Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-02-01
West Virginia Test-Oath.

| On the 18th ins' the Court of Appeals of West
Virginia decided at the law requiring attorneys
at law to take oath that they had not particpa-
ted in the rebellion was constitutional, and over
ruled the application of ex- x-Lieutenant Governor
Price and other attorneys to be admitted to that
bar without taking the test-Oath An appeal is to
| be taken from that decision to the Supreme Court
Of the United States.
A thoughtless young mother of fifteen
years, residing in Los Angeles, placed her
infant child, six months old, on the back
of colt without bride or halter, and tied
the legs of the infant under the belly of
the colt, q Ia Mazeppa, so that it could not
fall off, and lettiug go the colt, it took
| fright and ran off into the underbrush with
the infant, tearing its flesh and breaking
it's bones, until life was extinct and moth
ing remained of the poor child but a shape
less mass of flesh.
The New Orleans Times Montgomery
speciaD says that the Supreme Court Of
Alabama has decided the act of Congress
requiring stamp upon State legal process
| to be unconstitutional. Chief Justice Wal
ker also decides that Alabama, being de
facto government under the Confederacy,
it's personal representatives are protected
from all loss in Confederate investment un-
der an act of the Legislature. The court
was unanimous.
It was stated at ST. Petersburg that
France and Russia had concluded conven-
ton relative to the restoration of the chap
els in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
at Jerusalem. The French and Russian
representatives in Jerusalem demand that
the houses built on the terraces of the
church shall be pulled down.
The Lynnhburg Republican, in an article
on the Stay Law, says that Judge Mere
dith's decision may be effected by the fact
of his appointment by an unconstitutional
Governor.
The Centre Church at Hartford, Connec-
! ticut, is now two hundred and thirty years
old, it having been organized in 1886.
According to French work the next de-
! luge is due in about six thousand years
from this date.
Petitions are circulated in Philadelphia
to have the use of salt on street railway
tracks prevented. Diptheria is alleged to
result from it.
The New York ''Post says it requires
an income of nearly $40, 900 to live comfort
ably in New York.
Mr.. J. S. Clarke has withdrawn from the
joint proprietorship of the Winter Garden,
Pineapples were introduced in England
during the protectofate of Oliver Crom-
well.
On the 18th instant, the ginnery of FL.
NJ. Suart, at Beaufort, s. c., was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance, SIS, 600.
The newest dance is called the {" Kiss Co
tillion.' 1t is said to be popular where in
troduced.
Five murderers in the Efingham county
ILL.,, Jail, waiting to be hanged, became i'm
patient and left
An Illinois editor thinks Theodore Til
ton must have to climb ladder to comb
his hair.
Jenkins, describing ball, speaks of col
factories feted with perfumed and languid
JOY"
Two anglers recently caught seventy five
pounds of p1ckerel through an ice hole in
Saratoga Lake.
Dr. w. w. Hammer, of Lynchburg, was
struck with paralysis last Sunday, and all
his left side completely paralyzed.
A young man Can sleigh young woman
nowadays and not be arrested.
Flour is cheaper in Colorado than it is in
New York.
There are only one hundred and twenty
seven voters in Honduras.
Lumbermen in Wisconsin are praying
for snow.
A very unpopular officer with some of
the ladies-General Housework.
The prize money for Americsn sailors
during the late war will foot up $6. 600, 600.
Ristori's one night in Detroit, netted S.
600 profit.
James, the famous English wrestler, died
recently.
A Bhoolmistress in Olmstead, Ohio, has
beaten little girl, pupil, almost TO death.