The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-07-25

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ment Sec. Stant0ns action has thus been
approved
The Ohio Republicans count on 10000
majority this Autumn.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The present pension list of the United
States is about 1000, 900 per annum.
1t is said there were neverso many Ame-
ricans in Paris as at present. =
The New York State militia enrolment
shows no. 900 names for the city and county
of New York.
Geo. A. Baily, Esq, of the Congressional
Globe, at Washington, has given $1,000 in
aid of the 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 ofSt. Louis recently mar
ried to win bet she had made of twenty
dollars Her husband proving Indifferent
she has applied for a divorce.
"A negro in Galveston, Texas,while smo-
king his pipe near an open keg of gunpow-
der in a grocery store, dropped 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 8. is
filed 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 Commercial suggests
that a 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 afew
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-
to, this summer.
"A buy at Anoka, Mississippi, recently
filed a musket with sand and gunp0wder,
and fired it over his head. He will never do
it again his head was blown of.
The richest men in Chicago are me-
chanics. G. Shutter, wagon maker, income
$190,701; Z. 81. Mccormick, manufacturer Of
reaping machines income, $15s, 1875.
"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
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 quests.
"A Boston correspondent If a Detroit NJ
Der asserts as positive fact that the usa Of
ardent spirits by ladies occupying the highest
positions in society is becoming shamefully
common.
II A white man DIGGING a val, in 1rov N
Y, discovered what proved to be GOOD.
sized wooden hox which Contained ool5 co;,,
70 tne value o. over three thousand dollars,
sogetner WIN number OF spoons. The
ooH was oecayea 30 mu Ma as 70 IAN 70 pieces
1a ne,lg IT,. .aksn oas Inc money mao evl-
uentiy psen Duned tneie great many years,
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