Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-19

nuC 10 lounu Ill hTlSihD CeluetcTy.
II am anxiously expecting you-A. ID. 1927.
s'Here ANA. d. 1867"
The farmers in portion of Iowa are sal
10 have over one hundred thousand bushel
of surplus wheat stored away, under the i'm
preston that higher prices will rule durinI
the winter and spring.
in Washington.
Secretary Stanton is absent In Ohio, at.
tending the funeral of a relative.
Nine civil officials have been removed
by-Gen. Pope within short time.
j. B. Crockett has been appointed to
the Supreme Bench Of California
"A portrait painter in New York an
nounces that he has a representation of
death as large as life.
The latest novelty in fire arms is gun
which is capable of being discharged with a
reprimand.
The Freedmen's Bureau has proved
very useful piece OF furniture for Uncle
| Sam.
1t was well meant but novel compli-
ment from parishioner, who declared to
her minister she did not know which most
to admire-his last Thanksgiving sermon or
his wife's new silk dress.
In Leeds, Me-, recently, youth of 15
years locked congregation in church and
then robbed the house of one of the deacons.
Andrew Porter, ex-General McClellan's
Provost Marshal, is in Washington, end ca
yoering to secure consulship for himself
President johnson has been sustained
by tile Senate Finance Committee for sus-
pending Collector James, of Richmond, for
alleged corruption OF office.
Divorce is termed ssunhitchment" In
Detroit
1t is estimated that 100000 persons
have come from abroad and settled in Mis-
souri, within year.
-Eighty-three silver bricks from single
mine in Colorado were recently on exhibit
tion in Denver, They weighed together
more than ton.
President johnson has purchased farm
in Greene County, Tennessee, in anticipa-
tion OF the close of his term. We hope he
will make good farmer
Canadian railroads carried two and half
millions passengers last year, land killed only
seventy seven of them, Their receipts were
eleven millions, or less than ten per cent, of
the cost. Nearly 5000 persons are employ
ed, of whom almost two-thirds look to the
Grand Trunk for their pay.
1t is stated, but we do not know on how
good authority, that George William Curtis
is writing novel.
Sometime ago boy was run over by a
railroad train in Indiana and lost both legs.
He sued the company and recovered $l0,-
900 damages. An appeal was taken and af-
ter innumerable delays the poor boy is glad
to compromise for $3.50, and pay his own
cost. We seem to have read somewhere
that corporations have no souls.
in single ship now on the way to
Liverpool from San Francisco, is wheat of
the value Of $l07,63S. In weight it is $3.50
tons.
Tennessee has voted almost five million
dollars as State aid to railroads.
Indiana has public debt of less than
four millions. 1tsreceipts last year exceeded
its expenditures by more than $l50,0O0.
Very large amounts of tobacco have been
put upon the market in Lynchburg, Va, ,and
planters are experiencing considerable losses
in consequence. The reason for the un-
usually early sale of the cropis the fear Of
loss by theft
"A man in st. Louis while engaged in
conversation a few days ago, lost the power
of speech and has not recovered it.
AS an explanation of the number of gol-
den wedding occurring for two or three years
Baet,ib 10 otutSN tnub Wiz uutnDSi VI hlullldBCo
in 1915 and the two years following just
after the close of the war was very great,
and prediction is made that similar phe-
nomenon will occur in 1915, from similar
cause
indiana is to have a long campaign. The
republican convention will be held February
20, while the election does not occnr till Oc-
tober.
"A Prussian who claims to be q cousin
to Bismark was arrested for drunkenness in
Milwaukee the other night, and was natur-
ally very indignant at the Infringement of his
rights.
Texas is now the only State in which
no reconstruction election has been held
The registration, however, is completed,
and shows sc, GG6 whites and A, 430 blacks.
In 1850 the State cast abont $4,000 votes.
"A stock company is being formed in
this city to go into the rather novel business
of manufacturing ladies' rubber bosoms un-
der a new patent.-Spyinafeld Republi-
can.
"A Thanksgiving article very appropri-
ately concludes with this verse;
'The eagle he is very nice bird
For tie battle time Of the free;
But when the sweet notes of peace are heard,
Oh the turkeys the bird for me- my boys
Tho turkeys the bird for me-"
1t Is salu tnal the census embraces
seventeen million women Who wouldn't
be a census?
The Rev. DIR. w. C. Swami nominated
by the philadelphia National Constitu-
tional Union Association" for mayor of that
city is Il brother of Maryand's notorious
renegade Governor.
The Newark (N. J.) Adcertiser learns
that Mr.. Edward A. Stevens of Hoboken,
n, j.. is about to engage in the enterprise
of constructing horse railroads in Paris,
and has engaged the services of Gen. G. b.
Mcclellan as engineer. We should think
an enterprise of this character better suited
to the Generals abilities than the command
ID. c. Sellers, Of Wilcox county, Ala
bama, has decided to King Sellers, an old
servant in his iamily, forty acres of land, in
consideration OF his fidelity while slave,
and his good conduct since emancipation.
Raphael Semmes is lecturing on "The
Winds and the Waves" to small Southern
audience.
The Hon. Oakes Ames, of Mass, is
said to be the richest member of the present
Congress Next to him in respect to wealth,
comes Fernando Wood, of New Yo.k.
Dickens has realized $4,000 from his
four readings in Boston. and it is estimated
that during his stay in this country his entire
profits will reach 100000.
Tho colored people of Albany, N. Y.
have established society-one ofthe prom
incnt objects of which is the delivery of lit
erary, historical and scientific lectures by
competent gentlemen during the winter
This is progress in the right direction.
-sIt is stated in New York that Mr..
Dickens has accepted an invitation to be
present at the grand ball to be given on
Thursday at the Academy of Music, in aid
of the American Dramatic Fund.
Out of 25i deaths in Philadelphia last
week, III were of children, and 35 OF the
remaining SO were by consumption.
AS Charles Dickens left Boston Max
Maretzek entered. Both are men of notes.
The telegraph brings tine startling intel
ligence, this morning, that a number of
whiskey men have arrived at Washington.
"A partner In one OF our eminent COM
mercial firms, on looking into newspaper
last week, suddenly inquired, Who is this
Dickens they are making such iuss about?"
SucI is fame