Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS:


GeH<Auafies, who was reported MORALLY wound
ed in thGbstte of franklin will probably recover.
He lost hsight arm.
1t is said TAt in Memphis there is negro who
possesses an esGEe worth 500, 600. The negro be-
longs to his wife
Capt John W. Hinsdaie, Assistant AdTt General
on Gen. Holmes staff has been elected Colonel of
the Sd Regiment of Reserves. This regiment was
formed at Goldsboro', out of the 4th, 7th and 9th
Battalions Reserves. The following are the field
officers: Colonel, John W. Hinsdale Lieut.. Col
onel, W. Foster French; Major, A. B. Ellington.
Hon. Erastus Fairbanks, Ex-Governor of Yer.
mont, who died few days since, was poor boy,
but invented the celebrated Platform scales which
bear his name, and made his fortune from them.
Col. Michael Bulger-is candidate for Governor
OF Alabama. The present executive, Gov. Watts,
is not a candidate for reelection.
Artemus Ward defines war to be hard tack for
the soldiers and hard taxes for the citizens.
Peruvian steamer has explored the Amazon,
and demonstrated the fact that this grand higway
IS navigable within about hundred miles of the
Pacific coast direct route is thus opened be.
tween the eastern coast and the Republic OF Peru.
The cost of the Atlantic cable now .nanufactur-
ing, will be 100000. 1t will be heavier than the
old one. ....
Some kind friend Of an editor has given him
riding whip. He intmstes that nothing hut sad
die, bride and horse and the use of a barn and
fodder is wanted to make his turnout and his hap
| piness complete.
Mercy and p&seo may 5e kissing each of6er'' in
some more heavenly habitation, certainly NOT here
without confidence friendship is but mockery.
ana social intercourse sort of war in disguise.
Some writer says that children are placed like
mile stones along the road of life" That NAV be
| all very nice, but We want to know how to oount
| when we come TO twins.
London is now connected with Jerusalem and
Sidon by telegraph.
Eve, according to Milton, kept silence in Eden to
hear her husband talk. There have been no Ewes
| since
Forget injuries and remember benefits: if YOU
grant favor forget it; you receive one, remem-
Der it
A French author says:
| When lost my wife, every family in town Of
tered me another; but when lost my horse. no
one offered to make him good"
1t is estimated by statistical writer, that the
combined annual product of the gold and silver
mines, and the petroleum springs and wells of the
United States will average about one hundred mil
lions of dollars per annum for a quarter of GEN.
fury to come, and, perhaps for much longer Pc
riod.
An exchange says:
In New Zealand, when the marriage ceremony
takes place, it is customary to knock the heads of
the bride and bridegroom together, previous to
the union"
In these parts the parties do not get at loggerheads
until after the knot is tied.
"copper" statue of Buddha seven feet in height
which was discovered while excavatiug for a rail.
way in India, has just reached Birmingham. This
statue is said, by antquarians, to be Q 500 years
old.
Thackersy is to have bust in Westminster Alb.
hey among the great men of England. 1t is to be
placed close by the ef6gy of Addison.
Gen. Ransom has been relieved of the command
at Charleston on account of illhealth and General
Taliaferro succeeds him.
There was a thunder storm at Charleston On
Thursday, December 29th
Thomas Sims, the fugitive slave about whom
there was suca pow-woW in Boston ten years ago,
is now recruiting agent for negro troops in Nash
vile.
The Herald is very glum over the Yankee failure
to take Wilmington, and implies that Butler is .
prodgious military humbug. Butler has returned
probably in dlsgrace) to the command of the 'Ar-
| my of the James"
An extraordinary number of applications for
passes to 60 to Savannah were refused at the War
Department in Washington, on the 3Oth Among
them was that of Judge Wayne, of the Supreme
Court His and his wife's property are in Savan.
nah and its neighborhood.