The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-23
NEWS ITEMS.

year.
Mr.. George Peabody arrived in the Scotia
on Tuesday.
In the wine region of California, wine is
cheaper than milk.
Blue and green are superceding black for
male full-dress attire in Paris.
The Pope wants his niece to become nun.
She says she would rather be a wife.
There are $4,000 commercial travellers in
the United States, of whom 10000 are sent
out by New York houses.
The Southern States have eighty-six cot
ton mills, with $4,000 spindles, which spin
81 ,060, 600 pounds of cotton.
Immigration to America is setting out
strongly Eight Thousand people left Liver
pool for the United States last week.
Chicago now Claims to be an eastern city,
as it only 900 miles to the Atlantic coast,
while it is 1850 miles to the Pacific cost.
The Baptists of Philadelphia have nearly
doubled their membership since 1850. They !,
now have 1900 members and forty
churches.
A young couple in Joliet, Ill.,, divorced
after short welded life, have met, relOved
and remarked after separation of only
few weeks
A religious paper in Kentucky contends
that Christians should not only not make
and sell whiskey, but should not even raise
corn for that purpose.
Returns from eight to ten counties In
Washington territory give Garfield, Repub-
lican, 421 majority, indicating his election
to Congress by 500 majority.
A woman of rs was married to man of
35, in Tiffin, Ohio, last week. The woman
has been married twice before, and has
children older than her present husband.
Connecticut wants the jurisdiction of its
lower courts enlarged so that the Superior
Court may have time to attend to business
that properly and legitimately belong to it.
Judge jeremiah s. Black is still confined
to his bed in the Louisville (Ky.) hospital
from the effects of his recent railroad acct
dent in Kentuc0, and will probably lose his
arm.
Spain has never ceased her aspirations for
the restoration of Gibraltar; and it is on
the cards that demand or something like
it may be made upon Great Britain to that
effect. 81
The anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill will this year be observed in the Boston
Coliseum by chorus ten times as large as
the American forces engaged IN that mem
orabe conflict.
Caleb Cushing has taken strong ground
in favor of Senator Summers speech on the
Alabama claims, and it is said that Robert
]. Walker is preparing powerful paper in
support of the same side. M
Liverpool is aghast at the presumption of
Yankee who, finding himself in that city
without the means to secure breakfast,
calmly smashed large window and quietly
waited to be arrested and taken care of.
A few days ago family of 5 persons, near
Hartford, Indiana, was poisoned by a dish
of greens made of the tops of rhubarb or
pie plant A boy twelve years old died,
and the Others are in critical condition.
Chinese laborers, fresh from the Pacific,
have already made their appearance in New
Orleans, probably the forerunners of thou
sands of their race, who will flock to the
sugar and rice fields of the Pelican State.
A married man in Bridgeport, Conn.,, was
recently urged to insure his life for the ben
eft of his better half, to the extent of $751;
600 or $4,000. He declined, saying, "a
widow with more than $4,000 would be
dangerous legacy to posterity."
Cassius NJ. Clay, who made bold speech
in London in 1861, at time when it re-
| quired pluck to beard the British lion in his
| den, proposes to give the lions name anoth-
er pull on his return from Russia to the Uni
ted States, by the way Of England.
The new opera house in Paris, it isnow
estimated, will cost seventy FIVE millions
francs The original estimate was sixteen
| millions. Dishonest contractors and thieves
| in high position pocketed most of the money
originally appropriated for the building,
A "cigar ship" is being constructed'in
Troy, composed of two big cigar shaped cyb
inders, with engine works and paddle wheels
between. The cylinders are one hundred
feet long, and eight feet in diameter each.
A speed of 40 miles per hour is expected.
A married man who eloped from Missis-
sippi with another woman, has just written
to his deserted wife to educate his three
children respectfully, as he hopes to meet
them in heaven, if circumstances over which
he has no control should forbid their meet
ing again on earth.
Ex-Gov. Addison G. Gibbs of Portland
Oregon, recently travelled from San Francis
co to Omaha by rail in four and a half days
In 1851 he left New York for Oregon, in
company with Gen. Joe Lane, and was one
hundred and nineteen days in making the
trip. So much for steam.
During the rebellion, British cruisersde
stroyed 151 American vessels, mostly ships
The Alabama destroyed seventy, the Florid
thirty-six, the Shenandoah thirty-six- ant
the Georgia nine. The estimated value o
the ships destroyed was 100000. Man.
of them had valuable cargoes. J
The recent baptism of the Queen Of Mad
agascar, which took place in one of tn
churches of the London Missionary Society
is regarded as tending to protect mission
aries against the gastronomic proclivities
her Majesty's subjects, some of whom hav
weakness for flesh of missionaries, withou
bias in regard to their denominations.
Gen. Schenck hopes during his Europea
trip to enlighten the Britishers on the AL
bama and tariff questions The gallal
Chairman of the House Ways and Meal
Committee is bold and outspoken. alb
and honest man, who is not likely to min
matters in order to be we'll received in fas
ionable circles.
The four-oared boat in which Harvard
to row against Oxford has been complete
and is now at Cambridge. 1t is cedar she
: SO feet inches long, 18 inches wide ami