Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-01-04
Miscellaneous Items.
Mad dogs are plenty in New Orleans.

.Napoleons state dinners cost $4,000
apiece, which is $50 plate.
San Francisco has received S6,6H,l75 >
less gold and silver this year than last.
Philadelphia is to have morgue Tor the
reception of her unknown dead.
A recent New York bride has a one
hundred and fifty dollar night dress.
An Illinoisian is in Washington after
$500 office with petition ninety feet long.
More diamonds have been discovered at
the Cape of Good Hope.
The American Minister and Mrs. Mot
ley have been staying at Windsor Castle
Green peas are in market, but at unreas-
enable prices, in Florida.
The revival among the students fOber-
lin continues. There have been over 100
conversions this fall.
Munroe, the New Brunswick murderer,
has been sentenced to be hung on Tuesday
the 10Th of February.
spunky bride in Port Hope, Canada,
married the groomsman because the bride
groom was too drunk to stand up.
There are 12S monasteries in the United
States, where men live under VOWS of cell
bacy and poverty, and 800 nunneries Of
various grades.
All the bells ofthe $50 churches in Rome /
were tolled the day the Ecumenical COun- /
Gil opened, and the guns of st. Angelo /
Numbered necessarily.
A German boy aged Is, shot himself in
Allegheny city, Penn, on Christmas day. /
because a young woman refused to skate
with him. He died in few hours.
Eight hundred and twenty-seven build !
ings have been erected in Milwaukee this
year, at cost of 100000. Last year
the number of buildings was 1898 and their
cost 81, 5S3,7l0.
| A Pittsburg young man asked girl
whom he had been following, and an en-
| tire stranger to him, to see her home. She
accepted, and on arriving at her home, she
set her dog on him.
A Roumanian project, being at an eve
ming party recently at Bucharest took Oc-
casion to pop the question to the daughter
of his host. The young lady refused to
marry him, and he Immediately shot her
/ ueaQ. lie WAS arrested.
Gen. Hamilton, in his late speech at
Waco, Texas, said that he had travelled
over 1900 miles during the present canvass,
and that within the past month he had
passed over one thousand emigrant wagons
on the road hunting their future homes in
that State.
Charles Murray, a wool sorter at Maple
h., g NT,.--,,l,,,-,++-
relied with his son on Wednesday last, and
half an hour. The murderer made his es-
cape, and had not been captured at last
accounts.
An expedition numbering 1900 men re-
Gently left St. Petersburg on board steam
err for the Balkan Bay OF the Caspian Sea,
to attempt the discovery of means Of con-
Meeting the Caspian and Aral Seas by the
bed of the ancient river Amudia.
A beautiful young German girl was kill
!. ed near Morrisania, n J.. on Tuesday eve
ming by being run over by a railroad train.
4 portion Ofan evergreen wreath was found
on her person, and near by were several
toys, which she HAD evidently purchased
for Christmas gifts.
Max Klinger, the boy murderer in st.
Louis, when he thought he was speedily
to be executed, piteously begged that the
surgeons would try to resuscitate him by
means of electricity. Last week he was
respited for two months. and on being told,
exclaimed well, I'd rather hear that than
! to have sausage for breakfast"
An Iowa editor acknowledges the receipt
of congressional documents in advance Of
r the regular mail. The way it occurred
was this A wolf chased the mail carrier
] about four miles. They want the govern
ment to put on that route number of able
bodied wolves to facilitate matters.
3 The propriety of giving condition medi-
D cine to horses, cattle and sheep, was dis
I cussed and admitted by many Of the agri-
= cultural societies throughout the State last
o fall, and we believe that in every case but
one they decided in favor of sheridan :
. Cavalry Condition Powders. Good judg-
ment
They have a fellow living in Lafayette,
2 Ind, who is humility personifed. The
: other day he asked fellow if he might
h ''be allowed the privilege of going home
n with her" and was Indignantly refused
. whereupon he inquired very humbly, if he
a
e see her GO by
1t is an established fact, that consump-
II ton can be cured; but it is far better tc
e prevent the cruel disease from fastening it.
u self on the system, by the timely use of a
# remedy like Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild
d Cherry. This standard preparation viii
Il speedily cure a cough or cold, and ever
. consumption often yields to It's great power
At WATERFOWL, \. Y, a jury was recent
r lv impanneled to try an important murder
J. case. One ofthe men selected was nearly
l. 10 years of age, and had lived within 81
r miles of Watertown nearly all his life, bu
D. was never in the place until summoned q,
a juror. More than that, he had not haC
G. & newspaper in his house for the past eigh
No years; and two of his colleagues had no
e. taken newspaper for many years.
:, English sympathy appears to have asin
- gularly bhghting effect on peoples and ma
: tionalities. Thus, England sympathize(
u with the South-the result is known. Sht
y sided with Poland, and saw Poland crush
- ed; she sympathized with Hungary. anC
" saw Hungary conquered; she was the all,
of Denmark, and saw her despoiled; sh
1t prayed that Austria might be victorious
and saw her beaten at Konigsgratz.
Sc There is probably no way in which w
le can benefit our readers more than by rec
a ommending to them for general use John
re- sons Anodyne Liniment. 1t is adapted t,
., almost all the purposes of a family medi
d cine and as a specific for coughs colds
- /,
h stomach, rheumatism, splitting Of blood
ID and all lung difficulties, it has no eoua
e. that we ever saw or heard of.
: A lady in Williamsport, Penn, Will
y dying from consumption last week, inform
- ed her mother, and subsequently her ply
y stefan and her pastor, that she suffoCatet
J., her step-child last summer by holding he
y hand over its mouth to keep it from crying
o Her husband however, says that he wa
. present with the child when it died, ant
He that the circumstances could not POSSIBLE
have occurred as his wire described, and h
R. ascribes the idea to imagination, her min,
of being much weakened by long continued
It. suffering.
ry Ayers American almanac, for the ney
lie year, has arrived for delivery gratis by Jos
Mt Ign & Co., to all who call for it. This lit
i ie tie annual has the largest circulation O
Sc any book in the world, made by the fac
as that it furnishes the best medical advic
ne which is available to the people-enable
Is them to determine what their complaint
n are and how to cure them. 1t contains tn
Is startling announcement Of the confagra
re tion of world, or the combustion of on
nc of the stars in the armament with all il
o. attendant planets
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