Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-07-26
cultivation, and well adapted to the rails

has not been carried on sufficiently extern
sive to insure cheap vegetables; and fruit
raising has been shamefully neglected.
The quartering of armies on the lands for
miles around Washington during the war,
of course, destroyed fruit trees, prevented
crops from being put in, and the land gen.
orally became barren waste. The own
ers of these lands, naturally shiftless, have,
many of them, become demoralized, run
in debt, and are obliged to sell their land
at sacrificing prices in order to meet the
demands upon them.
This is considered the dull season in the
Patent Office. The hot season is rather
against inventions of all kinds. The mus
cles are of less elasticity, the physical parts
of man generally degenerates, and the
mind consequently is wanting the vim and
energy necessary to invent. Butthere are
still other reasons why the patent business
is duller at this season of the year than
any other The agriculturist, with all the
help possible to obtain, are busy attending
to harvesting their crops, and have no
time to consumate inventions, let alone
the preparations of models for the Patent
Office. Patents issued for agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS and Improvements are vastly i'm
portant to the progress of our country and
are increasing in numbers every year. I
will, after Congress adjourns, give. your
farmer readers an interesting account of
patents on agricultural implements, and
the yearly proportion as compared with
others issued during the last fiscal year.
There are nearly One-third of all the ap-
| plications and the models of the rejected
cases retained by the Patent Office, and put
away in appropriate cases for future refer
ence, for the benefit of the office. There
has been 7, Ill patents issued from the Of
fee during the last half of the fiscal year
just ended, among them, 2S3 are reissues,
465 designs, and 81 are for extension. Ca
yeats filed, 1875.
The following is the number of patents
issued on Tuesday, for the previous week,
276, to the different States and foreign
countries respectively: New York, G6 ;
Pennsylvania, 80; Ohio, 20; Massachu-
sets, %; Illinois, Is; Connecticut, -;
Indiana, 13; Michigan, u; New jersey,
9; Wisconsin, 6; Kentucky, 5; Missouri,
/ Iowa, / Mississippi, A. Tennessee, / :;
Kansas, 4; North Carolina, 8; Rhode Is
land, 8 Maryland, 3 Louisiana, 81 Eng
land, 3; Washington, D. c., .; New
Hampshire, - Delaware, .; Vermont, 2
Maine, Virginia, l; Texas, Alaba-
ma, Georgia, l; California, l.
Commissioner Wilson of the General
Land Office, Is in receipt Of returns from the
following district Land Offices, showing a
disposal during the past month of A LOG
acres Of the public lands: Denver, Colora-
do Territory, 1877; Springfield, Missou-
ri, ID, 260 Alexandria, Minnesota, %, 1909.
There has been no inconsiderable inter
est felt here among all classes of people as
to the result of the Howard investigation.
Fernando Wood of New York, some three
months since, preferred most astounding
charges against Gen. Howard, on account
of the way he used Freedmens Bureau
funds while superintendent of that bureau.
Gen. Howard, the organizer of the Howard
University, located in Washington and
now president of that institution, has be-
come identified with the interest of Wash
ington and the manly and enterprising
course pursued by him during his resi-
dence here has ingratiated him in the IA
vor of the people. The report today of the
committee having his case in charge, exon
Grating him from any censure, is exceed
ingly refreshing to his numerous friends.
If the Capitol movers will let Us alone
, we will make a considerable city of Wash
ington in few years, and one which the
country viii be proud Of; but every now
and then they raise howl, and the timid
and old fogy portion of our population are
SO frightened that they come 10 a stanC
| still These drawbacks retard progress
! but, Of course, cannot stop it, We have
made many improvements during the last
eight years. Before the war, Washington
was a Southern city. We had slaves, &
} slave trade and all of its concomitants
among which were a gaudy chiyalry, {
2 delicious satisfaction in things as they
, were, and a mastery inactivity in all case,
r of Improvements. When thewar came OF
e we had only Pennsylvania Avenue paved
: and that was the poorest Of its kind. Il
r the early part of the war It was not an IN
t common thing to see government wagons
= stuck in the mud upon street, between
d the Patent and Post Offices in the very
= heart of the city, and your correspondent
t has seen upon Fourteenth street, our fash
9 ionable drive, holes scooped out by wheel
e of vehicles until they were so deep anC
: long that when a wagon went down int
: one of them the top was just visible above
), the surface. This was remedied some dur
: Jag the war Since the war great i'm
h provement has been made. A number o
our avenues have been paved, sewers anC
y cutters have been made, and a different
and more modern class of residences have
: been erected. Our population has beer
q increased in numbers to about double, anC
there has been an infusion of Northern
l. and Western energy, which Is highly re
IS freshing and interesting. Congress ha
seemed more alive to our interests during
Il the present session than ever before, anC
while they have not passed great many
t bills which will benefit us, still they hav
n reported number and manifested a dis
5. position to do so. The President has sign
, ed the bill for re-paving Pennsylvania av
= enue, and we hope that before Congress
y again assemblies we will have the mos
e beautiful street in the world paved Will
n wood, the only material which should eve
J be used upon fine drive. LIFE.