The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-16
NEWS ITEMS.

France is ordering Remington rifles in
this country.
Protestant churches are organizing in all
| the Turkish towns. 1 SIS
Somebody has discovered rich silver
mine in Arkansas. ea
| Two Mexican ladies have had a duel
about love affair.
Cincinnati brewed nearly fifty thousand
brrrels of beer in March.
| New York has society for the relief and
protection OF poor strangers.
Another Gaines suit has been instituted
in the courts at New Orleans.
The railroad fare to Sacramento from
New York has been fixed at $3.50.
Princess Metternich calls velocipede "a
machine that sets q fool on rollers"
Swallow tailed coats are indispensable
articles Of costume for st. Louis lawyers.
The Paris police supervise the movements
of $4,000 pickpockets and petty thieves.
Captain-Gcneral Dulce is dangerously i'll
of cancer, and is hourly expected to die.
A philosopher has discovered that men
don't object to be overrated, except by as
SCISSORS.
One hundred and sixty-four steamers have
| been destroyed on the western rivers sipce
September, 1867.
A young lady in San Francisco recently
killed herself by taking arsenic to beautify
her complexion.
Wheat harvesting has commenced in
many counties in Texas. The crop is fine,
but with slight touch of rust.
Judge Ingersoll, of Albany, has just grant
ed an order dssclving a marriage on ac-
count of fraud in the contract"
A Spaniard steamer in the bay of Nipe
fred by mistake into some Spanish troops
1t is reported forty-sevcn were killed.
The latest exploit of New York thieves
was picking the pocket of prisoner whom
the police was dragging to the station.
The Joe Davis plantation near Vicksburg,
is leased to negro at $4,000 a year. Only
colored men are employed in working it.
The papers say that everybody is going to
Europe to spend the summer, because 1t is
cheaper to do so than to stay at home.
The Indians about Sheridan, ON Friday,
made a raid on the town, wounded two
Mexicans and ran off three hundred mules.
Prince Louis de Bourbon, the discwned
/ descendant OF line of throneless kings, has
declared his allegiance to the United States.
Cyrus Field, through his friends, has got
| hnlI Of In or Nf fI,o a.,
that it will work as one with the Atlantic
company.
Mrs. Stanton wants the women to take
possession of the coming Fourth of july"
and have what she calls "womens suf-
frage bee"
The Rome (Ga) Courier says the dry
weather Of the past two weeks has improved
the wheat crop. but the rice birds are doing
damage to the crop.
Tt is now expected that the reduction in
the public debt during the present month
will be upwards of twelve millions-more
than double that of April.
It has rained for several days past through
out the entire coast of California, and it still
continues. 1t is thought considerable dam
age will be done to the crops.
Albert TYLER, colored, was executed in
Richmond, Va, on Saturday, for poisoning
Paulina Hubbard, also colored. He con-
fessed the crime on the scaffold.
Mobile had a $4,000 fire on Tuesday
night Col. L. T. Woodruff, prominent
business man, lost his life, and two other
men were injured by falling walls.
1t is thought that the production of grapes
in the middle States will be very much
larger than ever before and that the vines
| will hardly be able to sustain the weight of
| the crops.
A Western paper says: Wanted, at this
Office, an editor who can please every body.
Also, foreman who can so arrange the
paper as to allow every mans advertisement
to head the column"
The cost of an English lady of the pc
Rod as she appears at ball or theater. is
said to be about $4,000. To this must be
added from so to rs cents as the total value
of the lady herself-total $4,000 u.s.
The Boston Public Library has outgrown
its building. Fourteen years ago it con-
tanned 1000 volumes-it now numbers over
100000, and with the exception of the Con
gressional Library, is the largest one IN the
United States.
The proprietor of the farm on which the
main contest of the battle of Sadowa was
fought. has refused very tempting offer,
made him by Prussian Countess, who
wished to buy the place because her three
sons were killed and buried there.
It is reported that the rebel ram Atlanta
is rapidly being fitted up at Philadelphia, it
is supposed for the service of the Cuban in
surgents. She is expected in two weeks to
be under the Mexican flag, and after being
at sea few days, will probably hoist Cuban
| colors.
The authorities of Waldeck, Germany,
have given public notice that no license to
marry will hereafter be granted to any per
son who is addicted to drunkenness and
any applicant who has been so addicted
must exhibit full proofs that he is no longer
a slave to this vice.
On most of the great battlefelds of the
war Confederate and Union dead lie in the
same national cemeteries. In all those cases
the Grand Army of the Republic forgot the
bitterness of war and decorated the graves
| of Confederate and Union soldiers indis-
criminately. Brave men do not regard the
| fallen as enemies
Ariot occurred at Fort Cabanas on Saturday
night, on the occasion of the departure of
the prisoners captured on the "Galvanic
for Spain. The volunteers tried to stop the
embarkation, and In the melee which fol-
| lowed cried "death to Dulcen Enrthor