The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-30
NEWS ITEMS.
Absinthc drinking increases in New YorE

ieuoo 10 WV OoiitOiiiil WHICH,
and barley erops. US.
Champagne is now manufactured in Bel
yium for nineteen cents a bottle.
Three quarters of the New Brunswickians
and Nova Scotians want to be annexed
Forty-six discoveries of rich silver
deposits arc reported in the White Pine dis
trict
An English nobleman drives public
coach from London to Windsor, just for the
fun of it. @ -,
A Baltimorean wants to immortalize
Stonewall jackson hy naming a cook stove
after him.
Joseph NJ. Drake, who died suddenly q
few days since in Chicago, had his life in
sured for for 100000.
The dispossessed Italian princes propose
to sue Victor Emanuel for the restoration of
their confscated estates.
Track laying on the Southern branch of
the Kansas Pacific Railroad began on the
South side of Smoky Hill river.
One of the recent " motions " in Chicago
is white hearse, which is described as
attractive, not to say inviting"
The Duke Of Hamilton, Eugenie's cousin,
has been outlawed from the Tuillerles. His
latest sensation was delirium tremens.
The Duke of Newcastle has came to grief
Hc bet on horse races, lost $2,000,000,
couldn't pay it, and the bailiffs are after
him.
A handsome block of rose-colorcd ala
baster, the largest known, containing 2,437
cubic feet, has recently been unearthed in a
mound at Rome.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has de-
clared unconstitutional the act of the Legis-
lature empowering counties and towns to
aid railroads.
A Texas paper claims that there are more
newspapers published in that State in pro-
portion to the white population than in any
other State in the Union.
On Friday the steamboat Mary Powell,
running on the Hudson river, made rs miles
in three hours and forty minutes. This is the
fastest 10 mile run on record.
In consequence of rumors that the work
ingmen would stone the aristocratic carriages
of visitors to the races in Vincenncs, France,
all that class of people staid away.
1t has been decided by the highest judicial
authority in England that bankers are not
responsible for securities deposited with
them if they exercise reasonable care.
GLOW old are you 2" asked conductor
of little girl whom her mother was trying
to pass on u half ticket. II am nine at
home, but in the cars am only six and a
half"
The preparatory commissions for the Ecu
menical Council continue their labors in
Rome. Several bishops and missionaries
and the Patriarch of Jerusalem have ar
rived.
Twelve men engaged in numbering on
Fish river lakes, in the northern part Of
Maine, were recently poisoned to death by
drinking tea in which lizard had been
boiled.
Lord Byron's valet, Swede, named
James p. Lindberg, siXty-lour years old
is now an inmate of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee He was present at
Byron's DEATH
Three European steamers which arrived
at New York on Tuesday brought an aggre
gate of of 3019 passengers. The city OF
London brought 1881, the Minnesota 1888
and the Caledonia $50.
A freight train of eleven cars and locomo-
tive was thrown into the Passaic river Sat
urday night, by the engine drivers omission
10 notice that the draw was open. Those
on the train escaped.
The New York Herald office was sudden
ly vacated the other day on the appearance
of an individual with his face covered will
pustules, who innocently inquired whether
there was any indication of small pox abou
him.
The English journals announce the ar
rival from South Africa of two cases of dia
monds. Among them was the famous So
carat diamond, which was insured on the
passage at valuation of one hundred an(
fifty thousand dollars.
1t is fully believed that there is secret
order of incendiaries in California, will
members in all parts of the State, the oh
iect being to burn the houses and school il
which Chinese are educated, or where tn,
teachers of Chinese reside.
A Judge in India is reported to have thu
addressed person convicted before him
prior TO passing sentence: prisoner at tn
bar.-Providence has given you good de
gree OF health and strength, instead Of ao2iic
you go about the country stealing ducks.
Two physicians at the bedside of a patien
disputed as to the nature of the disease
| At last one of them ended the discussion b
saying: very well, have it your way now
| but the post norton will show that I ar
right" The patient was not much encoul
aged. ti'a
A few days ago, while Mrs. Rogers G
Phelps county, Mo-, was in the garden, wit
an infant fourteen months old seated nea
her, an eagle swooped down and attempted
to carry off the child, but was prevented b
a dog which came to its assistance an,
fought valiantly in its defence.
The reluctance of Spain to hang monal
| chy about its neck again is significant of tn
modern tendency among all nations toward
republicanism. Yet a hopeless war is bein,
waged on Cuba to reduce her to a state o
serfdom against which the Spaniards them
selves revolted.-N 7. Telegram.
The Baton Rouge, La, Aduocate says
new cotton destroying agent in the shape o
a black bug with red stripes, about three
fourths of an inch long, and wingless, ha
! made its appearance on the leaves in tina
locality. No noteworthy harm has yet oc
Cured from it.
Fillibusters en- route for the bright isle o
the sea"-Cuba- arrived in Norfolk tt
the number of forty or more They ar,
scattered about the city, and will leave fol