Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-26

- Inc LenON. massachusetts, farmers lost
fifteen hundred bushels Of potatoes BY not
digging them before the cold weather came.
Large quantities of hay are received in
Baton Rogue, La, grown on the neighhOring
plantations. Themanuiacture Of oak slaves
has also grown into Impotence of late in
that neighborhood
"A farm in Washington county, Missouri,
which sold in 1865 for $f25, has lately been
sold to an eastern mining company fur 50,-
900.
Upwards of G,0OO bales Of cotton were
shipped from Savannah, Ga in one day last
week.
Richmond, VT, farmers have been swim
died out Of $1,000 by bogus patent right
agents.
San Francisco tells OF receiving two
thousand tons of lea by II single vessel from
China.
Twenty five thousand pounds Of raisns
were produced on II single farm in Caliior-
mia last year.
The Lynchburg tobacco market is over
stocked.
In Coloma, CAL, during the past season
n single isabella grape vine bore =. 200 clus-
tiers, weighing LOCO pounds
The Office of superintendent of the
Experimental Farm" has been abolished at
Washington by the Commissioner of Aur-
culture.
AT a sherifl's sale in Montgomery, Ala,
land sold at from five to twenty-five cents
an acre. and railroad stock at ten cents ON
the dollar.
The New York mikmen thought TO es-
cape the law by diuting their milk with ice
instead of water. 1t was a nice point, but
it cost them $50.
-Bismark, who until 1865 was lsai,ly in
debt, has now an income of SO. OOO. and
told NJ. De Rothschild that he expects to die
"a millionaire
--Adah Isaacs Menken is about to pub.
fish a book OF her own poems, and has tled.
icated it to Swinburne.
-l.iebig, the great Professor, is tht
brightest ornament of the University of Mu
nlcll, where he enjoys an income OF l5,00t
ilorins.
Thirty per cent Of the population /,
Great britain are unableto write their names
--Garibaldi is treated with great seyerit,
by his jailors
"A fisherman of Hull, Mass, go. stucl
in the mud in shoal water few DAYS ago
and the tide rose and drowned him.
There is said to be a region in Per,
where the climate ''restores consumptiy
persons to health as certainly us night fol
lows day.
Three thousand rations weye issued b.
the Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond. Va
yesterday, to destitute whites and negroes
An inccndary fire at Vicksburg on Thurs
day night destroyed $4,000 worth of pro
perty.
The Hubbel Block and Western Telegraph
Office. III Canandaigua, New York, wer
burned yesterday. Loss, $2i,0OO.
Well-executed counterfeit $40 notes o.
the National Bank Of Commerce, of Ne,
York city, are circulating in Boston.
A number of Canadian volunteer officer
have left Montreal to join the Papal army
A regiment is being recruited in Montres
for the Pope
Charles Dickens is visiting our polio
stations by midnight, and taking some NOR
American Notes.
"A number of Indian delegations are OK
pected to reach Washington about the frs
Of January.
Mr.. Stevens alone, of the Pcnnsylyani
delegation, remains at Washington durin
the holiday recess.
Eighty mechanics were discharged fron
the Washington Navy Yard the other da,
A. y, was served by a green groce
named Berry, and settled his bill once ,
quarter. Once the account was sent in be
fore it was due. A. B. surprising his crcdi
doubted, said, 6 Here's a pretty 3,ulL-Ber
~, you have sent in your biz, Berry, before
i is due, Berry, your father, the Ride,
Berry, would not have been such 0oost
Berry; but you needn't look SO JiocE
Berry; for don't care straw, Berry. andi
shan't pay you till Christmas, Berry. '
One day Lord Chelmsford was WALKING
down the street, when stranger accosted
him saying, "Mr. Birch, believe ?"-
"!f you belive that, Sir, you,ll believe any.
thing, " replied the Ex-Chancellor.