Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-03-28
This and That.

The smokers tune-the spittoon.
The Cretes have killed 10000 Turks.
How to soften the braia--Drink hard.
MIR. Bancroft is reported to be recover
ing from his illness.
Governor Fenton will sail for France on
Saturday next.
Some speakers "blow" great deal
without raising :" storm of applause.
-"There's many a sip 'twixt the cup and
the lip"
Miss Maggie Mitchell, it is reported, will
soon be married.
There are twenty-seven railroad bills
now before the Michigan Legislature.
"A Bill prohibiting public masked balls is
before the Rhode Island Legislature.
Tho aggregate snowfall in Boston this
| winter has been SO inches.
| There were two cases of cholera, one
fatal in st. Louis, last week.
There is an alarming exodus OF able
bodied negroes from Kentucky.
Texas alone, of all the Southern States,
expects to produce large crops this year.
Lake Champlain was frozen for only
eighteen days this winter.
--Ex-Gov. Bross and Ralph Waldo Emer-
son are lecturing in the West.
Prof Blot and the lighting calculator are
making sensations in New England.
"A Canadian dead house was broken
open and fourteen bodies stolen.
Dentistry is a negative science, because
1t is O-don't-ology.
France has one hundred thousand dis
abled young men.
The greatest bet ever made-The Alpha
bet.
1t is suggested that Barnum's first effort
in Congress will be mer-maiden speech.
"A Memphis policeman has become heir
to $4,000. He now puts on AIRS.
The last two churches burned in Boston
belonged to the Methodists.
The lady wearing the largest waterfall
is considered the Niagara of fashion.
The cable is expected to announce short
ly that the Princess Helena is rheumatic +"
"A lady in Vermont has just had triplets.
Her poor husband bears up nobly.
The Portland (Me) Press nominates
Senator Fessenden for next President.
In street car in New Orleans lady
smartly parasoled gentleman for imperti-
nently pressing her foot.
Chicken cholera is killing the chickens,
turkeys, geese and ducks on the farms around
New Albany and Jeffersonville, Indiana.
-Bierstadt intends to go to Europe soon,
to collect material for grand picture, the
Discovery of the Hudson.
George VIM. Curtis, Sidney Howard
Gay, and g. P. Disosway live on the south
shore of Staten Island.
"A young lady in Lewiston suddenly left
off combing her hair, and going to river
drowned herself.
1t is stated that many of the people OF
South Carolina are illustrating the parable of
the prodigal son-living on corn husks.
One of the south's "blcssings in dis
guise"-A. johnson. He threw off the dis
guise" some time ago.
If colored man wishes to have his
name telegraphed all over the country only
let him get elected to some petty Office
Bishop Stevens of Pennsylvania has
written from Nice that he will be home
early in May.
Theodore Tilton continuee to attend at
Mr.. Beecher's church, notwithstanding the
Independent trouble.
MIR. Rand, the most successful horticul-
turist writer in the country, is busy lawyer
in Boston.
The announcement that DR.. Holland
will publish long poem, next fall, creates
general alarm.
General Howard reports that the Freed
mems Bureau is aiding eight thousand more
whites than blacks at the South.
"A "fying machine" in California is ex-
pected by Its projectors to make trip across
the continent in twenty-four hours.
The French Government has forbidden
its mint to coin medal in honor of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
Twenty members of Congress are absent
at their homes and it is said most of them
will not return this session.
There are twelve incorporated cities in
Maine, eleven of which have elected Repub-
lican mayors.
full length portraits OF Lincoln and
Douglas are to be painted for the State Cap
itol, at Springfield, Illinois.
The bar of new steamer, to voyage be-
tween st. Louis and New Orleans, has been
sold for $4,000.
Rev. G. T. Watkins, colored, of Nor
folk, Va, has been speaking against Agas-
siz's theories of development.
The latest "mysterious disappearance,
in Chicago is that of John P. Proud, who
had $250O about him.
"A liquor seller arrested at st. Albans
VT, put in as defence that his whisky was
so reduced by water it could not intoxicate.
In Chicago last week two 'keno',
houses were cleared out and some sixty or
seventy players arrested.
Rev. B. r. Hanley, author of "Nelly
Gray" and other popular songs, died in Chi
cago last Saturday.
Leonard w. Jerome, of New York, has
made an assignment of his banking effects,
for the benefit of his creditors
"A revival is going on among the colored
people Of Charleston, s. c., and sixty, of
both sexes, were publicly immersed last Sun
day.
Can the gentleman who got the legisla-
ture of this State to change his name from
Patrick to Frederick be said to have ex-pat-
rated himself?
If the Southern people who are now so
completely at sea, would quit politics and go
to work in their rn-fields, they would soon
be able to cry "Land Hoe!"
Mr.. Charles D. Stanley and Mr. Rich
ard II. Stoddard are about the only writers
left of the coterie who made the fame of
Vanity Fair.
Christopher Roberts, ESQ.,, founder of
of the Roberts College at Constantinople, is
very busy about his new College at Lookout
Mountain.
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