Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-13
MISCELLANY.

sehce OF tenderness and Womanhood in mistaken
struggle after strength and she holds that the idea
In life as well in art has been the blending
OF the beautiful and tender with the strong and in
tellectual"
Cosr IMPORTING STocK. The cost of importing
stock from Great Britain to this country by steamer
including commission, insurance, keep on board
and freight is said to be for horse 1906, for cow
$780, BY sailing vessel, it would be from $50 to
| SIS less. At these rates the Ohio Importing Com
pany cleared 10 per cent. on their sales.
Obstinacy and yehemency in opinion are the sur
est proofs of stupidity.
| WISE FORECAST Twenty-six of the prominent
citizens of Winchester, Virginia, have made call
upon the people of Frederick county to join them in
making provision for the scarcity and severity of the
coming winter to save the poor classes from want
The reason of this early movement is said to be the
sad failure of the wheat and oat crops in the country
and that to far greater, if not to an universal
text it is now fixed fact that the must be the
case with the buckwheat corn, potatoe and in fine
j every vegetable crop.
| The CROPS ENGLAND. The late English papers
all speak of fine weather and abundant harvests
throughout the whole of that country The corn and
wheat especially are represented unusually fine
and IN many places the latter was being cut Oats
and hay, too would yield largely, and the only
plant is at the potatoe rot but this is far from gen
eral or very serious.
The crops IN Ireland are also said to be good.
Corn is selling in GaIatin, Tenn, OF 50 90 to So
10 per bushel.
Old river men say that the Ohio river is at alower
! stage at Cincinnati than it has been since 1881.
| A WHEAT GROWING Country 1t is estimated
that the Canadas will raise the present season
plus of L. 100000 bushels of wheat which of course
| will look abroad for market By the recipro-
city treaty, provincial grain and flour into
market free of duty, and upon equal footing with
! the productions OF our farmers.
Chicago Free Press
| The Crops. We learn from various sources that
the crops Of this and adjoining counties are toerably
good. The drought in the latter part of June and
first Of y tl,norr #
but the plentiful showers and warm weather since
have had wonderful effect in repairing the injuries
of that drought. Hattar Republican.
The following is a good phase, descriptive of
energetic character: " Cromwell did not wait to
strike until the iron hot, but made it hot by
striking"
PUNcH's DEFINITION OF HEALTH. An indispensa-
BILE requisite for business well as amusement
which young men spend greater part of their
ney in damaging, and the old the greater part
of their wealth in repairing.
There is man in Troy so mean, that he wishes
his landlord to reduce his board BILL because he had
his teeth extracted.
EFFECTS OF COOP FEEDING. There is man in Del
phia Mass who is fat that the soap boilers of the
place offered him liberal salary to come and Pers-
pire in the watts during hot weather.
The superiority of some men is merely local. They
arc great, because their associations are little.
johnson.
Commend fool for his wit, or a knave for his
honesty and they will receive you into their bosom.
Fielding.
Men of the nobest dispositions think themselves
happest when others share their happiness with
them Dtl7aada.
DEEPEST WELL THE WORLD. For six years
past, Messrs Becher and Brother, of St Louis have
been boring an artesian well on their premises. 1t
is taoentytac0 hundred feet in Depth being deep
er by one hundred feet than one in France At the
distance of hundred feet vein of salt water
was struck, and at 800 feet immense vein of
sulphur water, in all respects like that of the Blue
Lick Springs, burst forth.
Ex-Mayor Harper, of the firm of Harper & Bro
ther, has been rendered the nomination of Mayor of
New York, by the Temperance men and know-Noth-
ings. He has not yet replied.
Sickness. The summer just past has been unusu-
ally sickly in various parts of our county Dyson
terry of typhoid type has prevailed considerably in
this and some of the adjonng counties and has prov
ed very fatal. In Warren, Nash and other counties
we have heard of many deaths. 1t seemed to baf-
file the skill of the best physicians in many cases,
and when left to run its course without treatment
almost invaria, ly proved fatal. Hail. Rep
A letter from Saco, in Maine, states that all the
wells in that town have been dry for tlne and
the inhabitants have to purchase water brought
from the river. AT Portland people in similar
condition, and in that neighborhood the hoofs of
horses had become so hard and brittle that they
would crack. Concord river which was unusually
high in the spring is now lower than at any time
since 1926, and trle lower than it was then.
SNAKE BITTEN. Mr.. Solomon Burlington, of Jack
son CO., recently bitten oy a rattle snake but
upon drinking quart or two of whiskey, was re-
hevc6 from the fatal tendencies of the poison. So
states the Parkersburg Gazette.
There are some that live without any design at
ALL and only pass in the world like straws riv-
err; they do not go, but are carried.
Dean Swift held this doctrince, that there were |
three places where man should be allowed to
speak without contradiction namely, the bench,
the pulpit and the gallows
DESERVED MONUMENT. The deaf mutes of the
United States, by their individual subscriptions,
have collected a handsome sum to erect monument
to Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, the pioneer of deaf
mute EQUATION in America. The monument will be
set up with appropriate ceremonies on the grounds
of the American Asylum for the deaf and bumb at
Hartford, Conn.,, on Wednesday, September, 9th.
How lonesome is the freside where there is no
newspaper! Ask the man who has had family pa
to read with the latest news, the good Stories
the useful lessons, and the witty savings of the
paper-ask him its value. Let him be deprived of it
for few weeks, and then ask him to put an estim-
ate upon it.
KossUTH, in recent speech in England, denoun-
ces the Austrian alliance attempt the part
of England and France to do the work ofdespotism.
He regards Engands pretences of saving the intcg-
rty of Turkey hypocritical opinion very wide
ly entertained in other quarters.
CUBA. A Spaniard of distinction just in Paris
says that three or four millions of dollars spent just
now in bribery and corruption at Madrid, would
smooth the way for the purchase of Cuba by the
United States. The preparations of the Cap
tain General, J.,se Concha look rather like keeping
the Island than parting with it. 4
A FORTUNE The diamond for the finding of
which Brazilian slave received his freedom few
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