Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-04-19
NEWS ITEMS.

! Inc IrlnceSS Oh NaleS ~ recovering.
Prince Murat has left London for Paris.
| Du Chaillu arrived in the Great Eastern.
Dayton, Michigan, polled only one Dem
ocratic vote ut the last election.
| A man in England has been mIlcted in
| $50, 900 damages for seduction
George Eliot or Mrs. Lewes, is in Gren-
ada.
Cleveland has an egg six inches in cir
cumference and eight inches the long way.
The submarine cable, to connect Cuba
with Florida, is one hundred and ten miles
long.
| A Frenchman has defined fidelity to be
"a devil of an itching which 'tis forbidden
! to scratch
Thunder, lightning and snow unite to
make Colorado storms somewhat confused
medley.
| Lord Ernest Vane Tempest, who served
IN the federal cavalry, is engaged upon O.
history of the American war.
! A soda fountain exploded in Poughkeep-
sic lately. One man hurt and fifty fright
ened.
| swan was caught out west lately by
its feet CHANGING to freeze in the ice of
river.
Liquor is so scarce in Boston that the
topers go to the wharves and suck alcohol
from the barrels unloading there.
1t is said the next fashion in Paris will
be wigs of gold which women and men will
wear.
| Nashville recently had long funeral
cortege, with not o man among all the
mourners.
A man in Mount Holly, N. j., killed his
horse the other day by striking him on the
head with his fist.
Sixty ladies Of New Albany have been
initiated into the mysteries of the Eastern
! Star degree-a side issue of Masonry.
! A quarrel about ten cents resulted in the
murder of Albert Dyke by John Rapp, in
Edwardsville, Illinois, last week.
A boy named John Miller. aged II years,
had his cheek torn off by mad dog in New
York on Thursday.
An Ohio paper records the marriage OF
Jno. M. Brown, aged 70 years, to Miss
Elizabeth Beers, aged l9 years.
| They have chopping matches in Indiana
for forty dollars and the wood cut. One
man cut nearly nine cords i'll five hours.
! \ prominent merchant of Clinton, Iowa,
has been arrested for burglary committed
III Cleveland, Ohio, three years ago.
JEFF. Davis, the Confederate flag, the tune
of Dixie, and Stonewall Jackson were
cheered and hurrahed about at q panora-
ma i'll Knoxville, Tenn.
Fifteen hundred dollars is paid for the
best boxes ut Convent Garden Theatre in
London fer the opera season of forty nights
which has just begun.
White swans are found in the lower Po-
tomac by the sands. The young ones sell
for dollar piece, and are said to resem-
bic the canvas back duck in flavor.
4 young lady was denied admittance to
q female collegein Pittsburgh on the ground
that she WGo 81 one thirty-second part ETH
opian."
! A cake was given to Baptist festival i'll
Burlington, to be given by vote al ton cents
each to the handsomest lady in the room.
A "oolored lady got it.
The Hon. Michael Przybylowizeker, of
the Kansas Legislature, has had his name
changed to Murphy. Murphy is the Irish
of Przybylowizeker.
A grand raid on the dealers in counter
felt money was made by United States de-
tectives on Tuesday in Western New York.
Thirty persons were arrested.
The property known as the Gold Ridge
farm, in Prince William county Virginia,
was disposed Of the other day, to G. A.
Wheelock, for $63, 900, or 800 per acre.
The editors of French provincial papers
are about to establish at Paris newspaper
for which they will all write the stereo-
type plates of it will be distributed to all of
them and be published as their local paper.
One man in Gardner, Maine, has made
clear profit of forty thousand dollars in ice
cut this year from the Kennebec river
Clearly he has made an ice thing of it.
A lady leaving home was thus addressed
by her little boy: Mamma, will you re-
member and buy me penny whistle, and
let it be religious one, SO that l can use it
OH Sunday"
A young gentleman who passed an A No.
l examination at q celebrated law school In
New England q year ago, turns out to be
beautiful and fast young lady, of good
family, who was in 1868 Second Lieuten-
ant i'll the army.
Brevet Major General Robinson has been
relieved of his command in North Carolina
and ordered to his regiment. The North
Carolina papers wish the vacant post be-
slowed upon Colonel Bomford, now at
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