The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-24
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
The present pension list of the United
States is about s16,O0O,OOO per annum.
1t is said there were never so many Ame-
ricans in Paris as at present.
The New York State militia enrolment
shows 10000 names for the city and county
of New York.
Geo. A. Baily, Esq, of the Congressional
Globe, at Washington, has given 1000 in
aid of tho sufferers by the fire at Portland
Maine.
The Free Masons of Brooklyn, New
York, are about to build marble hall 200
feet front and 10 feet deep.
Larry Rooney, laborer, who was pros
trated recently by sunstroke, in Hartford re-
covered just as his friends were on the point
of interring him.
An Albany woman stole two shoes from
a shop recently, but they proving to be odd
ones, she walked deliberately back and ask
ed to have them mated, saying her husband
had bought them for mates. She was ARES
ted and locked up.
"A young girl of ST. Louis recently mar
RED to win bet she had made OF twenty
dollars. Her husband proving Indifferent
she has applied for divorce.
"A negro in Galveston. Texas, while smo-
king his pipe near an open keg of gunpow-
der in a grocery store, dropped a spark
amongst the powder, the result of which
was that the negro was blown to pieces and
Galveston had one grocery less.
The Missouri State Times, of july 6, is
filled with notices of the United States Mar
shall for the western district of Missouri to
parties whose real estate he has seized for
confiscation on account of their participa-
ton in the rebellion.
The New Orleans C0mDercinI suggests
that Convention of the Northwestern and
Southern States be held in New Orleans at
an early day to interchange views ON inland
trade and commerce with the South Seas
and with Europe.
Edwin Forrest is going to venture a few
performances in England after he closes his
present engagement in California.
-Consumptive people formerly came
South. They now go North. An unusual
number are said to be at ST. Paul, Minneso-
ia, this summer.
A bcy at Anoka, Mississippi, recently
filled a musket with sand and gunpowder,
and fired it over his head. He will never do
it again his head was blown off
The richest men in Chicago are me-
chanics. G. Shutter, wagon maker, income
$3.50, 701; T.. II. Mccormick, manufacturer of
reaping machines S153, 1856.
"A Western editor wishes to know
whether the law against the carrying of con-
cealed weapons applies to doctors who carry
pills in their pockets.
"A Mobile negro whose son eloped with
a white girl, and is supposed to have been
lynched. is about to enter suit against the
girls father, as accessory to the death of
his boy.
-Maximillian requires the citizens of Pue-
bla to keep their houses lighted until 10 P.
NJ, and holds boarding house keepers re-
spOnsible that there are no suspicious char
acters among their guests.
"A Boston correspondent of Detroit pa
per asserts as a positive fact that the use of
ardent spirits by ladies occupying the highest
positions in society is becoming shamefully
common.
Two young ladies, Miss Stone and Miss
Maddox, were drowned in the river at Great
Falls, N. H., while bathing. Mrs. Maddox,
In trying to rescue them, was also drowned.
:" Do you know who 1 am ?" said an Off
Ger to fellow whom he had by the collar
Not exactly, sir" the fellow replied: but
l think you must be the malignant colLarern
A white man digging we'll in Troy. N.
Y, discovered what proved to be a good |
sized wooden box which contained gold coin
to the value of over three thousand dollars. |
together with a number of spoons The |
box was decayed so much as to fall to pieces |
on being taken out. The money had evil
IDENTIFY been buried there great many years,
as 1t was completely discolored and rusty
"A New Orleans telegram of the 18th, |
says: Gen. Buregard writes from England |
OF the perfect success of his mission The |
English bondholders of the Jackson railroad |
are perfectly satisfied with the management |
and prospects, and says he can have all the
money he wants.
The Hartfold Publishing Company have
offered Mr.. A. d. Richardson, author of Field,
Dungeon and Escape, $1,000 outright for his
experiences and observations in our new
States and Territories of the West during
the last ten years.
The grand boulevard from Central Park
TO the upper part of New York Island is be-
Ing laid out on the Harlem river
1t is proposed that game of chess be-
tween the two leading clubs of Europe and
America be played over the wires of the At
i Ia cable when that undertaking isper-
fected.
"A telegraph operator at Tautallon, on
the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,
was attacked in his Office by catamount,
which he killed, after being seriously scratch
ed and bitten.