Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-11-10

WASHINGTON CITY--We are requested nv the nreo;
dent of the Military Convention held in P6iIadenha
9Th OF January 1894 10 publish The following notice
"The defenders of the country in the second war
of independence who still survive and the children
of such are Dead requested to send delegates
to the city of Washington TO attend convention. 10
be held there on the 9Th of January next, 1855 to
adopt measures will induce Congress not onlv IN
do justice TO them, but also to the widows of those
who have gone to their last account"
| 1t is to be hoped the parties interested in every
State of the Union will, through county or other
meetings. depute large number of delegates to con-
at the seat of our national government on the
approaching anniversary OF Jackson's victory at New
Orleans 1t is deemed important that the convention
should meet in the vicinity of the two houses of Con.
gress so that the men of 1912 may be seem as well
as heard by the representatives Of the people.
! Philadelphia Ledger.
PROCESS OF MAKING SHoT.-The pig lead is car
ried TO the top of the tower by windlass and chain
worked by steam it IS then put in a furnace kent
constantly burning night and day, and attended by
two sets OF men-one for the fire and two to pour
the melted lead in tin strainers. After passing the
STEAMERS 1T tails distance of $50 feet the MASSAGE
through the air giving the shot their shapes or form
They fall into larger tub or basin of water Here
man Is engaged dipping them out with a lade and
throwing them on an inclined plain, down which
they run to drum, heated by steam and worked by
machinery, so as to dry the shot when dry they are
passed into revolving drum, which stops by action
OF machinery every five minutes for polishing them
from the drum they are thrown into hopper and
from this pass over series of inclined plains, where
the defective shot carried off, and then through
seE es INTO drawers, where they assorted by ac-
ton of machinery or seves then into the large
boxes, from which they taken and put in sacks
weighed, and are ready for use.
WRITERS OF FICT1oN.-A writer in the Philadel
pha Ledger says, that there is gradual falling off
from year to year. in the sales of the works of Scott
Bulwer and Dickens, those great masters of fictitious
ltInrr that DoN IL
ly amusing but that they do not supply the craving
appetite for instruction, which is felt by the readers
of the present day What class of fiction writers de-
in the Ledger mans opinion, supply this desideratum!
Why the thousand and one Uncle Toms Cabins,
ghters Lamp posts land Lamp shutters, where
with the world has been flooded of late. Old Nor
tally, lvanhoe, the Caxtons, and Master Humphrey
Clock are gradually being supplanted by the inefa-
bic things mentioned above If such is the fact, no
dscredt attaches itself to the works of Scott or Bull
wer or Dickens but great discredit does attach to
the reading public for their exceeding bad taste 1t
Is uudoubty true the writer in the Ledger AYERS,
that Dickens, and Bulwer, and Thackery are ear
ming so much just now by their lens formerly
but the is, that the novelties of fictitious liter
allure are not so much sought after by the English
reading public since the outbreak of the Ango-Rus
sian war, which supplies ample food for mental
element without drawing upon the creations of the
novelist As the war is over, Dickens will
quickly discharge his debts and be himself again
Boston Chronicle.
LETTER FROM Mr.. BELMONT The Union contains
a letter from Mr.. Belmont, the American Charge at
the Hague, in which he gives emphatic contradic
ton to the story of of the New York press that
he had opened banking house at the Hague The
statement, he says is untrue in every particular
! He further adds
If in consequence of the call made at the close OF
last session of Congress, the correspondence in rea
ton to the claim of Captain Gibson should hereafter
be published, it will give to the people of the United
the dignity of the republic and the hits of her CT
tizens have suffered at this court by any want of eff
r cheney and energy of mine.
CoUNTERFE1Ts.- The Petersburg Intelligencer eau
tions the public against counterfeit notes on the
+ Bank of the State of North Carolina, and the Bank
: of Cape Fear. These counterfeits are mostly SIC
, and $50 notes, very we'll executed, and very difficult
O to detect. The editor has recently two SIC
v notes the bank of Cape Fear which coun
l. terfeits.
: $50 you have come to reside in Chelsea, Mrs
Parngton q? said the squire, he looked at the ole
Il lady the top of his gold bowed specs, on th
{ boat. How do you like the ferry @ She smiled
upon the squire and replied, 81 should like the ferry
l. good deal better if it didn't go by water She wa
here attracted by the battery at the Navy Yard AM
q asked the squire if those guns "topics of th
7. revolution" She was answered satisfactorily thi
It point while Ike sat on the seat by her side making
e up faces at boy in boat that was passing at tn
y time-BOSton Post.
e PARTY PLATFoRMs-The New York Herald say
IT that, according 10 Senator Dickinsons definition
- the respective parties in New York on the liquor ques
" ton, they as follows:
Il Bronson Patform-Good liquor
/ Seymour Patform-Bad liquor
~ Clarke Patform-No liquor at ALL
IT. Ullman PIatform-No whiskey for the Irish, n
schnapps for the Dutch, lager bier for the Ger
o, mans, no offices for for foreigners, and down wit
the Pope.
OINTMENT PIIS f
Bad Legs and all kinds of Wounds-The surprising sale
these invaluable medicines in every part Of the cyilze
world of the most convincing proofs of their efcac
curing bad legs, old wounds scofua and diseases of tn
skin Thousands efpeope who suffered from these dread
ne maades been cured by their after every ohe
he remedy failed and fact beyond dispute that there
II disease obstinate but that may be shortly
Ill dictated by wonderful medicines therefore the Athlete
should try Holloways Ointment and Pills.
ne Establishments of Professor Holloway so Made
Lane 244 Strand Temple Bar, London
e by all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medien
throughout Empire and those of the United State
50 each Wholesale by the princp