The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-12-29

The demand for colored labor in the far
South increases. Gentlemen are now in va.
rious parts of Virginia hiring hands for
their plantations in Mississippi and Louis
lana, and there are also agents there for
whole communities of planters in the Gulf
States. The inducements held out for the
emigration of the colored people TO the
cotton and sugar States are very great
high wages, ground for gardens, &C., &c,
Mr.. Trumbull's Civil Service bill was Re.
ported in the Senate yesterday from the j.
dietary Committee, amended so as to eriib.
it recommendations to Office by memLes Of
Congress, and the clause allowing such re-
commentators in response to written re.
quests from heads of departments is stTick,
en- out. 0
Up to Z o'clock on Sunday evening three
bodies, Mrs. Swank, her eldest daughter
and youngest child were found in the mine
at Stockton, near Hazleton. The youngest
child was in the older ones arms, with
sheet wrapped around it. They were all
badly crushed.
In Hungary land owner was lately at
tackled by one of his servants, in u forest
and killed. His right arm was then cut off,
and piece of paper, with the following
words, placed beside it: Here hast thou
the hand with which thou hast whipped
me-" The murderer was arrested.
Early i'll the week. in Lee and Marion
counties, Va, on the border of Tennessee,
Assistant Assessor Smith and a United
States cavalryman named John Boyle were
shot and badly wounded by bushwhackers,
while searching for illicit whisky stills IN
the mountains.
II so you are going to keep school" sad
a young lady to her old aunt. swell, frr
my part, sooner than do that, would marry
widowcr with nine children"
Il should prefer that myself" was The re-
ply; but where is the widower9 ?"
The election for members of the Tcnne+
sec Constitutional Convention took place %
Saturday. The utmost indifference way
manifested in Nashville, and all over tni
State there was very little interest taken 10
the result
> A petition is being circulated in Laiay'
cite, Indiana, asking Congress to refuse all
ssission b. the Union to any State notSToZy !
represented, whose constitution pci limits the
traffic in liquors for oth"r than medicinal
purposes.
Senator Schurz of Missouri has drawn up
q bill and prepared speech in support Of
the civil service, which he intends to urge
on the Prussian bureaucratic plan. He will
press the matter on the Senate IS soon as be
can get the floor.
sharp old gentleman travelling out West
a.; seat beside his xifo in a car by reques.
,s we Young man who sat beside her to
please watch that woman while he went into
another car. as she had fits.
Ok months ago, the town of Calvert.
eAas' existed mostly on paper containing
'pout fifty houses and three hundred sonls
how there are over one thousand bu;Id;no,
md over six thousand inhabitants.
A man named Taylor. clerk in tho Ran.
loft House in Maysville, Ohio was sbot
nd killed by u stranger in Quarrel sbont
ards in a gambling house in that nIace Iast
light. "''
Pat Doolan, at the battle of ch.nolI,rs.
lille, bowcd low at cannon hall "'h;cb
hizzed just six inches above h;s I hnad
FAITH" said Pat zone never losses . nvtbing
Y being polite"