The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-28
NEWS ITEMS.

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q. Hartford Prolific grapes are ripe in Flor
ida. ,cel 1--we 81
Public school teachers at Richmond, Va,
receive from $40 to $50 per month, :.
aal The raising of the Cashmere goat is re-
ceiving great attention in California.
The Norfolk Journal says tho health of
81. Nine companies in Minnesota are con-
structing an aggregate of 81 miles of rail
road. 40 iissral aalif ssn
A duty of 45 per cent, in gold, is charged
on all fancy goods bought in Canada and
brought over.
A New Haven thief stole the pantaloons
of snnlnolent fellow ON the Park, the
other evening.
The international boat race between Ok
ford and Hartford is to take place on the
31st of August.
The Revolution claims Chief Justice Chase
and Attorney General Hoar as advocates of
wonlans suffrage
Father tlcAiahon, imprisoned at King
ston, Ontario, as a Fenian, was liberated
yesterday morning.
The English and American authorities
are looking for the boundaries of the British
Possessions in America. Us ada
Ayoung man of Memphis wants the 500
offered fer information of the Whereabouts
af the girl he eloped with.
Tl>o D;ol,,,oa5 a.. -, ~, II LII, g
business there is dull except the manufac-
tuFe of and trade in tobacco. +
An artesian well at AIanitowoc, Wiscon.
sin, has reached a depth of 1853 feet, 60 of
which are through solid rock.
An English gentleman lately settled at
Warrenton. Va, has imported five English
fox hounds and two fox terriers.
There is talk of enforcing the English
laws against betting as the only way to save
the Peerage from financial extinction. d
Next year occurs the centennial anniver-
sary of the birth of Beethoven. Boston
may want the Coliseum for the occasion. :.
Henry J. Raymond died worth $4,000;
little over $25OOOO of which was in real
estate and the balance in personal property
The United States Treasury Department
has issued $4,000 in the new ten cent and
$500 in the new fifteen cent fractional cur
rency.
The Spanish authorities. styling them
selves a Government, are taking measures to
expel the Cariist from the province of Ma.
varre. Is
The French Cable Company have applied
to the Collector of Customs of the Plymouth
District for permission to land the shore end
free of duty.
The Albany Court of County Sessions has
entered a nollc p,osequi in the case of lis
persons indicted for various crimes who can
not be found. 4t' $685. h Fl
General Lersundi. formerly Captain-Gen
eral of Cuba, has received overtures from
the partisans of Queen Isabella, but refuses
to espouse their cause. 35sGa = 5st
The Peabody schools in Greenville, S c.
will be opened on the 10th OF August. Six
or seven teachers are to he elected, with SAL
aries ranging from $500 to 81 200. '7
An Enslshman swallowed one hundred
thousand dollars worth of diamonds in,
Palermo. An cmetic concealed in glass
of beer surprised him into rendering them
up. - - 5E'la @ sf u
A Memphis dispatch announces that
ball is to be held in that city for the pur
pose of raising funds to secure the reprieve
of two persons now under sentence of death
for murder. Il ,..-,..,-.... .,.sl..
The Secretary of the Treasury is perfect
ing plan by which national banks can, at
stated times during the year, exchange the
securities on deposit for any other Govern
nlent securities. u-A .gaaa - Gs
Lieut. Commander H. B. Seley. of the
United States steamer Pawnee, has been
arrested at Portsmouth, N. H., on two war
rants, charging him unwarranted cruelty to
several scamcn ON that vessel.
Some of the Virginia papers say that Gov
ernor Walker has invited Il number of lead
ing men of the State, among them General
Robert Z. Lee, to meet him at White Sui
phur Springs some time next month to COR
suit on the political questions. ~I -
The Norfolk Journal SAYS the American
Fibre Company are about to establish works
about five miles from that city for the
manufacture of paper out of swamp reeds,
They may also manufacture mats, and if
they do they will employ about 1000 hands.
It is believed that at the next session of
Congress, legislation will be had in various
ways upon the coolie question, and that one
feature of it will be to enact a law render
ing all contracts with foreigners made in
foreign countries for labor, null and void on
the arrival Of the laborers in this country.
A Nashville, Tenn. negro, supposed to be
dead, having received a sun-strokc and fall
on apn,rantlv lifeIess q few flave aUo was