The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-14
NEWS ITEMS.

NJ DISQUALIFICATION on account OF color.
The Berlin Tribune says that Court Bis
mark will shortly send his two sons for sew
eral months to the United States.
A black woman while out picking black
berries near Grenada, Miss, was killed and
eaten by panther few days ago.
Rev. Geo. Wilmer, of North Carolina, has
been elected Professor of Bellies Letters and
Moral Science in William and Mary Col
lege.
The great eclipse begins in Asia on the
9th of August, and though it may seem
strange to many, ends in this country on the
7th. ag =
A jealous Spanish husband has kept his
wife tor five years in a nunnery. She was
discovered, and there is the dickens to pay
in Madrid -
Pittsburgh must he a cheerful place for
sudden deaths. Coroner Clanson, of that
city has held ninety one inquests during the
past six months.
Conant, successor of Raymond as chief
editor of the New York Times, is son of
the distinguished Hebrew scholar and Pro-
fessor, Rev. T. ]. Conant.
The government majority in the French
Corps Legislatiff demands an increase ofpow-
erin order that the country mot the Emperor,
may govern the country.
1t is thought both at Turin and at Flor
ence that King Victor Emanuel will abdi-
cate at an early day. His unpopularity
never was greater than at the present time.
The Prussians, it is said, have invented
steam war ship which can dive like duck,
and is so constructed that her crew can put
the craft under water, and fight with her
| there. -~ae
Notwithstanding the secrecy attending
| the making out and delivery to General
| Sickles of his instructions, it has TRANSFERRED
| that there was no clause in them relative to
the purchase of Cuba.
In Paris, low shoes" are coming in
fashion for ladies, of the same color as the
stocking, and the stocking the same color as
the dress; also, the ladies are universally
adorned with the large sailor collars"
The Massachusetts constabulary are at
tempting to enforce the new prohibitory
| liquor law. One of the penalties makes the
seller liable for all damage done by the buy
er while under the influence OF the benzine
The fourth was grandly celebrated in
| New York. The Democratic masses, unlike
their unreconstructed Southern allies, did
not forget they were Americans, and joined
in the patriotic observance of the day.
John Goodwin, in Dubuque county, Iowa,
while taking his gun out of skiff few
days ago, drew it towards him. when the
lock caught and the charge went off, send
ing bullet through his head, killing him
instantly.
A Scotchman who enlisted in 1S46. and
was reported killed in one OF the last bat
ties of the war, returned the other day only
to find his wife married again, and quite
unwilling to give up her new husband. He
is now consulting his lawyers.
The Athletic and Atlantic base ball match
took place in New York on Monday, and
was witnessed by12000 persons. The Phila-
delphia club was beaten, the score standing
at the close 4S to 81. Spectators pronounced
it an undressing game.
1t is understood that so soon as the Great
Eastern returns to Europe she will take fresh
cable on board and start for India to lay a
line between Bombay and Suez. What next
Verify the big ship has not been built in
vain.
There are now in Illinois eighty seven
wool-carding mills, and thirty-three manu-
factories of woolens with a capital of 49,
100000, employing 1850 operators, one.
fourth of whom are women, and consuming
annually the wool clipped frem over $500,
900 sheep.
Twenty-Five States have ratified the Fiji
tenth Impartial suffrage) Amendment
Three more States are needed, making three
quarters of the thirty seven States. Maine
and Vermont will surely ratify. Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas are required to do SC
as condition of admission.
Last Friday, s. R. Simpson and son quar-
relied with s. H. Benton, at Springfield
Tenn, because of jealousy towards Benton
and Simpsons wife. Benton received five
shots and died almost instantly. The Simp
sons were confined in Jail, heavily guarded
to prevent violence from Benton's friends.
Benton county, Iowa, has Tom Thumb
of its own, by the name of William Dwig
CONS, who is 10 years old, weighs % pounds
and is 80 inches high. He is healthy and
handsome, and has no drawback except that
the girls hold him in their laps instead Of be
holding them. s--l4 d. e.a
/ A lady insulted on the street in San Fran
cisco, while unattended, few nights ago
/ looked for an officer and for cobble stone
and found the latter first She seized the
stone and hurled it at the ruffian's head. 1t
struck him on the head and he fell to the
2 sidewalk, then staggered to his feet, scream
ed and ran away.
| Turner (colored) recently qualified as post
master of Macon, Ga, whose appointment sc
greatly disguised Democratic enemies of his
race, has been arrested charged with being
connected with the circulation of counter
felt Treasury notes. A malicious attempt
to cheat him out of his office for short
period. An examination produced no testi
mony against him. 's
The extraordinary rapidity with which
iron-clad after iron clad has been built and
launched in the Prussian ports, and the
scarcely disguised pretensions of the Prus
sian Government to the supremacy of the
Baltic Sea, have created no little Jealousy
and anxiety in Russia. Last year the sug
gestion of Count Bismark, the Prussian and
Russian fleets cruised and maneuvred to
gether during the summer months but 6
proposal to renew the same exercises this
year has met at st. Petersburg with an un
qualified refusal This incident has caused
much sensation in Russian naval circles
the general impression being that the Gov
eminent is aware of the present superiority
of the Prussian navy, and unwilling to le
| their fleet serve as q foil to that of thei