Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-01
Miscellaneous Items.


A son of the late George D. Prentice will
shortly bring out volume of his poems.
The revolutionists of Mexico are strong
est in the very heart of the country.
The Ecumenical Council makes but lit
tie Roadway with the infallibility question.
1t has been proved beyond dispute that
PAIN can be felt twenty minutes after de-
capitation.
Shooting aud stabbing appear to be the
standard amusement in New York at the
present time.
By the recent death in this country of
five misers, nearly three million dollars
will be put ahoat.
A Tilted girl in a town in Ohio fired
pistol at her false lover who sat in front of
her in church. He had Just been publish
ed by the priest to another girl.
The Kansas farmers are getting out their
plows and corn for planting, and at work
in their shirt sleeves. Those of New Eng
land will next month be out mending their
fences.
In order to check duelling in France,
Olivier proposes to make it pay license
of hundred thousand francs into the pub
lie treasury, every time it is practiced.
4 bill was introduced in the Ohio legis-
lature, on the 18th, prohibiting the reading
of the bible or the singing of Psalms or
hymns in the public schools.
During his last visit to Boston, George
! Peabody said, in the course of a converse
| haE NJ of tp
perism, but to prevent it."
The walls Of Constantinople, completed
sixteen centuries ago, by the Emperor The
odosius, are to be pulled down, and their
stones employed in various municipal i'm
| provemeHts.
The income tax will probably be con-
! tinued As 4 three per cent. tax, theamOunt
exempted to be probably increased to two
thousand dollars
4 Pennsylvania firm has rolled out a
| finely polished sheet OF iron, three feet long
and twelve inches wide, and weighing but
three and a half ounces. 1t is thinner than
ordinary writing paper.
The Indians are making trouble again
along the Kansas frontier, and a loud call
clearing them out and placing them on a
/ reservation.
Nh j. Wesley Harper, another of the
original four brother, has recently died in
. New York. His brother James was thrown
from his carriage and killed only last year.
Lienhardt Schumen convicted of muir
der in the second degree, having stabbed to
death Cornelius Stahl in a bar room brawl,
was sentenced in New York the 18th, to
twenty wears imprisonment, He acted
with the utmost nonchalance.
An excellept rebuke was that admins
tered by cX-Nico-President Hamlin to a
party Of his friends, who importuned him
to frank their letters. The Senator took
their letters, affixed postage stamps upon
them all, and blandly returned them to the
writers.
George Dixon Of Michigan, who caused
the death of his little son by i'll treatm ent,
has been sent to prison for fifteen years
He expressed the opinion that the prosecu-
tion had been a conspiracy against him.
He threw his little boy down and stamped
upon his breast.
There are probably hundred or more
persons in this and neighboring towns, who
daily suffer from the distressing effects OF
kidney troubles, who do not know that
Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is almost a
certain cure. In severe cases, great relief
may be obtained, if a perfect cure.
We notice that the Agricultural papers
all over the country recommend the use OF
Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders
Exchange
Farmers and Others in this section have
long known andappreciated the advantage
Of these powders over all others.
The kalamazoo C1Iich.) Telegraph say.
the horse which She. idan rode at Winches-
ter was a coal black one, captured from the
rebels in the Northern part of Mississippi
in 1862, and fine Southern bred horse OF
great speed and bottom, and that it was
presented to Sheridan in the early part o
the summer of the sameye by Lieut.. Geo
Hodges Of kalamazoo.
Timothy Cook, who killed a stranger
while infatuated by liquor, in Michigan
because he would not step off the sidewalk
at his command, has been sent to prison
for two years and half. His counsel Wig
Orously defended him on the ground tina
he had only committed serious accident,
and, as no words had previously passed be
tween the parties, there was IAN eviden
want Of motive
Many suffer rather than take nauseou
medicines; and this is not to be wondere,
at, as the remedy Is often worse than tn
disease. Sufferers from coughs, colds, in
fuenza, sore throat, or tendency to con
sumption, Will find in DR. Wistars Balsan
of Wild Cherry a remedy as agreeable t
the palate As etectual in removing disea
ses.
E Carin c. c. Cade Of Bell county Texa,
p was murdered in Clark county, Ark, Of
the 9th inst, by notorious desperad
t named Samuel Halsey. Cade had assiste
= the sheriff of Bell county, Texas, in arrest
, ing a gang ofdesperadOes to which Halse
belonged. During the arrest one of tn
gang was killed. Cade then started t
move to Little Rock, Ark, but was follow
ed by Haisey, who shot him down while h
- was riding by in wagon containing hi
T. family, who recognized the assassin. Larg
f, rewards for Halsey are offered by the Coy
t errors of Missouri and Arkansas.
THE UNIVERSAL AYER."-On III
= journeys over the continent-through Tm
e key, India, China, Japan, Peru, Chill, Pa
i aguay, Brazil and Mexico, and the Unite
e States-in them all to some extent and
!, some to a great extent, | found the unive
Y sal Aver represented by his family med
y cines, which are often held in fabulous e
o TEEN. Whether they win their marvelor
= reputation by their cures, know not, bl
l know they have it to such a degree TIL
it frequently gave me distinguished in
At portance to have come from the same coul
e try Fields letters from abroad.
: SHOCKING RAILROAD ACCIDENT-Hh
1T maRiy Of q Station Ageat.-The New Vol
Herald of yesterday says that last Mond;
! afternoon an accident occurred on the Ne
~ York and New Haven railroad, a short di
r lance north of New Rochelle, which, if
r. has not already resulted fatally in one
-e both cases, must, it is believed, occasion Il
os death Of two persons. 1t appears that du
20 ing the afternoon mentioned, man name
s. O'Rourke, aged about fifty, together wi
I'd his wife, who Is few years younger, bo
fe living at Chatsworth, about two miles nor
of New Rochelle, had been making pu
chases in the latter village, and it is sal
imbibed liquor to a considerable extent.
as At about four o'clock O'Rourke and /
re wife were noticed leaving the depot al
u walking up the railroad in the direction
!" their hOme-the woman taking the doY
v track, while her husband walked on t
a opposite one. The unfortunate couple h
ne not proceeded more than half mile VIII
IL the Norwalk special train for New Yo
- y, approached at full speed, but apparent
I'll un0bserved by the woman, who was INN
diately in its path. Seeing the immine
danger, her husband sprang from the
track to rescue her, but before he had
Oh fected his purpose the flying locomoti