Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-10-15


Butter is only forty cents pound in
Portland Maine.
Voters in Italy have to pay tax and be
able to read and write.
The Chassepot rifle is failure, accord
ing to foreign correspondents.
. The gradual abolition of the hereditary |
clergy" of Russia is announced.
August Belmont'a picture gallery iu New |
York Is valued at half million dollars:
Water drinkers say the aqueous fluid is |
very bad in Florence.
Theodore Parker's works have been
translated into Swedish.
"A San Francisco genius has discovered
q ''patent cholera annihilator."
Brigham Young is said to be anxious
to dispose Of So manageable daughters.
An Englishman proposes to slaughter
cattle by means of electricity.
A female burglar is the latest develop
ment of womans rights In New Orleans.
-Richfort, VT. has man Of 9G who can
walk thirty miles day.
There is a talk of establishing a Hebrew
Library In New York.
South America is called the paradise OF
the Shakers.
six CulQeSe nave Dceu CoufClhca Al
Australia. First instances on record.
Anna Mowatt Ritchie earns $4,000 a
year in England by her literary labors.
During the past eight months 20l | new
buildings have been erected in st. Louis.
-Bayard Taylor is worth $4,000, and
owns three shares in the New York tribune.
--Miss LoriIlard Spencer pretty New
Yorker is to marry one, of the Counts Cenci
in Rome. 3
-Dollburg is the name Of town in
Connecticut, where they make dolls and
Yankee notions.
The Lynn Reporter says there is tenn
porary lull in the shoe business in that city,
the bulk of the fall trade being over. ii
-Flesh-colored CATERS, with the toes
stitched with black, to look as If the foot
was bare, are reported to be the newest style.
If the library shelves of the British mu-
scum were placed in q continuous line, they
would extend more than twenty-five miles.
1t is reported that in the Union army
during the rebellion,a "a little over 20 per cent.
of the men were native Americans.
| Gloucester, Massachusetts, has four
hundred vessels and five thousand men EN-
ployed in the fisheries.
| New York contains 1917 policy and lot
| terry offices, and 1G3 faro banks, which win
$35, 600, 900 annually from their victims
| The sparrows in Central Park, New
York, are furnished grouse feathers with
which to make their nests.
The Queen of Spain, according to the
latest announcement, has become o "carpet-
Dagger" al
-Disraeli has been compelled to decline
eating any more public dinners for some
time.
There was wedding last week in the
Mammoth Cave. 1t was Illuminated with
Bengola lights.
Several ladies tried to vote on Monday
for school trustees in West Chester county,
N. Y, hut their votes were refused.
"A Wisconsin paper records the death o.
compositor who worked until he died, his
last stake" being q notice of his decease.
The San Francisco courts are trying Il
, decide whether it is unlawful to pick chick
ems alive.
. THE milk of Lowell, Mass, having gon
ND a cent quart, the papers are discussinl
whether the cause is Il scarcity OF wafer.
An exchange sarcastically suggests 'sea
gram" as a suitable substitute for the circum
locutory 'sdispatch by the Atlantic cable.
The American Tract Society of Boston
, after full discussion, has decided to rescin'
!, its contract with the New York society.
Boston has "Chestnut Hill Reservoir,
holding 10000, 900 gallons, and covering
2l3 acres.
"A respectable lady was sent to prison Of
: Tuesday, in New York, on complaint OF he
daughters, for being confirmed drunkard.
: Europe being unable to manage Mexico
= the London Times hands her over to the I'm
ted States for treatment.
A man in London lately submitted to b
!, fined for refusing 10 allow his child to be yat
!. cinated. He declared that he thought tn
= system an inducer OF disease.
II The Italian papers say that country.
=, becoming 'sdemoralized" by the importntio
:. of beer from Germany and fancy drinks
from America.
Spain is said to contain 500 converts
: with is. 600 nuns. There are 55 bishop
4 $500 canons and abbots 1900 secular priest
and "a, 900 Wears.
1t appcars by private advices from Re
= River Settlement that flour is $40 per III
|, hundred pounds, or 800 per barrel at Fo
/ Garry.
A collection of fourteen silver bricl
" from the Montana mines, averaging in vail
about a thousand dollars each, have been
L hibited at st. Louis.
IS A Terrier, in Memphis, without youn
t, has adopted some motherless kittens. ov
It whom she watches with true maternal SO
l. citude.
Queen Victoria is constant topic Wi
the London papers. No sooner does she e.
u. one Journey than she begins another, a
ss each has to be reported in full.
30 Mrs. Henry Wood has been recent
described as a well-known manufacturer
70 sensation novels, in peculiar languas
. based upon English.
= Russia must be a paradise for scht
70 teachers, as | 10 days of the year arc devot
I'd to instruction, and the other 255 TO holida
ak ard vacations.
lTl The great town of the Salt Lake bas
-. 1t is thought, will be in Malad valley, whit
- roads for Montana and Oregon can diyei
u for the best advantage.
n There are now about forty. eight wells
so Pleasantvlle, Pennsylvania. and the oil p
il duction is between twenty-five hundred
On twenty y-six hundred barrels per day.
Il New Orleans has widow who hau
ia one of the recorders courts daily, under
ed impression that some day she will see
ost son, who was once tried there for murd
l Paris is now connected with the Me
terranean by direct line of railway, the
,e: nal section, from Nice to Monaco, be
opened lately.
=. Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, is il
'o' quarrel with his diocese about little ma
ce. Of episcopal back-pay, amounting to nef
old $4,000.
my The new law in Ohio compelling
ow physicians to suspend practice who have =
n er received regular diplomas went into Ell
October LIST.
George Stark has in his pond at Nash
is, N. H., 500 trout weight from one-hall
am two and half pounds each Of 600
yer deposited artificially last spring. all but ],
dos hatched.
The Astor House in New York p
NO $22, 900 per year for butter, $4,000 for III
rs; $3.50, 600 for meat, $l2, 900 for eggs, $l4,
Tres for milk and cream, $500 for friction mate
do $4,000 for gas and $4,000 for coal.
of The officers of the Connecticut X
- railroad think their locomotives will bur
two years all but 1900 cords of wood I