Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-07
This and That.
=" Stormy March has come at last.

The radical Fort Smith (Ark.) Nec
Era Is not dead
Tie Lancaster Eaominer decides Ex-
Gov. Curtin to be wealthy man.
jeff Davis second year of imprison-
ment will soon expire.
The fisherman blows his horn for sell
| fish reasons.
"A gold mine has been discovered in
Marion county, Kentucky.
1t is estimated that the Paris Exposition
will cost this country five million dollars.
The New Hampshire election takes place
March 18th.
Hon. Z. b. Washburnc, of Illinois has
arrived in Paris
| -" What will he do with il p is the great
question in regard to the reconstruction bill.
Why is the letter d like a naughty boy ?
1t makes ma mad
The railroads of which Chicago is the
centre include 5000 miles of track.
"A Methodist church in Albany protests
against the moustache at the sacrament table
| 1t is said Thurlow Weed has purchased
uh iu'cfcSt Ill tuc ". L IONWCTctut hU-
pertiSer.
Strawberries are plenty at the fruit stores
in New York, and one has to spend plenty
Of money to get them.
-Tennessees eniranchisement of her col
ored citizens gives her three more rcpresen-
tatives in Congress.
"A negro boy in Liberty, Mass, in order
to avoid threatened whipping killed his
father.
There were four hundred and twenty
nine deaths in New York last week.
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has
lost the good will of the ch valry by coming
out in favor of negro suffrage.
Two gentlemen of Chicago came near
fighting duel because one of them paid the
fare of the others wife on "A street car.
A young lady in Norfolk walked into
store and cowlidcd clerk who had been
saying naughty things about her
| "A lady advertises in Glasgow paper
that she wants gentleman "for breakfast
and tea
The correspondence between Prince
James and the Duke of Edinburgh got into
the English papers by way of this country
Several wel-known journalists talk of
starting weekly paper in New York, after
the manner Of the London Saturday Review
About eighty reporters are employed by
the London press in the two Houses of Par
lament.
1t is said that Horace Greeley, Reverdy
johnson and Thurlow Weed all advised the
President to sign the Reconstruction Bill.
General Butler thinks tile first session of
the next Congress will last till dog-days at
least.
In Sanduslky, Ohio, they put new boilers
on the stocks and build steamboats, around
them.
Thirteen persons have been arrested in
ireland for keeping grayhounds without be-
ing worth $500 Of freehold property
The height of patience is said to lie a
deaf man waiting to hear the ticking of a
sun dial
Looking at the iron-clad the French
man said to the boy, +" Ees dis war sheep ~
"No," answered the boy, sits a ram"
"A sausage, seventy-five feet long, and
weighing fifty-one pounds, is on exhibition
| in Lancaster, Pa.
| Labor and lumber are reported as COM
ing down in New York. Houses will 90 up
then.
Which one of the Apostles wore the
biggest hat /? The one who had the largest
head, of course.
The " fastest" and 'slowest' authors of
the seventeenth century were Swift and
CraLb,.
Having cut down the tree of Rebellion,
the loyal people are now determined TO dig
out the stump and roots.
81 am going to draw this beau into
knot" as the young lady said when standing
at the hymenal altar.
The P.itsburg LeGdsr contains an ar
ti.le on "Tombs we seen and heard
there!" Is there any grammar in Pittsburg!
| "A colorcd woman died in Riclm, n who
was once married, and leaves thirty five
children.
So many people are out of employment
in New York that recruiting officers are do
ing good business.
"A man in Indiana, who lost two wives
by death, one by elopement and one by di-
vorce, has just married again.
Gases of Asiatic cholera are said to have
recently appeared in New Hartford, c., at
tended with fatal results.
The negro hands employed in the tobac-
co factories of Petersburg are on the stiiAe
for higher wages.
Sixty Catholic priests have arrived at
New Orleans, to open schools for the freed
men,
The Missouri Legislature is considering
the propriety Of admitting women TO tie
State University.
The average money value of every Eu-
ropean emigrant reaching this country is
5000.
Fifteen dollars is the charge in New
York for stufling pet lap dogs which have
departed this life. 1t costs more to stuff
them when they are alive.
The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has been
rebuked for ritualistic tendencies by SEQ
clergymen, magistrates and prominent lay
men of his diocese.
"A Glow-worm with two lights, one the
usual phosphorescent green and the other a
glowing red, has been discovered in the Ar
gentine Republic.
A new law in Mississippi imposes poll
tax on persons without visible means of sup
port, and those who cannot pay it are TO be
held as vagrants.
"A Baptist clergyman. in San Francisco,
Rev. II. A. Sawtelle, has come out for open
communion, and drawn II large congregation
with him.
The radicals in Tennessee accept the
sobriquet of the torch-and-turpentin
party and speak of their opponent as the
tar-and-feathers party"
AN enterprising keep.r Of conlection-
ary store in Waterbury, Conn, has taught a
parrot to say .pretty creature 10 each per-
sou that enters the store. The result is that