The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-07
NEWS ITEMS.

s., There is a. girl residing in Mason City. IL
lnois, seven years old, who weighs l4o
The rice crops in the Southern States
will exceed that of any season SINCE Inc
year 1850. ~ 81.
i The Louisville Times, requests Juial
Early to ''shut up" if he really wishes to
benefit the Snuth.
A consignment of three tons of solid sill
yer bricks has been received in Chicago from
Colorado. fI i"jis1 iti" ~.
In the Austrian province of Carinthia last
year np,rehan forty five per cent. OF the
births were illegitimate. ,1i ,a.,,. ..,fl. q
a. A reward of $4,000 is offered in st. Lonis
for the arrest of the notorious guerrilla Sam
uel Hildrbrand.
Bismarck says that he always intrusts dit
ficult commissions to men with spirited and
ambitious wives.
Joe Wormald. champion of England,
challenges any man in America tn fight IN
Canada for $4,000 tls5 ,HJ JGl asu
The Maine State Temperance Convention
has nominated N. G. Hicklom, of Stockton,
Tor Governor of the State. .. ~ 5a sefl
aj A mad dog was shot in Memphis on Fri
day afternoon last, after having blttcn two
children, one of whom was colored. "
man in Madison county, Ohio, on get
ting his sheep for shearing, few days ago,
found that seven hundred were missing. ts
A mormon elder was recently made very
much of parent. He was presented with
nine boys and FIVE girls the same morning.
Chicago parties have made contracts for
the regular delivery in that city of fresh
grapes from California by the Pacific Rail-
road. ,.,-- .... i.s.....4..J.ss a..iH-t ....i p.
The Gar has grandson who has been
named Alexander He was born June 9th,
ami is the first son of the CZarowitZ and the
Princess Dagmar.
One Cincinnati brewer pays $50, 900 a
yeal Tor the ice used in his business. This
speaks badly for the temperance people of
Porkopoiitans. .ra-- aa4e it F.
Chief Justice Chase has gone to spend the
heated term at the White Sulphur Springs
of Virginia which is Il prominent resort for
iC"Si p'iitiSi"i' + .
A storm in Iowa carried four thousand
feet of lumber distance of three miles,
tearing the boards to bits as they flew
through the air. ,
A Russian paper relates that foal be-
longing la troop of hnrses brought from
Asia, travelled tifiy-liye English miles on
the day its birth.
| Colonel John Hay, formerly private Sec
rotary TO President Lincoln, has been APP
pointed Secretary of Legation ut Madrid, i'll
place or Horatio j. Perry. .a, ~
Iowa can boast of having larger school
fund than any other State in the Union
having the magnificent sum of S3,00000C
set aside for that purpose.
Judge Giles, of Baltimore has signed q
decree of condemnation and forfeiture
against the steamship Cuba ior Smuggling
cigars The owners have appealed.
| A new circus trick just introduced in
Paris is for man to leap from height o.
eighty feet and bound back again to til
original spot. The performer is fastened tie
! an elastic cord. ...,.,-
hlCu titpbSltS VI tIipOli, I'LL uItlCit uuCi
used in polishing, have been discovered neal
Fair Haven, in Anne Arundel county, Mary
land. Specimens of soapstone have alst
been found. ~ -
| A youngster in Quebec tried to crawl dowr
! the chimney and surprise the family by
| emerging from the fireplace, but got wedget
| in at the bend of the fiue, and had to be dug
! out with picks. tsa i"qn sor.s .a'f
/ De Rodas, the new Captain General o
| Cuba, made II speech at a dinner given il
| his honor. He says that he counts on the
aid of fifty Thousand volunteers in suppress
ing the rebellion. ... r.. .......g
| Monday, Julia Gibbs and Ella Woodson
both colored, Jealousy being the cause
| fought duel in Richmond, Va, with clubs
seconds being present. Ella was SO badly
| injured that she died on the field 'l.H h
Princess Kazlowsky, of Moscow, who's,
| father lost all his fortune, declined the ait
other friends. and now keeps cigar store
by which she earns enough to support hersel
and father.
The Detroit Aduertiser says John C. Brock
inridge has cause to . thank God Tor tn,
old flag" because under no other flag il
i the world would he go into a villainous re
belion for four years, and come out of i
unhung. aIa Il gaiai $50 .5saoi ..-in
| "A chap, who replied to an advertisement
offering an article of great use to those con
templating marriage, price 80 cents o
four tor ST." received for his three dimes, !,
pOcket-handkerchief of the coarsest matcria
| worth about six cents
| 1t is said that the bodies of the soldier
killed in the memorable Fort Kearney mas
sacre have been found to be pctrificd TIL,
victims of that affair numbered eighty one
and were buried in boxes each box contain
ing eight bodies. ~, ,f5j,, ,-.s..;.l,.. ,,j.
/ A, California paper says of Cinnamon a
railroad builders, that his labor is cheap
his temper is good, his disposition is docile
his industry is unfagging, his strength ant
endurance are wonderful, and Ills mechani
cal skill is remarkable laa,iss o. q.,g..., 4,
The Senate of the Feuian Brotherhood i
in session in Pittshurg. 1t is understood
that they are preparing programme of &C
tion on the Alabama claims, as far us the,
affect the Irish question. General O'Nei,l j
expected soon 10 arrive. q iE ra. ,iV
/ At bull.fght in Nismcs, Spain. few
weeks ago, the picadors appeared mounte,
on velocipedes instead of horses, and dis
played such skill in the management of thei