Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-22
NEWS ITEMS.

Matilda Heron is in Albany
Hon. T. A. Scott is at the st. Nicholas.
Miss Kellogg is going to Europe
Green Clay Smith is in Washington.
The French Count Lubersac is at the
Clarendon.
Count De Montaigne, of Paris, is at the
Brevoort.
Major General Ed. McCook is at the st.
Nicholas.
Fred. Douglass lectured in ST. Louis last
Friday night
A. Rose, a blighted Rose of Chicago.
shot himself. through the head for love.
Rose Eytinge closed her engagement in
Washington on Saturday night
Chief Justice Bigelow, of Massachusetts,
is at the Westminster.
The negro testimony bill was defeated by
the Kentucky Senate on the 7th inst
An exchage says of the two boys who are
to drum for the championship of the North
west that both will beat
Anecdotes should be sent to O newspaper
SO amusing that the compositor cannot set
them up for laughter.
Crosby has made hundreds of persons
Gross by not heaping an opera house "onto
them"
Miss Evans, of Mobile, the author of
"Benlah" and est. Elmo" is at the st.
Nicholas.
Seventy-ive new plays were produced in
Paris last year.
General Braxton Bragg has sold his war
horse in Mobile for SIS, 900.
The Patent Office is self-sustaining. and
now has on hand fund of $3.50, 900, after
paying all expenses.
Thad. Stevens Redistribution bill not
only strangles the Constitution, but mur-
ders the civil rights bill.
James Barron Hope, Norfolk journalist,
has delivered a lecture in Richmond on
Colonial Virginia"
Lieutenant Colonel O. w. Holmes, Jr.,
OF the Massachusetts militia, has been bre-
veted Colonel
Co-onel Henry, q Kentuckian sculptor,
has been doing bust of the lamented Lin
coin. which will be inaugurated at Louis
vile on the 18th.
Mr. L. ". Jerome has lately made grant
of land to Yonkers for public cemetery,
and earned thereby the gratitude of every
true Yonker.
Jefferson closed a series of great hits by
his appearance in Baltimore, on Saturday,
in the character of Dr.. PasgEoSs in Cole
mans ''Heir at Law"
The largest heads in the United States
Senate are those carried by Grimes, Pom
erOy, and Van Winklc. Each measures
twenty-four inches. Vioe prenologie!
Artemus Wards illness is ascribed to the
bad Jests he has perpetrated since he went
to England. He Says q man can't be as
funny as in America
An aged gentleman is said to have re.
marked that there never was woman born
who could survive great while if she had
her own way in everything all the time.
A. A. Kelley, the proprietor of the
North American gift concert, of Chicago,
has quietly left that city for parts unknown.
The drawing was to have taken place on the
2Sth ult., but it didn't.
A Nashville negro has sued Mr.. Walker
for false imprisonment, laying damages at
$50, 900, because Walker had him arrested
on suspicion of robbery, which, it now ap-
pears was committed by another.
Colonel Wilson's family name, it appears
is not Wilson, but Goliath, and the ''Col."
currently prefxed to the Senator's name is
probably an abbreviation from this At
least, 1t is not explicable on any other hy-
pothesis.
A man has been arrested in Hungary for
killing four children and eating their hearts
raw. He acted on the belief that he would
have the power to become invisible when
he had eaten seven, but was not permitted
to carry his experiment to conclusion
He onght to have been made invisible on
eating the first one.
A Western paper says Buffers patriotism
IS sterling" 1t will surprise the Doctors
friends to hear that, after all his talk about
the foreign financial enemies of the coun-
try, has gone and invested the fruits of his
own loyalty in British securities
A Philadelphia lawyer" gives the fol-
lowing definition of law and equity: "At
common law you are done for at once at
equity you are not so easily disposed Of
One is prussic acid and the other is lauda-
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