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

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Smallpox is quite prevalent in Albany
4 New York. "a .l.,.1sit;, is3,;ae;,
It's said that the Bible was never publish
cd III Japanese., - s.. se,,f3.,i,I,,if, I
4 A first rate New York shirt cutter gets q
salary of $4,000 year. l &. rs
| Memphis is to have Chinese Labor Con-
vention ON the 18th inst.
/ Fifty seven thousand acres of prairie
will be broken in one county Of Iowa this
| year. sf
Tho widow of Major General Worth
died at St. Augustine, Florida ON the 2lst
I of June err
4 A careful estimate shows that at least one
i Thousand new settlers are coming into
| Kansas daily. Z ls..... i IL,
/ Duelling to the music of piano is the
latest innovation among the German stu
dents. salt pfiuH 'l-aaS sit'lA9.
! A poisonous worm .infests tomato vines in
4 Illinois. Several deaths lave cnsued from
| its bite.
4 Paris undertook to get up subscription
4 to purchase a house for jeff Davis. The
4 amount raised was $3.50. a
1 Ex-President johnson has left for Tcnncs-
see to go into the canvass in support of Sen
ter for Governor. ,.s,s...t5 ,.a.l....,5ai,s j,
A man in Norwich, CT, has domestiqated
a lot of toads, which keep his garden clear
of insects.
! The New York income taxpayers are as
sessed for $977, All more income tax this
| year than last .....-
| A German in New York drinks his 70 to
90 glasses of lager beer daily, and has not
been ill for ten years. ~ rjs.
! A lady in Hannibal Mo-, very nearly
! swallowed a snake the other night while
drinking some water. :, r....'..-.-'........ i.
| The Japanese, in bringing living plants
| to this country, wrap the roots in Il mixture
! of earth and carrots ground together.
| The cheese factories in Massachusetts,
have made returns of ,095,S pounds of
cheese manufactured during the year 1868.
An "acral steamer" was tried in San
+ Francisco on Friday. 1t navigated the air
|evtnty-five feet above ground at good
peed. -4-. als ri ABa li.
Mrs. E. A. Pollard. sentenced to 80 DAYS
incarceration in Baltimore tor shooting and
Sountling DR.. Moore has been rel cased on
paying 500 fine. a.F5E5 ~ sia
Z Secretary Boutwell, decides that goods
eizcd which cannot be sold for the expense
OF seizure and tax must be stored, subject to
the future action of Congress. df.ra3 e.r
The Imparciak one of the leading papers
of Spain, says that agents of the government
, are brIbing the press to Obtain its advocacy
Tor the sale of Cuba to the United States.
An Edinburgh, COW, on the way to the
siaushter-hou ran up the stairs of a house,
jumped from the fourth story window and
killed herself Death before ttishonor. H
A Chicago court has decided that express
companies have the right 10 forward letters
accompanying consignments in unstamped
envelopes. Ia ah s' ite e'.l" p
A travelling Southerner lately offered to
present tn the American Club at Breslau. {;
bust of ex-President johnson, but the club
unanimously voted to decline the gift.
There is authority for stating that no
Cabinet chan .cs are contemplated, and all
lblt HIS ICCcHllN DtcH Sdltt Ou that SuD-
ject, in various newspapers, is merely specu-
lation. nfn altla jas
A man in England, charged with bigamy,
makes tie defence that his first wife was his
| uncles widow, and that the marriage is
void, 50 that he has really been married but
once. The interesting question has not been
| decided. -'i
A company has been formed in N Y, to
bring fresh meat to that market from Texas
The entire hold OF their vessels is lined
with non conducting felt; and by cheiai
cal means cold below the freezing point
will be kept up. -'Ga.it f''R ga
The vote in Cincinnati on the question
of issuing the bonds to the amount $4,000
900. for the purpose of constructing Il Rail-
road between Cincinnati and Chattanooga,
resulted: 15,43s for the project, and 1900
against it. si' a..
The yellow fever is raging fearfully among
the shipping at Favana. On the Spanish
ironclad Victoria as many as ITO deaths,
ending the 18th ult occurred in nine days
out of a crew of $50 men, and other Span
ish men of.war the disease is committing
great rayages. iA4eE i7ai4ia i=l @lt eio
Among the recent discoveries at ITercula-
neum, in the excavation of the ancient city,
are fourteen vases OF different szes--a can
deabrum, a lamp, several dishes of glass
and burnt earth, the marble statuettc of ri
Fawn and two broken tables, one Of marble
and the other of slate. .a. .a. .aaiasaa
A case of strange cruelty is related on the
part of Il mother. at Leondlng, in Austria.
Wishing to get rid of her child, scarcely FIVE
months old, she placed it close to beehive.
The poor infant had already been 1stung
severely, when gendarmc who was passing
perceived it and carried it away. The wo-l,
man was soon after arrested. # rs ,sii 5yfr
Two distinct shocks of an earthquake
were felt at Johnsonville, Tenn, July end.
They were so severe as to wake people from Z
their sleep, causing the houses to vibrate
from cellar toi9garret, rattlin,,, dishes and
stirring up things generally. No damage
was done that l have heard of. The night
was clear and calm. -rI L 9fae g4asf- +
+, A child has been born at Jaca, France, on +,
the surface of one of whose eyes there Is inn
printed the exact resemblance of watch
dial, oval in form The hours and minutes
are distinctly marked, and the hands desig-
mated by faint lines. At the lapse of each
hour the child is seized with slight convul-
sions, during which it hiccups the proper
number Of tintinnabula, after the manner of
a repeating watch. 'z.d -tteif.+t " 35eihft 2
An Iowa. paper. reports that as a man and
his wife were at work in field in that State,
their child, which was in a basket; near /.
them, was heard to cry, and the husband