The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-20
Miscellaneous Items.

in Paris-a young Italian lady with fine
tenor voice, and Mexican who plays the
flute and the piano at the same time.
Persons travelling on the Orange and
Alexandria railroad may save trouble and ex-
pense by carrying set of grave-clothes with
their baggage.
The Peruvian Dictator Prado has issued
Il proclamation declaring allfOreignerSservin
on Peruvian or CHILEAN war vessels, including
privateers, to be naturalized Peruvians.
Various works are promised respecting
Shakspear's silence about certain things, as
Smoking" Scotchmen,"" Silver Spoons"
etc. We ought to have another work con-
corning his silence about the negro question
The weekly rent of large airy room in
the Peabody building in London, with all
the necessary appliances, and is only about
sixty cents, and the same proportion is
charged for more commodious apartments.
-4mongst the prominent skaters at the
reser toir pond, near Baltimore a day or two
ago, Vas Mrs. Henry E. johnson, late Miss
Harriet Lane, niece of ex-President Bucll-
anan
= blushing bride of sixty, who had been
married but six days to gay young man of
1tEfour, committed suicide by taking land
anui, at Stanford, England. Cause-jeal-
ousyj
Il Two large dry goods boxes of fractional
crfTsncy notes were received at the Treasury
IF New York, on Saturday, for redemp-
ton,
Josephine said she liked face that
COZ do without whiskers.
II One person in every one hundred and
sixtNsiX III France is decorated with the Lee
gionP f Honor.
Among the great tunnels of the world is
that Which connects Camagh with St. Mar
guerra, on the road between Genoa to
Chivri. 1t is 1850 yards in length, and is
just completed.
-1he Empress of Austria has recently in
trodueed new fashion. 1t is to have
diam,nC.. representing a dew drop fixed to a
real tower \ few evenings ago she had in
he land Il bOquet of white camelias, and
on eafh, in the centre, was large diamond.
twenty four unhappy married couples
have Just been separated by the Winsor, VT,
County Court.
i Iicheal Brogan, a porter, was found dead
in Lii bed recently, in Liverpool, after drink
ing twenty pints ofale.
\ smart young lawyers clerk, hearing it
stated by the lecturer that 6 man is merely
/
attohey may be said to be suing machine"
In France, the penny newspapers have
orgahized new carrier system, at an eX-
pen$ of 100000, whereby almost every vii
lagehnd town in the Empire is on some car
rier'4 beat
Sven regiments of colored United States in
fantIf were mustered out of service at Vicksburg
durik the first of last week.
~ widow ofGen: Bowen, Confederate States
ArmI who died at Vicksburg during the war is
teaching school at Raymond, Missouri.
ID ncral Benjamin s. Tappan, an old citizen of
Viellpurg, died in that city, after brief illness,
on tit first instant.
general Longstreet has been elected President
of tht Great Southern and Western Life and Ac-
cideIf Insurance Company.
-Rder Jacob Knapp and Boston Corbitt, the
soldier who shot Wilkes Booth, have been work
ING together in a revival in Newark, New JERSEY.
robbed on the Sd inst. of effects to the amount of
$40, OOO The robbers, consisting of captain
lieutenant and segeant, entered the c,loners
house and demanded all he or his family had.
in drunken row at Edgeield Courthouse
a United States soldier interfered, and SHOOTING
at one of them named Coleman, himself in
turn shot dead.
The Confederate dead around Franklin, Ten
| nessee, being removed to a beautiful lot near
| the town. given by Mr.. John McGavock, for the
| purpose. 1t is to be adorned with shrubs and
! evergreens.
The National hetelligencer says We learn that
the eXpedency is seriously discussed in official cir
cles of allowing the payment of ten per cent. of
the duties on imports in 'greenbacks,' and nine
! ty per cent in gold.
The total number ofarrivals at New York from
Europe since January LIST is eighteen thousand
four hundred and seventysiX, which is an increase
of nearly ten thousand over the number reported
| to the same date in 1865.
| General Palmer, commanding in Kentucky,
| has commuted the sentence ofdeath against seven
teen gueFtlas-James Harvey Wells alias VIM.
! Henry, and Samuel o. Berry and others-to ten
years imprisonment at Albany, subject 10 the APP
proval of the President.
"A Nashville correspondent says there is not a
payl OH mill IN the State, the great stories sent
/ abroad py spectators to the contrary notwith-
1 John Lynderdale, citizen of Covington, in
llpion county, tennessee, was shot and Killed on
the "a instant, by Clate Harris, Sheriff of that
county.
The wagons ofthe Southern Express Company
on their way from Rlaclsville to Johnston's Turn
1 out, in South Carolina, last week. were plundered
by robbers.
The General Assembly of Alabama have
adopted the admirable joint resolutions of the
Legislature of Virginia 'on the state of the
| Union" and thus united in the declaration they
| contain.