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


tour through Hanover.
Justus Adelberg, noted scientific man,
died at Hoboken ON the 9th instant.
Henry Ward Beecher's income is returned
at So, 900, and DR.. Chapin's at $4,000.
Alexander H. Stephens has recovered
his recent illness, caused by an accident.
General Marmore, of the Patriot army, is
reported killed at battle near Puerto
Padre.
Indians have captured and destroyed a
$4,000 government train, making good
their escape.
The st. Louis artesian- well has now gone
down 3791 feet and is still unproductive OF
the moist clement
Hon. J. Russell Jones has been commits
stoned Minister to Belgium, and will sail on
the Goth instant.
Rust has appeared in the wheat in Vir-
ginia, and the crop about Richmond will he
reduced one-half.
The Turkish Minister Blacque Bey and
suite have gone to the White Sulphur
Springs, in Virginia.
kilograms from Spanish sources in Havana
report the capture of an American expedl-
ton at Port Battiqueri.
It is reported that Lopez has annihilated
Brazilian Corps dArmee, and destroyed
large number OF their vessels.
A few days since, a young man of kas-
kaskia, while blowing in field, turned up
frog with two distinct heads.
Willard Osmere while reading in bed, at
Newport, N. H., Thursday night, upset the
lamp, and was burned to death.
A rumor has obtained currency that Gov.
Geary, of Pennsylvania, will succeed Mr..
Borie as Secretary of the Navy.
Canadians are agitating the question of
demanding compensation from the United
States, for losses by the Fenian raid.
F. E. Brown & Co., Nicholson paving con-
tractors, have sued the city of Memphis in
the U. S. District Court for 100000.
An Illinois editor has blackslid from Wes-
tern editorial principles by voluntarily pla-
cling himself in an inebriate Asylum.
In the Cortes, ON Saturday, General Prim
eulogized the Mexican government, and
styled Juarez the " Great Rapublican."
There are pear trees in garden in the
town of Elliott, Maine, from which fruit was
taken one hundred and forty years ago.
The steamship Quaker City was formally
released yesterday by the United States Mar
shall, and will probably sail Immediately.
Lyman Whitman, paper manufacturer,
committed suicide by hangin: himself, at
his home in Springfield, Mass yesterday.
Wisconsin challenges Tom Thumb for the
championship" by presenting a youth
of IS, weighing Is lbs, and but 29s inches
high.
An elephant on exhibition at Lyons. N.
Y, the other day got angry and picked up
mule, hurting it some twenty feet against
cage.
General Jordan is in command of a Cuban
army corps, in which over two thousand
Americans expect daily to encounter Lesca's
troops.
A letter from st. Mary's, Ca, to the Sa-
vannah Morning Neaos says the report of
yellow fever in that place is entirely I'M
founded.
Butler is said to have his eye on seat in
the Senate, but he is so cross eyed that the
papers can't agree whether it is Wilson's or
Summers.
Visitors from Arkansas say their State is
very quiet just now; labor on The panta-
tons very active; cotton crops behind, but
looking well.
An Ohio county clerk went to Indiana,
was divorced, and had married a young
lady who wrote in his office, before his wife
knew anything about it.
John Murray, of Portsmouth, Va, shot a.
Alex. Perry on Saturday Perry returned
the fire and killed Murray. Murray sus-
pected Perry of having seduced his daughter.
two hundred thousand Americans in Europe.
How would it do to impose a tax upon
these pleasure seeking tourists who lavish
their wealth upon foreign countries 2
The vote of Christ Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Pittsburg, on lay delegation lie
suited as follows: 1T for and 2 against.
Great interest is felt on the subject, and
full vote of all the churches is expected.
A young man named Walker, of Marion
Township, Washington county, Iowa, was
killed by lightning last Saturday. 1t passed
through his hat, making blue mark down
his right side, and came out at the top of
his boot.
1t is understood that Secretary Fish has
replied to Mr.. Ruiz, the representative of the
Cuban insurgents, that he secs no change in
affairs in Cuba to warrant any change in
the attitude of our government toward the
people
A party of French journalists went out to
fight duel with pistols the other day, when
friend kindly proposed that some explo-
sive balls of his invention should be tried
by the principals. This kind offer was
gratefully declined.
A Brussels inventor has prepared sub
stance which, when applied to tissues, wood,
cordage, scenery, &C., renders them incom-
bustible An experiment at the Theatre dc
la Monnaire proved the claims of the inven-
tor to be we'll founded.
Prominent Georgians who have recently
arrived in Washington state that the prompt
action of General Terry in making the
recent arrests in that State, has done much
! to restore order and prevent the persecution
of Union men residing there
Probably some of the National Banks
which are retained as financial agents and
Repositories of public moneys, will increase
their securities in proportion to the increase
OF Government deposits. The Troy City
National Bank has already increased its
securities $4,000.