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

Since January LIST, 1924 emigrants have
arrived in New York.
The Sunday performances in St. Louis
theatres are to be stopped.
The legislature of Pennsylvania has en-
acted law to prevent baggage smashing.
Senator Wigfall, formerly of Texas, is
now an exile in the wilds of Colorado.
TheSeth Thomas Clock company, Itch
field, Ct, made l24, 900 clocks last year.
The Ecumenical Council now has 76O
members.
A Minnesota farmer has cleared $780,
600 in three years.
No less than $1,000 penny song books
are sold every day throughout France.
The Consolidated Bank at New Orleans
has been robbed of nearly $4,000
Treasure shipped from San Francisco
overland to New York last week amounted
to 100000.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis will erelong givethe
world his version of his own life in book
form.
Wyoming promises to send Anna Dick
insOn to congress if she will come out there
and live
The people of Holly Springs, Miss, held
a meeting recently to encourage Scotch
emigration.
a whole family in Buffalo were severely
burned, and one child killed by the ex-
ploslon of Kerosene lamp.
A Detroit dentist had to give in the 9th
er day, when lad wanted a new set of
teeth for fine tooth comb.
Oliver Dyer says the outcast children of
New York would make, in double file,
procession eleven miles long.
An Indiana man offered SIS for the priv
| ilege Of acting as hangman at recent ex-
| ecution.
A severe drouth prevails in Lower Cal
ifornia, and cattle are dying in large num-
! bers.
\ Catholic priest in New York has re-
fused to marry couple, because the groom
is a Free Mason.
Since the assembling of the Ecumenical
| Council, seven Of its members have died.
The 5000 acres of Texan soil sold by
| government for taxes realized for the treas
ury S6,OOO-l3 acres for cent!
a seventeen year old girl in San Fran
cisco went to bed with good eyes and woke
up in the morning totally blind.
The son of a Cincinnati clergyman en-
gagged in aprize fight the other day coming
out Of the conflict Second best"
The production of tobacco in Missouri
decreased from 10000 hogsheads in 1863,
to 1000 hogsheads in 1869
Head walters and chief cooks in the
| New York hotels and restaurants are paid
from SO to $50 per month and boarded
1t cost a white man in Macon, Ga, Just
$500 and six months Imprisonment to de-
sert his wife and marry colored woman.
An old man named Barth was literally
chopped to death with an axe by John
Ross at Newark, Ind,
Nathan Matthews returns the largest in
come in Boston, $3.50, OO1. He is a real es-
tate speculator.
Atlanta, Ga, with population of 3d.
OO0, has a city debt of nearly $4,000, 600,
or S425 to each inhabitant.
James Fisk, jr, has Withdrawn his ia
nous suit for libel against Mr. Samuel
Bowles of the Springfield Republican.
The Baltimore American thinks that the
18th amendmentwill bethe means of bring
ing out 10000 colored voters in that State.
1t Is said that James Gordon Bennett
never made a speech, never voted, never
was naturalized, and is still a subject of
! Queen Victoria"
The total reduction of national expendi-
lures for the first half of the present ad-
ministration's first fiscal year was s. ,264,
100.
The shipment of boots and shoes from
Boston for the year 1869 amounted to l ;
343, 023 cases, an excess of more than 300, ;
600 cases over the business of186S
\ Vermont cheese factory produced last
season 80 ,6O7 lbs. of cheese from S57 ,674
lbs. of milk, furnished by 300 cows. The
average receipts per COW were S49,68.
Ifwoman suffrage prevails the majority
Of females over males in New York State
will be 100000; in Massachusetts, $4,000
and in all the Eastern States in proportion
A Frenchman was lately found in apar
oxysm of tears over the supposed tomb o
Washington at Mount Vernon, but it turn,
ed out to be only the ice house.
1t is rumored that DR.. David Livingstone
the distinguished traveller, has been burn
ed as a wizard by a chief in the interior O.
Africa.
An Iowa man recently got drunk an(
stuffed a 500 roll of bills in his horse
mouth and compelled the poor animal t,
swallow them.
a citizen ofNew Haven, Conn, re
publican, recently refused to have his chile
vaccinated with vaccine matter from tn
arm Of q child whose father was democrat
In the iron district of Lake Superior tn
snow averages seven feet on the level, NOR
falls daily, and the mercury keeps in tn
= vicinity of zero.
At a marriage ceremony in Wexford R
a l., lately, the groom became impatien
during the excited prayer, and interrupte
!, the clergyman with Elder, amt that 'beou
'nough ?"
A German artist, who was sent to Dial
= malta to take war pictures for an illustrat
ed journal, had his ears cut off by the Be
e CHEESE, and has returned to Vienna.
The Baptists ofIndiana are making NOR
i decided progress than ever before. Th
increase last year in Indiana was nearl
- three times as great as in Ohio.
The Coolest inhabitant" has been foun
in the mountains of North Carolina, NJ
d" far from Greenville, S. G. He is said {
be 143 years old, in perfect health, posses
e ed Of all Of manhood's attributes. has su
vived seven wives, and, instead of thinl
q ing of dying, wants to marry again.
The statistics of the colored Bapti
churches in Virginia show membershi
of 1878, exclusive of those yet in con
munion with the white churches. I'll
n colored people have 1872 churches.
Thousands of tons of bones are carrie
ct every year from the old tombs of Egypt
the Nile, where they are shipped for Ale
~ andria, and thence to England to be grour
up for compost for manuring the lands.
III A friend sat up with a sick man at Fl
du Lac the other night, to whom he was
administer brandy at brief intervals. II
ne friend took the brandy himself and the 81,
man recovered.
K 1t is estimated that there are now mo
than fifty thousand blind persons in Ge
D. many, and of this number more than h.
have lost their sight through neglect of i
fammation of the eyes when extreme
VIC young.
The Russian Socialist conspiracy is
wv cribed to the revolutionist Bakonnin
1849 he headed the insurgents in the sire,
rk of Dresden, was afterwards given up
the Austrians to the Russian governme