Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-05-30
This and That.

-Doubled-the circulation of the Della
ware Tribune, since April lst,
The Chicago Republican proposes that
city for the next worlds fair.
The ice no longer obstructs the harbor
at Buffalo.
! Congressman Wm..E. Dodge has given
$50, 900 to Williams College A good Dodge!
The organization of colored militia
companies at Annapolis is frightening some
of the Maryland conservatives.
Old Singleton says that he only knows
of one thing better than a wedding present
wedding absent.
Alice Carey has written novel entitled
'sThe Bishops Son." and the scene is laid in
New England. as
"A bust Of General Sheridan has been
placed alongside of the portrait of Abraham
Lincoln in the mayors office at New Orleans.
Il They say Miss Richings has netted $780,
900 during her last two engagements in Phil
adelphia. 4sas
76--At St. Louis, on Tuesday, a converrh.i
of steamboat men assembled to considc. ...e
various interests of river navigation.
The total number of cmigrants that
arrived at New York for the quarter ena.n5
March 81, 1867, was 27,6l9.
Walker and Sharkey's amended Missis-
sippi bill has been submitted to the Supreme
Court without argument.
A tax has been imposed on babies in
Turkey. We read of attacks on babies du-
ring Herod's time.
Fowls which have died of the chicken
cholera are sold in the market at Galena,
| Ill. A Foul sell.
The Chicago Tribune says that outside
Chicago there is but very little disturbance
ON account of the eight hour law in Illinois.
| The Kingston Daily News wants Canada
to establish paper fractional currency i'll
order to drive out American coin.
g is s'of the Earth, earthly" 1t pulls
down the stars by changing astronomy into
gastronomy..
A Montreal dispatch says reports arc in
circulation that arms have been collected on
the frontier at different points. How about
the legs?
A New York correspondent says that
new religious paper is projected in that
city, of which Henry Ward Beechcr is TO be
editor.
A singular and fatal epidemic, battling
iAe skill of physicians, has broken out
among the children of negroes in Pulaski
county, Va.
General Schofcld has ordered the dis
bandment Of the Lincoln Mounted Guards
(colored), and prohibits their parades or
drill at Richmond.
"A couple of the jurors on the Grand
Jury at Richmond, deny that John G.
Breckinridge and Judge Thomas, of Fairfax,
have been indicted for treason.
The Vermont conference at its late scs-
sion resolved hereafter to admit no one to
its membership who uses tobacco in any
form.
1t was an apt answer ofa young lady
who being asked where was her native
place, replied, 81 have none; am the
daughter offs Methodist minister"
If venders of headgear style themselves
Psychologists" people who sell coverings
for the pedal extremities might be called
sock biologists.
Over one hundred Poles arrived in Gal
weston a few days since. We saw large
number arrive in Market Street the other
day. They were fishing Poles.
Lord Lornc, the English tourist, says in
his book, that he found Boston ''detestable,'
and the Bostonians ''bitter, witha DISPOSE
ton akin to that of savages." Lord chow
| for-LorneD
"A drama founded on Mr.. Charles
Reade's s'Grifiith Gaunt" has been produced
at neutrality-suspicious., under the authors
superinte dcnce previously, tits presumed,
TO its being presented in the metropolis.
| The Battery at New York is to be much
improved in every respect. Tic barracks
have been removed, and large office, light
house and granite dock are to be at once
erected.
lord BE ugham, it is feared, is i'll past
hope. in Nice The veteran statesman ana
scholar. is still in the full possession oil MS
mental faculties but his physical powers,
which for many years have seemed to defy
the encroachmcnts of time, are yielding at
last to the infrmities OF age.
Punch gives this advice to lonely travel
lers Ii you are walking along a dangerous
road, and footpad stops you with "Stand
and deliver" say pleasantly, ''Youre the
man for my money This will raise a
smile on his saturnine contenance. Take