The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Malaga turned out 100000 boxes of
raisins last year.
The pork crop in the West will be small.
Save your bacon.
John Sherman is on the stump for the
Republicans of Ohio.
Never tell your secrets in corn-feld, for
it has thousand ears.
A hard nut for the Englishmen to break
the Harvard shell bark.
No Chicagoan dare hit street boy there
for fear of hurting his own son.
Madame Anna Bishop has got to Chicago
in her voyage around the world.
AScuppernong vine in Florida yielded 80
bushes of grapes, which sold for $192.
Fifteen thousand freedmen have been rem
dered destitute by the recent floods in
Texas.
The Schuykill is nearly dry, and Phila-
delphians have to drink whiskey to econo-
mize their water.
Caleb Cushing lives in Washington city,
will be seventy next January.
Grants courage was newly tested. He
rode bravely over the New York and Erie
Railroad without being killed.
Sam Cary, the great temperance lecturer,
has joined the Democratic party, and is now
committed to unlimited free drinks.
Another musical prodigy boy in Penn
sylvania of six who does not know the al
phabet but plays the violin by note.
The drouth is serious through most of
| Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West
Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
The Methodists report revivals in Sweden,
which have within the past nine months in
creased their members from 424 to 929.
| A Fenian picnic at Chicago, Monday, was
| largely attended. American liberty aud
Irish independence were the watchwords
of the speakers.
A correspondent (unmarried suggests
that Solomon's wisdom was due to the fact
that he had seven hundred wives, whom he
consulted nall occasions.
An old fellow in Berlin willed million
thalers to his cook, half million to several
institutions, and fifty thousand thalers to be
divided between two nephews.
| August 18th there was in circulation
$685., 1882, 151.12 of United States paper cur
rency; and 99,761 1881 of national bank
circulation; total $6s9,bss, 4Sa.12.
| A letter from Western Georgia says the
reports of the caterpillar on cotton is ua
true. The Dickson cotton is the most pro
life. The Neeler looks well and brings the
best price.
The London Spectator, commenting on thu
abuses of the diplomatic service says: "Tht
contingent expenses of an embassy are as bat
as plumbers bill, which nobody can I'M
derstand or tolerate or help paying"
An active interest is being manifested il
different portions of Maryland in regard tt
the education of its colored population
Meetings have been held in several places
and others are contemplated on the subject
The Japanese colonists in Ell Dorad'
county, California, are fourishing famously
Herr Schnel, the leader of the colony, pur
poses returning to Japan soon to bring gu
more emigrants and fresh stock of mul
berry plants. a....
A correspondent of the New York Su
speaks ''of white-kid gentry who have no
the courage to face musquito.n There ar
good many people not of that effeminat
class, and not deficient in pluck, alert to ru
| away from the insect named.
The United States Government has enter
ed suit on tobacco transportation bond
against forty-two persons residing in and i
the neighborhood of the town of Danville,
being alleged that they have violated tn
conditions stipulated in said bonds.
1t is stated that there will not be any ma
terial reduction of the public debt thi
month on account of the heavy drafts mad
on the Treasury by the Interior Departmer
to pay pensions. One warrant for this pu
pose amounted to $10,000,000.
The Tallehassee Fla) Sentinel says tina
the Governor of the State is opposed to IL
session of the western part of Florida
Alabama, and that there is not the slighte
prospect of more than q "corporars guarl
of the people voting in its favor.
Gov. Mitchell, of New Mexico, he's issue
proclamation declaring all the Naval,
! and ella Apache Indians outlaws whenev
found outside the limits of their reserv
|, | tions, and authorizing the citizens of Il
Territoryto kill every such depredator.
The Macon Telegraph thinks cotton
, sandy soils in Georgia is struck heavily vii
rust, and will be cut short. On clay soils
has not suffered, and will make hea,
yield. AS whole the crop in Georgia st
. threatens to do far better than last year
Story, the great artist, whose statue
!, George Peabody was lately unveiled at Lo
don by the Prince of Wales and eulogizt
by Motley, is fine poet and musician. T
is the son Of the great Justice Story, and Il
! brother-in-law Of DR.. John B. Mcclellan,
a Philadelphia. They married sisters.
Experiments recently made at Chenoa,
e linois, is drying corn by hot air, and ther
i by getting it to an early market and obtai
ing the first prices of the season, are, it
, said, repaid by a perfect success. Two DR.
: ing houses have been in operation, and a
other will be added. IN .,56