Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-12-03
CURRENT NOTES.

The month Of November was the shortest
business month of the year 1868, for with hve
Sundays and one full holiday there have been
only twenly-four working days.
1t Is reported that Garibaldi Is about to EN-
bark for America, he having got into trouble
among his compatriots on account of the failure
of the Roman expedition.
-Artemus Wards mother has received from
the English executors Of his estate about 500 IN
greenbacks the amount of property which came
into their possession. He had an estate on the
Hudson worth about $5000--makiug about S6ooo
in ALA much smaller sum thanhis will indicated.
AT North wilmot, N. H., recently, little boy
and girl, returning from school, discovered the
house of Mr.. George Fowler to be on ire Inc
little girl ran half mile TO obtain help while her
brother kept the fire In check by throwing on
water Little damage was done.
The Courier says that there is II man In Low
eli so thoroughly neutral on all public questions
that he never takes a sidewalk.
The Concord Statesman says the extent of
work performed n the New Hampshire STATE
Prison, by those conyicis employed In The manu-
facture of household furniture, may be judged by
the fac, that about one million i've hundred thou-
sand feet of lumber are required 10 supply them
a year.
Some smart Baton Rouge girl with long
name (Higgenbotham), which the Young men
would be wise to change speedily, made and
gathered hale Of cotton this season, besides al
tending 10 household duties.
We see by Scottish paper, the Baafshirc
,Jouraal Of the 14th uit. thai in the Keith Dis'
trict they are already buried IN ihs SHOWS Of win
ter. In some parts of Canads they are enioyius
the same luxury.
General Prim declares that the presen! Span
ish Government will have no dealings with TIT
Bourbons, and denies, indignantly, the truth o
the report that he purposes coaP d'eiai
General Grant has sold his Washington resi-
T dence 10 Mayor Bowen for forty thousand dollars
He expects to move into the White House ii
March next, aud will reside there while he re
mains in Washington.
The Press says that the election returns stil
continue to come IN. The Atlantic, n. j., Demo
crata white mans paper alte the type OF that no
t BILE American, Brick Pomeroy, isreporled dead Th
: Elk County Adrocdte, heretofore similar sheet
= reaches us this week with Republican colors d,
ing at its editorial masthead, enlarged, improved
+, copyrighted clad in clean type, and arguing ic
impartial suffrage.
The withdrawal of Hon. John Kelly troi
> the canvass as candidate for Mayor OF Ne
York, on the ground of i'll health, has bee
y already announced. According to the Herald
!, was well enough up to the time the commttt
n from the convention called on him for lit
; contribution of fifty thousand dollars with whic
- to run the campaign machine. That made hi
il sick.
:, Clara Louise Kellogg sings in Washingtt
j, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of I'll
= week, and there is quite rush to secure tickle
" to her concerts.
y The decrease in the number OF childien bo
Is in New England is making itself felt in
te creased attendance at the public schools. II
lie people who are SO terribly afraid of " Yank
as domination in this country, may take comic
st accordingly.
49, Kennedy, the celebrated Scotch singer, VI
: il to give a concert here shortly. will sing
Washington on December 10th.
IL An attempt was recently made TO poison
r family in Washington by putting arsenic in
W sack of flour. The perpetrator of the iniamo
of outrage has not been detected.
IF --"Admlral' Raphael semmes, OF the Rel
10 Navy, lectured in Baltimore recently on
nc Wind and Wave,' subject he is peculiar
"a fitted to talk about, as lie was as windy pir;
"a as ever rode the waves,
The Secretary OF the Treasury estimates
total revenue to be raised for the fiscal year er
VI ing June, 1870, at two hundred and fifty millic
n | pf df,1iars