Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-10-18
Miscellaneous Items.

Montana has Il, 1888 men and but 3.4ll
women.
King William has yearly salary of ST.
100000.
A Chinese newspaper has been establish
ed at Helena, Montana.
Canada estimates her damages by the
Fenians at $1,000, 600.
A New Yorker has found out how to
make excellent Jelly out Of old boots.
California has recently imported 5000
chestnut trees from Japan.
The Episcopal Church of England IS said
to cost annually between five and six mil
lion pounds.
James P. Jourdan ofSalem, Oregon, has
a six footed horse, and a yearling bull with
two tails.
Cholera killed almost 600 persons at
Havana last week. Yellow fever IS less
active there.
The quantity of coffee served at the re-
cent soldiers reunion in Des Moines, Ia,
was 498 barrels.
Connecticut has population of about
/ $4,000 She will maintain her Congress
ional standing.
/ Competition has reduced the steamboat
fare from New York to Albany, a distance
Of 100 miles, to 80 cents.
The bakers of Dresden are distributing
SIX hundred pounds Of bread z week among
the wives of absent soldiers.
Fourteen steamboats,, with an aggregate
capacity of 10000 tons, are engaged in the
Lake Superior carrying trade.
\ coIored student has been admitted to
Yale College-the first ever seen there.
The country IS iberalizing slowly.
The bible is now printed in no less than
twenty-five OF the modern languages of In
dia.
The young lady at Allemagoozelum, who
was up with the lark, IS now down with
the rheumatism.
The New York State Fair at Utica was
attended by 10000 persons, on Thursday
total receipts thus far 100000.
Representative Sidney Clarke Of Kansas,
who recently failed of a denomination, will
try to succeed Ross as Senator.
Great opposition to the introduction of
Chinese laborers into New jersey is made.
Death to the employers Is threatened.
England's wheat crop is said to be less
than that OF last year by six millions of
, bushels. Probably specializing canard.
Joshua F. Bailey, the detaultingrevenue
collector OF New York, Is reported to be
living in q small Canadian town near the
border.
There must be great deal of brandy
made from fruit in the Carolinas, as the
taxes thereon already have increased from
$4,000 in 1869 to $4,000 in 1870.
The first breach Of promise case which
has ever come before the courts of Texas is
about to be tried, the damages claimed be-
ing $4,000
, New jersey is to have a woman suffrage
ticket in the present campaign, under the
auspices of the NinelaId woman's sufrag e
association.
A New York wedding last week was dis
tinguished by the gift to the bride OF a
100000 diamond necklace, aud SO, 900
= worth of silver ware.
Chicago's population amounts to 3+S,-
7 700. We wonder that she should be con-
, tent with that number, when she might
have put the figures at 100000.
Father Sufield, an English priest of the
Benedictine order, has left the Roman
Catholic church on account of the infalli-
bility dogma.
A young man in Taunton the other day
/ oficiously applied the brake to a car which
o had just been detached from the engine
4 He paid fifty dollars for his fun.
q The steamship Idaho, which arrived al
f New York from Liverpool last week, bro't
over $50 converts to Mormonism, gathered
" from all parts of Europe.
Minnie Hansel enrolled 50 ofthe Berlin
. girls and offered them to the Prussian gov
P eminent for military service during the
o war, but their services were rejected.
In Wyoming, last year, woman beat hel
d husband in the nomination for local of
Il fee, and they went home perfectly satisfied
that the office was to be in the family.
: CALIFORNIA; manufacturing interests are
steadily developing, the returns of The
u present census making their products dur
e Ing the last year SIS, 5000 600, against $50
: 500 in 1860.
a Twenty car loads of silver ore from tn,
d mines of Salt Lake valley, Utah, weighing
n 200 tons, and valued at $4,000, passed
. through Omaha the other day, on the way
IL to Newark, n. J.
- An Indiana county Sunday school asso
IL citation recently discussed and decided il
% the negative the question, as the person
e. fit to be a Sabbath school teacher who man
S. ufactures or sells tobacco"
A quarrel between two brothers in Indi
y ana over the ownership Of barrel of salt
,r which commenced couple of years age
has just been settled, at cost to one o
J. them of 1852, besides lawyers fees.
> A gigantic scheme is on foot by specula
e tors IN Minnesota to get control of all tn
is wheat elevators in the State and consoli
e, date them under one interest, thereby die
tating the price Of grain to the farmers.
ID A New York prodigy, only six years ole
O. although unable to read line, possesses
= wonderful memory, and recites page afte
" page of Shakespeare with all the feelin
ri and expression of veteran actor"
- Prussia deals summarily with the villair
IL who rob dead and wounded soldiers. an
Of seventeen such "hyenas of the battle field
as they are called in that country. wei
re shot On the 18th of August at Ehrenbreit
TEN.
Id Joseph E. Davis, elder brother of Jeffe
to son Davis, died at Vicksburg, Miss, on IL
18th, at the age of 81. He was formerly
~ wealthy Mississippi planter, but lost Il
I'd greater part of his property in the rebeIlio