The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-15

Now's the days. and nows the hour,
Through the market how we scour,
Seeking turkeys to devour,
Turkeys old and young.
Who would be a turkey hen,
Fed and fattened in pen
Killed and cat by hungry men
Can you tell me, pray
Lay the proud old cobbler low.
Let the young ones run and grow,
To market they're not fit go,
Till next Christmas day.
YOUTHFUL CONDUCT.-The line ofconduct
chosen by young man during the five years
from fifteen to twenty, will in all prohab:li-
ty determine his character for life. AS he is
then careful or careless, prudent or improvl-
dent, industrious or indolent, truthful or
dissimulating intelligent or ignorant, tenn
perate or dissolute, so will he be in after
years, and it needs no prophet to calculate
his chances in life.
A BEAUTIFUL THoUGHT.-Nature will be
reported All things are engaged in wri riting
their own history. The plant and the peb-
BILE 90 attended bv their own shadows. The
rock leaves its scratches On the mountain
side, the river its bed in the soil, the animal
leaves its bones in the stratum, the fern and
the leaf their modest ep1taph in the coal the
falling drop makes its sepulchre in the sand
stone; not q footstep in the snow or along
the ground, but prints. in characters more or
less lasting, map of its march; every man
inScribes itself on the memories of its fellow,
and in his own face; the sky is full ofsound;
the air is full of sound; the ground is all
memoranda signatures, and every object is
covered over with hints which speak to the
intelligent.
care sisters Sal and Nance resources Pa "
No nay son- Why do you ask that ques-
ton 2n
Because heard Uncle John say, if you
would only hHs5dild your resources, you
could get along d good deal better than you
do And l thought it would be a good idea
because you wouldn't have so many young
men here for supper every Sunday evening,
that's all, pa.
On Friday, at the Midlothian coal mine
near Richmond, Matthew Read and his son
James were at work at the bottom Of shaft
sixty feet deep, when the earth caved in a
bove them. The son was able to escape and
to lower rope to his father, On whose legs
some falling timber had descended. So great
was the weight of the logs that the father
was unable to extricate himself, and was bu-
ried. His body was afterwards recovered.
Times.
DEGREES OF CRIME.-The six degrees OF
crime are thus defined" He who steals a
million is only financier. Who steals a
hafa million is only a defaulter. Who steals
hundred thousand is a rogue. Who steals
fifty thousand is knave. But he who steals
pair of boots or a loaf of bread is a scoun-
drel of the deepest dye, and deserves to be
lynched, Or if tried by jury, whipped, if
nd fripD al rublla TFlaInn1nr
Post. Whip all, or aohip none-says Justice!n
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph says. an
old negro man, who stands very high in the
African Church in point of religion, fell very
sick, and believing that he had the cholera,
he Immediately commenced praying to the
Lord to spare him until he could repent of
his many evil deeds, GdIiag that ke SoGs'at
Aas' az good as he Aod pretended to he.
CURE FOR LIsPERs-A rapid and en-
phatic recital OF the following simple nara
tive is an iHfallible cure for lisping: "Hobbs
meets Snobbs and Nobbs; Hobbs bobs to
Snobbs and Nobbs Hobbs nobs with Snosbs
and robs Nobbs' fobs " This is" says Nobbs,
" the worst of Hobbs jobs" and Snobbs
sobs''
The old dog Tray is ever faithful, they
say; but a dog that is faithful can never be
Tray.
The late Southern rebels claim to be the
best of the Union men; but at the same
time oppose every plan of reconstruction.-
Duke Frederick said to Rosalind in 80 AS YOU
Like it:''
THUS do all traitors
If their purgations did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace itself"
The British postal reports show that the
voyages of the Cunard mail steamers, from
Liverpool to New York, average 10 days II
hours each, and the return voyages, from
New York to Liverpool, II days hours
each
Three hundred well-to-do Scotch farmers
have sailed for Texas.