Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-08-16
Miscellaneous Items.

Brooklyn uses 100000 gallons of wa
ter daily.
One-eighth of the population of Belgium
are paupers.
1t is believed that coal will be high the
coming winter.
The gold fields in California are improv-
ing in value.
The oat crop of Ireland this year is the
best ever known.
The Catholic party have been successful
in the elections in Belgium.
The Governor of Campeachy has taken
up arms against the Mexican Government.
Reinforcements to the number of 1900
will sail from Madrid in September for
Cuba.
A candidate for Congress in Arkansas
originally went there as ''bones" in min
strel show.
Official returns give the Democrats in
the recent election in Kentucky a MAORI
ity Of about $4,000.
The Romanist population of the French
empires &c, 800 ,664 the Protestant, / sol, :
$50 the Jewish, 1853, 1894.
Tennessee Republicans say that the
Democrats know too much to nominate
Andrew Johnson for Congress.
The Mormons will let DR.. Newman
preach in their tabernacle, provided he
will give them the use OF his pulpit in
Washington.
The towns of Amphirsa and Galazadi,
Greece, and several villages have been de-
stroyed by earthquake. Many persons
were killed and wounded.
Mile. NillsOn is paid G25,O00 sterling
for a six months contract to sing in the
United States. She is to receive $4,000
as gift, on starting for America.
Of622 murders committed in New York
during the thirteen years ending with 1868,
the perpetrators of 155, or one-quarter OF
the whole number, have never been discov-
cred.
1t is said that within circuit of one
hundred and twenty-five miles around the
White Sulphur Springs of West Virginia
there is more iron ore than in the whole
Of Great Britain.
At Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday
night a. [. Morgan, a white Senator o.
Mississippi, was married to Miss Carrie
Highgate, a colored lady Morgan is q
lawyer, and was formerly colonel of Mich
igan regiment.
A dwarf woman, nineteen years Of age
was recently deserted by the side-showmar
] of ri in nd ho w
starved only for the kindness of the people
The ruffian had engaged to pay her 50
per month.
The census taker in Caroline county
Maryland, has unearthed two centenarian
= Jane Hutson, Familiarity known as "Jin
ME Dublin" aged 116 years, and AMI
Murray, aged 10 years. The county rec
Ords, says the Denton Union, show tina
these are their true ages.
The Springfield Republican, in com
menting upon the use of jute Switches
and chignons, which contain minute in
: sects, says that in that city Several wome
= lie in danger of death from these loath
f some insects, and the disease in its Jesse
forms is quite frequent"
= The extensive works of the Fairhave
n Keg Company, corner Of Ferry and ChapC
. streets, New Haven, Conn, were destroye
. by fire on Thursday morning. The loss
estimated at $4,000 on which there wa
an insurance of $4,000. The compan
had been manufacturing largely for tn
:. fall trade, and had large stock on hand.
It The Congressional Committee invest
: eating the charges against certain cader
at West Point for uugentlemanly treatmeI
of the colored cadet, have finished the
r labors, and sentenced the offending cade
/ to be reprimanded by the authorities.
A SINGULAR -UP-A correspond
h ent of the Charlottesville (Va.) Chronic
J. relates the following almost incredib
r story:
4. "a very remarkable phenomenon occu
s, red III this county on Tuesday last, whiC
n no one can explain. As the miller at NJ
Thomas AYERS mill, situated on one
i the tributaries of Robinson river. was 81
is ting quietly in the mill on the evening
t. that day, he was surprised at sudde
IT peal, as of thunder, and on getting up AL
of going to the window he perceived that h
dam was blown up, and the tremendo
logs of which it was built were flying six
feet in the air. Some of them were throw
ID distance of seventy-fve yards, and Il
S. whole dam was entirely demolished. In
cornfeld some three or four hundred var
below the dam about two-thirds of the ca
i, of corn were shaken from the stalks al
= scattered over the ground The evenil
a. was perfectly clear, with the exception
n, few very Insignificant looking clouds Il
st down in the eastern sky, and the sun W
:. shining brightly at the time this inexp
81 cable phenomenon presented ITSELF Sor
D. persons suppose that torpedo must ha
in been placed under the dam by the va
T. KEGS during the war, and think that Il
time had Just arrived for it TO 60 off. OF
= ers think that thunderbolt came fro
l. those clouds in the east, passing throu
the cornfield, and knocked off the ears tn
in fell (leaving the remaining ears for Sc
and the fodder intact for winter use, | su
&c pose,) and striking the rock on which t
5. dam was built, which extended up on d
land, followed it down under the water a
20 the dam, and BURsTED there, causing
- destruction. Neither surmise seems We
. probable.