Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-21
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pearance December "a 1T28. It was called
title afterwards changed the running notice
i'm the gn e
necessarily into other hands, and finally expired 1904
these years in size paper and editorials Its size at first
that of eight BY ten The paper thin yelowsh
there was little Of variety Tales poems fables with little
foreign news several old all it could set
one could find the places to which they refer Persons eav
ing for Europe are spoken of as for Europe and
wanted to look at the cargo Altogether the sheet in
its best estate would not equal any village sheet which
country now produces.
NEwBURYPoRr (Mass) A writer in Hunts Merchants
for very good hstGrico account
ing out the first vessel that displayed the Aer
can flag in the English river 5 Thames The vessel was MRan
Johnson Henry Lnt, lieutenant to Paul Jones in the
Revolution was noted patriotism of citizens
the number Of prvateerng vessels fitted out Twenty-Five
returned their expedition were heard Of He
claims for the old town of Newbury the merit of having had
the first incorporated Academy in the State the first toll
bridges the suspension chain bridget the United States
said to be the second in the world and the first incopora
ted wooden factory in the State.
ALL AT ONE swooP We informed of singular
mortality in the New Orleans associate office of the
died and then the agent The doors were lock-
ed by the porter coored man. who also died the day
after he had teegraphed the state of things to the principal
Office Phil Ledger.
RICE. The Wilmington Herald says that rice crops
hourishing that than yield will
be obtained this season.
1t costs but little to keep that will give four
teen or eighteen quarts Of milk per day. than does to keep
Boston, they say the richest city in the world proper
ton to its population If its taxable property equally
forty dollars In New York if division Of propery we're
made should only have five hundred and eighty dol
lars apiece
CoLoRs FREQUENTLY DURING WAR. 1t would ap-
rear from numerous observations that soldiers hit d
ring battle according to the co0rs of their dress in the fol-
lowing order: red the most fatal color the least fatal Austr
gray The proportions red - rifle green brown,
g.; Austrian blush gray, s..
The greatest of life love the greatest treasure
conenment the greatest possession is health the great
est is sleep and the best medicine friend
When necessity ends desire and curiosity bepns end NO
sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand
than we sit down to contrive artificial appetes.
There is in Grant county, Kentucky who is very
misery that when he sends his servant down
cellar for apples he makes him whistle all the way down to
the apebox and back to prevent him eaug any of the
ARTIFICIAL If the passerby to-day will notice on
the sidewalk opposite the entrance to Office he will
That stone ten days ago. sand EARTH and cotton
1t Variable stone made after Rentons dscove
indebted for the specimen is of the most
for tagging at half the cost OF stone Stop and examine it,
Memphis Ecge
WORTH REMEMBERING Rev. Dr. jackson, clergyman of
Vermont in parting with daughter who had been married.
sad al want you remember this thing; you can
get out of this life is usefulness"
writer in Georgia paper al have seen growing
farm, this the following crops sugarcane
Cuba tobacco cotton oats rice sweet potatoes wheat
let. The Turpentine business getting be extensively
followed in this State and, requiring b9t little capital and
gather 800 barrels in year which will sell for $3.50 50
barrel This will leave them between $500 and $500 to
the hand, clear of all Some have actually
Fifty years ago steamboats, were unknown now there are
not single railroad in the wordnow there
the United States and about 900 in America and
England Half century it took weeks convey
news from Washington to New Orleans-now many
seconds it then did weeks Fifty ago the rap
i bV hand
prints 1000 papers an hour on single press Now is
great fellow but will be much bigger half century hence.
Melbourne in Australia finely laid out city. All it
lacks is the Yankee enterprise. Its banks we'll loaded
with gold and all the business and working have plen
ty of the But there is tremendous want of build
ing materials produce, and goods of all kinds There
the people The population of Melbourne is 100000
and some days over emgrans arrive and find place
in which to live Thousands of people live in tents
outside of the town.
GREELEY AT PALACE Our most devout metuphys:-
CAL philosophical and worthy friend Horace Greeley visited
the Crystal Palace yesterday Abiding useful article
eaG make hf qs s @ to the
can't yep And then he quietly moved Greeley
IDENTIFY eccentric!
SALARIES IN CALIFORNIA Governor, $4,000 Lieutenant
Gov SIG per day and mileage Judge of Supreme Court
$4,000; Attorney General, $4,000; Comptroller, s4,5oO
Treasurer S4500 Superintendent of Public Instruction
$4,000; Surveyor General, g., 900.
$3.50 AFFAIR The Day Book says the Sewing Machines
are failure Their sewing rips out and pieces The
DID, that wears aiter boots and has pocket put
her wages in.
Inc price OF Oeerage Fassage by the steamers leaving
San Francisco is reduced to mere nominal sum- The Nj
caraga line charging but in the Storage through
ticket to New York. the P NJ. s. S. Company $40 Compe-
on rife and the newspapers filed with articles
the subject.
The price passage to California within few wears ago
$500 in the u S. Mail line of steamships now cost as
follows Through tickets first class cabin S100 second do
S75; Storage with bed and board, $50
GEN. CAss LETTER THE PRESIDENT. The letter which
Gen. Cass is reported to have written President Pierce is
nal and political regard and declares President
difficulties to encounter; that his been
wse udcous and patrotc and that the writer will accept
position under the but Senator the
administration. Secretary McCeand letter of
like import.
ExPresdent Tyler has fully recovered from his recent in
dsposon 1t is said his excellent lady presented
fine boy few days since, which fifth little blessing
he has received from her.
The individual that stole march" has been arrested
and confined in the cell with Reconstruction the thief
of time.
HIGHLY CREDrrABLE. Col. Thomas W. Blake, a recent
candidate for Congress in the Western District of Texas
said speech made by him in Austin just before the cleo
ton that he had travelled thryeght
district and he ventured the assertion that according to
population that it had within its bounds churches of
the various religious denominations and schools and
than to be found other State the
Union In every village neghborhood 10 DE found
the church and the school house.
James c. Marriott of Maryland has appointed secre
tary of legation of the United States the Republic of
Peru.
LONGEVITY. Of the Of the ship Union Capt Graft
ket on the 10th of August in the 1898, sixty
five said to be still living and among them is Capt W.
Sheruan of Baltimore Each before the mast and
each subsequently rose to be successful commander The
which time she did not anchor, land until she
sighted Cape Augustine upon her return with full cargo