The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-30
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NEWS ITEMS.
Jerusalem is crowded this season with
American visitors -.

American visitors. s.. ..3
The cars began to run on Thursday on
the Atclison, Topeka, and Santa Fe rail-
road. M ats
Henry Ward Beecher says it will never
do to ''preach cream and practice skim
milk"
A wealthy American, betrothed to 3D.
naparte Princess, has "cut stick" from Paris
to Germany.
An English clergyman oficiates also as
organist, having Geographic keyboard in
the reading desk.
Freighted cars were transferred across the
river at St. Louis. on Thursday for the first
time laden for points West
Clubs of tourists intending to visit the
United States this summer are forming in
Hamburg, Leipsic and Berlin.
The production of petroleum in West
Virginia is on the decrease several impOr-
tant wells having nearly dried up.
The damage caused in the vegetable
world by insects amounts every year, it
is estimated, to more than twenty million
dollars. sa;,...f
The State of Illinois intends to pay gold
interest hereafter on her debt, and has re-
cognized the fact that the principal of the
debt is payable in gold.
Matches are to be made by new pro-
cess. Sodium is to be used instead of phos-
phorous. 1t ignites as easily, and is free
from offensive odors. aH
A Spanish soldier who has been tramping
ID the interior of Cuba says the Spanish are
losing 300 men a month by the ordinary
casualties of the campaign.
The Odessa Gazette announces that the
railway between Kiev and Odessa will be
opened on August /. Odessa is, connected
with Constantinople by steamers.
1t was rumored in New York last night
that Cuban expedition of 1900 men, re-
cruited in Philadelphia, had left that port
The report was denied by Cubans at New
York. f r
A small boy who "peeked" under the
canvass containing the Ihree-eyed OK, at
Louisville, KY, was prodded through the
head with pitchfork in the hands of the
exhibitor
A Topeka despatch says $4,000 acres of
the Potowatamie reservation had been sold
to actual settlers, and emigration continues
to be large. The crops are liz a fine condi-
ton throughout the State.
Sunset Cox has been shedding his de-
pressing light upon the World in the shape
of correspondence from Algiers. His sad
inaccuracy has moved even Marble to tears,
and the correspondence has come to an
end.
The New York Euening Post publishes an
advertisement ola pew in fashionable
church, which the advertiser says is g a
very desirable pew, and was in great de-
mand before Professionalism was declared
failure"
A Michigan farmer, on visit to Detroit,
had a presentiment that something wrong
was happening at home, and travelled back
on foot just in time to catch his hired man
getting in at the chamber window with a
big knife.
| A Boston paper insinuates that the rea-
son that Amanda Craig got her verdict for
100000 damages is, that half the jury
have applied for divorces in order to marry
the plaintiff and her money. This is not
substantiated.
In consequence of religious VOW, young
girl in Aversion, England. abstained from
! eating any food from October last to the 10th
of May. During the whole of this time she
took no solid food, and for sixteen weeks
she did not even moisten her lips.
A valuable bed of bloodstone has just
been discovered by Professor Shepherd one
mile from Ste Mary, Ste Genevieve county,
Mo, on lands owned by M. A. Gilbert
There is only one other place in the United
States "a small deposit in Ohio) where it has
been round.
The friends of Cuba in Washingte.. have
received intelligence that thetight at Puerto
Del Padre was more important than at first
reported. 1t opens up direct communica-
ton with the coast and enables the Cubans
TO protect the landing of reinforcements
from the United States. Every expedition
from the United States has successfully
landed.
A novelty in silks is new color recently
imported for dinner dresses called c0raile.
1t very brilliant in gaslight, resembling
delicate shade of flame color with light and
dark flashes One popularity of this coral
tinted silk. commencing it to all, is that it
becomes both the blonde and brunette,
which can be said of very few colors. Only
SIS yard.
In the town of Milford, Wis, few day >
ago. a mad dog bit two children, and the
parents, it is said, were informed by the at
tending physicians that the only possible
way for the children to escape the agonies
of rabies would be to take their lives. In
credible as it may seem, they administered
an opiate to the boy and bled him to death,
and the girl was smothered in feather bed.
There seems to be no doubt of this, as it Is
we'll attested.
The Leavenworth Times and Conservative
has received the following special from ELS
worth: 1.-THE Indians are again at their
murderous work; this time about thirty
five miles north of Solomon City. A party
of men followed the Indians, but. on discov
ering a large force in reserve, did not attack
them. Governor Harvey arrived at Salina
Monday afternoon, on a special locomotive,
and on Tuesday morning left for the scene
| of outrage.
] The Caspian Sea is dotted with islands
from which enormous quantities of naptha
are yearly taken. Early last month, owing
to subtcrranean disturbances, the naphtha
wells on these islands overfiowed, and the
infamable substance spread over the entire
surface of the lake. 1t accidentally took
fire; and for forty EIGHT hours burned furi-
ousy over a surface OF many thousands OF