The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-21
VIEWS ITEMS.

4s9aA distinct shock of an earthquake was
felt at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, July End.
The Great Eastern has reached the New
! fn1Indl,rnd Ranks with the French Cable.
Gases of yellow fever continue to be re-
ported on vessels arriving from the south a'
! Northern ports, i's''St
Congressman and others who have recent
! ly visited the Pacific coast favor thinese
Immigration.
A grand International sangerfest is IN
progress in Baltimore Two thousand sing
| ers are present. -.
An immense railroad bridge over the
Missouri river at Kansas City was completed
and opened on Saturday last. .
The Georgia State Prison conyicts are to
! be set at work making railroads. They
would prefer to make tracks.
The King of Prussia is an artist. He is
trying to improve his complexion ny using
brandy, and with success.
1.-The propriety OF licensing women to
preach is still under discussion by the
preachers meeting in New York.
Isadore, the Youngest daughter of General
| Albert Pike, was found dead in her bed at
Memphis, on Wednesday morning.
Saratoga girls, of local growth, are ma
king their market in advance of the season.
1 Three found rich husbands in June.
| The Boston Herald, a Democratic paper,
nominates ex- minister Charles Francis
Adams for Governor of Massachusetts.
The fires in the United States during the
month nt June in which the loss was $780,
900 and upwards, amounted to $780, 600.
The wife of John Roach of Duncith, Hi
nois, recently presented him with three
children at Que fell swoop-two girls and
boy.
| The Paris bellies seem untitled for mater
nifty. The Countess de Schoney is the
seventh who had died in childbed within a
year.
The valuation of real estate in the city of
| New York for the current year is 1864, 100,
G97, a net increase over last year of $685.
664,270.
A Richmond negro. who bought his free
| dom eighteen years ago, is now worth $780,
900, and owns the largest livery stable in
Virginia.
The boll-worm has appeared in force in
Newton county, Ga Their early appear
ance singnties great destruction to the crop
this year.
Two bulls, worth $4,000, died in Putney,
| Vermont. on Friday, from the effects of a
thorough bath oftopacco juice, administered
to Kill lice.
One of the cmigrant agents of the State of
Minnesota reports hat he has succeeded in
inducing rs 900 Swedes to come to this
State this year.
A brute of husband has ordered a grave
stone on which is inscribed Let us have
peace He don't care whether it is erected
over him or his wife.
The State Department is in receipt of in
formation to the effect that Minister Motley
has not yet heard or made any reference to
the Alabama claims. ..
Prof Maury has accepted the position of
President of the University of Ala 5ama and
will assume the duties at once. 1t Is proba-
/ BILE that still further changes will i)e made
in the faculty. ~
A man in Adair county, Iowa. has invent
ed a cannon which he claims will throw a
4 projectile fourteen miles, and has gone to
Washington to get a patent. He proposes
to offer it to the Government for 81 900, 600.
1t is expected that Gen. Candy, in the
conrse of three weeks, will issue a call for
assembling the Virginia Legislature, and the
inauguration of State officers, in accordance
with the purpose of Congress.
Mr.. D. D. Howard. supposed to he the
last survivor Of the company poisoned at
the National Hotel in Washington in 1857,
has just sailed for Europe He has been an
invalid ever since the poisoning.
The Governor of Florida has issued pro-
clamation fixing the second day of Novem
Der next as the day on which IA popular vote
shall be taken tn determine the proposed
cessation of West Florida to Alabama
A Chicago editor remarks that he is glad
to receive marriage notices, but requests
that they be sent soon after the ceremony,
and before the divorce is applied for He
has had several notices spoiled in this
way.
Gov Reed, of Florida, has issued pro-
clamation ordering an election on the I'd
day of November, to take the sense of the
people of West Florida on the question of
annexing that portion of the State to Ala
bana. ~ sr .e $50.
Owing to many national banks having
been discontinued as Government deposita-
ries, it is supposed that the bonds which
they deposited as security, having been re-
: leased to them, will he thrown upon the
market for sale
The Chicago Medical Society have been
discussing hydrophobia. Some of the ply
siclans had never seen case but expressed
no doubt of the existence OF such disease.
The immediate excisiUn of the part bitten
. was recommended.
20 The Atlantic Cable Telegraph Company
have gradually reduced their charges from
$100ln gold for ten words to $40 in gold,
and when the French cable is landed the
reduction will be still greater, and the bust
ness will rapidly increase.
A gang of desperadoes at Evansville, in
Il Washington county, Arkansas, are killing
people permiscuously in that neighborhood
particularly those who assisted in arrestine
a few of their number not long since. 1t is
called the Fisher gang.
a The Freedmens Savings bank at Savan
nah contains on its register the names o
1,2S1 men and 421 women as depositors