North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

sto or square league Of land is 1928 English acres.
A labor is 1T English Acres These terms are in
general use IN the States Of Texas and California.
and our Territories OF U tab and Santa Fe; and
should De remembered by all persons contemplating
moving or purchasing land in the above mentioned
localitles.5sE 81 aas sag B0aU's Review.
~ The richest of the Rotlschids is stated to be Ba
Anselm said to be worth millions sterling.
The aggregate capital employed by the Rothsch lids
in their seven European firms is computed at twenty
five millions sterling! That is about one hundred +
and twenty-five millions of dollars We don't belong
to that family-thats certain 80. -
4 CURE FOR BEDBues. A bit of information inter-
esting to the andadies, boarders and all persons
grieved. Many persons complain of being pestered L
by bedbugs-it is easy to avoid the Inconvenience.
On going to bed strip off your shirt, and your
self from head to foot with boiled moasses. Let i
every part of the body be thickly covered with il.
On coming TO bite you, the bugs will stick fast in the
molasses, and you can kill them in the morning.
HUSBANDS REJoIcE. The love of a cross woman.
they say is stronger han the love of any other female
individual you start. Like vinegar the affections
of high-strung woman never spoil. 1t is sweet
wine that becomes accidulated only.
Here lies Dick, and here lies he, ...-
Observation-Disclosures. CSwansea.
ssHere's health to the FOOLS your PATIENTS said
Dr. Radcliffe to DR.. Case. IS | thank you, good
brother,' replied Case IS let have ali the fools,
and you are welcome to the rest of the practice"
Wonder what kind of newspaper would !
be that would come fully up to the requirements of
| everybody, and contain nothing at which any body I
could take exceptions! -.--.
PRAYERS RAIN. Other nations pray for rain
do. In a season of great drought, in Paris, a
schoolmaster, at the head of his pupils, marched out
of Schiraz in procession to pray for rain. stran
ger asked whittier they were going The tutor told
him. and said he doubted not but God would listen
| to the prayers Of innocent children. I" My honest
friend, said the traveller, s. if that the case,
fear there would be schoolmas,ers left alive.''
PLEADING BEFORE JuRIEs. A Hint to Lawyers.
Sir Jas. Scarlet, afterwards Lord Abinger,) the
eminent English lawyer, accounted for his success
| with iuries as follows:
1" take press home the principal point
of the case, without paying much regard to the 9TH
pleading, that am doing mischief to my client"
| I" MOLLY said lady to her servant, 8: think
you'll never set the river on fire " Indade, ma am
innocenty replied Molly, I'd never be atther doing
any thing SO wcked-Id be burning all the little
| fishes"
| To PRESERVE HAMS THROUGH SUMNER. Make
number of common cotton bags little larger than
your hams; after the hams well smoked, place
them in the bags then get the very best sweet made
| hay, cut it with cuttng-box knife, with your
hands press it well around the ham in the bags, tie
your bags with good strings. put on card of the
year to show their age, and hang them up in your
garrett, some dry place; and my word for it, you
let them hang for five years, they will be better than
on the day you put them up. have kept them for
bag will last for years. The only loss is the hay,
and that the cattle will ea if given to them in the
winter. The sweating of the hams will be taken up
by they hay, and it will also mpart very inc flavor
to the meat. Genesee Farmer.
Here lies buried beneath these stones
|, The beard the flesh, and all the bones
OF the Parish Clerk-Old David Jones.
| Wrerhnm Churchyard
SrEAMBoAT1Ne. The following orders are said to
have been given by the captain OF western steam
boat when she was about to engage ina race with
\ another boat:
Resin up thar, and tell the engineer to shut down
the safety valves. Give her goss. Gentlemen, who
haven't stepped to the captains office and settled
will please retire to the ladies' cabin till we pass
| Al, Lo,R A,,ret
WHEAT Crops IN VIRGINIA. On lower James
river and above Richmond, there is splendid pros
pect of wheat harvest. Fine weaihe for ten days
would realize all that the farmer could desire We
If are surprised to hear that Tuesday, field of
wheat the AppomattoX, near its mouth, was being
reaped. We regret to hear that in Orange, Able
mari, the region of Roanoke county, and Appomatto1
IT county, the wheat has suffered severely from the fly
= the oint-worm, &c. Rain is also much wanted fol
g the oats and corn. Richmond Enquirer
The FALLS OF NIAGARA. 1 have just seen, for the
e first time (says the editor of the New York Mirror
the wonder without paragon, the Understandable
unpaintabe, overw hemlng Niagara-the " hell o
waters" the smoke Of whose torment ascemdeth for
v ever and ever. The emerald rolls into the inf
mite abyss, and the deep, eternal roar subdues all ma
Is ture into silent God is great, and Niagara Il
rs the music of his voice. Standing Table Rock
e gazing the awful fall, and thrilled by the thunde
y that ceases, and which echo dares to mock
nv first i'm, Else join in the giddy leap, and
- -" minge with the elements"
" started back in fear Of the fascination, drove Il
Is turned to tine es of the world thong htful,
&c least for this baptism of sublimy.
u MODEL PoLITENEss. Hon. David Crockett, VIII
20 although one of the toughest specimens of nature
N Journey work - that lived, of the mos
w kind-heaed and shrewdest of men, He used to sd.
of the late Philip Horn, that he the ''periikes
man " he ever knew" cause why " said the Colo
nell he alters puts his bottle the sde-board, be
fore he asks you to drink, and then turns his bac
l. so as not to see how much you take 20 This add
H. ed the Colonel, " is what call real pOhteness!'
81 The poultry of the United States is valued in tn
N statistics at 100000, 00O-the State of New Yor
having over two millions invested in it. In the eg
If and half of dollars annually.
ne Doc WANTED. Kentucky editor advertises a
ell follows: -,
in Wanted, at this office bulldog, of any color ex
n cept pumpkin and milk of respectable size, snub
in cropped ears abbreviated continuation and bad dspo
er sition, who can come when called with raw bee
steak, and will bite the man who spits tobacco juic
on the stove and steals exchanges"
in WHEAT IN GEORGIA. The editor Of the Georgi
of Constitutionalist in writing from Milledgeve, thu
speaks of the fine prospects of the wheat harvest
10 our neghboring Stale !: ~.
Sc The wheat crop is early in Georgia, parcularl
ur in the heavy wheat-growing region of Cherokee
st. The largest crop that has been made for many
will be gathered this In this part Of tn
sr, State they now busy harvesting"
sr. Does not the bell tolng,'' observed his compar
VS. ion to Col. -, on hearing funeral knel, "pu
v7uin mind of your latter end 90 'No, but the rop
nd puts me in mind of yours
On Rich Fees. The Washington correspondent