Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-03-26

Do. oats do ..... do.... 56.517
Do. apples. do. .do....... 526,840
Hhds. of molasses. do zee. do. ....... 6l,675
Tons of hops ...... do ..... .do.... -. 1924
Hands employed .......... 5,497
Capital invested 80. ......... IS 1874 254
Barrels of ale produced go. ........ ll77,924
Gallons of whiskey and high wines 10. 1873 955
oalioEs OF rum &c.... .'....... 6,50O,5OO
BETTING The Cincinnati News tells an anecdote
of Dan Marble, which curiously illustrates the in
sane passion for betting which is evnced by persons
of peculiar constitution. A man who had lived
lifetime in the indulgencies of his favorite passion
for gaming, was taken most alarmingly i'll. Three
or four days passed away, and the disease having
reached its crisis his medical attendant informed
him that he stood no chance for recovery.
''What'll you bet 2" said the patient
Bet there's no use in betting, for you're Just as
good as dead man now. You can't live more than
an hour
An hour I'll bet you an X that live an hour
and a quarter-up with your tin and show your
spunk."
Some three quarters of an hour elapsed. when the
dying man with convulSive effort, raised his head
and with his last gasp falling dead upon the pillow,
exclaimed
Rake it down-rake it down, doctorr'
Thomas Moore is dead He died on the Goth
February, at his residence Slopenton Cottage aged
seventy-two years. For the last few years his mind
had become affected, but no man of the last century
in every department than Thos. Moore and of the
polished and intellectual society in which he moved
be was one Of the brightest ornaments To the last
he was an intimate friend of Lord John RUSSELL and
his death conceded with his friends fall from pow
err. Moore was born in the same year (17S0) with
Beranger. He desired to be buried in the church
yard Of the parish where he died.
THE FLAX MOVEMENTS IN IRELAND-The Belfast
papers of late date report at great length the pro-
ceedings at the annual meeting of the Royal Society
for the promotion and improvement of the growth of
flax, in Ireland The present demand for flax in Ire
land is about double what it was when the Society
was established In 1871, the Irish spinning trade
numbered 100000 spindles. Now it is close upon
100000. In place of 10000 tons of flax, which was
the extent Of consumption in 1871, 80, 900 tons are
now required by the Irish trade. The entire con-
sumptons of the United Kingdom would at present,
require 100000 acres of flax annually and it is pro-
gresslvely increasing at pretty rapid rate.
LOLA NloNTEz.-Lola Montez, coming on from
Washington. few days ago, in the cars is said by
of the Sunday papers to have INDUCED herself in
smoking cigarette. One of the conductors is reIa-
ted to have demonstrated with her ladyship upon
this infraction of the rules.
Madame, you can't smoke here
''Eh p said the pquant beauty, leisurely with
drawing the cigarette from her pretty mouth.
q You can't smoke here. madame
But you see CAM and she pulled forth a vol
ume of smoke into the very face of the mysfed and
abashed conductor who was fan to leave the beauty
to do as she pleased. So she finished her cigarette
without further annoyance or interruption.
GAS was going said an Irishman, over West
minister Bridge the other day. met Pat Hewins,
Hewins,'' says l. = how are you p
'Pretty well, thank you, Donley,' says he.
':Thats not my name,' says |.
"Faith no more is my name Hewins,n says he
So we looked at each other, and faith it turned
out to be neither of us.
A STREET DIALoGUE-Tom-Ts say, jim, what mo-
tive have you for being :: loco?'
Jim-A loco motive, of course.
Tom-A good joke, that.
Jm-Now what motive have you for being whig?
Tom-Principle, jim.
Jim-Ah that's better joke than mine
SALT LAKE EMIGRATIoN.-There is prospect of a
large emigration from of the North Western
States to the Mormon settlements, the present sea-
SON The st. Louis Times says three hundred
families in that city preparing to emgrate to the
Salt Lake. and states on ''reable authority" that
the emigration to the Salt Lake Valley this season
will not fall short of 5000 souls.
DEATH OF A MILITARY DoG-The Dutch papers
announces the death of Nestor, dog who has fol-
lowed the fifth division of infantry. now in garrison
at Maestricht, in all their marches since 1927 He
with the regiment in their last campaign and at
the siege of Antwerp lost claw by shot from q
howitzer Returned to Nlaestricht, he spent there
the last twenty-fourth year He was solemnlv in
tered under the wall of the fortress.
| A good Deacon. at Conference meeting in the
town of D, about thirty miles north of Boston.
addressed his auditors Sabbath evening as follows
! My friends, there is new doctrine going about
nowadays. We told that all mankind are 90
ing to heaven. But, my brethren and sisters we
hope for better things"
| A HINT TO LoAFERs.-The Albany "Dutchman'
expresses its surprise that young consent tc
loaf about the corners as they do when good dose
of arsenic can be purchased for sxperce.
MY dear Polly, | am surprised at your taste
in wearing another woman's hair on your head ;;
said Mr.. Smith to his wife. "My dear Jo, | am
equally astonshed that you persist in wearing ano
Their sleeps wool on your back
A fault finder is agreeable to no one Always fus
sing-always in hot water.
Frenchman has been apprehended in England 10
exploding an egg shell full of gunpowder in his mouth
in one of the streets of London al Two O'Clock in tn
morning He is to be prosecuted for attempting self
murder.
| UNHAPPY MARRIAGES IN ALABAMA-There wer
seventyone divorces legalzed at the recent session
the Alabama Legislature
GA merchant in Indiana offers to make bet O
} $4,000 that he will swim from Cincinnati to Madison
in the Ohio River. upward of 80 miles, in the mont
of August next, without sleep. and with only hftee
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