The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-26
NEWS ITEMS. {

Contagious ophthaimia is prevalent in
Berlin sfaaliea all l55l9siish fpsfaa' sJ9if
Dunkirk proposes a ship canal across the
State Of New York. .4g0N \ s. swp4 ~
Bridgeport, Connecticut, employs sixty
five school teachers. % il'lisaf ii'tea saFf'
- The Texas grape crop promises to he the
largest for many years. yi9 - 1881
The colored Methodist Conference con-
demns the use of the nicotian weed. =
New London has ghost that takes itself
to pieces and goes through stone wall,
AT the accident at Annapolis Junction,
Grant was ionnd placidIy smoking on The
platform: l. b sief p. g'iias5i.i ~ sos
A clnore has cleared from New York
Tor Bahamas, NH gunpowter and rifles for
the Cubans. ,'.fts,,.,. M l.f ,rr
81 Three towns in Grand Traverse county.
Michigan, made this ycai ss,770 tarrels of
maple sugar. fH f4 Hi-E5fA9qa'tl
Belgian chemists manufacture u cham
payne which sells at n, franc bottle, and
yields handsome profit. ,.....,,. ,,s,f...r,
% Cen. j. Famikon proinises That il cleo
ted Gnverllnr OF Texas he will never pardon
fairly convicted prisoner. 9ao'Ji1q 3a 70
Secretary Fish is confined to his house by
illness. He has been unable to, visit the
State Department Tor twodays,, q o',.@f
II In Wilinms ,urg, LII, there is man 1877
years old He is weaver -l,y trade. and
though too feeble to work, is still lively. i
On the first Of June snow WAS still visi-
BILE in r.vinc at Bolton, Canada, where it
driited last winter ion depth Of forty feet.
ma little girl died recent " AZ Freeport Ill.,.
from 4 neesie entering under her knee Just
below the cap, aid breaking off :" TINT it
Was impossible to extrarl il. qgl 7d1 siliFg
Some unfortunate wrriches IN Memphis
stole q bagful of sermons in mistake for
satchel of greenlacks. Thy wrn. all ar
rested in state OF deadly letharsv.
The Russian church N Sitka. Alask;,, was
recently robbed of "A cory ni.tI,c lr. rlch-
ly studded with valuab. ssones, Grasses. and
other ornaments, and wori SEQ. 600
The value Of taxable property n New
York is one thousand million al dollars. In
Brooklyn it is only little over one hundred
and fifty millions. which is only li,,ll per
cent. of New York.
1t is a somewhat curious nlph,D Teal
coincidence that the names of the thr INST
Ministers to Russia should all begin a
C, like the title Car itself Cameron, Z.
Curtin. s..rr ia tq-rf
The Vermont Republican invention
Rutland. Wednesday, nhmina I'd Gener
Peter T. Washburn for Govern r., Gcor-
\Whende for Lieutenant Governor, and join,
A. Page Tor State Treasurer. a.f".p-agi
Sir Henry Rawlinson, the distinguish
archeologist, maintains that Babylon is the
site of the Garden Of Eden. and that thu
Babylonian documents now cxtant give an
exact geographical description of the scene
of " mans first disobedience.n
Nesmith, the Cincinnati street railway
man, attempted to cowhide Mr.. Richard
Smith. of the Gazette. on Monday, but Was
sOundly thrashed. and gladly retired from
the contest. THIS cowhiding of editors is
sometimes easier talked of than done.
Mr.. Thornton, according to Washington
rumors, is soon to be suppressed as British
Minister there hy a ''diplnmatist of high
rank" The new envoy. it is said. is to 'as-
certain Senatorial sentiments through liberal
hospitality" that is, 8 RcveIdy Johnsanize !"
them.
Jennie June sums up an article on the
woman question in these words: The
modern wife, who demands everything hut
gives nothing in return, is libel upon wo-
I'll,
liberation or contempt" ID ,a a31;aia
1t is announced that in five years the COM
munication by rail between Paris and Con-
stantinople will be Completed The time
occupied between the two cities will be six
ty nine hours 1t is estimated that the force
employed upon the road will amount to
more than 100000 men, ~
1t lis claimed by Florentine professor
that somn;umbulism may be cured 10y simply
winding copper wire, slender and flexible,
around the leg of the patient, leaving AN end
long enough to touch the ground. The
theory is that the wire conducts away the
| electricity of the body. ~, .,s, l,,s
At fashionable wedding IN st. Louis last
week, the officiating clergyman, the Rev.
Father F. M. Keilty, in his address tn the
groom, said: Ynu are the man. and the
man must he the ruler An idea looking
to woman as being the ruler is a perver-
sion of Scripture. 70 aat .Ht8 N.4
This is the way they do up things in Blu
charest: A brigand OF Hurtulean strength
was about to be hanged for murder. He
burst the straps which bound him like
flax, seized the .cxecutinner, and hung him
before assistance could arrive. He was
tbereupon appointed to hls victims office.
Mr.. John Bramlette was thrown from a
mule, in a field near Okolona. Mississippi,
Saturday. HIS leg was entangled in trace
chain, and the mule started at rapid speed,
dragging him distance of about half a
mile. tearing nut his tongue and two ribs.
He died the next day. il Ed
A Peruvian newspaper speaks"f an extra
ordinary phenomenon discovered in the road
| of Locumba, which appears 10 have been
caused by the late earthquakes. Every
beast that reaches certain spot Immediate
| ly falls dead. This has so often taken place
| that immense numbers of carcases arehcaped
on the spot. l2 laA !.-!a p p
Persigny and Maupas are the richest of the
leading Bonarariists. Rochefort says that
"Persigny entered into the coup d'etat con-
spiracy because he was at that time so poor
that he was unable to pay his tailnr's bill, .
| and as he was now so wealthy. he would, to
save his property, be one of the first to de-
sert the cause of Napoleon, in case the i'm.
perial cause should he seriously endangered
| Minister Kilpat-ick, of Chill, saw several
thousand mum,pics come out of the ground
during last summers earthquake Several
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