The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-04-27

feet deep.
The Mississippi river is clear of ice from
Lake Pekin to the Gulf of Mexico.
1t is estimated that there are $3.50 colored
voters in St. Louis.
The Mississippi river steamers now illu-
inmate with locomotive headlights.
A celebrated wit was asked il he knew
Theodore Hook. "Yes," replied he. "Hook
and eye are old associates
The Boston Five Cents Savings Bank has
accounts with 54,74 depositors, and the
amount of deposits is sS,7490O0.
An old Israelite survived pilgrimage to
Jerusalem only to be smothered by fire ut
Louisville, the night after his return.
A Cairo man, who had his false teeth
jammed up by a railroad accident, recovered
the amount of the dentists bill.
A Minnesota couple who have been mar
ried eleven years have twenty-five children
nine pairs Of twins and one quartette.
A Michigan woman has recovered by law
all the money that her husband had spent
Police Superintendent Kennedy, Of New
York, has resigned his Office, and Capt John
Jourdau has been elected to fill the vacancy.
Gen. WIN. 8. HiIlyer, former member of
Gen. Grants staff, is said to be engaged in
writing the lifeof the late Secretary Rawlins.
A bill to repeal the statute making Good
Friday legal holiday passed the Pennsyl-
yania House at its recent session, but failed
in the Senate.
The members Of the Mississippi Legisla.
ture are economical in one respect, at least.
They have voted themselves one dollar q
year each for postaa
Ladlslaus Ujhazy, \ lIpatriot Of Kos
suth IN tbs struggle for Hungarian indepen-
dence, at one time governor of the celebra-
tel Fortress of Comorn, died in San An
tonic, Texas, on the 7th of this month, at the
age Of eighty years.
Mr. Beecher is not getting along very rap
idly with his life of Christ. He is bestowing
great care upon it, however, and those who
have seen portions of the manuscript declare
that it will be much the finest and most i'm
portant of the authors works.
Labor is of noble birth, but prayer is the
daughter of heaven. Labor has place
near the throne, but prayer touches the gol-
den sceptre. Labor, Martha like, is busy
with much serving, but prayer sits with
Mary at the feet Of Jesus.
:. A man in Pennsylvania has yoke of oxen
on which he challenges the United States to
compete with him. One is six feet high,
girth ten feet around the body, and weighs
8 3,425 pounds. The other stands six feet ten
inches, girth ten feet two inches, and weighs
3,4S0 pounds
Commissioner Delano has decided that
dealer in tobacco has the right to saw
caddy of tobacco in two, cutting away the
stamp, and thus sell the two halves to differ
ent persons, and that such sale would not
lin violation of section seventy eight of
the revenue law.
Professor Liebig has received the Albert
medal from the Society of Arts, Trade, and
Manufacture Of Great Britain. This is con.
sidered to be great distiction, as only one
such medal is awarded annually, and this is
the first that has been given to German.
The St. Louis Republican has grave dis
cussion of the ."unsocial evil"-which is the
tendency not to marry. 1t remarks that
majority of the young men in any given
community are not seeking wives, aud do
not want to marry. Homes and domestic
pleasures are reserved for the few.
In denying motion for new trial for
condemned murderer, Judge Primm, of the
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