The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
"A mark the Austrians have missed
Bsmark
Men who fight duels have two seconds
to live after they are dead-[Ex.
"A soldier with artificial legs recently de-
clared that he had much rather be s on his
last legs" +" than his new ones.
"A London paper expresses regret at the
humiliation of Austria-"it was such
gentlemanly old Empire"
Cut a dogs tail short and he can't wag
it. "Brevity is the soul of wit" but not of
waggery.
They make telegraph poles of mahogany
in South Australia.
The Mayor of western town proposes
to kill half the dogs in the place, and tan
their hides with the bark of the other half.
VIII. Russell, correspondent of the Lon
don Times with the Austrian army, receives
a salary of $500, a month and his expenses.
Mr. Hosea, correspondent of the same journal
at Prussian headquarters, has $500 month
and expenses.
The great seal of Missouri. which was
stolen in 1861 by the rebel Governor Claib,
jackson, has been found in we'll at Marshall
Texas.
Among the degrees conferred at the late
Commencement of Union Colleges, Sche-
nectady, n Y, were that of LII D. on Sec
retary Seward. and that of d. d. on Rev.
Lucius w. Bancroft, of Gambler, o.
On the leg and thighs of Mr.. Jones. who
was killed by lightning in Piqus, and on the
back of his little son, was daguerreotyped
perfect image of the tree under which they
were standing at the time of the accident.
One of the monster farmes of modern
times is that of Gen. Urquiza, of Buenos
Ayres. 1t is composed of an EnbrOken body.
of 900 square miles, over which countless
thousands of horses, cattle and sheep are
grazing
The Richmond Examiner don't like the Phil
adelphia delegation at all, saying that they
"are not the representative men whom the
occasion calls for" 1t isl not only disappoin-
ted, but amazed that not delegate was
elected from Richmond. 1t calls upon the
voters of the district to repair the blunders
by electing other delegates.
The Houston Texas Telegraph of the 21st
has election returns firm II counties, which
give Throckmorton 37,573 votes to 8,723 for
Pease. A correspondent of the Texas Re-
publican names Gen. E. B. Nichols for United
Senator. He is principally known in mercan-
tile classes and was an energetic and deter
mined Rebel. G st l1esala
The Tribune, of the 4th inst, says:
"A public ovation welcomed Speaker Colfax
to his home at South Bend, Indiana, on the
first of the month, He will give his whole
time to the canvass in his State, and will un-
doubtedly be returned to the House by
larger majority than ever:
The wigwam for the meeting of the Ma
tional Union Convention will be situated IN
front of Girard College, and is being rapidly
but substantially constructed. Accommoda-
ton will be afforded for 1900 delegates and
5000 spectators, and the building will COM
prise committce-rooms and other convenien-
ces. The place of meeting can be reached
by three or four different lines Of horse rail
roads.
"A gang of boy thieves has been discov-
cred in San Francisco, who have constructed
caverns underneath sidewalks in unfrequen-
ted localities, in which they burrow, and
from which they construct tunnels to ada
cent stores, conveying their stolen goods
thence to the upper air. ~
]. -Leprosy is said to be devolving itself in
various parts of the world with all its an
cient repulsive characteristics. 1t prevails
at the present time in the West Indies and
in Norway, two widely separated countries,
according to recently published statistics,
there being no less than two thousand lepers
in the latter country.
I Two editors of the New York Times re-
Gently died on the same day. One, Hon. ].
S. Thorn, late member of the New York
legislature, died of consumption; the other
Abram Funda, fell from the third story of
the Phoenix Hotel at Laningsburg, causing
his death.
The Boards of Aldermen and Council
men in New York have granted the psivil-
ege to the West Side and Yonkers Railway
Company to build an experimental line Of
elevated rairoad in Greenwich street. to be
extended, if successful, through different
parts of the city and Wessehester county.
Head Centre Stephens has addressed a
document to the Fenian brotherhood, in
which he says the Fenians in this country
are, of right, subordinate to the organization
in Ireland, and that they will do mischief in
stead of good, unless they work solely to
o;ve aid to the organization IN Ireland. He
sseiterates the statement that the fight for free