Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-07-19
Miscellaneous Items.
Mr.. Seward is going to China.

MI -ON"AN II SOlllE W CAiua'
Brooklyn has twelve city railroads.
Wisconsin still contains 9,S11 Indians.
Spotted Tail took home an umbrella.
Kansas City has introduced street cars.
Paraguay has fifty women for one man.
Black velvet sashes are very fashionable.
New Haven has begun to muzzle its dogs.
Bamboo is successfully grown in Califor-
MIA.
The Georgia state Lunatic Asylum is
crowded.
Michigan has reduced its state debt to
S250,000.
Brooklyn is troubled with daylight bur-
glaries.
The average of human life is thirty-four
years.
Water costs dollar bucket at Indian
ola, Texas
An Indiana judge has actually refused
divorce.
sunday dancing is to be suppressed in
Milwaukee.
The President has signed the currency
bill.
In Brittany cattle are sellinga two cents
per pound.
Vice President Colfax will take part in
the campaign in Indiana.
The Tennessee Legislature adjourned on
Monday to December next.
4 white snake has been found in How
ard county, Mo.
There are 100000 sheep on Fort TETON,
Cal, sheep rancho.
The style of ladies' hats in Paris is what
it was lOj years ago.
The new New York City Directory con-
tains $50, 600 names.
A boy in Quincy, H., swan four miles
for FIVE dollars, recently.
Only one-fourth of the Congregational
churches of Maine have settled pastors.
The total income of the Government
during the past year was $500, 100000
A man died in New York city last week
of Asiatic cholera, at the age Of 100.
Five boys were drowned on Tuesday
while bathing at Dubuque, Iowa.
The Senate judiciary Committee have
| reported against woman suffrage.
Thomas Hughes, VI. p. is about MAXIM
three months visit to the United States
A bare-legged Scotch piper in Salem il
| complained of as a nuisance.
4 man in st. Louis drowned himself OIL
Sunday because the water Cooked nice"
The Delaware peach crop this season il
estimated at l,35O,000 baskets suitable fo
market.
A woman in Pennsylvania is under ar
rest for numbering her own son by hanging
him in a barn.
Immigrants to the number of 129,0S
have arrived at the Battery, New York
during the past six months.
Additional cavalry are stationed on tn
line Of the Kansas Pacific Railroad to keeI
off the Indians.
Between Jan. and July l, 1873, $50 i'm
migrants arrived at New York. OF thi
number 47,723 were Germans.
Riots are threatened in the north of Ire
land, and the police and troops are concen
trating in that quarter.
There is no probability of any extension
of the session of Congress, or any executiy
session Ofthe Senate.
1t is denied that any coercive pressur
has been brought to bear by the Pope O
the members of the Council.
Riel's Winnipeg Legislature has take
action on the Manitoba bill, and the art
eles of confederation have been adopted
Mr. Wilson has modified his army BIZ
by striking out the section reducing th
salaries of Gems. Sherman and Sheridan.
The Hon. Horace Greeley, having full
recovered from his late illness, was at b
old post in the Tribune Office on Monday
The Senate has passed a bill authorizin
certain ordinance TO be used in the eret
ton Of an equestrian statue of Gen Raw
2 Inns.
Track-laying from eastward, on the Kal
sas Pacific Railroad, commenced last Tue
t day. This road will be completed in 81
D months.
The raw materials for the table of IL
+ Fifth Avenue Hotel cost 81 900 a day
The white paper used to print the Su
costs $3.50 o day.
A Western paper describes a letter
Horace Greeley's "as looking as if somebOt
z had smashed bottle of ink on it and trit
to wipe it off with & currycomb."
Victor Emmanuel got royalty indigna
o at the theatre the other evening, wht
some females in the box near him unde
took to get up Irritation with him, al
they were ordered out Of the house.
: The London City Mission has in its Ell
: ploy 375 missionaries, who made over ty
million visits last year, reclaimed g
drunkards, restored 676 fallen women
5 their homes or put them in asylums, al
induced 1874 shopkeepers to give up Su
f day trading.
k On a recent evening COW walked in
the open door of a drug store in Myst
Conn, and after carefully examining Il
l. articles in the show cases. walked up
h the soda fountain. Before she could CT
IF for her beverage the proprietor tender
r drove her into the street.
r. Near the grave of Washington Irving
Tarrytown, n. Y, is being built the M
! costly mausoleum in America. 1t is oy
II the grave of prominent New York Of
Il cial, and will cost 100000. 1t will
entirely of marble, and sculpture is N,
being wrought for it in Italy.
At the beginning of this century tn,
as were not one hundred native Protestants
to all India and Burmah. Now there are
0. far from eighty thousand church membe
10 The whole number of missionaries in Inc
is six hundred, and there are two thousa
De native preachers. About 81 100000
ry expended in this field by twenty-five so
cites.