The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-12
SCISSORINGS.
Texas has no public schools.

Fine diamonds are IOuuu III OeoiSio.
Indian scalps are valuable in Texas.
Chicago is troubled witha headlcss ghost.
Ex-rebel Mason is to return to this
country.
Spanish flounces will be worn on cambria
dresses this season. wa
Full evening dresses are sometimes made
with pointed waists.
White muslin dresses have upwards OF
dozen hounces on the skirt
Fashion sets the wedding hour at ten
o'clock in the morning.
Lopez, with 10000 men, is preparing to
take the offensive.
Victor Hugo will come to America during
the present year.
Virginia planters are abandoning the cul-
ture Of tobacco for peanuts.
The most miscllievous liars are those who
keep sliding on the verge OF truth.
Money is the "root of all evil to those
who spend their lives roofing for it.
Passengers arrive at Sacramento in eight
and half days from Washington.
Fish, Jr., has engaged band of music for
each of the new steamers of his Boston line.
Idleness is hard work for those who are
not used to it, and dull work for those who
are.
The Newmarket two-year old plate was
won by Lord Westminster's colt, Lucy Oar
rel.
jeff. Davis writes that he has recovered
his health and is coming home to earn his
living.
Four thousand sheep are boiled down
daily by an Australian tallow establish
ment.
The Queen of Holland recently attempted
to kill herself on account of domestic
troubles.
1t is rumored that pointed waists will
soon present their claims for public consld-
Grafton.
The statement that the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs is going to st. Domingo
is unfounded.
The Richmond Examiner says there is no
finer exercise for young woman's lungs
than churnlng.
According to the latest fashion reports,
Young ladies are to wear bows on their ell
bows next season.
A San Francisco Judge recently arraign-
ed the entire audience in his court room for
contempt of court.
The receipts for season tickets to the Bos-
ton Peace Jubilee amounted to upward of
$4,000 on the first day of the sale.
A clergyman at Kingston, England, refuses
to admit young ladies to confirmation un-
less they promise never to dance.
The fees of the Sheriff of New York
amount to the snug little sum of three hun
dred thousand dollars per annum.
merable small gilt buttons, are very fashion
able just at present among the ladies.
Henry F. Arnold absurdly committed sui
eide while at the heart of earthly bliss as the
keeper of beer garden in Cincinnati.
Chicago exults in having produced man,
Sturgess his home is, who has failed for
larger sum than any other living American.
The Peruvian monitor Atahualpa has not
foundered at sea, as was reported. She IS
safely anchored in the harbor of st. Thomas.
The work os revising the Episcopal pray
er-hook, according to the action of the late
convention, has been commenced in earnest.
Gloves must match the trimming in color.
Where the dress consists of two shades the
gloves must harmonic with the darker
one.
House dresses of muslin or cambria are
made with Spanish flounces, and white
will be much used for in door and out door
wear
Dame Fashion has decreed that brides
shall have their portraits taken in wedding
attire and presented to the parents OF the
groom.
Street suits of cambria are made with
capes of pique, with sacques-the first trim
med with ruffles, the second with washing
braid.
The Young Mems Christian Associations
of the United States and Canadas will hold
convention in Portland on the 14th OF
July next. rH
Joshua ]. Atkinson, for thirty years
treasurer of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company, died suddenly in Baltimore
on Saturday.
New York city has now many street flower
girls. It is considered the thing for young
gentlemen to wear petite posies in their
button holes.
1.-THE latest style of wedding cards in New
York is to have the names of the bride and
groom, groomsmen, bridesmaids and ushers
all on one card.
A reader writes that he takes no stock in
the new women's club He says the old
woman's club is enough for him and fire.
quently too much.
A Harvard Boat Club has challenged the
Oxford University crew to four-oared boat
race, with an invitation to Cambridge to
join in the contest.
Frank Swift of skating celebrity, and
James Boyle, rode on velocipedes from
Syracuse to Rochester, distance of 80
miles, in Is hours.
The commander of the British West In
dia squadron has been instructed to demand
the restoration of brig Mary LoaOeU, and an
apology for her seizure.
The President, q Cabinet and British
Minister at Washington apprehend no
serious consequences from the rejection of
the Alabama Calims Treaty by the Senate.
At Chambersburg recently, Frank Spital
and John Harmony went hunting, armed
with gun and flask of whisky. Afterward
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