The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-28
SCISSORINGS.
The Texas election has been postponed.
Rain has injured the Louisiana sugar crop.

have handles of green and red morocco.
Two children were suffocated in burn
ing building in Canada Wednesday night.
One church in Chicago has rented its pews
for the next year for 100000 dollars.
The Welland Canal was opened for nav
igation Wednesday. eaf
Connecticut is to have State Labor
League.
The oil fever is reviving in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania. .,.r-5.,f
Pcricliolc popim and Barrie Bleue silk are
among the spr,ng ollcss goods
Two young ladies' on an average, commit
suicide in Paris every day for love.
The Right Rev James Duggan, Roman
Catholic Bishop of Chicago, is insane. +
Illinois has 700 Masonic lodges and about
10000 members.
Jacob Barker, at the age of co. has gone
to Philadelphia to go into business.
Four hundred Bohemians are about to
settle in Minnesota.
I Fashionable ladies are like aristocratic
houses-they both have high stoops. sa,.
Philadelphia is to give monster demon
stration In favor of Cuban independence.
Cork trees are now raised in South Florida
from seed imported from Portugal. I.
There is no truth in the statement that
General Mcclellan is soon to appear as lee
turer. - =
An Indiana Episcopal minister has been
sentenced to admon;tion by his Bishop, for
going to see the "Black Crook
Talleyrand only used to sleep three hours
a day, and his pulse, which was very full, in
termitted every eighth beat
Payne, the pedestrian, at Buffalo, won the
$3.50 purse in the walking match with Wes-
ton. ..fsas 5s
A lady in Detroit has obtained a divorce
because her husband unkind language to her
and compelled her to black his boots.
During the past year, one thousand one
hundred and twenty seven persons died IN
India from the effects of snake bites.
Governor Geary has vetoed the bill passed
by the Pennsylvania Legislature abolishing
capital punishment.
Major General Fitzpatrick, Z nited States
Minister to Chill, sailed from New York on
Tueday. last,for his post of duty.
The Senate has confirmed the nom-
ination OF Dumas colored, of New Orleans
| General Consul to Liberia.
Mrs. Lincoln has been presented with a
service of plate by some of her late husbands
admirers at Maine.
mot guilty." said an Omaha jury, "but
of the prisoner be smart, he will leave the
Territory before night" He left.
The French Atlantic Cable will be lande
at Cape May, says the New York Post.
A. ]. Alexander, of Kentucky, sold to Mr.
Alexander Patterson, of New York, his trot-
tling Tattler, years old, for $17,O 900.
Mitchell, the mathematician, died at Va
sar Monday of debility, aged seventy-six
years.
The California Elevens were victorious in
the international game of cricket-the score
standing: Californians 157; Victorians, 146.
Charles Cadwallader, engineer on the Cen
trail Pacific road, has sounded the Donner
lake to the depth of 1 600 feet without find
ing bottom.
Reverdy Johnson's old friend, Mr.. Roe
buck, seems to be getting downright crazy.
He wants to fight America, the Irish, and
the workingmen all at the same time.
Tie New York Star has discovered that
Gov. Hoffman has an eye to the Presidency
in 1872, and that is the secret of his present
vetoing of Legislative corruption.
+. George Jones' the "Count Johannes" ha.
sued tile New York Third Avenue Railroad
Company for $4,000 manages for ejectmela
from car for refusal to pay his fare.
The Graniteville Is. C) factory rum
$4,000 spindles and SIT looms, on sheetings
shirtings, and drills. consuming twenty-five
bales of cotton per day.
Twelve cotton mills running 10000 spin
dies, aud using ninety bales of cotton pc
day, have their selling agencies in Augusta
Georgia.
An Albany tippler swallowed a chip from
molasses cas- k with glass of gin and mo
lasses the other day, and it killed him. Ter
rible warning against the use OF molasses
The French printers are on a strike il
Montreal for an advance from 81 to 30 cent
per 1000 ems. Several papers have con
ceded the advance, but Others refuse.
"Why do women spend so much time ant
money in dress9" asked a gentleman Of
belle. ITO worry other women" was thu
diabolical but truthful reply.
West Tennessee is rejoicing at the tide @
immigration now setting in. One tow
recently received an addition to its popula
ton OF 200 persons from Pennsylvania.
Baron Rothschlld's fortune was scattere
Y over the world, and the amount of it has jus
been ascertained. 1t reaches the figures q
one thousand seven hundred million franc:
or three hundred and forty millions dollars
An Omaha dispatch says the track of tn
Central Pacific railroad has reached Monu
ment Point. The Union Pacific Company
laying from two to three miles OF tric
per day.
Accounts have been received in LondoI
going to show the safety OF Dr. Livingstone
the indomitable and undauntabe Africa
/. explorer. 1t is stated that he left Zanziba
on the east coast of Africa. for England, in
tending to go via Egypt overland.
General Candy has issued an order requi
ing all persons holding office in Virgins
and who were elected to the same, and VIII
have not taken the test-oath to take 1t now
This will vacate number of offices.
A young woman in Louisiana eommitte
suicide with pistol the other day, whic
she fred off with lighted match. Wit
true orderly feminine instinct, she placed th
nistol In her work basket before she expired