Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-08-29
London Streets In shokspeare's Time


The Elizabethan streets were filled by tinerant
statesmen, many of whose trades have long since
passed away ; CHARCOAL sellers from the country,
buyers of old lace, sellers of hot peas, and Irish
applemongers. The open stalls were piled with
rapiers and targets, and Italian and poig
nards, and silk points and tufts, and feathers, roses
for shoes, sCarfs, and thousand other articles of
fnery now Wondering in quiet country vaults, and
treasured here and there with wrong dates attached
to them in the wardrobes of old show mansions
The paths filled by jostling servngmen, French
pages, and watermen, and wounded soldiers from the
Dutch wars, Spanish gallants Greek merchants
and here and there astrologer alchemist
come out tor moment 10 breathe purer air than
the poisonous atmosphe of his cellar or his turre
that reeked with Tuning mercury There ac
tors and bearwards, masters of fence DULLES, and
gentlemen pensioners, and gay citizens wives and
bona robGS and faconers all bright, colored, shift
ing, motley, and picturesque. There was no dull
mOnoony and stereotype of dress, face, and
but ending variety, shifting and brilliant as
the dyes of kaleidoscope. There were boards of
all classes and professons-he spruce, the pointed,
the round, gray, black, and cream coored. All
dress marked class the prentice passes with his
trimmed gown and gold chain the noble with his
silk c.oak and scented doublet, gold spurs, and
spangled feather the needy adventurer with his
rusty sword and greasy buff, or half Indian robe
the scriVener with his rusty black coat and unfang
bag the divine with his cassOck and his bands the
yeoman with his Embarked staff; and the court lady
rolling by in her ponderous gilded coach
THE SPIRIT RAPpERs-The editor of the Pha-
delphia Mercury recently attended a Spirit (not
liquid, but ethereaD Circle. He thus describes the
closing scene
After recess of ten or fifteen minutes, the medi-
UNI again went into the state and wrote out
The First man is present He addresses you from
the Celestial Sphere
Is that you, Adam q
Adam was my name in the flesh
'Will you please to favor me with correct answers
to few simple questions?
PROFOUND them
Where was the Garden Of Eden located p
IN Kansas
WAS Eve an obedient helpmeetY
She was beguiled by the serpent-after that a
perfect devil in petit mean fig leaves.
In what part of the world was the tower of Babel
erected g
In White county, Indiana, near w off Mound.'
Who were the parents of Gains wife 2
This question cIapped the climax The table al
which were seated suddenly tn ed q summersaul
-capsized and extinguished ne lamp-upset the
medium and the maiden lady and amid the wreck
OF furniture and the crash of glass, made my ext
through the back door and rushing down dark alley
gained the street, minus my right coat tail, which
ts1t IN the mouth of the bull dog in the yard
The CLOSING EVENTS OF CoNGREss.-The Natona
Congress- says:
y, On visit to the Capitol yesterday we found Of
me clerks table no fewer than sixteen enrolled bills
Wnlcn mad received the signature of both the presiding
ocefS' out' for want of time before the expiration
me hour Tor closing the session, did not receive tn
signature OF the President of the United States AM
mere were n'ne other bills which had passed AM
Ueen snroHed but not in time to be signed by tn
BIeSHlGing omcers OF two Houses These bills will
doubtless become laws at the next regular session,
S9nsy DO not at the approaching extra one; but tn
ColSy' IN either case, is grievance, and may il
S Tae cases prove ruinous to those for whose jus
0S rn Iney were intended to provide"
me nlll to grant bounty land to prvateers in tn
wal Of 1912, did not, we beleieve, pass the Senate