The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-21
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Maggie Mitchell has tenderly recognized
the touchstone of her fame and success. by
naming her first child Fanchon.
Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts.
is engaged ON history of the anti slavery
movement.
Georgia papers properly rebukc planters
for devotln9 SO much land to cotton that
the Slate has to import breadstuffs.
An English velocipctlist travelled one hun
dred miles In twenty two hours, seven of
which were spent in rest and refreshments.
A Masonic lodge room in New York was
entered last week and robbed of property
worth $4,000.
A verdict of three thousand dollars has
heen obtained IN Cincinnati, against a tele-
graph company, for its rejection of mes
sage desired to be sent for trading purposes.
in competition with the company ITSELF
1t is believed in the hest informed circles
that the Peace Conference between SPAN
and the South American republics will yet
be held in Washington, though nothing can
be done until the arrival of the CHILEAN Min
lister.
A law of Ohio enacts that each railroad
in the State shall heat its cars by heating
apparatus so constructed that the fire will
he Immediately extinguished whenever the
cars ovcrturn. The same law provides that
cars shall be lighted by candles only.
A white-piner writes that they have con-
siderable difficulty out there in burying
man; for whenever they undertake to dig
hole for the grave, il is instantly claimed us
mine, for valuable looking ore is invaria-
bly, thrown out.
The Nuremberg government persists in
demoishing the forts facing French terrific
ry, and leaving those on the German side
untouched. Semi official remonstrance ON
the part of the French Cabinet has been
passed over unnoticed
The total number of Poles who are now
in exile or in the mines, in consequence of
the last instruction, is 10000, among
whom are bishops, 8 prrlates, and 21S
priests; 81 clergymen have either persisted
in the field or been executed by order of u
court martial; and that about 200 more
have been sentenced to imprisonment for
various periods.
A new alloy, forming beautiful white
metal, very hard AMI capable of taking a
brilliant polish. is obtained by melting to-
sether about seventy parts OF copper, TWEEN.
ty of nickel, five and Il halt of zinc and four
and q half of cadmium. Tins alloy has
been recently made in Paris Tor the manu-
tacture Of spoons and forks which resemble
articles of silver.
The national flag was unflrled at the
hotel at White Sulphur Springs, Va, on the
Fourth of July, for the first time since it
was taken down in 1861. Of the four or
five hundred guests at the house, much the
greater number were from the South, and,
with the exception of few representatives
of Baltimore blood, they accepted the situa-
ton with good grace.
Ammonia power, a new material for
blasting purposes, has been successfully en-
ployed in Sweden. Its properties are quite
remarkable from their inconsistency with
each other. 1t is said that it combines con.
siderable explosive force with tardy in
fammability; that it cannot be exploded
by percussion and that it does not deteri-
crate from the effects of climate.
Confederate bondhOlders in London have
held a meeting and denounced Summers
speech. 1t was stated that negotiations
favorable to the bondholders were soon to
he reopened between the United States and
England. Resolutions were introduced, but
not acted upon because it was deemed adj
visable to keep dark and see if Minister
Motley could not be fooled as Johnson was
A Catholic priest at Mackinaw, Mich,
declares that a marriage by Justice of the
Peace is no marriage all that the parties
so married are guilty of adultery, and that
lie will not allow them to come inside of
his church. lie said to his congregation ::
Il will put them out with the dogs where
they belong" And again: "a marriage
| outside of the Church of Rome is spurious,
any such parties are living in open adult
tery.n
Major Williamson, in a report to the
Commissary of Benar, in India, solemny
AYERS that it is the custom of families in
those parts, wenever husband and father
has been eaten by tiger (Which is rather
the rule than the exception), to change their
! family name. The object OF this is to pre-
vent the tiger from exterminating the house
hold. either through appetite, if the father
| father gave him the dyspepsia.
A German named Carl Schell married a
young girl, just from the Faderland, at
| Omaha some three weeks ago in a peculiar
manner. He purchased pair of ear hobs,
| put them in her ears, and informed the
young lady that this little ceremony con-
stitutes a marriage in America" After a
week had passed, he took them out, and in
! formed her of another piece of news, viz:
"This little ceremony constitutes divorce
| in America. He is now in Jail for stealing
| trunk.
Carolina Evans, a white woman who has
been living in the family of James NJ. Den
| man, in Bartew county, Georgia, went into
the room where he was sleeping with his
wife and child, last Friday morning, kin
died fire, and, taking an axe, reached over
his wife and child and struch him across
the forehead, cutting out one eye. He rose
| up in bed, and, and asked her why she had
| cut him. She said she would tell at the
proper time He died Saturday morning.
| She has been arrested, but refuses to give
her reason Tor killing him.
] The confession of John W. Moore, the muir,
! dercr of Mrs McAdams, near Greenville-
| Bond county, is published. He says he en-
! ticed the lady into the house from thcporch,
! where she was washing, and attempted to
[ violate her, but she struggled so hard that
| he released her. He then endeavored to-
| persuade and bride her not to reveal his act-
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