Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-12-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The Tennessee Legislature has taken q
recess until January 14th.
DR.. j. j. Fales, of East Boston, died sud-
denly in his bed on Saturday morning.
Henry Bender, formerly the treasurer of
York county, Pa, is dead.
! A man and wife have been found guilty
of infanticide in Portsmouth, n. II.
There are 115 miles of paved streets in
Cincinnati.
Ristori is attracting vast crowds to the
Academy of Music, Philadelphia
| Mrs. CONFESS the wife of Senator Con-
ness of California, died in Illinois on the
9th inst.
From four to six inches of snow fell at
Chicago on Sunday, and the sleighing was
excellent.
Rev. Mr.. Dunaway, of Lancaster county,
Pa, has accepted q call to the Baptist
church in Fredericksburg, Va.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
ordered twenty-five locomotives to be built
in Lancaster.
One of the ocean race yachts, supposed
to be the Henrietta, was seen at sea at
noon, December ID, lat. 1870, lon. 90. 56.
The Legislature of Georgia has repealed
all laws denying foreigners the privilege Of
owning real estate.
There are now LOOP convicts in the Hi
nois penitentiary-an increase of nearly 500
in two years.
| The Illinois Senatorship is now contest,
ed by Senator Trumbull, General Logan,
General Palmer and Governor Oglesby.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed has been admitted q
member of the Manhattan Club, the club
of the Dem ocrats in New York
Caspar Vanah, a butcher, has been con
victed at Newark, n j., of selling diseased
horse meat, and fined $25.
The snow storm of Saturday is said to-
have been the heaviest ever known in
Kansas.
Jefferson is meeting with the most IN
bounded success in Washington at the Ma
tional Theatre.
Gen. Grant has purchased the old Dent
homestead, of $50 acres, ten miles from ST..
Louis.
The application of VIM. r. Babcock, i'm
plicated i'll the Lord bond robbery, to be
admitted to bail, has been refused
On Monday from eight to ten inches Of
snow fell In various sections of Maine and
New Hampshire, and two inches at Boston.
Henry Vethake, for many years provost
OF the University of Pennsylvania, died i'll
Philadelphia on Sunday, aged rs years.
The trial of G. w. Gayle, indicted for
treason at Montgomery, Ala, has been
postponed until next spring.
The flour mills of Louisville, Ky, turn
out 2, 600 barrels of -four daily, consuming
annually 5000, 900 bushels of wheat
A Mrs Anna Drummond has been ares
t'1 IN Davenport, Iowa, for having three
husbands at the same time.
1t IS reported that two vessels intended
Tor Fenian privateers, cleared from New
York last Friday.
Mr.. Dearborn, of Hampton, N. H., has
lost seven of his eight children by dipthe-
ria within two months
Two Sunday school teachers fought in 4
church In Chicago recently, and were fined
S5 for it next day.
The annual leasing of the New Orleans
markets, which took place few days since
brought into the city treasury the handsome
sum of $685., 23O.
About 30, 900 British troops are now sta
toned in Ireland, chiefly in the Southern
counties. There is about the number sta
toned in Ireland in 1848.
On the 3D. of January there will be pro-
cession of the trade societies in London
which is to occupy ten miles in length OF
men marching six abreast.