Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-11-08

hundred years to come!
But other men
Our lands will till,
And others then
Our streets will fill
While other birds will sing as gay,
As bright the sun shine as to-day!
hundred years to come.
Edward A Pollard, of Richmond, the historian, is
on parole in Brooklyn, New York. and in wretched
health
PERlLs OF PETRoLEUM-A frightful accident has
just taken place at Ulm from petroleum oil. Du-
rIrg representation at the theatre "a lamps at
tached to the chandelier suspended from the roOl
burst in succession with great Tapidity, and the
burning oil fell like shower of fire on the spec
| tatorS, among whom were a .ndmber OF ladies. In
moment the dresses of 90 of them were in flames,
| and most serious burns were the consequence
One OF the ladies' dreadfully injured that she
| died IN a few hours after.
! RATIONALE OF CHUGNING According to Bous-
| singaur the butter milk is in the form of minute
gObuleS each glcbule being enclosed in very thin,
transparent pellice, which prevents them from Sd-
| herring together. During agitation by churnings
these delicate particles break and the fatty gobules
| immediately unite and form granulcs of butter
| There Is no absorption of oxygen during the pro-
| cess as was supposed; the operation succeeds
| in vacuO, and with the churn filled with carbonC
acid or by drogen gas.
| JERUsALEM-Ata cost of about $3.50, 900, Rus
SLAMS of the Greek Church. aided by liberal contri-
buttons from the Emperor, have erected at Jerusa
lem an immense building, which includes church,
| an Episcopal palace pilgrims house. a hospital,
and houses for lay and clerical officials.
Tennyson's new poem, "Enoch Arden" has
met with rapid sale. The first edition of seven
thousand copies was exhausted in two days, and
was soon followed by second, of ten thousand CO.
| pies.
In Pittsburg, Pa, the grave question is now be-
fore the Courts: Can fare be collected from pas
senger who is compelled to stand the platform of
| a car?
The Hoston Conference, in session at Bristol,
Tenn, have decided to hold the next annual session
of the Conference at Marion, Va.
SWEET OLD AGE God sometimes give to man
| guiltless and holy second childhood IN which the
soul becomes chdIike not childish and the facul-
ties, in full fruit and TipeneSs, mellow without
sign of decay. This is that sought for land of Beu-
| lab, where they who have travelled manfully the
| Christian way abide awhile, to show the world
| perfect manhood. Life, with its battles and
sorrows, lies far behind them the soul has thrown
| off its armor, and sits in an evening undress of
| calm and holy leisure Thrice blessed the family
or neighborhood that numbers among it one of
those not yet assembled saints!
a PAIR of scales before him, rich man sat and
| weighed
A piece of gold-a widows ALL and unto her he
said:
"YOur coin is not the proper weight take it back
again,
Or sell it for half its worth; it lacks a single
grain"
With fearful eyes the widow said: cob weigh it,
! sir, once more;
pray you be not so exact, or drive me from your
door,"
"Why see yourself, it's under weight your tears
avail"
The second time he tries IT. it besrs down the scale
! But lde guessed that rich man, who held his gold
SO dear,
That the extra weight which bore it down had been
the widows tear"
The Louisville Journal makes good suggestion :;
| one, however, like many good suggestions to the
! same party, little likely to be carried Says the
| Journal: If the Administration wants to make
any arbitrary arrests, let it Lee, Beau
regard Go, just as arbitrarily as it pleases."
A boy of eighteen named Eads, employed in the
| quartermastcrs department at Nashville, has OBJ
r'ined fifty thousand dollars by forgery and de-
campcd.
ONE WAY TO Grow RIcn.-NOthing is more easy
| than to grow rich. 1t is to trust nobody; to be-
friend none to heap interest upon interest; cent
upon cent; to destroy all the finer feeling of nature
and be rendered mean, miserable and -despised for
some twenty or thirty years. and riches will come
as sure as disease, disappointment and a miserable
| death.
GoD only knows who is the greatest sinner, but
| every humble sinner will think that he is the
| man.
A Partisan physician relates a curious case o f
| poisoning by tobacco. A man had wrapped tobacco
leaves around his body on the naked skim in order
to smuggle the article across the frontier but the
perspiraton caused by walking in hot weather gave
rise to the absorption of the active principle of the
tobacco through the skin, which led to dangerous
symptoms.
FATTENING PoULTRY.-Itis asserted in the "Trans
actions Of the Society of Arts that there is great
advantage in fattening geese, turkeys, and, in
short, fowls of every description, potatoes mixed
with meal. On this diet they are said to fatten in
less than onehalf the time ordinarily required to
bring them to the same condition of "excellence"
on any kind Of corn, or even meal ITSELF The pota-
toes must be boiled and mashed line while they are
hot and the meal added just before the food is to
be presented.
EARTHQUAKE IN THE NORTH OF EyGLAND.-Be-
tween twelve and one o'clock On Monday morning
September %, there was shock of earthquake in
The North of England. At Leeds, Skipton, Silsdon
Rochdale, Hebden Bridge, Manchester and other
places the peculiar sensation resulting from the
shock was felt. In some places persons were awaken
ed by the general remor and various decriptions of
the phenomenon are given, some comparing it to
thunder felt but not heard, others to shaking and
rocking.
Religion is not only ruler in the SOUL but also a
cheerful companion through life
Several of the London theatres have been opened
for religious worship on Sundays.
bishop Andrew has gwen notice that the next
Conference Of the NJ c. Church, heretofore apppint
ed to be held at Mobile will be held at Tuscaloosa
on the 23d of November"