Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-22
Miscellaneous Items.

The mule trade in Kentucky is dull.
Charleston is to reduce its police force
San Francisco has two Chinese theatres.
Thewidow of Stonewan Jackson is about
to remarry.
California Is growing half million null
berry trees for silkworms
Six dollars in silver were found in a
Buffalo contribution box last Sunday.
Montreal gives its poor 1000 quarts Of
soup and 600 loayes Of bread every week.
\ New York bride had a present of
$4,000 worth of diamonds and pearls
from the bridegroom.
A fashion writer says that the blue coat
and brass buttons will be all the rage for
full dress next winter.
Mcfarland Is visited, on an average, by
six sympathizing women daily, most OF
whom are utter strangers to him.
The delegate in Congress from Arizona
has sjgnitied his intention of appointing an
Indian to a West Point cadetship.
Berlin has now over seven hundred thou
sand inhabitants, and Vienna six hundred
thousand
A man named Hawk was arrested the
other day in Harrisburg for stealing pig
cons. There is something in a name, after
all
An English sportsmen lately killed no
fewer than sixty-hve geese with two shots,
and sold his game in London for $40.
In Tennessee breach Of promise case
three hundred love letters are being read to
the court
The people Of Weston, No. recently
hung an innocent man for horse stealing.
They are now making reparation for the
injury by subscribing for his gravestone.
Yerger, the Mississippi murderer, escap-
ed from Jail in Jackson the other day. The
legislature promptly voted $4,000 reward
for his capture.
The immigration TO Kansas is unpreced-
ented. The railroads are compelled to in
crease the number Of trains to accommo-
date the immigrants
Flora Mills, of sweet II, has gone to the
Illinois penitentiary for five years. She is
a burglaress and was rapidly opening 8
new field of labor for women.
\ San Francisco Judge tempered iustic,
with mercy by filming girl twenty-five
/ cents tor stealing, and then raising $50 fol
her from symPatnizing spectators.
1t is not now Pathological to speak Of ole
veterans. Old veterans are soldiers Of tn,
war Of 1872; veterans are soldiers of tn,
late rebellion.
The Knoxville Tenn Iron Compan,
has turned out a roll weighing ,00l
pounds, being the irstof the Kind ever cas-
in the State.
The oldest Of the siXty-four prisoners il
the Ohio penitentiary, under sentence 70
life, is John Gull, from Stark county, thir
ty-three years a convict, and now 20 year
old
Two men in Bath, \. H., recently loade
their horses on a wager, one horse DRAWN
j27O pounds and the other 1896 A GOO
place to form a society for the preventio
of cruelty to animals.
An Austrian lady of rank recently az
peared at a court ball in a dress so shock
iDgly low in the neck that the Empires
caused her tc be banished to a country sea
in Hungary.
A Cincinnati reporter woke UP brid,
groom at a hotel in that city to get til
particulars of his wedding. He owes
neighboring apothecary fifty cents for cour
plaster.
In case tried at Columbus, Ky, O
Wednesday, where the consideration WI
one hundred and seventy dollars in Coz
| federate money, the jury gave the plainti
/ three dollars in Greenbacks
a man recently died in Maine, and will
ed thousand dollars to each of the count
papers, and country editors generally il
dOrse the idea In other localities edito
are looking for some one to follow Il
example. Imagine the obituary noti
, that man received
4 More than forty years have elapsed sin
Johnsons Anodyne Liniment was first i
vented, during which time hundreds
4 thousands have been benefited by its us
! Probably no article ever became so ur
versally popular with all classes as job
! sons Anodyne Liniment.
Pills which contain antimony, QUINN
< and calomel, should be avoided, as seve
) gripping pains would be their only resu
t The safest, surest, and best pills are Pa
e sons Purgative or Ambitious Pills.
Until the year 177O this law was in for
in England: "Whoever shall entice in
n bonds of matrimony any male subject
}, Her Majesty's by means of rouge, VIII
t. paint, Spanish cotton, steel corsets, Grin
e line, high heeled shoes, or false hips, sh;
10 be prosecuted for witchcraft and the ms
d riage declared null and void" Isn't it a
d out time for this law to be reenacted?
g Another case of spontaneous combusti
!, is reported by L'Union Medicale, in an
u ticle from the pen of Dr. Bertholle. T
y subject of it was a woman thirty-sev
d years old, who was addicted to alcoho
d drinks. She was found in her room wi
. the viscera and some of the limbs consu
ed, the hair and clothes having escaped
l. The very minute description of the st:
lie in which the deceased was found, she
IN that ignition could not have been comm
as nicated from without.
Sc An eminent divine says, 81 have b,
as using Peruvian Syrup. 1t gives. me 4
rs vigor, buoyancy of spirits, elasticity
III muscle" J. P. Dinsmore, SO Dey STR
as New York, will send, free, pamphlet
= 80 pages, containing full account of t
u remarkable medicine, to any one send