The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-11-03
FOREIGN.

There is to be grand hunt through AT
RIGA for DR.. Livingstone by corps of Eng
lish explorers.
The convention between Russia and Prus-
STA for the mutual surrender of criminals,
expired on Oct. 8.
The portraits sold lately in Paris as the
likeness of Jean Kinck, turn out to be pho
tographs of the celebrated Hungarian, Mr..
Deak.
In the British army only eighty men in a
thousand are above six feet in height; and
only thirty five in thousand weigh over
40 pounds.
A sharp fight has taken place between Sal
nave's war steamer and two rebel steamers.
Both sides claim the victory, but it is impos-
sible to state the result.
The authorities at Glasgow have granted
permission to run, experimentally, omnibus
es drawn by patent road steamers, with In
dla rubber tires, through the streets OF their
city
According to an Austrian paper, a beauti-
full Hungarian princess, 10 years of age, and
descended from a proud family, recently
embraced Judaism in order to marry an
Israelite. ..
The Prussian executioner will soon have
to behead, at Goerlitz, young girl of eigh-
teen, who murdered her parents because they
would not allow her to marry the man of
her heart.
The Cortes, equally with the Cabinet, is
divided regarding a candidate for the Span
ish throne, and unless acompromise is effect
ed, the establishment of monarchy is i'm
possible. .. b. an..-
At large meeting of clergy in Dublin,
Archbishop French presiding, it was held
by large majority that the laity have a
right to decide upon matters of doctrine
and discipline.
The aborigines in Victoria, Australia, now
number only 1884. They are well cared for
by the Colonial Government, which takes
great pains to instruct them in the arts of
civilized life and educate their children.
At Cattaro, Austria, during the late insur-
rection, the rebels are said to have gained
q
creed the garrison. They were rcpulscd in
their attacks on other forts in the city.
An Anglo-Irish radical political demon
stration on large and rather alarming scale
was made in London. A trades unionist
president delivered most infammatory adj
dress, and all the troops in the city were un-
der arms.
The Havana press take the correspondents
of New York papers in that city to task for
too freely commenting upon the condition
of affairs in the island, and say they have
lost the right to remain there rs impartial
foreign correspondents.
A fire broke out on the night of the Both
ult. in the village of Douey, in Savoy and
in very short time NO less than $50 houses
belonging to eighty families were burnt to
the ground. Nearly $50 persons are thus
eft without shelter or means uf support
A fearful affair is related by a journal oil
Lyons. A young man Famed Pitale, a few
days luck stranglc,l his wiIc he had recent
~ hurried, but who had concealed from
him that she Was then pregnant liy another
individual. Pi,ale alterward tunk poison
but was saved by an emetic.
A new cable is proposed to be laid from
the southwest coast of Ireland to Sable Is
land and Halifax. The new company taxi
the comprehensive title of ''Ocean Telegraph
Company" with capital of six hundred
thousand pounds sterling, and propose t.
reduce prices to one-hat of the rates nov
charged.