Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-05-31
Miscellaneous Items.

Spanish crown.
Gov. Boutwell, is appointing colored |
young ladies to clerkships in the de-
partments.
The Albany Argus makes the Dem |
ocratic majority in the recent judicial
election OF New York $4,000.
Gen. Thomas left no will. The
amor his personal estate is re-
port 10000.
e. Of Nebraska are to
fold the 4E enlion in Lincoln
on the d., - ta. q.
A tcrrit .l&. r.orm, with stones
as large as tae eggs, is reported
from Talbot cydnty Maryland.
Near Petroleum Centre, Pa, an oil
well has been recently struck which
yielded $50 barrels in II hours.
Minnesota has $4,000 less sheep
than it had two years ago. The win
tiers are too long to make wool-grow-
ing profitable there.
The Chicago Post thinks Ex-Gov-
ernor Wise of Virginia has unlearned
more in the past ten years than any
other man in America.
A lady who is trying to cure her
husband of smoking has learned to
smoke the weed herself and complains
that 1T is rather an expensive habit
Of the two"
The boot and shoe dealers in St.
Johnsbury have been running" each
other; and as a consequence boots
were sold for $3.50 that had been
bringing 1925.
Rev. Eli Ballou has sold his pub
fishing business in Montpelier, includ-
ing the Christian Repository, to the
Uniyer8alist Publishing House Of BoS-
ton, Mass.
The Hot Springs of Arkansas are
largely patronized this summer. Al
ready there are 4OO guests at tins
great southern place Of resort.
1t is estimated that 100000 trees
are planted annually in the state of
Iowa, Two farmers in Grundy have
set 10000 this spring.
A town in northern New. Hampshire
has Mother Goosc's Melodies" am
ong the text books in its primary
schools.
The police of New York are nice
men-ycry. Apoor German emigrant
was recently swindled out of a sum
of money by sharper. and a police
man made the emigrant pay ten dol
lars in order to effect an arrest.
A western man has died, after pro
wing to the world that honesty and
efficiency are compatible with timer
ancy in cleaning and repairing clocks. "
Cinnamon are being shipped over
the states from San Francisco. Min
ne8ota and Wisconsin have applied
for a thousand each New Orleans
receives them in regular instruments.
Over 100000 persons have died
Of the smallpox in Russia since the
beginning of the century. Vaccine,
ton is not compulsory in the Cars
= dominions.
A remarkable pestilcnce has re-
, Gently made its appearance in Pater-
: son, \. J., which has 50 far baflled the
skill of physicians The victims have
holes eaten through their threats, and
in q short time after death the bodies
turn black. 1t is said to be spread
ing rapidly.
A sea serpent 80 feet long, and with
I a head like a lager beer key, has been
/ seen in the Hudson river, near Grant 5
! Island in the Highlands. The head
and neck Of the nondescript were ex-
, tended upwards some ten or twelve
l feet. Only three persons witnessed
this marvellous sight.
Gen. Boynton of Augusta, Me-, had
i a bullet extracted from his hip recent.
T ly, which he received in the battle Of
Drury's Bluff. The ball had moved
seven inches from the point of en-
. trance, and was deep seated. 1t had
+ produced great suffering for six years.
Z 4 whole family, consisting of ten
/ persons, were poisoned in Lewiston,
a Ne, a few evenings since, by parta-
:. king of bread and milk, and it was
= ascertaincd that sugar OF lead had
: been introduced into the milk, but by
e whom, or for what purpose, was I'M
: known.
r GREAT FIRE IN QUEBEC-A Que
g bee special to the Troy Times says a
great condagration is raging there TO-
day. Over six hundred houses were
burned to the ground and thousands
D. rendered homeless. The Fcnians had
: cut the wires. and no further particu-
e lars could be learned.
J THE New VOTERS. 1t is estimated
= that the Fifteenth Amendment has
: put the ballot into the hands Of at
= least 100000 blacks in all the States
. of whom about 100000 reside at the
y South. The popular majority for
. Gen. Grant in 1868 was nearly 80.
600, or considerably less than one-hall
= the new negro vote.
ST. LOUIS, MAY pa fire broke
out in the Missouri Republican Office
l. yesterday afternoon. The building
! was entirely destroyed with the press
|, es and library. Loss 100000; in
u sured for $1O6,5 800 in western offices
! J. Hinke, Estclio & Co.'S warehouse ad
+ joining was damaged $4,000; fully
u insured; $1,000 in eastern Offices
i The Republican will issue a small
} sheet to-day, and full sheet there
!, after.
Omaha has a man who lives will
; his family in one of the large iror
9 tubes used in the construction of the
! bridge. He was too poor to buy OIL
. rent even the humblest frame cabin
r so he adopted this singular expedient
4 He has constructed a neat stone fire
~ place in his iron house, and here tht
r wife and children manage to get theil
, frugal meal.