
daylite in the morning, scoring among
the clouds, and uttering lamentashuns,
then look out for sum sudden weather,
and severe pucker in the money market.
When yu see 13 geese, walkin injun
file, and toeing in, yu kan deliberately
bet yure last surviving dollar on hard
winter, and o great fuxtuousness during
the next season in the price Of cow-hide
boots.4, .i4s.-,s
Hpigs squeal in the night, and grass
hoppers come oph NV their roost and
mingle in o free fight, yu may hope for
high. winds in few weeks, and also the
typhus fever in yure naborhood.
When spiders are seen climbing up the
wall backwards, and frogs cough az tho
they had the hickups, look out fur rain; !;
this iz also sure sign that children will
have the measles light.
If bees hang around their hives, and
mules are seen in brown study, a storm
ov some kind IL cooking, and yu will
motifs the market for herring is very ca
daverous and shifty.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-17
Elgin Watches.

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1Yl WATCH COMPANY, pronounced by
dealers and connoiseeurs throughout the coun-
try to be tho BEST TIME E-KEEPERS now Of
fered to the public for Ladies' or Gentlemens
use. They combine improvements not found
in any other Watches of either Foreign or
American mako. Ladies desirous OF purchas-
ing handsome, strong, and correct time
piece will find the elegant Watch, bearing tho
trade mark OF "LADY ELGIN." to be ali that
they desire. Inquire of your Jcwclcr for the
Lady Elgin. No movements retailed by the
Company. Business Office and Salesroom Ma.
tional Watch Company, 150 and 161 Lake
street. Chicago. March % 3Tn
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SOLUBLE MANURES.

The Suphuric Company
invest
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Agents..
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