Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-12-30

-fostmaster General Creswel ON Tuesday
entertained his assistants and heads OF his bu.
reaus, with their wives, at dinner Mr.. Crcswel
Is taking high position in Washington, for di4
pcnsing genuine Maryland hospitality. He has
purchased handsome residence, and the excel.
lent taste shown by Mrs. Crcswcll, in newly
furnishing it, is warmly praised.
Florida green peas are In market. They cost
five cents each.
Tile skating rink proprlctors are in dcspair.
-lenry Ward Beecher do0ms an offender %
" Sit for four mortal hours in cold church. and
listen To sermon read by neal. sighted man
who had lost his spcctaclcs p
Mr.. Earnest Longfcllow, sou of tho poet has
adopted the profession of portrait painting, and
opened a studio in Boston.
Mrs Stoves book is likely to appear the frst
week in january.
| Frederick ). Cozzens author of the s'Spar-
rowgrass Papers, ~ one Of the most genial and
delightful books in our literature died in New
York, last week.
lille Tennessee State Convention, to meet in
january, tits reported is in favor of colorcd sui
irage by two-thlrds majority.
Tile extremely mild weather hns opened
navigation on the Hudson, and vessels are poing
above Poughkeepsie.
Like John liampden, Secretary Stanton I'M
derstood that ''the essence of war is violence and
that moderation in war is imbccllilv - and III,
nm, when he drew the sword he threw away
the scabbard"
The New York Mail GAYS there was more
drunkenness In that city, last Saturday, than has
peeh known on any other Christmas Tor several
years.
The Hartford Cournnt thinks that The rati1-
cation OF the Fifteenth Amendment will add from
l'uV TO 1900 to the voters of Connecticut
The fat men had ball in New York one
night last week. and the papers report a slim, at
tendance. Before three O'Clock in the morning..
we guess the fat men were pretty well Minnod
out.
a new paper has made its appearance, called
the World Retormcr. We always thought the
World needed reforming,
There is great demand for Cardiff Giants.
In New York, and several persons arc engaged in
manufacturing them 10 order. Like everything
else about this time, :" they should be advertised
as Just The tlAng for holiday gifts" Young
ladies' who arc presented with them, however
should not be asked to wear them next to their
hearts.
Girls are employed TO set type in the Reroiu.
hoa Office, and they arc, therefore, girls of the
period-and semicoln, and oil the rest of tho
"points."
Since New Jersey railway paid $500 10
the wife OF man drowned at Hackensacl. n
number of other wives wish
-Rumor says New York is to have a new dem |
ocratlc Illustrated weekly, after the style of Har-
per's. The democrats already have the Police |
Gazette, which is more to their taste.
The pennsylvania Central Railroad Company |
has erected snow fences between PHILADELPHIA and
Harrisburg, at all points where the snow ia liable
to drift into the deep cuttings
George ID. Prentice is seriously i'll.
Dull weather. again. Well, IL is n. morn
than the perpetual English fogs or Scotch msts
Lydia Thompson is in New Orleans, Susan
Galton is In Charleston, and Edwin Forrest is in
Indianapolis.
u. S. Senator Pratt of Indiana proposes to
resign his scat, and return to his law practice
which pays more money, If less honor.