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

Ills dllQ i lldL.
The trial of Governor Eyre, of Jamaica,
is to commence May I'd.
The tariff has heen changed eleven times
in the last five years.
Gen. Sheridan says Texas affords the |
finest hunting in the world.
Small pox is prevalent in Boston and Its
vicinity.
A delay of thirteen or fourteen days in
the mail y not considered extraordinary in
Colorado.
"A highway robber, recently arrested in
Ohio, has the somewhat appropriate name
of Nimrod Rideman.
Rev. Daniel Webb, pioneer of Method
ism on Cape Cod, died at Barnstable few
days since, aged so.
=" Domestic irregularity" is the mild
phrase now used for one of the chief causes
of divorce.
The Richmond Times thinks women
will vote in less than ten years. The Times
is right.
1t is said that lady in Leavenworth,
Kansas, has worn the same bonnet eight
years.
AT recent horse-race in Texas there
was free fight, lasting fifteen minutes, in
which three men were murdered.
The death of DR.. Thomas Hunt, Profess
sor of Medicine in the University of Louisi-
ana, is announced.
DIR. Leonard G. McPhail, prominent
physician of Brooklyn, died suddenly last
Saturday.
For the months Of January and Febru-
airy the LOSSES by fire in the United States
amount to So, 44s.oOo.
A Hottentot got up painting of heav-
en-. II was enclosed with fence made of
sausages, while the centre was occupied with
fountain that squirted pot pie.
A footman, proud of his grammar,
ushored into the drawing-room Mr.. Foot
and his two daughters, with this introduc-
tion "Mr. Foot and the two Misses Feet. >
"A Texan farmer has tried the expert
ment of putting monkeys to pick cotton,
and is much Disguised by his want of sue
cess.
"A dun was somewhat taken aback the
other day by the GOODNESS with which the
debtor said, "Call next Thursday, my dear
sir, exactly at ten o'clock, and I'll tell you
when to call again"
Sturgeon sometimes comes out with q
good thing; Brethren" said he, eff God
had referred the ark to committee on Ma
val affairs, it's my opinion ii would not have
been built yet"
Miss Carmichael, the poetess of Salt
Lake, having become the one wife of one
husband, and left Mormondom, is about to
publish book on the Mormons and her life
among them.
In eight days after the proclamation OF
death of unmuzzled dogs by the mayor OF
Chicago, ITO ofthe canine species have been
destroyed Their carcases are used In the
manufacture of soap.
The Norfolk Journal and Day Book
are quarreling in a lively manner. Both have
heretofore belonged to the same school in
politics, but each now charges the other with
Black Republican inclinations. "Bad times
in ole virginny."
The Valley Virginian says that only one
merchant from Staunton and but few from
Augusta have gone north for goods thi'
spring, and their orders are light. "Oul
people are preparing for the worst. Home
spun will do very well in District No. ~
The following Irish conversation wa'
heard in The streets of st. Louis:
"Pat, what do you think of Presiden
Johnson?'
Faith, an he's good merchant"
GLOW so, Pat?'
"Be Jabers he sold arms to the Fenians
and then sold the Fenians.'
A lately published war book gives the
following story of Stonewall jackson:
AT a council of generals early In the war
one remarked that Major--was wounded
and would not be able to perform dut'
] that it was proposed to assign him
'.Wounded!" said Jackson. ''If it really
is So think it must have been by al
accidental discharge of his duty"
Gen. Sherman is anxious to be one @
the excursion party that are going to tn
Holy Land this summer in Captain Duncan
steamer, along with Henry Ward Beeche
and other notabilties, His daughter Minnie
: it is said, will accompany him. He has nc
a yet obtained the necessary leave of absenc
! from the President and General Grant, br
s that his request will be acceded to there
: probably no doubt.
/. Horace Greeley, in recent temperate
$ address, stated the following as an cvidenC
y that there had been great Improvement sine
!. he was boy:--
i g remember it was talked of as gre,
Q scandal because man did not furnish liqut
G at the funeral of his little child. Indeed
it was regarded quite as necessary that a ho
should furnish his visitors with liquor ,
that he should furnish them with chairs.
n ! recollect Alright, on the installation of IL
: Roy, DR.. Lord, ex-president of Dartmou'
i College, as a young AND eloquent clereyma
d in my native town, everybody was vel
n drunk. In fact, don't think eyer saw
more drunken time in my life,"