Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-04-05
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The publishers of Zions Herald have
been engaged in erecting building in Bos-
ton, for Methodist headquarters, at an ex-
pense Of 100000.
4 congregation in Missouri seem to be
particular as to its preacher. Not long
since it gave public notice that preacher
was wanted, specifying that besides being
a good Christian he must have a good mar
al character.
The Pope has marked down the price Of
absolution from sin to a very low figure for
a limited time, that is to say during the
season of the Ecumenical Council The
Vatican is now doing business on the one
price system.
Victor Emmanuel shot several wild
bOars during hunting excursion near Ma
pies, recently, and the next day sent one
of them to the captain. and officers of the
American frigate Sabine; which was then
in port.
Major Leland who recently caned Geo.
Wilkes in New York, was attacked with
slung shot by man who followed him in
the street on Saturday night, and two of
his teeth were knocked out. Major Leland
drew pistol and fired, when his assailant
fled, and though pursued made his escape.
The ex-Queen Isabella and her husband
are not only quarreling in court, but
suit for separation is announced between
the Count Girgenti and his wife, the In
tanta Isabella, daughter of the ex-Queen.
The wife complains of the extravagancies
Of the husband, who is said to have squan-
dered all her dowry.
An indianapolis paper has made current
a terrible story relative to a band of body
snatchers said to have existed in that place
for over year. This band robbed graves
when it was convenient, but found it easier
to waylay negroes at late hour at night
and quietly" kill them. They killed tif.
teen within one year, and sent some of the
bodies for dissection to Chicago, and a few
to Louisville
At a meeting of the Free Masons of
New York Monday evening a large sum
was subscribed toward erecting a Masonic
Temple and Asylum for aged Masons. and
also for the orphans of MasOns. Similar
meetings are to be held throughout the
State. The building will cost half mil
lion.
An elderly Baptist lady, living up the
Muskingum, says the Marietta Register,
writes as follows to a friend: I'VE can't
get to meeting this weather; but the min
lister stayed with us three days; we gave
him ten pounds of butter and ham, and
you better believe we kept him praying
while he stayed"
WHEELING, March 22-Bishop Thomp-
son died this morning at half past ten
o'clock, of typhoid pneumonia. He pre-
sided at the West Virginia Conference held
in Charleston, Kanawha county, last week,
and was on his way to Jersey City to Off
ciate in a conference to be held there this
week, when Overtaken by sickness.
A paper in Natchez, Miss, reports that
some negroes have dug up near that city a
| queer looking, dingy, rusty old square box,
so bound about with metal as to almost re-
semble an iron x, and containing coin
and valuable ornaments, which, it suggests,
was buried by the great fernando De Soto
and his followers about the year 1910.
George Wilkes, of Wilkes Spirit of the
Times was cowhided in New York on
Broadway, Tuesday, by Major VIM. w. Le-
land formerly of the st. Julian Hotel. A
| large crowd witnessed the assault. Wilkes
was much cut. Leland was arrested but
Wilkes declined to prosecute.
A Bloomington boy who found the dead
body of his brother, his fellow-soldier, on
! the battle field of Gettysburg, and buried
| it in a grave dug with his own hands, was
surprised few days ago by the sudden APP
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their home. Dead men tell no tales and
so he is bound to believe his brother when
he assures him he must have buried some
other boys brother.
1t is stated that the Vermont Central
Railroad Company have leased the St
Lawrence and Ottawa Railway, which run,
from Prescott to Ottawa. By this arrange
ment through freight connection from
Ottawa to Boston and rice rersd, will be
formed, which can but prove of great con.
venience to the public, and especially tn.
lumber interest of that section.
During fine starlight evening lately. :
three year old philosopher, after a siien
and apparently profound scrutiny of the
heavens. asked his mother abruptly wher,
the stars came from. Mama replied: %
don't know, Willie" eyes you do, too. ,
"No, Willie, | don't know where the star.
came from "Well. you bet | do. Th,
moon laid 'em." This was a Settler fo
mamma.
\ HORRIBLE [ JNNATURAL CRIME.-II
Phillipsport, Ulster county, n. Y, on Sat
urday, the 9TH inst, Mrs. Tice cut off he
own child's head with a butcher knife, anC
flung the corpse into trunk. The deco
was done to spite her husband. who dotet
upon the child When Mr.. Tice reached
home that evening he made inquiry for tn,
babe, but his wife, instead of replying, spa
in his face. The woman had never previ
ously betrayed any symptoms of insanity.
DARING BANK RoBBERY.-Aboutl l2:3t
o'clock, one day last week, three men in
buggy drove up to the Farmers and Me
chanics Bank in Birmingham, n. y. Tw,
of them entered the bank, one of whom
! knocked down the cashier the only office
of the bank present, while the other wen
behind the counter and seized all the mon
ey on the desk, amounting to $4,000. H
placed the money in basket and ran of
but the crowd gave pursuit, captured tw,
of the robbers, and secured all the money
There is one encouraging CLEAN on tn,
English horizon just now-that is, the prac
tical check which the new ministry ha
given TO intemperance. The license law
have been so amended that about 5000 bee
houses have been closed throughout th
kingdom since the change of ministry. :
Meetings are now being held nightly 70
! the further amendation of the laws, so tina
/ still greater check may be put on the sail
! of liquor. The Sunday selling will b.
greatly reduced before long-possibly en-
! tirely forbidden. But England alone, a
present, spends 100000, 900 in beer, and j
! Is SAID that the trade in certain drugs mucl
used Tor the adulteration of liquor has in
creased several hundred per cent. in tn
last few years. Nearly all the liquor
drank In London in the public houses ar
frightfully drugged.