The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-11-18

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of North Carolina, and presents the best adver.
Using medium In the State.
| Gen. j. E. johnson is on visit to his relatives
at Abingdon, Va.
Wyman, the wizard and yentriloquist, is at
tracing crowded houses in Richmond.
Rev. w. G. Hunter, of (iol,lsboro' N. c., has
accepted call IRON the church OF the Atone
ment at Augusta Ga.
IMPEAonMENT-The Columbus San advocates
impeachment because Governor Bullock, of
Georgia, offers reward for an assassin.
Before the election VIC heard great deal said
about the "chivarous Democracy" Now the
groans come from the shivcred Democracy.
The citizens of Edgecombe will hold meeting
at Tarborough on the 18th instant, to con-
slider the subject of immigration.
A white man, whose name could not be asccr-
Friday last.
Deputy Z. S. Marshal kehoe on Wednesday,
seized about one hundred barrels of whisky from
thc merchants of Ncwhern, for alleged violations
vi the U. s. revenue laws.
Gen. Grant has already received about 500
written applications for Office. He has given
General Badcau, his secretary, orders to destroy
all such missives without showing them to him.
Maine has population of 700, 800. She has AZ
towns each with apopulation of three or more
thousands. Portland has $1,000, Bangor 20 600
Lewiston 10000. No other town reaches 10,O00-
Mr.. John Quincy Adams was candidate TOR
representative from Quincy as well as for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,, and was defeated in both
instances.
We must have new party.-Hsaderson Lader
Yes, and you must have new principles too or
you will not succeed any better with your new
party than with the old one.
REDUCING ExPENsEs.-The Secretary of the
Navy has decided to further reduce the expenses
| of that department by ordering home some of
the larger Vessels from distant squadrons aud
supplying their places by smaller class vessels.
Grant is no longer tanner, he is now cabi-
| net-maker.
John j. Smith, colored, has again been elected
| an Assembly man from Boston.
GA Struggle for Lfe"-The history of the
Democratic party in 1865
| Gen Longstreet had an interview with Gen.
Grant OH Wednesday.
| A colorcd man named Mansfield was drowned
II Cape Fear River at Wilmington on Thursday,
A Hebrew Sunday School is about to be estab-
iished in Petersburg, Va.
Col. Samuel Letcher, only brother of Ext Gov.
John Letclier, died suddenly in Lexington Va !,
on Tuesday last.
Arrangements are now being perfected to
secure new Steam boat Line from Washington,
N. c., to Norfolk.
company OF young men have gone from
Rockand, Maine. to Virginia to cut ship timber
the coming winter.
| son of Mr.. Holt of Greensboro was thrown
from horse on Monday last and dangerously
wounded by the horse tramping on his jaw.
The scaffolding Of new building in Salisbury
gave way on Tuesday. and fell to the ground,
badly injuring little boy named Joseph Brown,
and slightly hurting Others.
| Gov. Scott, OF South Carolina, has gone North,
in the interest of the Blue Ridge Railroad, which
is the missing link in continuous line from
Charleston 10 Cincinnati.
Gen. R. Z. Lee has been rendered the position
of Supervisor of the Knickerbocker Life ILsu.
rance Company for the South, with salary OF
$4,000 per annum.
| Two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven
persons in Virginia have applied for the benefit
of the bankrupt law, and one hundred and TWEEN
ty-seven have been discharged.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. screant set fire to the
residence of Col. w. NJ. Cooke, of Asheville, on
the night of the 11th irst. Mayor Eastmond
offers reward of 500 for the apprehension OF
the guilty parties.
Big Spring, Breckenridge county, KY, covered
herself all over with glory on Tuesday, by east.
ing uaanimous vote for Seymour and Blair
as7 votes being poled. All Big Spring asks is
20 be let alone.
The crowning statue for the Gettysburg ma
tional cemetery monument just arrived, is a
twelve icet-high Goddess of Liberty, weighing
IA, 600 pounds, and cut by Randolph Rogers ia
Italy.
Business over the Virginia and Tennessee rail
road must be improving rapidly. Tuesday foul
freight trains arrived at Lynchburg, the last Of
which was composed of fourteen cars, and all
heavily loaded with freight.
It is said that the Presbyterian custom Of
standing while engaged in prayer had its rise in
the dislike which the early followers of that sect
felt toward "genuflection, or any custom in use
among the " Papists," toward whom they fell
the strongest aversion.
temperance lectuEer, descanting on the su
perior virtues of cold water, remarked: "Wher
| the world had become SO corrupt that the LORD
could do nothing with it, he was obliged to give
it thorough sousing in cold water" "Yes,
replied topper present, "but it killed every crit
ter on the face Of the earth "
Ground Peas are selling in the Petersburg
market at 81, % to s., Is per bushel.
The turpentine distillery Of Col. ]. D. Radcliffe
at Laurenbprg, was burned last Saturday night
thought to be the work Of an incendiary.
The Presbyterians have thirty-ope colored stu
dents in their Bible Institute and 300S pupils il
their colored schools.
| Twenty. eight to thirty bushels Of wheat is th'
usual yield per.ucre in the rich grain growing
counties of California.
The Democrats of Tarboro' spiked the onl!
cannon in the place in order to prevent its being
fred on the occasion of Gen. Grants election.
A thread company at Holyoke, Massachusetts,
EMPLOYS three hundred hands, and manufactures
three thousand dozen spools of cotton every day
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad, it is eEsim
cd, has $50 locomotives larger number thai
any other railroad corporation in the country.