Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-01-02
News Items.

The Japs are building hotel at Yeddo.
San Francisco has outlawed swill milk |
Dickens is immortalized in parlor |
game.
General Gilmore is experimenting on
target at Fort Tompkins.
The New York Jockey club is to have
a house that will cost $20O,000
Tonight is the name of new evening
paper, presently to appear in London.
Milk is 81 cents quart at Cheyenne,
and scarce at that.
The bishop of Quebec will not allow
prayers for the Manchester Fenians.
The Augusta, Georgia, street railroads
promise the citizens free rides on New
Years Day.
The report that fifteen cases Of small
pox occurred among the young ladies' en-
ployed in a Boston dry goods house is
denied
st. Augustine (Fla.) papers speak of
"oranges as hanging in rich clusters from
the trees, and figs in ripe abundance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes has Just taken
dinner with three hundred medical students,
| in Boston.
| Chief Justice Slough, of New Mexico,
has been killed by Captain Rynerson, a
member of the Territorial Legislature
Jacob Schopp, of Bellevile, Illinois,
last Thursday, fatally stabbed himself and
| his wife, from whom he had recently been
divorced.
"A special correspondent of the n Y.
Tribune writing from Virginia City, Mon
tana, charges Wells, Fargo & Co., with
systematic neglect in delivering the U. S.
Mails.
| One man was killed and two were
wounded by the explosion Of locomotive
at Chicago, yesterday.
"A deficiency Of $4,000 has been dis
covered in the cash account Of Bryant +.
| Henry, receiving teller of the Shawmut
Bank, in Boston. Henry disappeared sew
erpl days ago.
| Abraham Abrahams, a pawnbroker,
recently sentenced to two years imprison-
ment for buying stolen goods, has been
pardoned by the Governor of Missouri
Never before were the rivers in the
western States known to remain SO low %
late in the year.
The Howard Ambulance, an American
invention, received the medal at the Paris
Exposition
"A mans beard is valued at fifteen dol
lars in Milwaukee. That is what eour
awarded gentleman who had his pulled
out
The Mormons have an organ in thcil
tabernacle which they fondly fancy is ont
of the largest In the country, because it ha.
two banks of keys and thirty-fvc stops.
On Saturday night the great grain eleva
tor. belonging to the Michigan Southern
and Northern Indiana Railroad, was burned
at Toledo, Ohio, together with so, 900 bush
els of grain, principally wheat Loss $500,
900.
Some corporations have souls, as i
evinced by the Washington Gas Company
which has ordered the distribution of OH
hundred thousand bushels of coke anon;
management of the City Councils. The ex
ample ia suggestive to our own gas estab
lishment.
Lieutenant General Sherman, and Ma
jor- Generals Sheridan and Augur will NEE
. at Washington in January, to foIm boar'
for the revision of army regulations
i The Buffalo and Washington railwa,
will be completed from Buffalo TO Auburn
: sixteen miles, by the LIST Of January. Til
line will extend ninty-fo miles farther Il
a Emporium, on the Philadelphia and Fri
: railway, and will give a direct line iron
! Buffalo to Baltimore and Washington.
-"Jean Paul" places himself in an awk
ward dilemma when he says that if Dicken
is the artist papers call him. he, Jean Paul
is an idiot.
An Ohio honsekeeper set some arseni
poison for rats The rats not only ate II
a but tracked it over food in HE closet an
poisoned the whole family.
: Mr.. Dickens's description Of the ship
wreck in his reading from David Copper
field, in New York, was 50 naturally i'm
!, pressive that his audience put their over
shoes on to prevent wetting their feet,