The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-23
NEWS ITEMS.

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r The currency balance in the Treasury is
over $S2 ,OOO,O0O
Chicago has loaing population of TWEEN
| ty-fve thousand.
| Wine is cheaper than milk in the Cali
/, fornia wine region.
Ristori is in Paris, preparing to inflict her
self upon Brazil.
Whitmans T" White Fawn has wandered
to Montgomery, Ala
One divorce to ten marriages was the rate
in Connecticut last year.
The French public debt has been increased
since 1862, 1851, 100000.
| Gentlemen engaged to be married are now
politely termed husbands by brevet. "
The coorcd people of Richmond, Va, APP
| peal for leave to ride in cars and steamers.
Work has been resumed in the Gold Hill
mines, where the late disastrous fire occurred.
Eugenic's latest is white dress trimmed
with iiounces of red, pink and PEI blossom
silk.
| Two hundred thousand Scandinavians are
expected to migrate to Minnesota this and
next year. sAs,r
John Sade, a prominent citizen of Din
widdie county, Va, committed suicide
Wednesday.
In Lafayette, Ind, married men who stay
out after 10 o'clock at night are fined So
and no ratiors.
The New York Freemasons have condi-
tionally terminated all intercourse with the
Grand Orient of France.
An American tourist, named Bentlv. was
recently killed near Reggie in Southern
Italy in a fight with bandits.
The spring fashion in the wearing of hair
for young ladies is to allow the tresses to
flow down the back an naterule.
The Rev. Mr.. Richardson, of Washington,
o., IS 106 years Old walks five miles of
Sunday and breaches a sermon.
AT Mt. Pleasant, Ill.,, girl named Cheney
died on Thursday, while having tooth ex-
tracted under the influence of chloroform.
The new Masonic Temple in Baltimore is
nearly completed, at an expense OF about
100000, and will be occupied this month.
The japanese silks are not expensive, and
are becoming quite popular for suits. They
are IN chene mixtures, in stripes and in little
checks.
A Manchester England) company has ac-
quired from the Emperor OF Morocco a large
tract OF land for the purpose Of raising
cotton.
There are now more than 1000, 900
people on the Pacific slope. San Francisco,
not twenty-five years old, has 10000 in
habitants.
A schoolmistress in Porter county. Ind.
constituting punishment literally, gave tire,
mendous cathartic to refractory pupil a
few days since.
Charles Laneston, colored, has been ap-
pointed Minister to Liberia. He is brother
of John M Langston, of Ohio, who declined
the same mission.
Ice is artiicially manufactured in New
Orleans so abundantly that it is retailed to
consumers at one cent a pound, and in large
quantities much lever.
1t IS computed that no less than thirteen
flibustering expeditions have lett the Uni
ted States tor Cuba recently-seven from
Baltimore and three from Florida.
1t takes three editors to start paper in
New Orleans-one to get killed in duel.
one to die of the yellow fever, and one to
write an obituary of the defunct two.
The Nova Scotians are much dissatisfied
with their forced union with the Canadas
and are pressing for repeal of the union
and annexation to the United States.
A leopard cat was killed in Shenandoah
county, Virginia about ten DAYS ago. by
Mr.. William Snipes. residing in Powell's
Fort, which weighed nearly one hundred
pounds.
The village of MavviIle, n. Y, ten miles
from Lake Erie, is 700 feet above the level
of the lake, and at the head OF ChautauGua
Lake, the highest navigahle water on the
globe. as.Et
A lady living in Louisville KY, weighing
200 pounds, has lived the past two months
without tasting the least food The attend
ing physicians can give no aid, as she suffers
neither pain nor hunger
A. P. Loring, the captain of the Harvard
University Boat Club, has sent an accep-
lance of the challenge of the Cambridge
University Club of England, to row four
cared race this summer q
Suits made of mosembiuuc are fashion
able as well as serviceable and they are by
no means expensive. Those displayed at
our fashionable establishments generally
consist OF single skirt and casaque.
Of 1896 prisoners in the penitentia-
ries of thirty States, in 1867, according to
the report of the Prison Association, lust
issued. seventy-seven per cent. more than
three quarters, had not learned a trade.
A young man in Columbus. Ohio, named
Frederick S. Jamison, committed suicide by
taking laudanum, on the 1st because a
young lady to whom he was engaged to be
married was dying of consumption. The
lady died the same day.
A gentleman residing in Lewiston, Maine
left his three little children at home while
he attended church last Sabbath, and when
he returned he found them bilsily employed
in cleaning the inside of $500 gold watch
with soft soap and water.
One of the best things which fashion has
done t-late to help the oculists, is the intro
duction Of what are called mask veilsn-
llttle short, spotted wells, which. clinginc
close to a lady's face, disturb and ultimately
ruin the eyesight of the wearer. sot=J -
Both for bonnets and round hats. black
lace seems to be the favorite material Del,
lcate little black lace Fanchons are comnosod 4
OF two or three pufs, ornamented with