The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-11
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, " 80, Jorscv borse-tlief has been sentenced
to $50 years imprisonment
How things will have changed by the
lime lie gets out
IF Gen. Grant has any faults or ever does
wrong, all such slips can henccforth be
lastly accounted for-he is said to read all
The New York papers
AItombstone in the cemetery at Dixon, H.,
beas the suggestive inscription, "Gone up"
EIttGmge
i might be the grave of the Democracy,
buIy then it should read, "Gone dOa0n."
The visit of the Superintendent of Public
Works to Wilmington reminds one very
Ercibly of that celebrated one when
!. Tle King of France with ten thousand men
harched up a hill and down again"
character is defined by Ralph Waldo Emerson
h tle ''incapability OF being et.".-EhchGHye.
Then We saw a person yesterday who
Eid,t have much character" for he upset
IaigIty easily.
A lumber of feminine astronomers will start
kromthis CITY tomorrow for Raleigh, 10 view
the tlipse.-M Y S"R.
Otr young men after this will have their
EmOked glass in readiness.
Tie New Berne Times has an article en-
titlct "What we Drink" From our obser-
vati,n of the manners and habits of its cdi-
tor ", have no hesitation in ayering that
is whit he drinks =" is = cold without"
Nd content with dirty streets, New York
want Il dirt road. Chicago Post.
Veil hasn't she got it now? She is in
khe Democratic road, and that's the dirtiest
kutEn.
4 Akoung gentleman of Logansport, Ind, sued
! babcr l0r spelling his moustatache in trying
o clor it, and laid his damages at S50.-Er-
Etais.
Will he ought to get it. He must be
pOOiyoung man as he's no hGir apparent.
ArAustrian editor has been fined for telling
lies bout Andrew Johnson.-N 7. World.
LIS ! Not by a long chalk. He was
! fnc, for telling the truth. He said john
BON 1.-The most corrupt scoundrel in Amer
ca. and that's just truth.
Tie Chicago Post thinks there is no need
forthe ID to care whether or no New
.Tok fixes He'll gate as he gets all the New
.Yolz custom in any case. This would lead
pne to suppose Chicago to be partner in
the frm.
4 Tie papers are filed with admiration
{ or the sheroism of Miss BnRIE in saving the
4 ife of a Young man We should like to
4lhire her too, but our feelings are checked
Because of ftwo facts-frst, Miss Borie didn't
Eys anybody, and secondly and lastly, there
Ent any MISS Borie.
VaIlandigham's explanation of Rosen
tahs' nomination for Governor OF Ohio is to
g effect that since the Copperheads-the
Old is his-were made TO take back seat,
] vas but fair the War Democrats should
company them, and so he preferred TO take
Republican candidate.
An Ohio dentist and a chiropodist have had a
barrel They probably fought tooth and nail
|,ieGgo Republican.
We viii! bet on the =" tooth-butcher," for If
ever has chance to perform an operation
pom that corn-doctor he'll be sure to make
i'm hold his jan.
The Life Insurance Agents at Raleigh ad-
ertise more literally than any in the State.
gen guarantee they make money.-Wh Star.
OF course they do. The business men OF
Ra.eigh are enterprising men who, when
Fade is dull, have the sense to advertise
hd make trade. The consequence is that
ley make money when other merchants are
pmplaining of dull times.
The failure of the Columbia Legislature
ratify the Cushing Darien Cartel treaty is
ttributed to the intrigues of the English
Pld French Ministry at Bogota. Instead of
Ending an envoy there fully able to cope with
be European diplomats. our Government
ays little Or no attention to the subject, and
lows itself to be baf1ed by the English and
rench lobbyists in the Columbia Senate.
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JUDGE DENT, the probable Conservative
epublican candidate for Governor of Mis-
Esippi, has written letter defining his
phcy in which he says that he is Nation
Republican, opposed to the extreme pro-
'cHptlVe measures of the party, and places
lmselt unequivocally upon the WALKER
lattorm of Virginia, advocating universal
mnesty and universal suffrage. In all these
P0sltlons he claims to be in unison with the
President