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kind tew larf when he gifts beat.
I lhe Hearth and Home has Il little an
ecdote OF Il certain ignoramus. who ap.
r piIed to lawyer ''to be qualified for
some petty Office. The lawyer replied
, 81 will swear you; but all creation
conldn't qualify you for the Office
why is the name of George Wash
ington any more to be respected and hon
, orcd than mine ~ said a teacher to his
pupil. because he never told lic,''
was the discriminating but not over COM
pllmentary reply.
During the war contraband came
INTO the Federal lines in North Carolina
and was marched up TO the officer of the
day to give an account of himself, where
upon the following colloquy ensued ::
"Whats your name ?" My names
NJ ''Sam what p NO, sab not
Sam Watt Tse i;st Sam" 'sWhats
your other name ~ Il hasn't got no
other name, sah. r~e Sam, dat's all"
"W hats your masters maine - '.I'se
got no ma'sa, now; nas-a runncd away {:
yah. yah, Ise free niger. now"
NOW whats your fathers and mothers
name z ''I'sc got none, sab; nebber
rad none. /" ji>t S4m-aint nobody
else" ''Haven't you any brothers and
sisters $40, sab Nebber had none.
No bruddcr, no sister, no G,vldcr. no mud
der, no massa, nothin but Sam When.
You see Sam you see all dere is of US
JOKE on \ YoUNG DocroR.-In the
town of R, in Windsor county. jim
b. is the disciple of -E-culapiuS. He Is
qulte 4 wag withail and hi, perpetratcd
numerous Jokes on his associates and
friends. One day certain dentist. who
had been the victim OF one OF them, went
To the phy Slclan' Office complaining of an
eXrruciaiug tooth ache The physicians
were both zone and Jim wa, monarch"
The dentist WAS IN ''t"o much agony TO
wait, and 50 Jim. eager for a Job. was
permitted to take the torccpo and go
III. The tooth was pointed out. the
t"rccps applied. and after being duly eau
TONED to give straight pull ami not a
@yratory wrench. Jim bowed himself
NIGHTLY, when 10. At the expense oil
scarcely 4 pound of strength, out came
the whole >r;-oi false teeth. We be-
hcNe that Jim has resolved never to pr;,c-
'ce dentistry any more. claiming i; to
b. beneath 'he dignity otthc profession.
NJ -i"r"< tlt) Messenger.
AulIs" i@IIEs.-A little girl hun
tr"d thousand miles or less distant from
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-08-20

In China man and wife never walk to-
gether arm in arm in public, nor even
side by side, but the wife always follows
her lord at respectable distance, as the
women do among American indians.
AT social parties the sexes sit at different
tables, occupy separate rooms, and visit
only among themselves.
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and % on, see saw.
There, Il Ind of feeling of reSponsi
Unity, having three or four hundred live!
IN Your kccPiu4. But then, there's tn,
fn'c-. Il y"n keep TO them. if anythn.
happens II isn't your fault. When ydt
ale cat OF time and have to wait, YOU +,
~ulc 1" be cross, and sure to be bad"ered
hl qHc~tipI~. \ t9rcigGcr once told m,
,'I"i one al !.r most surprising thin..
/ ned sccn IN America WAS the RESPECT
. past I" conductors and the WAY they
"ctc "hrycd by passengers. But passen-
:er> VIII ask questions when you're wait
/ n@, and it, provoking. One dav was
out "t tine, and ran oft ON Il switch tu
wait tor either the down train or a telc-
"ram 10 come on. by and by, pomp-
Gus man comes TO mo rs | was sitting on
the fence.
Mr.. Conductor" says he, .'wlat are
we waitin" Tor ?''
"For the down train-were out of
limc.
There's Il >iugle track here, and she
has the right OF way.
but suppose the down train is behind
TOO -
Then I'll oet a t,leoram."
"But suppose they don't telegraph
you, how lon@ will you wait -
"IW tlc "i,rk> r,t.t oj, said l.
l.r went back .o .hc coach. rrowlin.
something about having an engagement
in town at the hour the train was DIM.
aud .titcrward found ont that he was
the ,icr-prc,idrnt Of the road. But he
wa :, sensible fellow. tbopnh uo;cL t,,n-
prrcd. and stool p.t,.r with ib,. onir,rs
iar what bai ,.,iI II, u.ed +o n,l,e
heavy tun at ru.. sometimes. and rst,m-
mend me To wet ibe wb.o,S and ,hrv
would rus, off sooner
IT,, a,;oni,hiuo how Reckless. SOM.
railroad men b,r,,u,. was np e, .;J..
track wal,,m. ont Of time on,. and g,
...i.w come, f., mo and s.,y, .W,h,
don't Won 90, Oh ,,' 'Cau,r nv order.
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l o. go T. I'N-''!liii'ltt NputleF Oh our cOllil-
nt"f, the Yosemite Valley, untrodden bv
the topt OF the white man till 1871. and
dlillcult OF access to this day. No wheels
lave ever rumbled over It's sod but
leaving the stage at Mariposa, sure-foot-
ed horses take you by grades that seem
to the eye almost unclimable, up rugged
mountain ranges, down deep valleys,
! through narrow ravincs and narrow gor-
@e<, anna majestic forests, over boulders
"t gramtc, >klrting along hillsides for
lilty miles, until at last, from Il iutting
point on the often precipitous trail, you
look down into this wonderful cleft or
! ii-surc which YOU must wind around mile
after mile yet to enter anticipating
something grand, TIE reality. a> is so
/ rarely the ca>r. l., in romantic beauty
and wild sub'imity, tar beyond the men
tai pictures drawn 10y the most vivid i'm
agnatlon. The towering Sierras, which
!hc Almighty had thus torn assunder.
are all around. Towns and settlements
and houses are far behind vou 1t seems
tine home Of the genius of solitude And
there you look straight down nearly a
mile, INTO Il harrow but smiling valley,
elght miles ion9. and averaging but half
Il mile III width, with the Mcrccd river
winding gracefully among graS>v mead
uW~ and scattered -ruve- while ike
grim >cuIinrI- on either side. the noun
tains rise 5000 to 5000 feet above the
valley. which itself j. lODo feet above the
"a
Ihr-t yclowi,h granite wal-. like
iu-;"rh-a-nu-lah. or III Captain. as il i
';"nrr cai.cd. straight up and down.
>ap1th. seamless, and vrrlurrl--~: or
!ru ,.:.i !. lik another. ~ a hc..u..tu!
rounded dome, greater aud va~tcr than
done" %. capital or p.,lacr, or >hootin. up
G;o an assimilation 10 cathedral towers,
after Wo."1 o.nrr- are named. O. mount
.I- 'He above another. and rolling away
n .n-r proximity 10 each other. ike H..
-... . L.. I'D. ml 'itr, a~ II witt u ml-h,v
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.'.i'..''. .... the llHIt Dome: or tower
.'- "~'', "ll others. lhr H." Sr"un"i
u '... "r -.-ttiy ~."W"G from the P,r-
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the r,,:--~nrh ;n aggregation "t r.muk-
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The New York City directory for the
present year contains 49, 4Ij names
an excess OF 3O9 over last year. Inc
name OF Smith occurs 1906 times, while
there are 1913 Browns, 2+5 Greens, 3ol
Whites, and moderate number OF
Grays, Blacks, and Blues. There are
1S7 Foxes, 81 Wolfs, and only 9 Bears.
A study of the directory is curious
amusement
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\ water spout near Nashville, Ten
ncs-ee, ,ccentIy cut up some mischievous
pr;,nh-. \ whriwl"d formed on the
Cnmoyrland rivcr Which was 50 power
tot that It water spout seven feet high
was Developed, and swept along the river.
I party UI Il dozen men and boys were
huin.ns in the river, and had hang their
clothes upon some cvergrcens, which
.orncI Il screen to iie bathing boat Oh
a., landing where they performed their
toilets. Iuc wafer Sp3ut came along
AID unccrcncn.ou,.y whlskc,i away trees,
clothes, and AL aud away went the
raiment OF the ;Istonishcd bainerS, sailing
Li4h III ar. until it disappeared from
their ANXIOUS gaze. Ali called loudly
Tor clothes, and finally Il sufficient num-
Der ot article, OF apparel were secured.
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The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS.
The agents of Brigham Young are enticing
young girls from New York.

The agents of Brigham Young are enticing
young girls from New York.
The black tongue has made its appear
ance among the deer in Georgia.
A spirited Minnesota girl has dismissed
her lover for giving her father a drink of
whiskey.
Velveteen coats, light trousers and light
neckties are said to be the fashion for the
coming winter.
A magnificent cave has been discovered in
Nevada, full of stalactites and stalagmites,
which has been visited already by hundreds
of sight-seers
A man living near Pontiac, Mich, swap
ped his wife, for horse, and was afterwards
surprised and grieved at being informed
that the sale was void.
An Iowa farmer recently found in his har
vest field spider whose body was as large
as a mouse, and which covered five inches
of gaound with his legs.
Adams Express Co. compels all agents
and employees to put up their photographs
at the general office, so that in case any of
them run the detectives can identify them.
A party of Cuban fllibusters attempted
to leave New York on Wednesday, but find
ing revenue cutter following their steam
tug, they disembarked at Williamsburg, and
scattered
A man in Green Co., KY, has no ears, and
hears through his mouth He is probably q
success as q domestic man. When he doesn't
want to hear his wife scold him, he can do
as all men should do--shut his mouth.
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Henry Bulen tied his feet together and
then jumped down a well in Illinois Sun
day night.
Three brothers named Montay were burn
ed to death in a frame house which took
fire in Cincinnati on Tuesday night
Mort Dedman, an illicit distiller,was killed
by revenue officers near Ringgold, Georgia,
while attempting to escape from them.
An extensive gang of horse thieves, en-
bracing several well-known and heretofore
respectable citizens, has been discovered in
Charlton County, Mo.
A band of one hundred Indians attacked
some teams hauling ore from the Vulture
mines, killing two Mexicans and weunding
two, and capturing sixty mules.
A man and his grandson went out hunt
ing in Arkansas last week. The boy got be-
hind some bushes and whistled like tur-
key, and his grandfather shot him.
An infant child in Nevada was recently
bitten on the soft part of the head by a
green horse-fy, causing convulsions, from
which the child died in one hour after be-
ing bitten.
The steamer Guardian from Memphis for
Little Rock, struck a snag at Red Fork, in
the Arkansas river on Wednesday, and
sunk. The boat will be saved, but her valu-
able cargo is lost.
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
Markets..

WILMINGTON, Oct. 2.-Spirits Turpentine
steady at 40. Rosin steady; SLIGO for strained.
Crude Turpentine $3.50 to $3.50. Tar $3.50.
Cotton quiet at 2411z to 25.
New YORK, Oct 2.-The receipts of cotton
for the week at all the United States ports fifty
four thousand six hundred and tw enty-eight
bales. The exports to Great Britain is seven
thousand four hundred and thirty four bales.
Exports to IL e Continent is two thousand three
hundred and seventy-nine. The stock on hand
and on ship board not yet cleared is cighty-six
thousand six hundred and fitty-four
Stocks stronk Money easy at Z. Sterling long
So; short So. Gold SO2s. sixty-two's 1873
Tennessee excoupons 6O115; new 52H. Virginia
excoupons So; new 5211z. Louisiana levees S411EE
Alabama 90H. Georgia IS, North Carolina old,
40; new A. South Carolina new GO.
Flour five cents lower Wheat dull and un-
changed. Corn dull and declining. Pork nomi-
nal at 311S. Lard quiet. Cotton declining at
2tsl@2S. Turpentine quiet at 1904. Rosin
dull-common s225. Freights very firm.
LONDON, Oct. 2.-Consols %. Bonds SAX.
Turpentine 2S. Sugar quiet both on the spot
and aloat at 2S and too
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 2-Cotton firm; uplanes
1211( to 1888; Orleans 1251z to 1873. Sales 1000
bales. Exports and Speculation 1900.
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
INDUSTRIAL,

There are now 1855 National Banks in
the United States.
The rice crop of the South this year is es-
timated at 81, ,915 tierces.
Memphis is going to pay 5000 premiums
on cotton at the fair, Oct. %.
A team of 100 yoke of oxen, will be on ex-
hibition at the Pittsfeld Fair.
Commissioner Delano forbids packages of
smoking tobacco of over one pound.
The cheese crop of the United States this
year is estimated at 5O,OOO,OO0 pounds.
The New England Pin Company are now
making at the rate of 2,O16,OOO pins per
day.
A merchant from the extreme Southwest
says: Louisiana is aching with sugar, and
Mississippi is white with cotton"
Five million bushels of wheat and fully
two thirds of the hay crop was DESTROYED in
Minnesota by the heavy rains of Monday
last.
A special dispatch from Liverpool says
that two million of specie is known to have
been shipped to New York within the past
three days
Revenue officers seized $40, 1000 worth of
tobacco in the store of Edmunds Pettigrew
& Co., at Memphis, on Wednesday, for nom
compliance with regulations
The Richmond Enquirer says that the
fall wholesale trade Of that city commenced
I
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
This fall State elections will take place as
PERSONAL.

Bagby has begun his Southern lccturing
tour.
Edwin Booths brother is playing in
Dublin.
Prince Arthur has promised to visit New
York in November.
Bishop Early is seriously i'll at his resi-
dence in Lynchburg, Va.
Prince Arthur was nearly struck by light
ming at Niagara on Saturday.
Pere Hyacinthe is threatened with excom-
munication from the church of Rome.
A daughter of the renowned Archbishop
Whately, of Dublin, has school of two
hundred girls at Cairo, Egypt.
Ex Secretary Stanton has the asthms,
from which he suffers considerably, but on
the whole his health is improving
Capt. Sanderson, relieved from duty in
the Department of the South, has been Or
dered to report to General Candy in Vir-
ginia.
Fisk. Jr., was knocked down by victim
on Friday night in New York. Threats are
freely made of hanging him and Judge
Barnard.
Casanova, the naturalized Cuban, who
has presented claims tn the State Depart
ment against Spain for imprisonment, has
arrived at Washington.
Judge Aaron Van Wosmer of Missouri is
declared to be at the head of the legal pro-
fession there He divorced himself from
his own wife in his own court
Gen. Sheridan, Senator Thurman, of Ohio,
and two daughters, and D. Mckinney, of the
Central Railroad, are at Louisville, en- route
to Vera Cruz Mexico.
Mr.. Seward prophesies that Oregon,
Washington Territory, British Columbia and
Alaska are destined to become a shipyard
for the supply of all nations
Gen. Roddy, who commanded Confeder-
ate cavalry during the war, visited the Pres
ident on Tuesday, and they chatted pleasant
ly together on many incidents of the late
war.
General Clement, the Haytien envoy to
Washington, and Admiral Films, of the
Haytien navy, who comes to take out the
iron-clad Atlanta, have arrived in New
York.
S. O. Pollard has been awarded $17,950
damages by jury in the Massachusetts Su-
preme Court against the town of Woburn
for permanent injuries received from defect
in the highway.
Major Haggerty had 4 long interview with
President Grant on Monday who expressed
a determination to vindicate the Judgment
the Senate, by giving him a better posi-
tion than that of the Glasgow consulate.
General George W. Monroe, Colonel of
the Twenty Kentucky Federal Infan-
try, and near the close of the war Quarter
master-General of the State, died at Frank
fort, KY, on Wednesday, of consumption.
The Queen Dowager of Bavaria, rather
good looking lady, has been caught in a
love affair with one of the footmen of her
deceased husband. 1t is said that during
the life time of King Macmillan she was en-
amored of her footman, who is the son of a
common day laborer.
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06

The sn,nisb Cunboats-A Nice Little
scheme Exnosed-Eirhtv Cannous
Fonnd on the Enterne COW.
orod With H.y-How
'ne 0unpoa's
were ~
DC transformer in'o Ieaoei"i Aihei i'''n
'a Mercnah'meh'
Spanish cunning has found its match in
Cuban alertness, and the Minister of Spain
at Washington has been circumvented in all
his nice little arrangements for the clandes-
.its - w re a su.s "i'0' 'e"''
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THE PLAN fHosThArhD.
Day before yesterday number Of Cubans
visited Pier No. 81, East Biver. and inspec-
ted the steamer Euterpe, which had regis
tered for Havana, and which had been
watched for lumber of days by young
Cuban of American appearance. During the
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
FOREIGN.


Russia now keeps up an army of !, ,467,-
900 men.
The Byron scandal continues to be the
topic of animated discussion in England.
A telegram from Bombay states that the
prospect of the cotton crops are splendid.
A decree summoning the Cuban Deputies
to the Cortes at Madrid will shortly be pub
lished.
The Sultan refuses any compromise with
the Vice on the right of the latter to negoti-
ate loans.
London is to beat Boston. At the Crystal
Palace, the anvil chorus is to be sung by
5000 voices. .,.
The Diet of the Grand Duchy of Baden
was opened last week by the Grand Duke
in person.
The Republican Club at Madrid has been
supended for passing resolutions condemn
ing monarchy.
Intelligence has been received of the as
sassination of the president of the Republi-
can club of Tarragona.
The Spanish Government intends to COM
pei bishops to take an oath of adherence to
the new constitution.
At Saragossa Senior Castillar addressed an
audience of 10000 persons, urging death
before acceptance of monarchy.
A palpable canard comes over the cable
| to the effect, that since Prims return to
Madrid, General has adopted q more con-
ciliatory tone.
Lord Clarendon's visit to Napoleon lately
was for the purpose of making arrange
ments to repress revolution in France In the
| event of Napoleon's death.
No dispatches in cipher were allowed to
be sent from Paris to any part of the world
during the panic which the dangerous i'll
ness of tie Emperor created.
Senator Prim admits that he did discuss
the Cuban question with Napoleon in his
late interview, and processes himself satis-
fed with the same
Great distress prevails in many parts of
India. The drouth has been fearful, and
| the consequence has been terrible mortali-
| ty of man and beast.
The supposed murderers of the woman
and five children, found lately in the fields
near Paris, the husband and son of the
woman, have been arrested at Havre.
The Republican club cf Madrid has been
closed by the government on account of
resolutions adopted, declaring that members
would make armed resistance to mon
| archy.
The Peace Congress OF Geneva have sug-
| gested that in all naval actions there should
be certain ships devoted to the accommoda-
tion of the wounded, which, carrying pc
culiar flag should be exempted from fire,
as are hospitals on shore
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
In Remote Settlements Of Untold Value.

Food makes blood; blood makes the body. If
the blood be pure, the body is healthy. Soil we
are not in health, we know some Impurities are
lurking about which must be removed, and the
sooner the better.
BrandretFs Pills rcn,ovc all from the system rhich
nature needs no longer.
The wonderful cures effected by Brandreth's
Pills have arrested the attention of enlightened
physicians. Upwards Of five thousand now use
them in their daily practice, and two hundred
have given their written testimony as to their
innocence and value, as cleansers of the bowels
and blood.
Their untold value is to those living in settle
ments where doctors can only be had at great
expense. For if you are sick, you have only to
take one or more doses of Brandreth's fills to
get cured. Full Directions are with each box
Sold by all Druggists.
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06

REDUCTION IN TELEGRAPHIc RATEs.-On
and after the 1st October, the rates of tele-
graphic dispatches will he materially
reduced. The telegraph has become an in
lispensable institution, and the correctness
and promptness with which it transacts all
business entrusted to its care, is highly
cOmmendabe.
From Raleigh to New York, the present
rates are, for first 10 words S1.75, and 25
cents for each additional word. The new
rates will be, $3.50 and 8. To Boston, $2.35
md 15-new $1.S5 and 12. To Baltimore,
f1.3O and 9-new $1.O5 and Z. To Wash
ing $1.25 and S-new $1.05 and T. To Char
lotte $125 and S-new 70 and s. To Will
mington 75 and 5-new 65 and 4.
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06
A Cuban Expedition--Over Five hundred
Men Leave New York for Fernandina.

Last Saturday night the New York and
Fernandina steamship Alabama took on
board 513 Cubans and Americans, and at
daylight on Sunday she was off Sandy Hook,
and out of danger of apprehension. Yester-
which left New Orleans for the purpose, and
they arc now under convoy of the old Hor-
net, now the Cuba, of the Cuban navy
Don Juan Clement Zeffer, of the Regozu-
cion printing office, accompanied the expe-
dition to Cuba which left this harbor last
Sunday morning.-N J, Sun,
The weekly standard., 1869-10-06

LITTLE WANDERERs-Th New Bernc Jour
nal Of Commerce tells oftwo little boys, one
eleven the other thirteen years of age, who
arc in that city, without protector, and
who state that they walked the whole way
from Granville county, their home, occupy
ing fourteen days in making the journey.
They give their names as Doc and John
Fowler, and that they left Granville because
they could get nothing to cat,