Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

him very highly to the proud Spaniards.
Senator's Foote Morrill,, Wade, Wilson, Grimes,
Harland and Ramsay with their wives are goin.
to Charleston on pleasure excursion"
Lincoln has published proclamation Of amnesty
to all Yankee deserters VINO return 10 their CON.
mAnds before the 10th Of May next
The Chesapeake and Ohio canal has been so
damaged recently BY Hoods that It will take till
midsummer to repair it,
The Supreme Courtof the U S, has decided that
cotton captured on land was not condemnAble az
p.ize of war.
Goblet once compared the interest excited by
watching certain politicians career to that which
is felt on witnessing duck hunt-ihe principal
curiosity being to guess, when the duck dives.
where It will come up.
Gen. Henry A. Wise is a candidate for ConRress
In the 2nd Congressional District Of Virginia :.
Leave your grievances as BonapArts did his let
tiers unopened for three weeks and It is astonshing
how few OF them At the end Of that time will ~
quire answering
The Richmond Enquirer says that there Is, gold
enough in thesVaults Of the Richmond banks TO
purchase twelve months supplies, and uses plain
language in comrneating upon the fact that these
Institutions are not only shaving their own notes
but permitting the specie to 60 10 the North.
A certain lady had custom OF saving to favor.
ite little dog to make il follow her, Come along
SIR" would be.w witty gentleman stepped up 10
her one day, and Rccosted her with els Il me mad
am you calledH' "Oh, no sir" said she with
great composure, "it was another puppy / spoke
TO-
The official announcement Of tho organization Of
the Mexican army, dxes It's figures at 80, 900 men
besides officers. When the French army departs
IL will leave about two Mexicans to one German
Arabs, Turcos, Zouaves, Polanders, AustriaHs Ger
mans and Frenchmen all have had hand in the
establishment Of the new empire.--C Cancellation.
The funeral of Cardinal wlseman took place in
London on the 23d ult, and was attended with
great pomp. Many distinguished men took part
in the proceedings, and the procession 10 the ceme-
terry was three miles in length. t
A railway is to be built in Palestine. II will
connect Jaha with Jerusalem, will DO about forty
miles long, and with harbor at Jaffi will cost
half million pounds sterling.
new light, made from magnesium, has been
discovered IN Paris Its main feature is that II does
not affect colOrs, and therefore Il will be Of great
value in the French shops.
ABSENCE or MNp.-A tall man in Virginia hay-
ing held conversation with another person OF in.
ferior dimensions, made low bow to his cane which
stood in one corner, and seizng his friend by tho
scalp walked of with HIN.
NEw MAIL RoUTE.-'There IL a row mail routo
established from Gib1Onyille the North Carolina
halHoauf W Lung 4 Mlls, IN HanuOpn county.
Tlefe are on this new route the following post
offices Gibsonyie, lngis's Mills Brick Church,
UObles Longs Mills.
The mail is carried regularly twice Q week
Tbs carrier leaves Longs Mills Mondays and
Thursdays at o'clock D. m and arrives Al Glib.
! sonSiile at 10 o'clock a. IN. Tuesdays aud Fridays
and returns to Longs Mills ~ o'clock p. m. the
same days.
The distance from Gibsonynle to Longs Mills is
twenty miles, the length Of the new route.
This route passes lhroughA thickly settled sec
uOu Of the country which has for long time much
needed mail facilities
All newspapers IN tho State are requested to give
publicity to this new route.
CURloUB CASE or VAIN the year
some soldiers OF the common wealth Of Modena ran
| away with bucket from public we'll, belonging
10 the State Of Bologna. Tho intrinsic value OF the
article itself ght have been worth shilling but
! It produced quarrel which was worked up into
| long and bloody war.
Henry, the King Of Sardinia son Of tho Emperor
Henry the II, assisted the Modenese 10 keep posses
sion 1f the bucket and in Of the battles no was
made prisoner. HIS father the Emperor oiTe red a
chain Of gold that would enarcle Bologna, which
is miles in compass, but 10 Sain After twen-
| ~ years Ofmprlsonment and his father being dead
he pinned away and died His monument il still ex-
tant in the church yard Of ID Jminicans q few
| years ago. This fatal bucket is still exhibited 10
the tower OF the cathedral OF ModenG inclosed in an
iron cage, Tasso has very humorously described it
| in his Della Sechia.
TnE CULTURE oR SoRRow.--Nearly all sorrow,
while Il lasts depresses action, destroys hope and
\ brushes energy but 1t renders the constituencies
more acute, To sympathies more genial, and the
| whole character less selfish and moro considerable
II is said that in nature, but for tho occasional
drought the best lands would soon degenerate but
thepaseasons cause the lands TO suck up from the
cunTunB beneath, with the moisture, all those min.
etal manures that restore and iertilize the soil
above IL is thus with SICK ness and with sorrow !;
| once surmounted, they fertize the character and
| develop from tSs deep fountains Of the human
heart joy and fruitfalness not otherwise attained
LosT LAwSUr.- The Empress Eugehis has just
lost law suit which has been in progress for sew
| Cral years In the Supreme Court Of Madrid. Tho
Empress claimed the Oountesship Of Miranda and
the vast estates attached to the ancient title, her
right to which has been successfully disputed by
the Malissican family.
New CousTERFRlr Editor Of the Augusta
| Register has been shown by Col Taylor comman-
dant Of the post OF Mobile counterfeit Confederate
note Of the new issue, Of the denomination OF 100
It is lettered I'D" dated Richmond, Eeb'y. ~,
1864, and%ighed at L. GraysOn, for Register" and
~ ID. Walford, for Treasurer" The counterfeit
Is easily detected, the whole bill being fully an
eighth Of an inch smaller than the genuine and the
letters and bgpres being necessarily contracted
| The impression on the spurious note Is also much
heavier and blacker. We arc informed there Is =
| NO"s'uSi@o'' "uN1 HiO"'t AuPposou W nave oeen
sent out from New Orleans, showing that our YAM
koo noghbors have At least enough faith in the val
Of our currency to continue their efforts 10 coun-
terfeil it. II would be well II some Of our own
people could be inspired with more confidence in II.
Per CRow.-A jury 10 onondaga county, N.
Y, have fixed the'value ola pet. crow &C seventy
i've dollars. The suit was tried at Fayetteville.
The crow was owned by II. II. Gage, was thor
oughly tame and could articulate several words -
Among others IL was stated that Il would sing out
" Old Bob Grouse" In very loud tone Of voice.
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