The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-26
NO. 21.
NEWS ITEMS.

poisoned sausa8e10r stray dogs.
Minister Rosecrans returns to the United
States BY way Of South America.
More horses are famed from bad 81 ingr
than from all other causes together.
Rabbi sueersoln is delivering. in Cinciu-
natl, a lecture for the benefit Of the Jews IN.
Palestine. sSs1 .ss 1eIo
One hundred bales Of cloth were forward
ed from Lowell, Mass, on Monday, direct
TO China. ~ airsar
Two brothers-in-law quarreled in Texas
last week about thirty cents, and one finally
killed the other. p s,is3 4 s .,-,sss1 sss
Tie pseGideat has.Bet yet taken any actinn II
for submitting t9 Votes sthe Constitutions Of
Mississippi and Texas. @ o.,r
4 Five hundred mechanics are constantly >
at work on the coliseum, for the National
Peace Jubilee at Boston.
Since the opening of the Pacific Railroad,
daily mails from the Pacific coast have been
received at Washington. .gs-.,ss q.' --e
Two romantic girls in London recently
sought death In company by stabbing them.
selves with their scissors.
A man named Frank Albert committed !,
suicide at Milwaukee, recently, by jumping (
from the fifth story of hotel. -
The New York Erpress says that in the !
incomes of business men of that city, 'those
who advertise make the largest returns" eF
An insurrcction has broken out in the ?
State of Queretarns. Gen. Alvarez is report 70
Ell to be at the head of the movement. Isrot
The Tobacco Association of Cincinnati, at !.
their last regular meeting, decided to hold
their third annual fair on Tuesday, August
8, 1869. -
The pig iron product of Great Britain in
1868 was 4,SO0,000 toms; the United States,
100000, Pennsylvania furnishing 925,555
of this amount. a1 n%}a, si
Charges of corruption have been preferred
against seven Judges of the Supreme Court
Of Mexico, and they have been indicted by
the Mexican Congress. - H.. 81,
The first through passenger train from
Sacramento arrived at Omaha ON the 10th
with 500 passengers. The travel West
from Omaha is very large.
A dispatch, dated Wednesday, from San
Francisco, announces the arrival in that city,
of the Springfield (Mass.) cars, which were
the first to cross the continent M
Fred. Douglass is to be appointed as
Postmaster in Western New York. In New
York and Boston no difference will bemade
on account of race in revenue nominations. "A
Negotiations have been concluded in Ber,
lin between Count Bismarck and the reprs-
sentatives OF the Duehy of xauenburg for
the incorporation of the Duchy with Prussia.
A powder explosion occurred recently at
Kahls quarries, near Allentown, Pa. A
magazine containing forty kegs OF blasting
powder was blown up and one man killed.
Cause unknown. J
John Russell young, managing editor of
the New York Tribune, has resigned, the
position having been abolished by the
stockholders. Mr.. Greeley will hereafter
have exclusive control.
Horace Greeley says that he does not adj
wise any man to take piece of land and go
to work to work to make a living by farm
ing unless there are twenty-five acres at
least in his tract. t.c t EE.sa
The San Francisco Herald attributes the
disasters at Gold Hill, Nevada. to the firing,
of the powder magazine. The assertion IL
that sixty kegs of powder were sent into
| the mine prior to the casualty.
It is stated that Admiral Hoff is dining
and wining too much with Captain General
| Dulce, and that his reports of matters con-
| nected with the Cuban revolution have in
consequence an unmistakable Spanish favor.
John c. Manning, colonel in the late
Southern army, has been sentenced to two
| years. hard labor in the penitentiary for
stealing fifty dollars and diamond ring
| from the family he was boarding with in
Brooklyn, New York. -i,'f' b
| A Herald Cuban correspondent says the
British steamer Salvador has got off safely
from Key West, bound for Sagua la Grande,
and is crowded with passengers. She elu-.
| ded the Spanish officials, who were carefully
watching her.
Reliable information received here. an,
nounces the murder some weeks ago, in JET.
ferson county, of Hon. Alexander Stone, one
| of the expelled members q, the Legisla-
ture for the same county which Dr.. Aver re-
! presented. 3. ~
A iewelIer in Rannibal, Missouri, having
lost the key to his safe, 50 that he could not
open it, the local paper advertised for Q bur>
glar to do it for hihi. .whereat an exchange
suggests that there is chance for any good
Democrat to get paying job. II.
A desperate conflict has taken place in
the streets of Teheran, between the religious
sects> Both sides were armed, and it is re-
ported that three hundred men were killed
The. troops were called out and dispersed
the oombatants.
I A revolution of some magnitude is Ieport-
ed to have broken out in Porto Rico. Sew
eral British men OF war were moving active
ly about the gulf, and the squadron wa
being increased. The copies of the New
York Heralds arriving recently in Hayanl
have been seized by the authorities.
The murder Of Christopher W. Rnrchardt
of Chicago, is still q mystery Blanchard,
: died on Thursday night. While deliri0s
'and in agony, he was heard to exelainl
"0h, why did I kill that woman9" He ana
his wife made practice of enticing mel
into their house and robbing them, anl
then throwing them into the street. %
The Adrian Mich, Times says Edward @
Denslow, on March 18th, while sleeping
} l.dreamed that he was deaf and dumb, anl
upon waking he was horriaed to find ths
he was totally unable to speak or TO heal
n He has since been wholly deaf and dunn
till May 4th, when be recovered his hearin
aud speech. W
The Russian government has discovere
! the traces of an extensive Schlayian conspl