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

The Augusta Georgia. Chronicle esti-
mates the number Of the disfranchised classes
in that State at s,772.
The property known as the Gold Ridge
farm, in Prince William county, Virginia,
was disposed of the other day, to G. A.
Wheelock, for $4,000, or 300 per acre.
George Thompson is to accompany
William Lloyd Garrison to the anti-slavcry
convention which meets the ensuing summer
in Paris.
The Rev. NJ. D. Conway, who deliver
ed the discourse at the burial Of Artemus
Ward, in England, is a native and former
resident of Stafford county, Va.
The New Orleans Picdyune puts the
negro equality question thus g 1t is redicu-
lous for any one to pretend that he is lower
ed or disgraced by going to the polls with
negro, when he crowds in at the general de-
livery with him to get letter at the post
Office
1t is said that Messrs. Spiers & Pond,
the contractors, lately despatched 60 pretty
English girls to Paris to serve in the saloons;
80 were blondes, and were for the English
department; the remaining 80 were brunet-
ties, and were for the American department
"A notorious pickpocket has sued the
police commissioners of Memphis in the sum
of $4,000 for damages done his character
by parading him through the streets of that
city with placard on his shoulders bearing
the title of g Pickpoclket and Thief
The British Anti Tobacco Society offers
ESQ for the best approved essay on the his
tory and properties of tobacco, and on its
physical action on the human hody, through
its various modes Of employment and ESQ
for the best approved essay on the moral,
social and economical results OF the use OF
tobacco.
One of the best of our eXtempore
preachers afiirms that he sometimes, in his
best hours, loses all conscious hold upon
his mind and speech, and while perfectly
sure that all is going on well in his attic, il
seems to him that somebody is talking VI
there and he catches himself wondering
who under the sun that fellow is who il
driving on at such rate.
: The Petersburg Intlec not only give
up all hopes of justice to the South from th'
present generation, but despairs also o
posthumous appreciation. 1t is plain t
see,n it says, "that it will be no easy tasl
! for the Southern States to obtain, in tn
: Judgment of posterity, the justice which
: their due
+ A Welsh jury which convicted pedle
S named Jones of numbering one Thoma
h Watkins, at Aberdare, ''intended to recon
/ mend him to mercy, but being somewhs
II distracted through differences of opinio
} whether they should find him guilty at al
i forgot the recommendation.
When the New York democratic col
,r vention voted to exclude all the city del
/ gates but those from Tammany, correspo
ID dent says that the Mozarters, with Mr.. b
cr Wood, in funeral array and with solemn ste
10 marched out of the hail. uttering langua
IN which, if not pro&ne, certainly could not
OF considered sacred.
h Mr.. Conway, writing from London
a regard to American newspaper correspo
he dents abroad, says: Indeed, American ct
k respondents are getting the reputation
ed being in league with all the potentates
it Europe. Smalley of the Tribune came o'
as here, went over to Berlin while the Germ
is war was going on, and was soon chatti
ost familiarity with Bismarck, and presently
MT headquarters, while Edward Dicey, q
He other correspondents of the London pr
Ike were tediously disintangling the endless +
yht tape worm which held them in Berlin III
pill the war was nearly over. When the X
ng, of Italy visited Venice, Coffin (''Carleto
hat was there taking notes not three yards fl
on, him ali the time, while G. A. Sala, rel
ore senting the London Telegraph, slit
ain grandly in gondola with two ladies
gnashing his teeth at the police, who X
ner him at bay a halfmile from the center OF
ood terest,