The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-26
NEWS ITEMS.

toned vest.
At what time was Adam married Upon
his wedding Eve.
A niece of Mrs. Gen. Gaines keeps res
taurant in Alabama.
Bismarck's confederation has 1,450,G00
troops at his disposal in case of war.
In the days of no before and were
born, there were but two vowels.
The chief clerk of the New York postof1ice
has been in that office since 1917.
The last of the broad guage railroads in
England are changing to the narrow guage.
The latest Tennessee monstrosity is a
healthy but unhappy child with four legs.
Another duel is talked of in Washington.
Capehart and Duncan are the principals.
Gen. Robert E. Lee is delegate to the
Virginia Protestant Episcopal Convention.
Blanchard Jerrold son of Douglass Jer-
rold, is about to start an American paper in
Paris.
Victor Hugo receives $4,000 for his cur
rent story, which pays $3.50 page 81 80
line.
Five young women have just been adj
mitted into the Vinton Na.) Agricultural
College.
1t is asserted on the best authority that
the orange crop of Alaska is uninjured by
the recent frost.
There is a firm in Boston named Gray 6
Lunt. Half their letters come to them adj
drassed Lay & Grunt"
The untimbered plains between the Mis-
sissippi and the Pacific have an area of
100000 square miles,
The new clipper ship Great Admiral cost
about $4,000, more than any sailing vessel
ever built in this country.
During 1868, Savannah exported goods
valued at $50, 900, or more than double
her exports before the war;
Mr.. S. r. Mallory, once Secretary of the
Rebel Navy Department, is lecturing in
Florida on woman and her Rights"
The Chinese Government is very uneasy
in consequence of fears of further encroach-
ments on Chinese territory by the Russians.
Out of one hundred and fifty one office
holders in Milwaukee, one hundred and
twenty-seven are said to be of foreign BIRTH
The Lynchburg, Va, Meaos notes sale of
tobacco, at the neat price of $464 per hun
dred weight. This shows an upward ten
dency of the weed.
The lately absconding New York broker
with S215,000. is Richard A. Akin, of the
| firm of Davis & Akin. No reason is known
for his disappearance.
A young lady of Montgomery (Ala.,) who
was caught smoking cigar, gave it as her
reason for the act, I" that it made it smell as
though there was man around"
1t was an apt answer of young lady
who, being asked where was her native
place. replied: 81 have none; | am the
| daughter of Methodist minister"
1t is reported that Berezowsky, the Pole,
who had attempted to assassinatc the Gar
in Paris, has been secretly pardoned by Ma
poeon, and is on his way to this country.
Two monitors, each of 800 tons burden,
| have been built in France for the Sultan of
Turkey. They are now-on their way from
Marscilles to Constantinople, having at the
last accounts been at Malta.
Reports, which are believed to be based
! ON good authority, are in circulation in Lon
don, that the French Government will soon
| publish a peaceful manifesto, and stimuli
taneously reduce the army.
Advices from Hong Kong to April %
have been received A placard has been ex-
tensivey posted up throughout the Chinese
J Empire denouncing the Christian missiona-
ries in violent terms
An Indiana woman hit her second hus.
band over the head with fire shovel, after
family prayer, for praying for his children
and emitting her own. There was no dis
elimination thereafter.
The Montreal Episcopal Synod and House
of Bishops, after three days balloting, have
unanimously chosen Rev. Ashley Oxender
of Kent, England, Bishop of Montreal and
the Metropolitan of Canada.
The Eberhardt siver mine at White Pine
Yields at the rate of $76,420 worth of ore a
month, or S917 ,040 year. 1t is thought
even this will be increased as soon as the adj
ditional machinery is put in.
A man in Cairo, Illinois, has invented a
spring to be attached to the feet, by mean.
of which person is relieved of the labor o
walking, to a great extent. He claims hi
invention will enable man 10 walk ten
miles per hour with ease.
One hundred and thirty Swedish i'm
migrants arrived at St. Paul, Minnesota
Nav IA. The men all seemed to be hard,
farmers, and were accompanied by thei
families and the usual miscellaneous house
hold and personal effects.
1t is whispered that "masses of hair art
going out. and nubs are coming in" CHG
mons are worn little smaller. but quite a
high on the head as they have been ant
curls tucked in, on and under, in every con
ceivable way are all the rage.
"Dar are" said a sable orator. "two roads
through this world De one am broac
and narrow road dat leads to per1ition ant
de udder am narrow and broad road da
leads to sure destruction" If dat am d
case" said a sable hearer eds cullered indi
vidual takes to de woods"
u singular EeilC vi tut DiouHu DullleTS ll,i
been discovered near Cumberland Ford, il
Kentucky. 1t is a beautifully carved statu
of man, in yellow pine, which. from tn
quantity of pitch it contains, is known to b
as indestructible as stone. 1t was evidentl
an object of worship, and of date anterio
to the Christian era 1t is to be sent to tn
Smithsonian, at Washington.
Disgraceful proceedings took place recent
ly at Falmouth, England. where a youn
woman was buried with extreme ritualistl
ceremony, headed by twelve foot eros
Incense was used in the church, the recto
mnantinn knnelinu at the coffin Tho GO,