Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-02
Here and There.

l oCutldi i)utIluhn Is Ill IcW Oih.
The Princess of Wales is twenty-three
Houses are pulled down by steam in
| London.
-rhe street railways in Chicago earned
$920,000 this year. ,.
Wisconsin calls certain village within
its limits Mary Dean Slough. 5'''. b
Portland is discussing the morality OF
base ball. Can anything base be moral?
Internal revenue receipts last week, $l,-
987, ,l72. t.o't sE.
Secretary Stanton has not yet returned
from Ohio, ',4la s- 81.
---Gencral Grant orders his department
closed on Christmas and New Year day.
Excise arrest have begun in New York,
now that the election is past.
"A few days ago golden eagle was
caught in trap in Rensselaer, county.
Those expensive Government camels
are going into menageries. M
More than 5000 sleighing parties enter
ed the Central Park, New Yo-k, on Sunday
Bad weather and the birds have spoiled
the rice corp of Florida. i
| "A colony of Southerners have squatted
at Belize, where land is 20 cents an acre.
The diplomatic chignon" is Paris
| invention. N
-Chicago circulates more countefeit than
genuine postal currency. ..t
Tho Columbus, Ga, police shoot each
other for practice. e
The Paris Exposition netted three mil
lion francs.
"A London daily spent $ao,OO trying to
| live-and didn't.
Queen Victoria has more heather sub
jects tnan Christian. At home, too.
The Nashville Banner says Mr.. john
son will make that city his home. 1st
Scranton, Pa, pays sixteen dollars a
night to have eight men walk around its
streets. "- "a >. '.-i
"A French savant predicted the recent
earthquake and hurricane at the West In
dies. u .-a ,,s s4a laise- f5i'2 - sf
"A public prayer, made at recent ac-
casion in Boston, consisted Of only nine
The internal revenue doesn't get five
cents Of the two-dollar tax on Illinois whis-
KY ,4ss a.5r H.AtLatt. y stt l"'
The last of tho Marblehead fishing fleet
has arrived. Only one boat has been lost
this year. a.. s-4.,..y 1-.r
"A Salisbury, N, G., man has been ac-
Quilted Of murder for killing the seducer of
his sister l-Ill ....s.
90 The Texas folks have new term for
gamblers. They call them professional
cardists. ass3 E.W af - .lsi Va ~
1t is going to be crime in Georgia to
dun man. 1t is already crimc here to do
man, .t.' -Ef ...,.
Nearly ali the hotels In Boston have
reopened their bars for the public sale Of
liquor, ....5s.. o.
-Mankato, Minnesota, lately shipped
21 900 muskrat skins for the Eastern market
in one lot.
1t cost some S35, 900 to try the Man.
chester Fenians, and that is not all it will
cost.
There is plain in Kansas thirty miles
long by fifteen wide, covered with crust of
salt from one to four inches thick.
DR.. Hayes thinks one of his icebergs
would suffice to pay the national debt If sold
by the pound. -n 4a
The town of Bowcrbank, Me-, finds it
costly to be Incorporated, and is about to
petition the Legislature to take its charter
away, & ' l4 f4d s7l'V
The Hudson River railroad has complet-
ed the second track between Pougkeesie and
Albany, and now there Is q double track the
whole length OF the road. 1a ytF .
When offenders are sentenced to hard
labor by the st. Paul police court, the city
sets them at work saving wood, which is
certainly an execution Of the sentence.
The PrussIan railroad engineers have
been among the first to lay rails without
sleepers, planting them directly on the bal
last, and, it is said, with perfect success.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has prohibited the sale of the Police Ga
zette, and other criminal illustrated papers
on their cars. 3-
1 The Cambridge (hld.) Intelligencer,
Republican paper, wishing to outstrip all
competitors, offers half pint of whiskey as
a premium to all Democratic subscribers
for 68. -.f- r. .l.
Several Mexican coins with the head of
''Maximilian Imperator," and the coat of
arms of that unfortunate prince, have been
received in this country to be deposited in
the cabinet Of the Philadelphia mint.
Think ofmaking tour TO Egypt and
the Holy Land at eighty years Of age. Amos
Kendall, Jackson's Postmaster General, has
just done it, and is back and home again as
well and vigorous as ever. ,r.
. "A cooperative store, under the name Of
the Acushuet cooperative store, was opened
in New Bedford, Massachusetts on Thursday
last, in a convenient building constructed of
the associations, at cost of S5,O 900 only.
yy;.nous;ns .no iass h 100 J yoa,s u Nv ' Frenny y
England and the United States. 1t was a
part of Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Michi-
Sn sonoa oe ~ '"u so''Aa'o 'oii'oii"' e'N'9
-bears must he very plenty IN North
Caroilna. IL is related that party OF gen
llemen killed eight In one days hunt re-
cenuy, ana a lazy discovered hve IN ner
cornheid the same week. Her son Killed
TWO Oh them but the other three escapad.
Mine hundred Thousand dollars has lat
ly been Maid for the iron works At Phililns-
burgh, New Jersey. From this mine was