Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-09-06

A Cincinnati man was so much lncensed
at an assessor for rating his property too
high, that he and his wife pounded him
nearly to death with clubs.
1t is proposed to found in Chicago an
art gallery, to be free to everybody, and to
be kept open in the evening and on Sun
day.
Machinery has recently been invented |
in England which weaves from the hair of |
cats and rabbits sort of velvet tissue, dis |
from silk, but not inferior in |
fneness and beauty.
The democracy of Ohio opened their |
in Columbus on Tuesday last |
Senator Thurman presided over meeting
composed of fifty -seven persons, and Alex. |
Delmar made dreary statistical and fnan-
cial speech to them.
The True Georgian says that Gen. Grant
will be reelected to the White House in
1879 by larger majority than he received
in 1868. He is the right man in the right
place, and the South will put out her own
eyes should she fail to give him her entire
electoral vote in the coming Presidential
contest.
Dunklin county, Missouri, is engaged to
a considerable extent in the cultivation of
cotton. The crop this year, it is supposed,
will reach 10000 bales.
A company has been organized with
capital of 100000 to work a coal field of
1896 acres, at the confux of Vermillion
river, near Danville, Ill.
Weston. the pedestrian, is DESTROYS of
humbugging the country people by walk
ing at agricultural fairs for the modest
sum of S125. The Lbwell Courier sug-
gests that he 60 to Europe and teach the
French how to travel from Metz
The largest room in the country is in a
mill on the Shetueket river, Rhode Island
1t is $50 feet long by rs wide. The build
ing itself, not yey completed, will be 2,100
feet long, IS feet wide, and four stories
high.
\ San Francisco cat got into George
Francis Trains bedroom and tried to suck
Georges breath, not knowing, of course,
who he was. It is, perhaps, needless to
remark that the cat came to an uutimelv
end. Mr.. Train carries altogether too
much wind for any one cat.
While workmen were engaged in exca-
waiting on the line of the AthoI and Enfield
railroad, in South Athol, Saturday, they
dug up a skull, ribs and other human
bones. The general opinion is that they
are the bones of one of that famous band
of Indians called tie Nipnits The 'front.'
al bone is low and Iloping.
Mr.. Geo. ". Tyler, formerly well known
as writer for different daily and weekly
papers, died at Leivenworth, Kansas, on
the 22d inst, at the age of 81 years. OF
late years he was associated with the edi-
torial departments IF the National Intelli-
gencer and the Louisville Journal, leaving
the last named paper soon after the death
of Mr.. Prentiss, the proprietor. He was a
writer Of marked sbility, and numerous
friends in this vicirity Will regret 10 learn
his decease.
Somebody told Joe, before he went out
camping, that beniine would keep oifmos-
Quitoes and black dies. Joe took a bottle
with him, and after supper covered hi:
face and hands thoroughly, not omitting
his whiskers and hair. He then filled hi.
pipe and lit a match for good smoke
Joe is now all covered with blisters anC
sores about the head, and stays in TIT
house.
\ Frenchman from Webster, Mass, par
TALLY deranged, and apparently recovering
from small poX, was found drowned il
POpes pond on Monday afternoon. H
had been sent down to the hospital at Bos
ton, and was on his way back to Webster
without any attendant or the ability I
talk English sufficiently to make himsel
understood.
Complete census returns from all th
towns in Sullivan county, y. H., sho,
gains Of y in Claremont, Sc in Newport
and 30 in Sunapee, in all l43, while tn
other towns show losses amounting in tn
aggregate to 1870, making a net loss of IS
: IL the county since 1860, and reducing il
, population from 1904 in 1860 to %
f in 1870. The construction of the Suga
I River Railroad will give the matter a di
! terent look at the end Of the next ten year
. \ well known married couple in Prov
e dence, about a year since, grew tired {
each other, and agreed to quietly dissoly
r a disagreea0le partnership. Each promi
q ed to leave the other in undisturbed DO
= session of whatever property belonged 1
/ them individually, and with this contra
q they parted, the husband remaining
: Providence, and the wife going elsewher
i The wife was prosperous, and purchased
9 horse and buggy recently, which the hu
band last week stole from her. The la
: gave her no redress, but she watched h.
| opportunity, became possessed Of a tea
: belonging to the male biped, and has gol
= where the wOOdbine twineth.
The Poles of France have organized
Il legion to fight the Prussians, who are the
l. hereditary enemies Prussia, Austria al
e Russia united in l772 to dismember al
destroy Poland, with small shadow
h right. Prussia based her claims to VIII
Y territory she took on having ruled the
e in 10Y; Austria founded her pretensio
= on possession in the fourteenth centur,
If and as for Russia, she took her slice
n land simply because she wanted it. T.
c three nations robbed Poland then, Al
n again in 1898, completing the work
" plumber after the Instruction of KOscius
II in 1873. The First Napoleon did all
10 could for Poland, but when her long 0
re pressed sons made their last struggle I
n freedom in 1868, Louis Napoleon had
re- hands full of Mexican matters, and
N contented himself with joining England
d q verbal protest, which amounted to not
So ing. Had France then interviewed 5
TO might now be aided by nation instead
ne a legion.
E1uorJ poro, Fec TTortor XIV