Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-07
.MIsCELIlANEous ITEMS.

,sM1SCELLAME0DS ITEMS.
: The first decision Of Chief Justice Chase, in the
Supreme Court Of the United States, was that West
Virginia is legally State. The decision was given
on the question placing the name of that State on
the list when calling the docket. p. IF
A farmer near Davenport Iowa, has forty acres
OF onions which are estimated TO yield 915 bushels
p the acre or So 900 bushels in all At $1.50 per
bushel, this antiscorbutic patch will bring $54,-
600.
The death of one of the Democratic members Of
the New Jersey Legislature gives the Republicans
majority of one in the House, which has not hith
erto been able TO organize on account of the poti-
81 tieuts r ssisaaa Eef
f6s American Joe Miller" is the title of work
to be issued in London. The book. it is said, will
contain the jokes Of President Lincoln, "Major
Longbow," and Sam Slick.
i. fool, says the Arab Proverb, may be known by
Six things-anger without cause, speech without
profit, change without motive, inquiry without OBJ.
ject putting trust in q stranger and not knowing
his friends from his foes
A planter of Noxubee county, Mississippi, the
assessed valuation of whose property before the
war was 5000. 900, offers the whole for $15, 600 in
gold here are the spectators ? =.
ETbe Tsnnton GG11 70 says thai 1t resent Ghuft d
fair set Of CooPers works were promised to him
who should answer q set of conundrums. The
winner received set Of scooden pals.
Some surgeons in London have succeeded by
scientific operations in giving sight to persons born
blind. There touching descriptions of the sur
prise and confusion of those to whom the world is
FIRST opened.
Sixteen years ago Gen. Grant was setting type
in an Ohio printing office.
Rr1fla tc 70 ax,
ton when he returns to Lowell.
The total cost of the marble for the capitol at
Washington, and cutting it, s$2, 77S, 544
1t is notable fact in criminal statistics that no
fat man was ever convicted of the crime of muir.
der.
Alexander Dumas, the younger, is about to con-
tract marriage with Russian Princess named
Nariskini.
Connecticut man has invented watch which
is simpler in its mechanism than ordinary watches,
and will run three hundred and seventy eight days
with once winding
Madrid is about to erect, in honor Of Columbus,
monument to the construction of which the mu.
ncipality, the royal government and private indi.
viduals will all contribute.
What reason have We for believing that chickens
/ have no future state? Because they have their
nseks twirled in this.
"Married couples resemble pair of shears, "
says Sidney Smith: $50 Joined that they cannot
be separated, often moving in opposite directions
yet always Furnishing any one who comes between
them"
The excavation of Pompeii have just led to thu
discovery of temple of Juno on the flags of which
were scattered more than 200 skeletons c
women and chlden, who, during the eruption o
| Vesuvius, FASTENED to the temple to implore tn
protection Of the goddess.
| An iron letter has been sent by mail from Pitts
| burg Pennsylvania, to England. The iron wa
rolled so thin that the sheet was only twice tn
weight of similar sized sheet of ordinary not
paper. 1t is supposed to be the thinnest iron eve
rolled in the world sId WAS manufactured by tn
Sligo Iron Works.
third volume of Mr.. Pollard's history unde
the title of The Third Year of the War;" has bee
| printed at the North, and we suppose will be pu
on sale here, as the author has returned to tn
Confederacy. The volume is elegantly gotten W
4 with portrait Of Generals Cooper, Ewell, Brag
| and Kirby Smith.
! 1t rumored that an asylum for decayed literar
/ men is about to be founded near Paris by the En-
Peror.
| Colonel G. D. Anderson, who surrendered Fol
Gaines, has been exchanged and returned to NJ
bile.
The dog star Sirius, known in ancient times
I its reddish tint, spoken of by Horace as "rubT
canicuLG," and by Seneca as having more vivi
| color than Mars, "aerior ruber," is now withou
any perceptble color.