Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-09-20
NEWS ITEMS,

female cricket match was played re-
cehtly IN southampton, England.
Ihe chicken cholera is very destructive
In East Tennessee.
Mr. Gorham, the defeated candidate for
years of age. VIII -lour
"A young girl has been arrested in C;n.
clnnatl, VINO confessed to having set abont
dozen houses on fire. ''"o"'
Inc FresDyterians of York, Pa, are
building chapel which will cost from
'"elVe 10 htteen thousand dollars.
oeVen-elghths of the deaths from yellow
ever ever IN new Orleans are of foreign or nm
acclimated persons L u "ii-
nan million yards of goods ON hand
ana Unsold is the reason of CLOSING tbo
Woolen mills in Ashuelot, N. Fl.
The London mint coined the immense
number OF 80, l64, 791 pieces in 1866 the
'alue OF which altogether was e5, $40. ZIG
Ihad. Stevens is Wendell Phillins' cap-
Grant. -ooo W e'en'
United States steamer Iroouois from,
Muscat and Bombay, bound to- China ar
rived at Alden, Aug. IL.
Mr.. Richard H. Rousseau. the Trn;+od
States Minister to Honduras. was desner.
ately Ill at last accounts.
Inc winner of swimming match in
England accomplished one Thousand wards
IN eighteen minutes and thirteen seconds.
lev Dr. Thomas H. Taylor, Rector of
Grace Church, New York. died at West
arh' on the hudson, on Monday night
Inc Democrats of New York fired 100
guns on tuesday in honor of the result of
the California and Maine elections
The Richmond (Ya.) papers record the
ussatn OF John ID. Gentry, well-known
resident of that city.
There is a Methodist preacherin England
only one inch taller than Tom Thumb. AS
curiosity he draws crowds-audiences of
1000. -
WolVes are very numerous III the vicinity
OF Houlton, Ludlow, and other towns in
Eastern Maine. They dote on the spring
lambs. "f- .
The number of American tourists in
canada, 1t IS announced, is quite large,
and has been SO during the entire summer
season.
The Rev S. H. McMullen, of West PhiIa-
delphla, has accepted call to the chair of
Ureek literature IN the Miami University,
in Oxford, Ohio
London printers are in distress. One
fourth OF them have been out of work for
I"o mOnthS' ana as many more are en-
ployed but half the time.
Dispatches from the Indian country saw
that the Cheyennes and Sioux are willing to
make peace, and are anxious to see the
commissioners.
There are two hundred and sixty-tyo elec-
ton precincts IL Philadelphia, and the ex-
pense OF holding an election in that city is
$l1, 100
VIM. Hagadorn, for oyer forty years con-
nected with the Democratic press of New
YORK State dled at Harlem, on Tuesday,
aged 76
The ship Invincible, of the California
and New York line, and valued at $75, ,OOO
was partially destroyed by fire, at her dock
on Tuesday night, at New York.
Two colored persons escaped from Jail
at Princess Anne, Maryland, 31st ultimo.
One OF them had previously been arrested
at Alexandria, Virginia, charged with steal
ing.
). 5. Caruthers, teller of the Central Rail-
road Bank at Savannah, Ga, absconded on
account OF So, 900 deficiency in the bank,
but was found on board q vessel for Ha-
vana, and brought back. He says he al
A portrait of Washington. painted by
Stuart IN 1888, inherited bya descendant
OF the first President of the United States,
now living at Fredericksburg, Va, in re-
duced circumstances, is on exhibition and
sale in this city.
Alexander Duhamel Renshaw. an enci
neer IN the revenue service, and stationed
at New Orleans, died of yellow fever at that
place on the I'd inst. Mr. Renshaw was a
nephew of DIR. Duhamel, of this city, and
In the twentieth year of his age
Intelligence from Porto Rico states that
another revolution had broken out, that
the Captain General had fed and that the
revolutionlsts have sent to New York to
telegraph General Prim to place himself at
their head.
The Grand Lodge of the United States,
1. Q: 0. r., will assemble at Irving Hall,
in New York city, on Monday next. They
will be formally welcomed by the Grand
Lodge of the State of New York. This
Grand Lodge represents not only the Or
der in the United States, but Canada and
the British Provinces also.
A young lady at the Glenn House con-
fessed with tears to the wife of friend
that her husband was q brute GAS an in
stance, she said, "he forbade me to take
more than three trunks, to be gone q whole
month, and then--then-" breaking down
with sobs) "What then," said the other.
" Why, then, he put his hat and linen in
to one of my own trunks, and took ever so
much room away from me again" "Did
you consent to thisunmanly appropriations"
90 Dear me, I had to !; but used his shirts
for napkins, and my poodle made dog
house of his hat !" Humanity was yindi-
Gated !" said No. 2.
handsome young widow applied to
physician to relieve her of three distressing
with which she was affected.
I'm the first place." said she, 81 have
little 'or no appetite. What shall I take for
,hat?"
''For that, madam, you should take air
md exercise"
''And, doctor, 1 am quite fdgetty at
night time, and afraid to be. .alone-what
shall take for that?"
"For that, madam, / can only recon-
mend that you take husband"
"Fie doctor. But I have the blues
erribly. What shall take for that?"
''For that, madam, you have, besides ia
Ting air and husband, to take tho news