Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-12-29

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we see no necessity for resort to the Know Nothing
policy of extending the residence TO twenty one years
which almost amounts to prohibition of the rights
OF citizenship. We agree with Bishop Hopkins who
recently delivered lecture in New York, that the
fault lies in the looSeness of execution of the nres
ent laws, which requires the Courts, having cogni-
zance OF the subject to be satisfied in the case Of eve
~ applicant for citizenship, that he is of good moral
character attached to the principles of the constitution
and faVOrably disposed 10 the welfare and good order
of the country Let these provisions be carried out
with scrupulous care, and, we feel convinced, that
the evils which have been portrayed flowing from
the naturalization law, will almost entirely disap-
pear. Richmond Enquirer
AN IND1GEsTIBLE MEAL.-An immense anaconda
recently arrived in Boston from the neighborhood of
the Congo river, in Africa. 1t ia said that his length
is between twenty and twenty-five feet with grth
of thirty inches in the largest part of his body There
are few curious circumstances connected with this
great reptile stranger since his arrival which are
worth chronicling. Just before leaving his native
| land he took hearty meal of dog, and other
food was eaten by him for seven months after About
the first OF October this king of snakes arrived in Bos
ton, and was lodged in large with very strong
glass walls, and double English milled blanket,
folded into four thcknesses furnished for his bed
On the Goth of November Mr. Sears, the proprietor,
thought it was full time to tempt his appetite, and
therefore introduced rabbit into his den Just at
evening. On viewing the interior the following morn
ing, the blanket was missing while the rabbit
| SUI dI4fc. I'll w culoSudy seven OdyS dIIeF, lh6
blanket discharged, whole and unimpaired after
a clrCuitous journey though an intestinal tube of
nearly one hundred and fifty feet. 1t may now be
seen IN the apartment being six feet wide by
in length.
Since that period he has exhibited excellent health
and has devoured fowl. Every few days he drinks
about three quarts of water sucking it all up at
When an animal is for food to OF this fami
y Of serpents it is eyed for instant and then the
poor trembling creature is suddenly crushed in the
h1n fold IF tha tbo
the bones being distinctly heard ct quite distance.
| Thus prepared foF swallowing, the body is still held
in coil, which is equivalent TO hand, and kept
steady while It is gradually sucked down the throat
OF the animal into the stomach, where it is slowly
digested. 1t is the opinion of Mr.. Sears tina when
the anaconda sprang at the rabbit mentioned above
by mistake in calculation the latter caped and
the edge of the blanket seized by the teeth
When these once engaged, being for holders and
not for mastication it is quite impossible to dsengage
them and hence whatever is once down into thu
mouth must necessarily 90 down the throat Even
the muscles OF deg lution TO act independently
of voltion and urge the mosel along by strong,
vulsIve, peristaltic contractions.
Boston Surgical and Medical Jour.
JENNY LIMBS ToUR.-Barnums book gives full de-
tails of his contract with Jenny Lind. An abstract
of some interesting facts is made from by the cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier According to
this, the contract declared that Jenny Lind to
sing in hundred and fifty concerts, with the
privilege of Withdrawing after the one hundredth,
upon FORGETTING $25 900. She sang in only ninety
three and thus not only forfeited the specified sum-
but also paid Barnum $1,000 each night for the
naming concerts. Jenny Lind receiced ST.
900 every night she sang and one-haf the mighty
receipts, after deductng $500 for expenses. Jenny
Lnds nett receipts during the entire engagement
were Sl76,675 90. Barnum says his gross receipts.
after paying Jenny Lind, were $685., 486 IS. Con-
certs were given in all the principal cities in the
United States, and in Havana. Twelve concerts
ID 70 itohl Hbol
ceipts for any one concert 81 1854 05 which
was the first charitable concert given in New ork
The second in point of large receipts the first
concert given in Boston, when they amounted 10
$16,479 so. The smallest receipts We're derived
from the second concert IN Havana, when they fell
as low as $2837 90, or but little than half the
estimated expenses. The average receipts were
$7,496 49, In this comparison, Richmond led of all
competitors. Only concert given there,
which realized $40, 385 81, The total receipts from
all sources $712,161 81. Barnum does not
give statement of the expenses.
! WAR IN GRASS VALLEY-Lola Montez has again
added another flower " to the wreath Of her adorn-
ment" by an attempt to horsewhp man by the
OF SIMPLY editor of the Grass Valley Telegraph
The assault was made, it is said, upon the grounds
of the appearance of an article in the said Telegraph,
prejudcial of Loa's good character. The pugilisc
feat, however, proved a failure, as Simply wresed
the whip from her after the first cut and left 9TH
er means of revenge but woman's most dangerous
weapon, her tongue, which, SAID, she used freely
Lola gives different version of this affair, in which
she says
81 recolIected the Womans Rights Convention
, took the benefit of Miss Lucy Stones principles
bonnet on head and whip in hand, that whip which
never was used but horse, this time was to be
disgraced by falling on the back of | went
forth-strong in the principles, | have said, OF
Miss Lucy Stone and other strong minded females
{ found this redoubtabIe man, and quick a flash
of lightning laid the said whip his shoulder and
. head four times, on my word of honor, before my en-
envy could remember that he sitting on chair
!, The lady of the Golden Gate Saloon was sitting
Oh side, gentleman on the other; after having
given him four good whippngs, he got up and squared
himself on the most approved Yankee Sullivan prln
y ciple, and was preparing to give me a sumner lr
e the eye The spirit of my Irish ancestors q being
u kind of three-quarer bred of Irish, Spanish anC
- Scotch took possession Of my left hand and ht
II most approved Tom Hyer principles, before he coulc
attain my eye, took his, on which-thanks to some
& rings had on at the tme-I made cutting impress
It on AS usual, this would great shoulder strike
ended the combat with certain abuse, of which, to d
him justice, he is perfect master Sic transit gorft
re Shi ply Alas poor Torick.
+ VALUE OF A MANUsCRIPT.-The original manuscrip
of Grays Elegy was lately sold at auction in Lon
- don. There really a scene - in the auction
If room. Imagine stranger entering in the midst OF
h sale of rusty looking old books. The auction
l. eer produces tuco small half sheets Of paper, writer
!. over torn and muated He calls it ga most inter
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