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

The Welland Canal is frozen tipb

the character OF Mecca.
General Hancock has appointed Charles
M. Emerson Judge of the Third District
Court OF New Orleans, vice Fellows resi-.
gned.
A bill has been prepared by the House
Military Committee, abolishing all brevel
ranks in the army, and prohibiting further
brevets except for actual service in war.
Kate futile, young woman, threw
herself under the train passing over the
Syracuse and Binghampton IN W Rail
road yesterday, and was so horrible mannlpd
that she died In short time.
1t is thought that the President i'll veto
the bill which has passed both branches of
Congress, striking the word 'white' from
the charter of Washington and Georgetown.
District of Columbia.
"A Memphis despatch state that the
White river steamboat j. S. dfcCune was
burned last Friday night with 1000 bales Of
cotton, the crew barely escaping with their
lives. The steward Of the boat was lost
Dryer the needle gun" inventor is dead.
George Bancroft, the American Minis
ter to Prussia, has had an audience with the
Queen.
The Liverpool Fenians are making most
extensive preparations for a grand finca
procession in honor of the Manchester mar
tyrs next Sunday. A serious riot is appre-
hended, however, from the fact that the
Orangemen threaten to break up the demon
stratiOn.
Mrs. Babcock, Of Norwich, Connect
cut, being divorced from her husband went
and smashed in his windows, She must I've
glass widow,
An ex-Confederate Colonel of Cavalry
now resident in Mobile. has drawn $I0,OM
in the Havana lottery.
In Paris so great is the demand for
spectacular pieces that ballet girls are no
longer attainable either in that city or in the
provinces.
Chicago now has the most extensive
porkpacking establishment in the country
Why should loving wife object to
cheap butterp Because she ought to love
but. her dear.
Victor Hugo never travels by railroad.
Judy inquiries whether speech on board
a ship may not be called deck grafton.
Why is kiss like scandal Becausei
goes from the mouth.
AN Englishman at Holyhead walks on
the water.
"A Wisconsin court pronounces whskey
necessity of life.
"A gentleman in Hartford has an alligator
pet, three feet long, brought from South Car
olina.
One man in the London post office does
| nothing but decipher instructions.
The monument on Plymouth Rock has
been completed. The last stone was placed
| upon the structure on Saturday, when the
ashes of some of the Pilgrim Fathers were
| deposited in one of the chambers.
Paris bakers are compelled to weigh
their bread In the presence of the purchaser
whether requested to do 80 or not
The Ohio wine-makers are now hard
at work.
Willard Fillmore is reported to be writ
ing history of his Presidential adminstn-
ton, to be published after his death.
Last weeks internal revenue receipts
W ere $6,672,S56.
A Baptist church and several other build
ings, in frankfort, Kentucky, were burned
on Friday night, causing a loss Of $3O,OOo.
Aliens furniture store, in Charlestown,
Mass, was destroyed on Friday, by an in
cendiary fire. Loss, $4,000.
General Sherman and the other Indian
Peace Commissioners have arrived in Wash
ington.
A house near London, Canada West, was
burned on Saturday, and an invalid lady
persisted in flames.
A portion of Shaeffer q Co. 8 soap facto-
ry, in St. Louis, was burned on Saturday
Loss, $3.50, 900,
The gale on the Lakes caused several
marine disasters on Saturday.
The bill to incorporate the Northwest
Territory with the Dominion has been pass
ed by the Canadian House Of Commons.
The income of Canada for the year ending
June 80, last, was $16, 400, 1870, and the ex-
penditure $i4 1928, 900. The income of the
Dominion from July to November was
81. 427, 673, and the expenditure $685., 6S''
Mrs. Lander closes her Philadelphia en-
gagement, this week.
Before Santa Annals sentence was an,
nounced in Mexico, he made his last will ana
testament. declaring his property amounted
The Colorado House of Representatives
has passed bill making Denver the Capt.
tai of Colorado.
verdict of $25O,00O for fraud on the
Government. has been given against Cnaiicc
& Co., whiskey distillers, of Cincinnati.
Dudley s. Gregory's mansion in Jersey
City, was damaged by fire to the extent Oh
$20, 900 yesterday morning., -,
The u. s. Consul at Havana, unue'
date of November 9th, reports the con.'h-
ued existence of the cholera in that cry.
The Mexican Congress has assemDlcu, ,
President Juarez has decreed that eYe,y
Mexican citizen be held to five years m'i'-
tary service. 49,,
The Alabama Convention has proyia eu
for the submitting of its new ConstMlsg l.ru
to the registered voters on the 4th OF Fe nn1s
airy next all State officers and Congress
men to be elected at the same time.
in Minnesota "a, 600 acres Of public LANDS
were sold during the month Of OCTOBER
in portions of Missouri, the corn crop
was eaten by wild deer. 49,
The Virginia (Nevada) Post reports rn"1
thirty-five men from Bozeman captuion
eleven horse thieves in the Yellowstone
valley, returned the horses to the owns,s,
and accounted for tie thieves by sayins
they had ''gone to the States"
Elaborate preparations arc being made ~, t1a
hall a Nd foaftvsI thu benefit OIL tuu