Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-18
This and That.

The State Of Virginia has an emigrant
agency in London.
The conservative papers in Texas general
ly recommend acquiescence in the Military
bill.
--Pittsburg, Pa, recently sent a steamer
by water four thousand miles TO the Missouri |
river, and the Montana mining districts.
Hon. Myer Strouse, NJ. c., has had pla-
ced in his hands, for return TO the owner, |
stolen ring belonging to JEFF. Davis
The convicts in the Alabama penitentia-
ry at Watumpka are being hired out 10 work
on the railroads Of the State.
:" Worth makes the man, that is prac-
tically, the man'srespe depends upon
how much he is worth. Il Ec.
They have a man at Old Lynne, Conn,
one hundred and three years old, who voted
for English the other day.
"A man in Mount Holly, n. j., killed his
horse the other day by striking him on the
head with his fist
Two hundred thousand dollars were ap-
propriated by Wisconsin this year for chari-
table purposes.
Boston appropriates seventeen thousand
five hundred dollars to celebrate the Fourth
OF July.
Three negroes were lynched at Fort
Scott, Kansas, lately, OH account of supposed
murders.
The Jews are contemplating the estab-
lshment of an insurance company in New
York with large capital.
| Wisconsin supports one hundred and
thirty-three newspapers five repub-
lican and forty-eight democratic.
An agriculturist advises all gardeners and
orchard attendants to begin now to extermi-
nate the caterpillcrs.
They PROPOSE at the Saratoga Springsto
lay pipes TO New Yorl. city SO that the water
may be brought fresh.
The vicissitudes of life were illustrated
on short street in Roxbury, Mass, on
Fast Day, where marriage, birth and death
took place in the same honr.
The house carpenters of New York have
struck for four dollars per day, and great
many OF the bosses have aceeded to their
terms.
An idle fellow, who has been making
anagrams on the names of public men, says
The best he can do with Salisbury is-Salu-
bryus.
The fires produced by the great colliery
) explosion in Virginia are still burning, and
ii is believed they cannot be cxtlnguished
, inside Of three weeks.
Boys idea Of having tooth drawn may
be summed up as follows "The doctor
hitched fast on il, pulled his best and just
, before it killed me the tooth came out.
j Harriet Beccher Stowe is reported as SO
+ delighted with Florida that she has purcha
scd place on St. Johns river, and intend.
; to take up her residence there
$ Paris has upward of eighty free schools
r employing more than two hundred female
teachers and educating annually some fifteen
thousand poor girls
The eontye-ddnse is a native OF Eng
land; the waltz of Germany; the galol
came from Hungary, and the origin of tin
schottische is unknown.
1t is said the Great Eastern, which aTi
we'd at New York Il week ago, crossed th'
:, Atlantic with hole in her large enough t'
have sunk an ordinary steamer in an hour.
Ii Unusual good order is said to character
J. ize New Orleans at present. The remoya
t. of Mayor Monroe and other officers by Gen
e Sheridan created no disturbance.
II An eminent statistcian says & OF TIN
II twenty-nine thousand four hundred an,
1t eighty Young ladies' who tainted last year
q only seventeen had the misfortune to fall OF
the floor"
rs Henry Morford will soon make his ap
$ pearance before the public in another book
is entitled Over the Sea, portions of whic
Ii have already been published in the HON
~ Journal.
!, The burning Of the body of the lat
pi King of Siam was great occasion. Oyt
10000 people witnessed the ceremonies
re which were Of most magnificent and impc
rs sing character.
~ On the last anniversary of the birth
y Prince Imperial, the Emperor OF the Frenc
~ granted pardons to eighteen condemne
II criminals, and communications of punishmel
= to twenty seven others.
w. Hepworth Dixons New Ameri'
has reached its fifth edition in England.
great number of copies have been sold
20 this country. II is the first instance whe
- an approach TO justice has been done Il
i, United States by English writers.
he A Capt John Powell, of Brooklyn, pr
;s poses to cross the ocean in June next, in
twenty-six by seven feet vessel, without sa
Ter or steam--the motive power to he VIII
ms mill attached to and turning pair OF 81
M wheels.
nat Boomers new building in New York
ion to be five stories high with marble front,
all, proof and with every accommodation
the publication of the Ledger 1t is to
on situated at the corner of Spruce and Will
Gle streets.
on Albert Pike says Andrew jackson ,
sen dictator and domineered over Congress
cps cause the populace was at his back.
age drew johnson has subsidized into feeble in:
be nificance because the populacc is at the b
of Congress- In little while no one will
IN so poor as to do him reverence.
'on- The Pail Mall Gazette refers to the
'oi mer connection of John Stuart Mill v