The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.

Barnums Hotel, in Baltimore Is to be sold
at auction. = ~
There are $s7 900, 900, in coin, in the
vaults of the Treasury.
Queen Isabella's chief cook gets 500
day for "market money" -
Newspapers have reached Chicago only
seven days from Sacramento.
Land that sold in Virginia four years ago
for S6 an acre will now bring $50. e
Gen. Dix has asked to be relieved from
Paris fromiand after the first of june
San Francisco, on Saturday, celebrated
the completion of the Pacific Railroad.
Caoutchouc, or India rubber trees, flourish
IN great vigor in Santa Barbary county, Cal
ifornia. 7tat " IS. -.sss
Troy. New York, now allows colored
children the right of admission to its high
school.
Louisiana promises this year to double its
last years rice crop, and to greatly increase
that of oranges.
The Guardian, London High Church
paper, has declined to advertise Autographed
or manuscript sermons. 20
The released Fenian prisoners, Colonies
John Warren and A. E. CASTILLO, arrived at
New York on Sunday.
Napoleon was lately bitten by small dog,
1t did not hurt him much, but he remarked
in half jocular way It is . bad sign"
Baque Bey, the Turkish minister and
staff, have engaged cottages at the Virginia
White Sulphur for the entire season, COM
mencing June 1st.
The Lynchburg Va) Republican reports
the recent discovery in the gorges of the
mountains, near Allegheny Springs, of wa
terfall twelve hundred feet high. ia
The New York San has report that
thirty gunboats for the Spanish government
are being fitted out in New York, Boston
and Quebec, to be ready by June 1. ...
A New York man has recovered from the
inner recesses of a rag doll eight one hun
dred dollar treasury notes, which had been
stuffed therein by his little daughter, assisted
by terrier dog. ~ fH.ie
A dispatch from Omaha states that 200
Sioux Indians pounced upon about forty
Snake and Bannock Indians, eighty miles
/ from South Pass City, ten day ago, and kill
ed twenty nine of them. ..-,,..,....-
More income returns have been made this
year than during any previous one, owing
mainly to the energy of the revenue Off
GERS in attending to their business and COM
pelling compliance with the law. pii.
A woman in Tennessee, at the age of 81,
has had twenty-four children-having given
birth to the first at the age of Is. She has
had seven single children, twins seven times.
and a month ago had three children in one
| set.
"Papa," said Mr.. Browns youngest son,
the other day, lean I go to the circus 2"
"No, my boy" affectionately replied Mr..
Brown; "If you are good boy will take
you to see your grandmothers's grave this
evening""
There is bad blood between the Cubans
and Spaniards in New Orleans. A duel has
been fought, and another is on the tapis.
Certain Spaniards have promulgated gen
eral challenge to all who shout death to
Spaniards"
1t is probable that Oliver Wendell Holmes
will write an ode for the opening of the
musical festival in Boston, which will be sung
| by ten thousand voices, to the accompani-
ment of the great organ and an orchestra
of thousand pieces. a aa II
The Vigilance Committee of Bryan. Wy
oming Territory, called upon desperate
character short time since. and gave him
fifteen minutes to leave town. He mounted
his mule, and said Gentlemen, if this
mule don't balk, don't want but five."
Rumble, the English engineer, lately SEN
fenced to eighteen manths' hard labor for
taking fee for procuring government
contract, is the man who connived at the
escape of the Confederate pirate Kappa
hammock toward the close of the rebellion.
There is photographer of spirits in Buff
falo, who processes to take the Legitimate
article and no other, and who is ready to
take spirit photographs in any gallery in the
city, with the materials of that gallery, in
the presence of all the photographers in
Buffalo. nia 5-l.z..I ss.i 70
The negro barber who was shot through
the front part of the brain by the bursting o.
his gun, few weeks ago, near Connersvillc
Ind, is still living, and will get well. The
piece of the barrel which passed through hi
brain was four inches long, and one and {
quarter inch in width.
The Secretary of the Navy has called til,
attention of Admiral Hoff, to the fact tina
armed Spanish vessels are in the habit o
searching American merchantmen, and di
rects that the Admiral keep vigilant
watch hereafter, and prevent any such in
fraction of International law. 5a5
The remaining indictments against Audi
tor Wickliffe were dismissed by the First
District Court of Louisiana. A mutual in
junction has been obtained by Auditor
Wickliffe and Auditor Delassigne, Governor
Warmouth's appointee, which leaves the
Auditors office without an incumbent.
Vice-President Jos. Gibbons, and the Elk
ecutive Committee of the Fenian Brother
hood, will publish an official contradiction
of the statement in the New York World, o
Sunday, that the Fenian officers had entered
into negotiations for the transfer of thei
forces to the Cuban revolutionary junta. q
The trial of Miss Martha j. Cai.ness, VIII
shot her seducer, Nicholas McSamas, of jan
rattsvile, Hartford county, Nd. on the lot
of April last, was concluded ON Saturda
evening. The jury, attic. an absence of fiv
minutes, brought in :. verdict of not guilt!
The announcement was received with al
plause.
After a prntacted controversy in til
courts OF South Carolina the case ut In
Charleston city election has been settlet
The former city government has held IL
| spyp col ,orpfhs SINCE the election took MAC