Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

The Panama Herald d Star says it learnS TIKI
all restrictions being removed by the Jananoa.
treaty large quantities of silk accumulated at Ysd
do, have arrived at Kanagawa, and European mer.
chants are congratulating themselves on the i'm
proved prospects of business
printer seeing bailiff closely pursuing an Nm.
fortunate author, remarked that it was a new ed;-
ton of the Pursuits of Literature" unbound and
bot pressed. "nU
Coy CLARK has issued proclamation convsninr
the Mississippi Legislature in extra session. II e
to assemble in Macon on the goth of February.
An eccentric individual named William CoIlsv
died recently at Lockport, New York He TvSS
alone, kept grocery, and wied his property. y,I.
ued at eighteen thousand dollars to bis reiatiya,
in England. He kept his specie in an sld boilsr
buried in the cellar. Among the deposits in bis
private vault were fifty thousand three cent pieces
How many millions of coin are TINS hoarJs5 =
various parts of the South 9-En
The plan is now generally adopted in Grant.
army, when burying the dead to place in the or..e
with the body . sealed bottle, Containing a nsnsr
on winch IS written the name and other narticnI,r,
respecting the deceased
Miss Caroline Underhill of Brooklvn wbo ma,
committed to the lunatic asylum for being in love
Win neecher, has brought an action for false i'm.
PriSonment and recovered six cents damages.
sure preventive Of railway collisions Is that
each tram have one of their directors securely fas
tened IN neat cheap chair placed directly in front
! of the locomotive. - --O-'
hon. y. L. N. Curry formerly member of Con.
gress rom Alabama, and the leader in that BODY. il
now Lieut. Col of cavalry in ROddy's brigade.
Inc commissioners of the general land office At
washington City has received intelligence of the
discovery of rich and extensive silver mine. in
washington Territory, along the western slope Of
the cascade mountains. The ore Is represented "a
exceedingly rich yielding about S7OO to the ton
The lead which has already been traoed for nor.
than four miles, is from seven to fourteen feet tbic
| II is located about fifty miles north of Olymni.
Miners MI are docking in large numbers to this new
| SUDDEN FALL OF AFTER IN LAKE MIcHIGAE-Tha
lact mas been noticed and commented npon nv ma
Pers published east Of CHICAGO that there has been
since the close OF navi CATION, a very sudden fall
Vi water. Inc same fact was observed in Chi
cago yesterday. During the twenty -four hours pre
ceedlng yesterday, the water in Lake Michoan fall
over TWO feet and there corresponding fall ON
all branches OF the river and the water is nov low
er IN the river and lakes at this point than it has
ever been known to be before In the river the
water Is now between three and four feet lower than
the average water line during the summer season.
chicago Times, 18th uLt
MOUNTAIN OF SALT IN ST. DoNINGo-In the South
side Of st Domingo, in the province of Aqua, is the
most singular salt deposit to be found in the world
! Ihere Is here a mountain of salt SIX miles long
from one-haf to q mile wide and from four to five
hundred feet high. In some places, whore the
| SIDES OF the mountain are nearly perpendicular
large cliffs of salt exposed to view, while in
other parts coating of earth, from ten to thirty
feet deep, covers the salt This salt in its crude
state, contains 1915 per cent pure salt rail.
road, some twenty miles in length, is to be con-
str1cted, which will bring the salt to the little port
of Barahona.
| SIGNS THAT FAILED.-We all remember the story
OF the innkeeper who became proud as he prospered
and taxing down his sign of the ass, put ND DOR.
trait OF George ~. in its place. His neighbor i'm
mediately raised the castof efigy, and, "in this
! sign he conquered" The first landlord. alarmed .t
the increasing popularity of his rival, and under
standing the cause wrote under the grim yisage of
his majesty: This is the real ASS"
But more ludicrous incident of the kind is Just
told at the expense of the good bishop of LANDAU
He took up his abode near the head of lake VIM
dermere, where the principal inn was known as the
cock but the landlord by way Of compliment to his
distinguished neighbOr, substituted the Bishop a
the new sign. An innkeeper close by, who had fire..
quently envied mine host of the cock in securing
considerable preponderance Of visitors took adTan-
tage of the change and attracted many travellers to
his home by putting up the sign of the cock. The
landlord with the new sign was much discounted
at seeing many of his old customers deposited at his
rivals establishment: SO by way Of remedy, he put
up, in large, red letters, under the portrait Of tho
bishop " This is the old cock"