The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-05-05
NEWS OFTHEWEEK


Antonelliisis lying low for the Pope's .
shoes. 'vaillsiasy- 'ssstssl;4i..I IS
I Square earrings are coming invogue once {
more. sa ia iay5s sfidd ind
i Col. Robert johnson, son OF Andrew john
son, is dead. iisl,sn
| Short gauze wells are coming in fashion
once more as warm weather approaches. Eel
I.ig The bridge across the Mississippi, at st.
Louis, is to be at once begun. aJH
White India muslin over light-colored
i silks will be fashionable this summer r9a9
The commercial negotiations between
France and Belgium have been resumed. a5e
4 oi An eclipse OF the sun is coming in August.
4 Get your smoked glasses ready.g sb % r.
! Public lands in South Carolina are sold
to actual settlers on five years credit iioi
The Havana press advocates the expulsion
of all Cuban American citizens from the
| island.
% Mrs. Letcher. the venerable mother of ex-
Governor Letcher, died in Lexington, Va, on
Sunday last. ~
Among the distinguished foreigners in
! New York is Major Husson, of Norway,
eight feet high. ........
McCoole has commenced training for his
fight with Tom Allen. He is handled by
/ Pete Brooks.
Two suspected fillibustering vessels have
been captured by Spanish war steamer off
the Cuban coast.
| II A all Of WHIT
/ spirits of camphor will, it is said, cure the
bite of rattlesnake.
More wheat has been planted in Kentucky
than for ten years, and the prospect is very
fine for bounteOus crop.
General Hiram Walbridge has been ap-
pointed Railroad Commissioners, vice Horace
Greeley, acceptance withdrawn.
A big blast was recently made in Cali
fornia. Twelve hundred kegs of powder
were used and mountain was blown up.
A young lady in California broke her
neck in struggling to prevent young man
from kissing her. Make u note of it ladies.
The latest report is that Borie. but not
Fish, Is to resign shortly, and that Porter
will be appointed in his stead, ad interim.
By a resolution adopted in the Cortes. ex-
Queen Isabella and her children are forever
excluded from the throne OF Spain.
F. G. Jewett, the missing banker of
Skaneateles, New York, has returned to his
money bags, much to the relief of his anx-
ious friends. ~
A rumor comes from Berlin that Mrs.
Abraham Lincoln is to marry Count
Schmidstwill, Grand Chamberlain OF the
Duke of Baden. 4.s
1t was officially announced in the Spanish
Cortes some days since that France would
acquiesce in whatever form Of government
the Spaniards might adopt.
Henry A. Wise has reached the re-
markable conclusion that the abolition of
slavery by fire and sword was ordained by
God. 1t takes about half column of fine
type for him to say so.
Advices from Rio Janeiro by the Atlantic
cable state that preparations were being
made for final attack upon Lopez, and an
advance would probably take place about
the last of April. tt
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
an order directing that, hereafter, all proper
ty belonging, to the depar tment offered for
sale, shall be sold by public auction or un-
der sealed proposals.
1t is rumored that the Prince Borghese, of
Rome, the owner of the finest gallery of
paintings after that of the Vatican, is about
to sell his art treasures to Russia tor the
sum of 35,000,000 francs.
The Berlin and Vienna papers have bro
ken the truce which was concluded only a
few weeks ago, and now seem bent upon
doing their best to prevent any cordial feel
ing between Prussia and Austria.
Useful quality. A wag purchased very
fine horse. Returning from ride few
days afterwards, lie SAID he had discovered
quality in his animal which added few
dollars to his value ''he SHE'D at a lawyer!"
Weston has finally walked fair race, and
has acknowledged he has been fairly beaten.
Payne's time in the recent match between
them. at Fretlonia, was 100 miles in % hours
and so minutes the best on record.
The Mexican Congress has authorized
President Juarez to recognize the Cuban in
sursents as belligerents whenever he thinks
proper Vessels bearing the Cuban flag are
admitted into the ports of Mexico. -
|
Dr. Brown Sequard reports curious case
of a dog, which had just died, having fresh
blood passed into the carotid. The dead
animal was revived, stood on his feet, wag-
ged his tail and lived over twelve hours,
when he died again. 7.as.
Incredible as it may seem, a three story
brick house, IS by 40 feet, and in the con-
struction of which 42,360 brick were used,
was built in Lancaster, Pa. last week, in 195
hours, and persons were living in it within
three days from the time it was commenced.
The Chicago Microscepical Club examin-
ed Tuesday night specimens of trichns
from the b,ceps muscles of young lady
who had recently died near that city. The
specimens examined showed 100000 para
sites to the cubic inch
A Tennessee girl wants $4,000 damages
from resident of Lansingburg, N. Y, for a
breach of promise of marriage. The defence
is that the man was married at the time he
made the arrangement. and that the fulfil
ment of his promise would involve breach
of the law
The old blockade runners Fox, Badger
and Lark are undergoing an entire remod-
elling in Liverpool. and it is surmised that
they may yet be heard of in the Cuban
waters, They are very swift boats and
would be Just the kind of craft the insur-
gents would like to possess. IS
A demand has been received from Captain
| H.nar,l DuIco for thp curr.,nflpr ot tho .I,,i