Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-08-08
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-l.ous Kossuth has been elected to the Hum
garian Dict, from the city or wartzcn, by a unan-
imous vote. The diet is expected to present a
very good bill of fare.
How many peas are there in u pint? One D.
The erection of bridge over the Delaware
at Philadelphia is talked about.
1t is stated that Colonel Forney's letters from
Europe are to be collected and published in book
form.
If you desire to know how to make the most
OF good thing, just watch one of our experienced
huckstcr women filling quart measure of black
berries or strawberries from her tray. They fall
as lightly from her tin spoon "as snow flakes
fall upon the sod"
Cape Mays first grand dress ball, this season,
took place Thursday evening. The ladies' were
deliberately attired and the gentlemen, in order
to correspond, wore " full dress SUITS" The fol-
lowing was the programme of the dancing:-
Galop & Waltz
2 Lanccrs o OuadrllefTem ro,o,
Z Waltz Dcux Tcmps) 10 Galop ' p''''
4 Quadrille II Polka Redow,
D tialOp IL Ouadrille
9 Polka Redowa 10 Finale Gallon
lhnccrs
business of a mercantile character il rcner-
ally dull, in this city. Many of our business men
are absent for their summering. During the past
week, some have gone to Cape May, some to
Doubling Gap Springs, in Pennsylvania. and
some to the Isle of Shoals, on the New Hamp-
shire coast party of nine or ten returned. n
few days ago, from trip to the Catskills, Lake
George, and Northern New York.
--" big fsh''-The Prince of W(h)ales.
"A century plant" -Lorrillards Tobacco.
The salmon in the Solway are dying of sun
stroke. Queer doings for " Old Sol. in solway
is" Century Tobacco so called because II
takes II Century to find a 800 greenback in n
package of iti
=" Democratic money" Is returning. Sontb.
ern papers come North wrapped in one thousand
dollar confederate bonds.
"A very poor apology for an American Punch
is inc" New York Weekly Humorist, Just start
ed in that city.
There is Il great deal of Irritation at all sum
mer resorts, but the Sulphur Springs should be
the best place for matches,
The Advcntists preach the immediate send of
all things, and at the same time build l,ouses of
worship substantial enough tn last n hundred
| years.
The New York Tribune prulently cDunsrls
Brownlow, "now that he is Governor again 10
"stop making speeches. He means well enough,
"and acts well. But he talks at times in a wild
"extravagant way, which only does harm"
Mr.. William F. Poole, known to some of onr
readers as very pleasant and genial companion,
as well us gentleman of culture, the Librarian
OF the Boston Athenaeum, has Ia preparation a
new edition of his "Index to Periodical Litcra-
ture." Aprevions edition had brought the work
to 1852, and this will now be continued to the
present year.
| We think we mentioned, some DAYS ago Tho
association Of Mr.. 81 .Ahcrn, with Mr. Sweetzer
in the ownership of the N. Y. Ereniag Gastte
Whether or not, we take occasion to say that Oh,
paper itself is one of the very best of those thai
come 10 our table. 1t Is conducted with care
taste, and energy, and there is great deal Of
hard work put upon it. We trust now that tn,
swelling tide of the fall business is approaching
that it is safely through its season of trial
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the poet, and wife o
d.. 8. G. Howe, of Boston, is descended from a,
old soldier of Cromwell, who settled in Rhod,
Island, during the reign of Charles II, and mar
ried daughter of Roger Williams. Apropos o
j Cromwell, we have in Wilmington, a well-knowl
and wealthy Citizen who traces his descent di
rectly back, some seven removes to the grea
Dictator himself. While an origin in royal bloot
is generally SO much appreciated, we should b,
decidedly more proud of Cromwcllian ancestry
than 70 be OF the line Of Charles II or George ~