The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-18
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rival, was received by the Prince c
Wales, and the King of Egypt. Th
people of London were quite amazed a
the novelty of the spectacle, and ex
hibited the most unbounded enthusi
asm.
DEATH OF THE UNITED STATES MIN
IsTER TO BoLIvIA.-Hon. Allen A
Hall, our Minister to Bolivia, died in Ii
Paz, the capital of that country, on TIT
2sth of May last. He was native o
North Carolina, but early emigrated tt
Tennessee. For thirty years he was
connected with the Nashville press;
In ls41 he was appointed charge dat
fairies to Venezuela, and held the Pc
sition till 1916. In 1S49 he was ap.
pointed REGISTER of the Treasury, and
afterward Assistant Secretary. lie at
terward. for some months, edited the
Repxblic. then the Administration pa.
per in this city. He left Nashville
after the war broke out, and in 1868
President Lincoln appointed him Minis
ter to Brazil.
Attorney General Stanbery seems to
have stated that Jerry Black, James
Buchanan's Attorney General, is the
author of Andrew Johnson's veto of
the Military Reconstruction bill. It's
very Black opinion.
The Freedmen's Bureau is in receipt
of news from Marion, South Carolina,
of the sentencing of a colored man to
be hanged at that place on Friday next.
The condemned mans name is Gee, and
he was guide to party of escaped
Union soldiers about two years ago
While with these soldiers a citizen of
South Carolina was shot by one of the
party by the name of Candy. Gee has
been condemned as an accomplice to
the murder, and will be compelled to
suffer death.
Ben. Wood got hit with "draw
poker" to the amount of $4,000 few
days since. The winner was a New
York Councilman. The game was
played in the same room and at the
same table where Brother Ben won
$12s,OOO from Morrissey.
A match game of billiards was play
ed in Schenectady last night between
Buck Salisbury of Albany, and A.
Valentine of Gloversville, for sloo-
one thousand points up, carom, on
four pocket table. Salisbury won the
game by pa points.
The ARMY WORM AMONG THE Cor
ToN.-LouisoiUe, July 1o.-A reliable
telegram from Ellis Cliffs twenty-five
miles below Natchez, says the army
worm has appeared two months earlier
than usual, threatening destruction to
all the cotton plantations on overlooked
lands.
A Justice of the Peace, in Ohio, late
ly solemnized the marriage of John
Fiffer and Tidy Jane Sophroney Phil
lomela Merida Massin Anderson Smith.
THE CROPS IN New ENGLAND
Travellers in Vermont, Massachusetts
and in States east report that the peo-
pie are cutting their hay. The crop is
said to be an immense one, and the
corn crop also promises to be very
large. In Vermont and Massachusetts
one report says the yield will, if there
are no mishaps, exceed anything ever
before known. The rye crop is also
large one, and ripe enough to be cut in
many fields. What is true of rye,
corn and hay is also reported to be true
of potatoes, beets and most garden
truck.
DIR. LIvINGsToNE.-The fate of this
celebrated traveller is likely to awaken
as much speculation and discussion as
that ofSir John Franklin. From India
we now learn that one of the missing
Sepoys who had accompanied the Doc
ter has made his way from Zanzibar,
and reports him AS alive and we'll, with
the Havildars of the Dist Sepoy regi-
ment and the Nassich boys.
An elderly lady, telling her age, re-
marked that she was born on the 2srd
Of April. Her husband, who was
present, observed: 81 always thought
you were born on the 1st of April"
sPeople might think So" replied the
lady, Sin the choice / made of hus-
band"
OHo WIN Hdu espOuSeu an ola ana |
ll-tempered wife, but extremely rich,
used to say, Whenever 1 find my
temper giving way, retire to my study
and console myself by reading her mar
rage settlement
REGISTERS SHOT IN TExAs.-GoL.
resto'a, Jaly 1O.-Two registers of
CTexas) district were shot
yesterday and badly wounded.
LUCK BALANcED.-The grand prize
in the Paris lottery of one hundred and
fifty thousand francs $3.50, ooo) was
won by poor farm laborer at Bures
Morainvilliers, in the Canton Possy-
He had taken unto himself a wife short
ly before the drawing took place.
Carlyle, in his advice to Young men.
says: If you doubt whether to kiss
J pretty girl, give her the benefit of the
1oubt."
Printers ToAsr.-At a Printers
Picnic, in Augusta, Georgia, on the
late " glorious FOURTH" the following
was among the regular toasts:
Womdsa-Rule of our infancy. o,,;de
IF our childhood measure of our youth:
oH0t take of our manhood star of our