Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-06-11


! DErALcArfoNs IN PEsssYLvAsA.-Th reporttb
the amount of defalcatons of Stale officers reportsS
to the Pennsylvania Legislature at its late session
was, 100000 is erroneous The whole amount os,
during the last fifty years. it is said is only about
1927 ,O00
DIREcT TRADE OF THE SouTH.-The Senate ofy;r.
ginia, on Thursday week, passed bill to establish
direct line of steamers between Antwerp and the
James river.
THE FEAST OF ImAGfNATIoN.--Hayingn dinner,
but reading cookery book.
Mr. G.. was most nveterate punster. LIVING
very ill of the cholera his proposed to prepare
a young, tender chicken. " Hadn't you better have
an old hen o. said g., in low whisper Che was too
i'll to speak louder) :" for she would be more apt to
LAY on my stomach"
BENEvoLENcE The aggregate amount OF the last
years disbursements of the leading philanthropic as.
sociations whose anniversaries were held in New
York short time since. was set down at $l,374.-
699 AZ 1t is stated that the revenues of the Odd
Fellows Association, during the same PERIOD exceed
in amount the above large aggregate.
o. The Queen of Spain is represented 10 be again
in the way 10 become mother. The correspondence
from Madrid says that the King-for perfectly
known 10 himsef-pro,ests that it is utterly imposs-
BILE. In this wicked world, the mpossbiliiy not so
clear as his Majesty seems to think.
o. A c~untry clergyman, preaching very dull
sermon. set all his congregation asleep, except poor
tellect At length the reverend orator. looking round
exclaimed, What, all asleep but this poor idiot p
"Ay,'' quoth the fellow, and if had not been ar
idiot should have gone TO sleep too"
There is young lady UP town who says that if d
cart wheel has nine feoes attached to it, it's pity
a woman like her can't have one fellow.
An OPINION ON THE PREsIDENcY.-A warm Irish
man was heard yesterday talking politics in the
street. with much energy, concluding by expressing
the opinion that if the Dimmikrats nominate Jem-
my Buchanan and the Wings Gneral Scott, he did
MT believe aither of them would carry darned
| State"
| At the Grand Military fete at Paris on the 10th
ult, it is said that of that large army of 80 900 men
under arms in hot sun, and of the 100000 AGO.,
600 spectators, not single man was to be seen in
the slightest degree intoxicated.
| FARMING ON A LARGE ScALE.--Hon. Henry Els
worth, formerly Commissioner of Patents at Wash
ton, is devoting himself to agricultural pursuits
in the West. He has farm of many thousand
acres at Lafayette, Tndiana-one of his cornfeldS
containing, are told twelve thousand acres -
This is farming on grand scale, and no mistake
FAST MAN.-The Paducah Ky, Democrat,
speaking of DR.. Haynes, says that in twenty-five
days he married two wives, travelled fifteen hundred
miles, told four thousand lies, and in twenty days
more arrested, tried, convicted, and lodged in
the State prison. He is decidedly fast ~ man.
REMARKABLE MEMORY -" Who made you ," en-
quired lady-teacher, of ubbery boy, who had late
ly joined her class.
81 dot know % said be.
"Not know? You ought TO be ashamed OF your
self A boy fourteen years old ! Why, there's little
Dickey Filton-he's only three-he can tell, dare
say Come here Dickey-who made youi"
"Dod !' lisped the infant prodigy
"There" said the teacher trumphantly knew
| be would remember"
"vel. he ough,er :" said the stupid; " faint but a
little while ago since he mader'
Mr. Paradox is not what you may call an ntemper-
ate man, by any means, but he calls the old lady,
once in WHILE for the boot jack TO draw his hat of
with.
The statement that Mrs. Clay had never been in
Washington. is incorrect. She has been there often
i but many years ago.
! Yankee peder, recommending scyihe, said that
one of the same kind OF scythes sharp that they
hung it on tree, in Kentucky, and its shadow cut
mans leg off!
PROFITABLE VoYAGE-The whale ship Saratoga,
lately arrived al New Bedford, has been absent 80
months. The whole proceeds of the voyage amount
ed 10 $4,000. exceeding that of any cargo
rived at that port.