The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-03

the COpernlcan system Is only apparently
true, and that another and new system is alb
solutely true"
Gen. Howard says that the freedmen in
the schools at Chattanooga, taking mathe-
MATES as test are not behind the whites
He found in one of the schools a colored
man who solved promptly and orally
problem that even he, Gen. Howard, who
had graduated at the head of his class at
West Point could not solve mentally.
Scandulous stories are told in Frankfort
in regard to the conduct of the Prince of
Wales and his brother-in law, the young
King of Greece, during their two days So
iourn in that city. One day the Prince and
:he King of Greece rode in an open barouche
with three lorettes through the streets. They
were noisy and intoxicated.
: 1t has transpired that the present visit of
Hugh Hastings, of Albany, to Europe, is an
official one, he being accredited by the State
Department at Washington to visit the va
ro1s Ministers of the United States in the
several European capitals. The nature OF
his mission. which is private one in behalf
of the Government, has not transpired.
The Chattanooga american says the sur
vey of Muscle Shoals Tennessee river) has
progressed rs far as the mouth of Elk river
1t is expected it will be completed to Flor
ence Ala, at the foot of Muscle Shoals, by
the LIST of December, and that the party will
return to Chattanooga on or about the 10Th
of December, at which place the report of
the survey will be made.
4 planter of Union Church, Miss, writes
to the New Orleans Times, thas it has been
discovered that the cotton fly deposits his
I H., - +l, oil ct
the close of the season. The fly penetrates
to the center of the stalk, and lays the egg
in its pith IT this he true, would not the
worm be destroyed if the cotton stalks were
burned early in the winter :?
General REYNOLDS has removed the Office
holders of sixty counties in Texas, who were
not Republicans. The Austin Republican
saws the work will be continued until a
clean sweep is made throughout the State.
Governor Pease is said to be instrumental in
| these removals.
| The Mobile Nationalist says of the color
ed iuries of that city: The two juries that
sat last week were, the one composed entire
| ly of colored men, the other of three-fourths
of the same complexion. A large number
of cases were before them; the majority of
colored criminals, in many instances, accus-
of whites. We have yet to hear that these
| juries made any discrimination on account
of color, or judged one of their own race
less severely because the party injured was
of another color.
Mr.. Daniel w. Fiske, formerly of the As
tor Library, since of the Chess Monthly, and
still since editor of the Hartford C0urant,
sailed on Saturday for Egypt, to "do' the
Nile, and incidentally to buy books for the
Cornell Library. Mr.. Fiske is an excellent
linguist, man of extraordinary knowledge
of books, and after Morphy, perhaps the best
chess player in this country.
The Duke of Argyll tells good story. He
was travelling with the Duke of Northum-
berand IN frst-class carriage on the North
eastern Railway At one of the stations
little commercial traveller got in. The three
chatted Familiarity until the train stopped at
Alnwick Junction. Here the Duke of Nor
cumberland got out, and was met by train
of f1unkeys and servants. The commercial
| traveller said to his remaining companion
"That must be some great swell" "Yes,"
said the Duke of Argyll, "he is the Duke of
Northumberland" BLESS me-" exclaimed
the bagman, and to think that he should
| have been so affable to two little souls
like US !"
The settlement of the estate of Maximil-
| ian, is giving trouble to his executors. His
chateaus of Miramar and Lacrome are esti-
mated at about 81 100000 but instead of
yielding any profit they cost $50, 900 to keep
them up, besides being mortgaged for AGO.
900. There is some difficulty about his
debt at Trieste, which amaunts to more than
81 100000. The Belgian relatives want the
Austrians to pay the debts, but they refuse.
If Carlotta had her Senses she would doubt
less lieuidate the claims, but being insane,
can not do so.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation have
been blessed this year by an abundant har-
vest Every one that "pnt his shoulder to
the wheel" has been amply rewarded, and
yet, for all this, corn is a scarcity among the
Indians now, as many of them were too lazy
to plant. .... ... . .... .... ......
Nova Scotia is anxious that the new Par
lament shall encourage its coal trade. 1t is
deemed of enough importance to secure
liberal commercial treaty with the United
States. .".. .. .......-.
Two butchers shops, for the sale of horse
flesh as articles of human food, have been
opened in Paris, which brings up the num-
Der of these establishments in the city to II
or 10. For "prime cuts" the modest price
of twenty-five sous is demanded per pound.
One of the novelties of Partisan enterprise
is large ware house, in which ore sold, at
retail, all manner of goods, from diamond
necklace to shoe-brush. The purchaser,
having paid the price, receives not only the
goods but bond for the whole amount of
his purchase money, payable after thirty
years, and guaranteed by Credit Foncier and
other moneyed corporations. The prices
charged are said to be no greater than in
other retail shops