The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-12
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Lexington, KY, has the smallpox.
The golden hair mania is vanishing.

Ahe Soluen mar mama Is vanishing.
Washington is to have hotel for colored
people.
The Cashmere goat is being extensively
introduced in Utah.
A debate on the constitutional consul
tation with physician.
Geo. F. Train calls his ancestor, Mr..
Adam, who lived in Eden, "a sneak !"
The majority of the delegates in the Span
ish Cortes are in favor of a new ministry.
In one county of Kentucky are 5000 hogs
heads OF tobacco not yet offered for sale.
Brignoli has netted $4,000 in his tour of
less than month through the South
Mississippi expects to realize forty mil
lion dollars from her cotton crop this year.
Offenbach has politely declined giving
music lessons to the French Prince Imperial.
Georgia claims that her Northern counties
grow cheaper and better tobacco than Vir-
ginia.
A huge electric coil has been made in
London, which will send spark through
five inches of glass;
The French Government has ordered
one hundred thousand Remington rifles from
the United States.
The Charleston Courier thinks that tie
cotton crop of the South, this year, will not
exceed 100000 bales
Jerome Leland opened his Columbian
Hotel in Saratoga. The other hotel will be
open on OF before June 1.
A fellow in Detroit hanged himself to the
bed-post from dependency at being left an
orphan at the tender age of %.
Algeria being mcnaced by locusts, the
government has offered 500 for every two
hundred pounds of their eggs.
The Princess Louisa, of England, express
sympathy with the movement Tor admitting
women into the medical profession.
Tie New York Times has been sued for
libel by Messrs. Fisk, Gould 6 Lane. The
plaintiffs lay their damages at the modest
sum of 81 100000.
The government CT China proposes to en-
courage the cultivation of opium in the
empire. The hatred to foreigners is increas-
ing.
A letter from Rome to the London Times
says there is general feeling that the Ecu
menical Council will break down, owing to
political reasons.
Astronomers estimate that the most re-
mote fixed star is coming towards the earth
at the rate of twenty eight miles a second.
Clear the track.
hn Ariz fob cho6
in Claiborne parish, Louisiana, since the
war, is now paying a net profit of twenty
four per cent. per annum.
The emigration from Canada to the United
States is increasing The roads of Vermont
are full of wagons and carts heaped with
the household goods 81 the emigrants.
Scientific men say that the time of the
diurnal revolution of the cartl, is gradually
being shortened on account of the shrinkage
of the earth by cooling in the interior.
Mrs. Slower. ex-President Johnson's
daughter, was married April goth, at Green
vile, Tennessee, to Mr. William Brown, a
prosperous merchant OF that city.
Municipal elections were held on Monday
at Stockton, California, and Virginia Gold
cans were successful.
In Chicago ON Tuesday two grab thieves
stole So 900 worth of diamonds from jew
elry store, and succeeded in getting away
with their plumber.
The New York Times thinks the way
earth the Alaska Indians rather beats any
thing in our previous history"
Scientific men say that the time of the
liurnal revolution of the earth is gradually
being shortened, on account of the shrink
age of the earth by cooling in the interior.
Under the title of Another Sign of Peace"
the Opinion Rationale, of Paris, mentions
that the French Minister of War is expert
menting ON the Rhine with system of gun
boats.
1t is learned that the Spanish authorities
have acceded to every request made by our
Government where the rights of persons
or property of American citizens are in
volved.
The Chinese believe in thorough educa-
ton. A graduate at the Imperial College
in Pekin recently received his diploma at
the age of AZ, after having attended COM
petitive examinations for twenty-six years.
Henry M. Turner, one of the colored mem
bers who was driven out of the Georgia
Legislature, has gone North, and intends to
speak in New jersey and other States, to
urge the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
ment.
Near Maunalua, Island of Hawaii, there
are two lakes, side by SIDE one of fresh wa
ter and the other salt Both are far above
the level of the sea, and it is believed there
is no connection between the salt lake and
the ocean.
The ordinary mode of churning butter in
Chill is to put the milk in skin-usually
in dogs skin-tie it ON donkey, mount
boy on him, with rowels to his spurs about
the length of the animals ears, and then
run him four mile heats.
Since the fourth of last March there have
been quite number of colored men appoint
ed to office, and yet the world wags right
on, without seeming to be one inch nearer
the crack of doom than before this unspeak-
able outrage was perpetrated.
Thos. Drew was up before the Massachu-
sets court again on habeas corpus. The
Court decides that the Legislature had
right to summon the prisoner to testify and
to punish him for refusal, and Drew was
therefore remanded to the custody of the
sheriff
A trot for $4,000, mile heats, took place
yesterday afternoon over Fashion Course,
Long Island, between Lady Thorn and
American Girl. The track was heavy and
the wind high. Lady Thorn won the first
second, and fourth heats, the third being
dead heat. Time -9.96, 2.29a, 2.3O4, 2.SO4.