Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-02-01
Miscellaneous Items,


The California Senate has repealed the
law prohibiting Sunday amusements.
The area of timbered land in Kansas is
estimated at 3,500,0oo acres.
A great demand is springing up in Hun
gary COR Protestant bibles and tracts.
A Pittsburg druggist gave pulverized
opium for pulverized rh1barb. and the
child which was given the dose was muir
dered.
A lady in Wilmington, n, c., complain
cd to her physician, the otherday, that she
was troubled with Irritation of the heart.
The population of Holland amounts to
3,62S, 46S, u, SO1 ,415 males, and l 1927 ,053
females being an increase of 81, $50 in a
year.
The diamond discoveries at the Cape of
Good Hope are greatly increasing. No
less than 800 diamonds have been found
on one farm.
David Bracket, Newmarket man, was
probably the largest man that ever lived
in New Hampshire. His weight was up
wards Of 600 pounds.
\ tame Indian, who is also Methodist
preacher, is lecturing in Indiana. He closes
his lecture with a war whoop and scalp
dance.
Traupman, the Paris murderer, has been
found guilty, and was executed on Tues
day last amid the exercration Of the null
titudc.
a rat weighing six pounds and measur
ing twenty-one inches from his nose to the
end Of his tail, was recently killed at Cape
Girardeau, Mo.
\ little girl who was sent out to hunt
eggs thought it strange that she did not find
any, as there were several hens Standing
around doing nothing"
The regular establishment of the Russian
army when on war footing, is 425,OOO
men with a reserve of veteran soldiers on
furlough, amounting to $4,000 more.
Thirteen pieces of gold were found in
side of fowl killed at Stonington, Conn,
the other day. They were supposed to
have been originally gold beads.
A young divorce seeking colored woman
Of Cincinnati, plead her own case as fol-
lows Judge, can't love dat Niger; he
kicked me in de ribs once till he loOsened
all my insidcs."
4 man in Trempeleau county, Wis, in
eating cold slaw," recently, swallowed a
needle 1t was pulled out at the back of
his neck three or four days after.
Daring the past year over $50, 600 worth
Of goods have been stolen from the Hud
- h. h., l-n
into the cars along the route and plumber
ed right and left.
Two strange priests assisted Bishop Can
dolh to dress for the Ecumenical the other
/ day, and when he had arrived in the COun-
/ ell Hall he found missing his gold cross
set with diamonds, the gift of the Pope.
A gentleman, who entered the room of
his brother-in-law in a Texas hotel few
nights since, struck a match for a light,
and the brother-inlaw installing the sound
for the cooking Of pistol, shot him dead.
The trial of Bonner and Van Borden
burg for the murder of the Peightai fami-
~, was concluded at Huntington, Penn,
on Tuesday, and resulted in a verdict OF
murder in the first degree They were both
sentenced to be hanged.
Girls are not considered of enough i'm.
portance in China to be named, 50 that
they are stupidity numbered, as Daughter
l, Daughter ., etc The first work Of the
missionary is to give them names.
During services at st. Joseph's chapel
in Liverpool, Jan. a. a false alarm Of fire
was raised, causing panic and rush TO
the doors. When order was restored, i
was found that fifteen people had beer
trampled to death, and a great many badl!
. injured
There is 4 queer suit being tried in III
stcr county A young lady, who wished T.
marry youth with $4,000, promised
lady friend So 600 for her assistance if tn
game proved successful. The young MAJ
I fell victim Of course. but the successful
I bride refused to pay the SO 900 when de
4 handed, and this suit is the result.
= Many people, particularly children, SUI
fer with the ear ache, and for the benef
Of such we give a sure but simple remedy
Put in two or three drops of JOhnson's An
odyne Liniment, stop the ear with und. ess
-. cd wool, battle the feet in warm water be
fore going to bed, and keep the head warn
at night.
Capt. Charles Sager, who keeps a super
stock of livery horses in Portland, Me-, in
formed US recently that he uses Sheridan
$ Cavalry Condition Powders regularly i
0 his stables, and that the expense is NOR
n than Offset by the diminished amount G
grain necessary to keep his horses Away
in good order.
General Howard is constantly receivin
= advices from the Southern States of tn
j. purchase of real estate by the negroes, VIII
e are absorbing all the land offered them
n Governor Scott of South Carolina ha,
=, since he came into power, sold to the black
Of that State about 40, 900 acres.
The United States Branch Mint proper
ty at Dahlonega, Ga, consisting of tie
e acres of land, a large two story brick bulC
= ing, 1875 feet by %, and an ell 90 by 3
Is feet which cost originally about $4,000
~ has been sold at auction at Atlanta ft
Sl,325.
- The consumption of horse flesh contil
- ues to increase in Europe. The quantit
IA sold during September, October and n
Of vcmber of 1868 was 226,00O pounds, beir
rs the produce of sos horses in the same p
u, riod of 1869 it had increased to 273, POO II
!, and 6S3 Of those animals.
rs The Tyrol of Voralberg, with a popul
p, ton Of $4,000 on an extent of 500 squa
ID leagues, have 2,770 secular priests, ID
'h monks, and ,O22 other persons in order
It. No province in the whole empire has an
q. thing hike the proportion of people devC
ed to a religious life. Including the nur
q one person in every 100 is member
n some religious corporation.
I'll A funny story is going around at the e
or pense of Brick Pomeroy. He avowed Ii
nd he had once worked alongside of neg
.ot printer, and thereupon an American ci
-. zen of African descent writes from Tia
en madge, Ohio, to say that he is the print
he and that he wishes Brick would pay 81
ne borrowed money which the negro lent h
at that time.
\ STARTLING TRUTH.-Thousand
I'D annually from neglected coughs and col
red which soon ripen into consumption, or 0
it'll er equally fatal diseases of the lungs
ey when by the timely use of single bot
ill of DR.. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Che
rn- their lives could have been preserved t,
nal green old age.
req An inventive Frenchman, who witnes
oc- the great petroleum confagration at B
it'll deaux recently, suggested 4 new mod,
.Iv harbor defence: "In case hostile f
=! should lombard a port, all that would
Us necessary would be to pour several h
not bred barrels of petroleum on the water
the ebb tide, and light it. Wooden ships wo
,ot be burned, while on iron ships the CIR
would be roasted"
nov The night of January 17th VIM. C. I
~ nam of Lancaster, \. H., received an
o. expected gift. Opening his door in
the Spouse to knock, he beheld a yelled
ion man, who, placing something on the 81
,vo said, look in the basket, " and immedi.
~ ly disappeared. Complying with her
'hu quest, Mr.. Putnam found the basket
the contain a male infant about four days