Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. /
The arst decision of Chief Justice Chase, in the
Supreme Court ofthe 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.
farmer near Davenport, Iowa, has forty acres
Of onions, which are estimated to yield 915 bushels
to the acre, or So 600 bushels in all. At $3.50 per
bushel, this antiscorbutic patch will bring $54,.
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The death of one Of The Democratic members Of
the New Jersey Legislature gives the Republicans
q majority of one in the House, which has not hth
erto been able to organize on account Of the polti
cal tie
"The 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," aud Sam Slick.
"A 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 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 $500, 000 offers the whole for $500 in
gold! Where are the spsculstorsf
The Taunton Gazette Gays that at recent church
fair set of Cooper's works we're promised to him
who should answer . set Of conundrums The
winner received a set of s0ooden paih
Some surgeons in London have succeeded by
scientific operations in giving sight to persons born
blind. There are touching descriptions Of the sur.
first opened.
Sixteen years ago Gen. Grant was setting type
in an Ohio printing office.
Gen. Butler is to have sn imposing public recep.
ton when he returns to Lowell. :
The total cost of the marble for the capitol at
Washington, and cutting it. is s., 778, 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 a marriage with Russian Princess named
| Nariskini
A 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,
q monument, to the construction of which the mu-
nicpality, 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
necEs taoirled in this.
Married couples resemble pair of shears, I"
says Sidney Smith. $50 joined that they cannot
be separated, often moving in opposite directions,
yet always Furnishing any one who comes between
| them" l..--- ..--..
The excavation of Pompeii have just led to the
discovery of temple of Juno, on the flags Of which
were scattered more than 200 skeletons Of
women and chlden, who, during the eruption o.
Vesuvius FASTENED to the temple to implore the
protection Of the goddess.
An iron letter has been sent by mail from Pitts.
burg, Pennsylvania, to England The iron was
rolled SO thin that the sheet was only twice the
weight of similar sized sheet of ordinary note
paper. 1t is supposed to be the thinnest iron
rolled in the world, and was manufactured by the
Sligo Iron Works.
A third volume of MI. Pollard's history under
the title Of :" The Third Year of the War;" has been
printed at the North, and We suppose will be put
on sale here, as the author has returned to the
Confederacy. The volume is elegantly gotten up
with portrait of Generals Cooper, Ewell, Bragg
and Kirby Smith.
1t rumored that an asylum for decayed literary
men is about to be founded near Paris by the EN-.
peror. -.-.- -:
Colonel G. D. Anderson who SURRENDERED Fort
Gaines, has been exchanged and returned to Mo-
bile.
The dog star Sirius, known in ancient times by
its reddish tint, spoken of by Horace as "rubrd
canicula." and by Seneca as having . more vivid
color than Mars, "Qcri0r ruber" is now without