The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-05-18
Miscellaneous Items.

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Miscellaneous Items.
Croquct will be very fashionable this sea-
son. i f.Ti9 ll.t 8
New Orleans has new German paper,
the Echo. Ai 81
Victor Noir's baptismal name was Yam
Salmon. m b IT, ae.
A two foot ruleakecp your feet off the
cushions. 4e
troll of the City Winter Works Of New Or
leans. ~ a
Richard Wagner is very likely to be ap-
pointed Director General of Music at Der
lin, IN place on the late Meycfbeer.
Nearly one half of the town Of Fincastle,
in Virginia, was burned to the ground on
Friday night.
THE Boston and Albany Railroad Com
papy Is about to erect new depot in Hud
son, to cost $4,000. 5i7r
Gen. Reynolds has assumed command of the
Department of Texas. comprising the States
of Texas and Louisiana, on the 18th ult. .e
Boston, too, has its tenement.h house hor.
rers, and complains bitterly of the criminal
inhumanjty of rapacious landlords.
1t is estimated that over hundred
young ladies are at present studying law in
this country. Probably they will become
mothers-in-law one of these days.
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The Prince of Orange is said to be en-
gagged to Princess Louisa of England. He
is almost as fast and as gay as the Prince
of Wales.
Hoops for the communion table, made so
as to make the dress SET gracefully on the
kneeling figure, is the latest development of
fashion. a
Seven American ladies are engaged as
sculptors in Rome at the present time
Misses Hosmer, Whitney, Lewis (coloredD
Freeman, Foley and Virginia Ream.
An Illinois grave-digger. who buried
man named 'Rutton, sent bill to his widow
as follows: ITO making one Button-hole,
$780," =
Philadelphia has spring in its park that
may rival the Saratoga Springs after lit
tie. Already, they say, it tastes like dam
aged corn-beef brine, drank out of an old
India-rubber shoe.
rh. co,.rnor of M....oh r..+., a.. NJ
ors of Boston. Springfield and Other cities
and several nrcminent men of that State
w;Ij s,art on tba oerd inetont nm on oyc,r'
sion m Col;fo rn;a
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Mr.. Dickens will spend the next few
months at Oannes' az tne villa OF faul
feVai.
Victor Hugo, it is said, is paid. on an
average, $4,000 year as his percentage on
his old novels sold in Paris.
The mani. for IN. ,enov,, Of can;to, ! ,
reached Pennsylvania, and there is now some
talk--perhaps it will amount to no more than
| talk-of shifting the Government seat from
Harrisburg to Philadelphia. (
JR. Young is about to start 4 daily ma /.
per in New York. about the size and nrice
OF the sun, ana which Is to be amply back
Ell WIN CASH. Drains anu experience" h.
In the depths of the sea tee waters are still
the heaviest sorrow is that born insilece
dopnnqf f10Wg thrOuOh
touch the purest ioy is unspeakable: the
most impressive prayer IS silent; and the
most solemn preacher at a funeral IS the ono
silent one whose ups are coid.
A WONDERFUL Cow!-MrJ Joseph Eaemster
ST., who lives near Lewisburg, has COW
that has given birth to eight calves within
the last three years! SIX OF which are now liv
| ing! She had two year before last, three last
year, and three this spring.
IT. Wb;tsn strn,o HATS Lscr.ne s,;cI or,
pher with knife mix the powder to musf
with water, plaster it thickly over the straw
and place in the hot sun for several hours
brush off when dry. An easy and effectua
| plan.
ou,no, tow u,h;oh ,f,o
pe.oon"' I'm n "uS" oiyou'so 70 sYel
Pro,ncnoe, !. .s sne Columns, aIIr VI Tue onoiulu
oa:esse, .oauS .nus las,.t A' =. - On
| anu Is very nuo" ia'eie s'cu III oranuins th'
caves OF MS large hero OF cattie there."
This is what Leayenworth. which is If
Kansas. clans the champion belt for awe
| can turn out a large number of pcople to :
| smaller fire, and they'll leave a better Dime
| and run faster and surround the conflaora
ZION QUICKER stay tnere longer ana 60 nome
wSt'er' TIA" any o'''er 'o"n III Aniefica'
A Young man in Toledo, who last week
killed his wife in fit of well-founded jeal
ousy. was asked, as lie paced the hall of tn,
CITY prison, how he felt, and replied: 6
feel SADLY pleased, if YOU knowhow that is.
Afterward' IN reply 10 suggestion that III
SHOUT heep oool; ana pa',eniy a""i' esen:s
he ,eiai Heo' "a, =: 70 ia'no. ~ a 'oo' aiiaii
anu Is qui'o d III" lining ~ "''
Leta. Oh inc Dal.iillore ., oun says, uel
eu''er, IN coiiv .aI a., WIN ns,ea.
lew Gays ago, sl".eu tnas l!.e cuhs m
ula nos ue,eo snI ,, autuoy y. Sons.e
pass ,rh;oh Snm,s"d !. shorafosa , aoU.:
o o.S. WI, %n'Ih Up =. y. d;d oo,,a any n
os"o.s WI" ~ .nons a % no u oO I CIV ~
supPonS LII I'm p.mp s; ~ Snna.o anu ona'
I'll E-.4 4t.,mr
A man named Turner, of San Francisco
left his wife at home, and took another wo
man out riding, and when he was coming
back his wife cut him in the neck, and had
to borrow black dress and bonnet to veal
thot 70 hove oronnd2
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A gay old married gentleman in Fri
Penn, seventy years OF age, ran away witt
his neighbours wife last week, but deserted
her before they reached Cleveland, takin,
with him an the money the woman had ap
propriated from the large wealth OF her law
ful husband.
Times ara 60 hard in Wisconsin that ar
editor At Brandon has had three teeth OK
tracted He didn't have use for SO many