Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-01-03
This and That.

--Ex-C ongrcssmen Peck, of Verment,
died last week.
"A man has been fined in Detroit for
kicking a dog.
Two grain elevators in Chicago have
cleared profit of $75, 900 in two months.
Three hundred Scotch farmers are on
their way to settle in Texas.
Genuine Japanese girls will serve coffee
at the Paris exhibition in genuine cafe.
No smoking is allowed on Sundays IN
the streets OF Memphis, Tenn.
The Richings Opera Troupe is at no
chester, this week.
"A little girl was badly injured in Boston
by a snow-slide from roof.
Petitions are being circulated and large
" signed asking the Illinois Legislature 10
establish impartial suffrage in that STATE. -
Hartley Coleridge once Icing askeu
which of Worlsworth's productions he CON
sidered the prettiest, very promp'iy rei'he''
iIIis daughter Dora ,..uh,ar
..when you arc of my age; you VIII "
dreaming of husband. ''fes, mamma,
renlied the Young lady, ''for the second
time. .e .,,a
New Jersey Legislature, has gone to the
| State prison for one year at hard labor, and
il forever disqualified from holding any office
Of trust or profit in the State. Cause
|
bribery.
Campbell, the baritone, was accidental
Nv cut with knife in Buffalo on Saturday
evening, during the performance OF Era
Diavolo."
An editor at a dinner table, being asked
if he would take some pudding, replied, IN q
fit of abstraction towing to the crowd OF
other matter. we arc unable to find room
for it.
The Agricultural College OF Pennsylva-
mia. located at Bellefonte, Centre county,
has had, during the year about to close, one
hundred and fourteen students. They are
from nearly every State in the Union.
"A Paris girl tells story Of servant
girl lying at the point Of death, who was
suddenly restored to health by having her
eyelids rubbed with a small piece OF the
Pope's white flannel shirt.
A Young man in Cincinnati WAS fined
$50 for kissing u pretty girl when she didnt
want him to. Many young man has pald
more than that after kissing pretty CIR
who did want him to.
There is a steamboat on the Mississippi
] named the 'Plain City," In honor of Phila'
delphia, we suppose.
: Persons contemplating suicide, can save
, expense of cord or dagger by going. to Mis-
souri,, where they will he killed gratis.
: The citizens of Jackson, Mississippi
4 have contributed $4OO to the sufferers
+ the Vicksburg contiagration.
Dubuque was enlivened recently ny TN
8 spectacle Of a young lady administering
e public hiding to former lover. Gauss
!. unknown. ~.
: Horse thieves are so numerous III Mis-
, souri, and Kansas that vigilance committee
r have been organized in several counties II
: hunt them down.
G y. is reported that the Democrats VIII
ii are dissatisfied with the recent course OF til
n Chicago Times have subscribed $3.50, 600 t
n start newspaper.
% 1t is stated that of nine daily newspaper
published in Boston, in 1913, but three ar
Is now in existence; and that out OF twenty
j. eight magazines then published, but three
+ the Missionary Herald, the Christian Exam
iner, and North American Review, are no'
l. published But twelve out of thirty-fiv
?, weekly papers published at that time Al
re printed at present.
to Fifth Avenue, New York, is all agog
l. regard to an important breach OF promi'
case that is soon to be commenced. II
vs. scions of two aristocratic families are Il
es parties. The lady is reported to be extreme
beautiful, while the gentleman is pitt
with the smallpox.
v" Col. Badeau, of Grants staff, has near
lbs completed biography Of the General, upS
which he has worked two years.