The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-02
NE us LTEMS.

d. huSSeliS going to BRUSSELS.
The Arkansas grain crop is backward.
Fifty-fve ladies are postmasters in Texas
Commissioner Delano is back in Wash
ington.
The yellow fever has appeared at Key
West.
The new-fashioned parasols resemble a
Chimes pagoda.
Disraeli, since his retirement, has devoted
himself chiefly to the govt.
All cities in the West with any selfre-
spect now have spirit photographer.
The bachelor has to look out for number
one, the married man for number two.
New York papers say that old bankers
there predict that gold will soon reach ITO.
Eugene has all her books bound in green
morocco and decorated with gilded bees
1t is said that the French iron-clad YES
seis-ot-war are superior in speed to the
British.
Florida ladies divide their time be-
tween raising oranges and shooting alliga-
tors.
A man in Portugal has invented a ma
chine which fires eight hundred shots
minute
A democrat of Indianapolis has BACKED
the boots of colored barber as the penalty
OF bet on the city election.
A crippled negro makes a living in Wor
cester, Mass, by going about the streets and
eating glass, and is said to thrive on the
diet.
Pullman, of sleeping and dining-room car
notorety, is building a church car to be at
tached to Sunday trains on the Pacific Rail-
way.
The Sultan purposes sending delegation
to America to visit the Pacific Railroad.
with view to adopting the American rail-
way system in Turkey.
tbs reported that Cuban expedition,
numbering five hundred, has gone to sea
from Delaware Bay in two schooners and a
small steamer.
On Friday the remains of the renowned
Irish orator, Daniel o Connel, were exhumed
at Dublin, and re-interred in the presence
of eight thousand people.
Joseph Hellinger, farmer in Steuben
county, Indiana, plowed up an old boot the
other day, in which his little son found $500
in gold and yer coin.
A jury in New Jersey, while celebrating
upon verdict, amused themselves by get
ting drunk. The Judge ccnsured them. but
could not reverse the verdict.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee is inyes.
tgatlng case at Brownsville, which in
wolves the right of the Governor to set aside
registration under the old Franchise law.
Mr.. Casanova, who was imprisoned and
mad his property confscated in Cuba, asks
Secretary Fish to demand restitution of the |
property as that Of an American citizen.
Three hundred duels were fought last
year in Paris. The police were informed of
about one-third of them before thew were
fought, but refused to interfere.
The Toronto Globe says that Prince Pat
rick Arthur recently telegraphed to the
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland that
he intended to pay him visit during the
summer.
James M. Mason, of Virginia. formerly
United States Senator, and afterwards Com.
missioner of the Confederates in Eurone, has
returned from France and is in Baltimore
On visit.
The largest drum in the world passed
through Springfield, Massachusetts, yester-
day for the Boston peace jubilee. 1t is
eight and a half feet in diameter. and in.
'crlbed Let us have peace"
MIR. Hegarty has been elected Mavor Of
Cork in place OF O'Sullivan, resigned. The
* Mayor was assailed by mob and threat
med with personal violence for supporting
degarty. ba
1t was rumored that Chinese official. of
ugh rank in Pekin, in fit of anger, slapped
he French Ambassador, the Count de Lal-
emand, in the face; and that the flag over
he French Legation had been hauled
Town.
The falls recently discovered near ALE.
'Lany Springs, in Virginia, and said to be
200 feet high, are represented to be about
wo thirds perpendicular for distance of
between half and tire quarters of a mile.
falls of one hundred feet. some,
INES descending over solid rock. The river
'elow is succession of falls for one HIM.
lred and fifty yards, over solid bed of
ock. The scene is spoken of as wild and
rand beVOnQ all mower of dooor;pt;,r