The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.
Small pox is raging in Louisville.

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DIR. Livingston has not been seen at Aan-
zibar, as reported. s Aa
An Indiana town pays twenty-five per
cent interest on loans.
Soda water is given for refreshmcnt at
New York wedding receptions.
The Prussian government supported twen-
ty-six agricultural schools last year.
Carpet-baggers own one-sixth of the tax
able property of Knoxville, Tenn.
Polish ladies are raising money to help
female convicts TO escape from Siberia.
The Mexican Congress recognized Cuban
independence by a vote of 100 to IL.
In Marshall county, KY, the tobacco
plants are falling, the frost having fatally
injured them.
The recent charter election in Memphis,
Tennessee, resulted in the success OF the Re
publican ticket. lat
Never run in debt, especially with your
shoemaker, for then you cannot say your
sole is your own.
Two ladies have travelled from San Fran
cisco overland, accompanied all the way by
bulldog as protector
Four thousand four hundred and sixty six
immigrants from Europe landed IN New
York in one day last week.
Saratoga is enterprising. 1t is to have
permanent opera company this season. A
very sensible and praiseworthy idea.
The Tennessee militia have been mustered
out of service five companies only being re-
tanned to look after the K. K. K.
In the recent conflict between the English
and Chinese at Swallow, three villages were
burned and 90 Cinnamon killed.
The papers say that everybody is going to
Europe tn spend the summer, because 1t is
cheaper to do so than to stay at home.
The Theta Delta Chi Association has de-
termined to re-estab!ish the Southern
Chapters that were broken up by the war.
New York fashions decree that double
breasted white vests, worn with single
breasted high-buttoncd coats, are stylish.
The Washington Cd. c. Directory has the
names of 1913 Browns 203 Davises. 42s Jack
sons, 22S Joneses, 473 Smiths, and 267 Will
liamses.
The following detectives in the internal
revenue service have been re-appointed for
the South: Otis F. Presbury and l.. Haw-
ley.
The running time on the Pacific Railroad
from New York to San Francisco, 1858
miles, in six days seventeen and half
hours.
A New Hampshire magistrate has decided
that language that does not embrace the
name of God is not profane swearing punish
able by law. ..le
The Middleboro' Gazette says Gen. Tom
Thumb has contracted for the erection of a
substantial residence near that of his father
in-law in that town.
Josh Billings says: II don't suppose
there is ever killed, ON an average, during
emmy one year, more than II fleas in the
whole of the United States ov America"
Northern capital having been successfully
invoked, tie Richmond steel works are be-
ing e,built, and will be supplied with new
and improved machinery. They are expect
ed tu open next month.
Florida is greatly pleased with the i'm
proving character of the emigrants to that
State The flow of Adventures appears to
have ceased, and those who now go there
examine the ground carefully and go to
stay.
The First National Bank of Mississippi
has deposited with the United States Treas
urer an amount sufficient to cover its entire
circulation. The notes of that bank are
therefore, redeemed at the Treasury Depart
ment.
The Harvard University crew practices on
the Charles river course every evening, be-
tween 6 and o'clock, preparing for the in
ternational race. The hopes of the friends
of the University are high for success.
1t is said U. S. Marshal Barrow, of New
York. has received a dispatch from Secre-
tary Fish, instructing HIM to use every pre-
caution to prevent the departure OF any
expedition for Cuba from that port.
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The mansion house of Gov. Craddock,
erected in Ship street, Medford, CT, in 1854,
is claimed to be the oldest building in, the
United States retaining its original form.
1t is so well preserved that it will last seve-
raj hundred years yet.
COL John W. Forncy, Governor Ward, of
New Jersey, Gen. Van Wyck of New York,
and Mr. Lloyd, of the committee which have
been travelling South for some weeks, had an
interview with the President yesterday morn
ing. concerning what they observed while ON
their trip to the Southern country.
The colored delegation from Alexandria,
Va. headed by their spokesman, X. ID. Kelly
called on the President Saturday morning,
and had an interview concerning appoint
ments at that place; and to tell him some
thing about the feeling of the colored people
on the subject of reconstruction. Inc inter-
view was satisfactory to them.
mad dog was killed in Memphis a few
mornings since, but not until the rabld
creature had bitten several persons and COM
nletely cleared the street. little boy was
most terribly mangled by the terocious
brute, large Newfoundland, whose I'M
mense strength made him ALT more ter
rible. A man was also bitten in the hand,
and little girl thrown down by him, but
his teeth did not touch her flesh. He was
finally dispatched by a pistol-shot, after an
exciting chase and battle.
Both parties in Virginia are preparing for
an active campaign in that State. James
II. Platt, jr., of the Wells party, was unani-
mously nominated, yesterday, by the Con-
vention in session at Petersburg. for Con-
gress from the Second District. Charles W.
Butts has been agreed upon for Congress
man at large on the Walker ticket. Messrs.
| Walker and Wells will stump the State in a