The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-07-21
GENERAL ITEMS.


Some philosophical citizens of Phila-
delphia have established free bath-houSe in
that city for the general benefit.
The Duke de Chartress has not entered
tbe Italian army, as stated. 1t will be re-
membered that this young gentleman served
in our war, on McClellan's staff.
A brick building in Philadelphia over
two hundred feet long was demolished by
lightning on Saturday.
Boston has furnished more than its full
quots of Bishops for the Episcopal Church.
Rev DR.. Huntington is the second one taken
the present year.
"A severe shock of an earthquake was
felt at Sacramento and Stockton, California,
at quarter past ten o'clock Sunday night
The wife of Major General jeff. C. Da-
Wis fell overheard from the Louisville mail
boat lately, and narrowly escaped drowning.
The general sprang in and saved her.
"A piratical craft arrived in Galveston
harbor on the Sd instant, wearing the black
flag and carrying six guns on each side
City officers rowed out to her in Il row-boat,
put were fired upon and forced to retire
The pirates then steamed away. A United
States gunboat followed some time but
could not overtake her.
capital punishment, and bearing 100000
signatures, is before the French Senate.
The discussion is, however, deferred until
next year, in order to permit of an examina-
ton of the evidence received during an in
quiry made by the English Parliament.
"A Milwaukee paper relates a cure for
somnambulism by gentleman whose son
was addicted to night-walking. His meth
cd consisted in placing pail of cold water
over the door of the child's bedroom in such
a manner that when the door opened the
somnambulst received its contents over his
head and shoulders. Ten experiments with
this treatment were required, and the boy
is now entirely broken of his habit.
"A New York city correspondent says
that the residence of A. T. Stewart, corner
of Thirty fourth street and Fifth avenue
is nearly ready to move into. 1t eclipses
any private building the continent, so it
it is said and will cost, without any furni-
ture, $2,500,000.
News from Montana and Idaho state
that the vigilance committees are active.
A robber and perjurer, named John Trochin,
alias Frenchy, had been hung on Dry Gulch,
in Montana, making the seventh person
hung by them in short time.
In the case of William Dean, who was
convicted in the Wayne Circuit for illegal
voting, on the ground that he was not a
white man, because he was adjuged to have
one-sixteenth of African blood in his veins,
the Supreme Court of Michigan last We'd
nesday morning rendering decision to the
effect that persons with only one-fourth negro
blood should be regarded as white. This
decision is opposed to the received interprc-
tation derived from the Southern whites,
that a single drop OF negro blood works a
talnture OF race.
Some one who has been to see Miss
Augusta j. Evans Says: She lives about
four miles from Mobile, in modest, unpre-
tending cottage; yet evidences of taste and
refinement are everywhere visible. We were
agreeably disappointed III her appearance
and manners. She Is easy and cordial i'll her
manners, with mirth loving disposition, and
entirely devoid of pedantry or ostentation.
We were told by leading publisher that
she has still unwearied asSiduity, and is now
engaged on neg- novel, which will be ready
for publication in the fall"
The duel fought last week, Just over the
Mississippi line, was between young law
yer named Taylor, of Tennessee and Captain
Alonzo Greenlow, son of w. b. Greellow.
one of the wealthiest and most highly re-
spected citizens OF Memphis. Taylor was
charged with making offensive remarks
about a lady cousin of Greenlow, and on his
denying it Greenlow slapped him in tue face
and called him IL liar. Taylor forthwith
challenged him. Greenlow accepted, and
killed him on the first fire Taylor leaves a
wife and two children. The courts have adj
journed in respect to his memory.
During the war, General Glory, deputy
Quartermaster General, occupied the House
at Memphis, Tenn, of loyal citizen, MIR.
Duval, then residing at Philadelphia. Since
then Duval instituted a suit for rent and re-
covered the amount claimed. On the Sheriff
attempting to carry out the order of the
Court, Glory brought in guard and ordered |
them to put him out or kill him. On Satur-
day as Glory was leaving on Through the
Judge ordered the Sheriff to arrest him but
he avoided the posse by engaging passage
on one boat and leaving on another, taking
an armed guard with him