The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-18
NEWS ITEMS.
Michigan peaches look finely.

Five thousand acres of fax in Minnesota.
No institution in New York has telcs-
cope.
The Ku Klux are active in Kentucky
again.
The Indians continue to raid on the Texas
frontier
Trade between Richmond and Brazil is
reviving.
Lesseps threatens to flood Sahara and make
new sea.
The Richmond police are to be put under
military drill
A Central rail road depot is building at
Petersburg, Va.
Snow fell within fifteen miles of Montreal
G. E., on Friday.
Never such crops as are being harvestedin
Northern Kansas.
Commissioner Delano has decided that
shingles are not taxable.
Prince Arthur will leave for America in
the city Of Paris, August IA.
The sugar crop in Southwestern Georgia
is reported the best since the war,
The Harvard crew are represented as i'm
proving vastly in their speed.
Patterson, N. j., is building locomotives
for the Central Pacific Railroad.
California pears are twenty cents each in
Chicago-about five cents a bite.
In Nashville there were SO deaths last
month-49 white and "a colored.
A new and uniform marriage law is con-
templated by the House of Commons.
A Woman's Suffrage Convention is to
meet at Chicago on the 10th of September
next.
Bull Mountain, in New Hampshire, is
volcanic, and threatens Vesuvian disturb
ance.
Gov Clayton expects Arkansas will net
thirty millions OF dollars from the cotton
crop.
In Colorado they use the buffalo as do
mestic pet, for working in the yoke, and for
food.
A beggar, driving span of horses, last
week, solicited aims from the Evansville
Courier.
The fare from Chicago to San Francisco
has been still further reduced to $13O in
currency.
The grand jury of Owen county KY, has
presented true bill of witchcraft against an
aged woman.
The Emperor of China is to be married
this year. He is IA years old and has been
engaged good while.
There are eighteen colored men elected to
the Virginia Legislature-fo in the Senate
| and fourteen in the House.
The annual exercises of the Prussian army
will take place during the month of Sep
TENDER next at KonigsJerg.
A fire in the beautiful village of Yonkers,
N. Y, Monday, destroyed 100000 of prop
erty. Insured for S51 900.
A basking shark, forty feet in length,
narrowly escaped capture in the Narrows of
Lubec, Me- few days ago.
man in Pennsylvania, died by proxy re-
Gently, and attempted to have $4,000 life
insurance for his own benefit.
Admiral Poor, recently sent to Cuban
waters, has been A years in the navy, and
% years and months of it at sea.
Sam Hilderbrand, the Missouri outlaw,
had fight with the sheriff of st. Francois
county few days ago and escaped.
1t is stated on the authority of Secretary
of the Navy Robson. that San Domingo
will soon be coded to the United States.
During the period between 1915 and 1868,
fifty-fo years, six and half millions of
people lett Great Britain to seek homes in
other climes.
Walter Brown champion oarsman of
America, left New York Saturday by the
Inman steamer for Liverpool, to row match
for the championship of England.
A woman in Sioux City, Iowa, presented
her husband with an heir weighing four
teen pounds six ounces in the morning, and
did big washing in the afternoon.
One of the reigning Partisan bellies is about
to be married to Chinese, one of the at
taches to Mr.. Burlingame's mission. The
parents of the fair one are in despair.
The Osceola, Iowa, Sentinel tells of an OK
being killed for beef which had darning-
needle imbeded in the lower part of the
heart, reaching from one side to the other.
Twenty-three of the American war vessels
whose beautiful Indian names were changed
to old classic titles, by Secretary Borie, have
been given expressive American names again
by Secretary Robson.
The Emperor Alexander has removed the
restrictions against emigration from the
Russian Empire. Many inhabitants of Po-
land and the other western provinces are
preparing to come to America.
The gold receipts for duties during the
last two months at the Savannah Custom
House, were sixty thousand dollars, exceed
ing those of the corresponding months Of
any year since Savannah became city.
Last Sunday morning the steamer Ger.
mania, between Hamburg and New York
went ashore in Trepassey Bay, Newfound
land, and was totally wrecked. The passen
gers, crew and mails were saved. She was
built in 1868, of iron, and was No. yes
sci,
The five mile sculling race which was tc
have come off on the upper Monongahela
at Pittsburgh, Pa, between Hamill anc
Coulter, for purse of 81 900, ended in botl
parties claiming ''foul," they having collidet
within hundred yards of the start Ham
ill ceased rowing, while Coulter rowed Owe
the course. The referee decided the ract
and all bets off The race will probably b.
rowed again.
A dreaming negro girl in Louisville, KY.