The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-24


A Concord correspondent of the Boston
Traceler predicts that, should General Han
cock be nominated by the Democrats, the
the Republicans will carry New-Hampshire
for Grant by 1000 majority, while, if Mr..
Chase shall be their candidate, the majority
for Grant will be 5000. .....-.'.
Queen Victoria is said to be very regular in at
tendance on divine service, and notices the alb
sence of any of her servants. On one occasion,
at Balmoral, last season. she asked one of her at
you not at the kirk yesterday" He answered,
"Please your Majesty, the morning was wet"
"Oh, tie" said the Queen, "who could have
expected Scotchman 70 plead that excuse? 1t
was not too wet for me-"
The new carriages ON the Australian rail
roads have patent locks on the doors, and
when recently the key was lost no less
person than Francis Joseph was imprisoned
for some little time, to the terror of the neg
ligenr officials.
Seven thousand five hundred pounds of
powder were recently exploded in one blast
in California, and resulted in moving 80, 900
tons of rock. s...r
Miles NJ. Bond was arrested some days
ago at Sonora, Kentucky, for the murder of
VIM. H. Randolph, provost marsha. of Ban-
dinville, Illinois. The murder was commit
ted more than three years ago.
Mules in New Orleans know what is said
of them in either French, English, or
Spanish. sa
Mr.. Selah Pummer, of Brattleboro,' Yer
mont, applied the OIL of tobacco to corn
ON his foot, and came near losing his lite in
consequence.
A young Russian Prince, Scherbatoff, has
married a lady of 70 years. He took her
for money, and she took him to get the title
of Princess.
"None but the brave deserve the fair"
and none but the brave can live with some
of them.
Beecher's income is double that of an
English bishop; and bishops are lords,
and live in palaces"
Nearly hundred acres of willows are cul-
tivated in Wyoming county, N Y. When
ready for market they bring from $40 to
5000 per acre.
In Rhode Island it is rumored that Provi-
dence is to have 100000 opera house,
and that A. T. Stewart is negotiating for a
church property, on which to erect branch
store.
Ex-Gov. John j. McRae, of Mississippi,
formerly United States Senator and Rep
resentative, and later an ardent Confederate,
died recently, self-exiled. in Honduras.
An immense bed of solid salt, said to be
five hundred feet thick and extending no
one knows how far. has been discovered in
the immediate neighborhood of Berlin, Prus-
STA.
One of the Prince of Wales horses receiy-
ed first prize at the great horse show, week
before the last, and the crowd Kissed the
fortunate animal.
The French Government is doing very
popular thing by shipping female convicts
to Cayenne and marrying them to the male
convicts out there.
Ex-United States Senator Guthrie, of Ken
lucky, has resigned the presidency of Louis
VILE and Nashville railroad, ON account o.
continued ill-health.
The Michigan Republican State Conven
ton, to choose electors for President and
Vice President, will meet in Detroit on tb,
LIST day of July.
Some one hundred workmen, EMPLOYEES I,
diherent departments, have been taken in th
Gosport (va.) yard recently