Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-04-29
CURRENT NOTES.

-ihe flrtuouS Inauguration ul6playeu Dy New
York city over what Is called the spiritual pho
| tograph fraud, is truly refreshing
The Cincinnati tricklayers are on strike
on account of On effort of their employers to re
duce their wages.
1t is but justice to state that the great wind
storm of the West is in no way attributable tc
George Francis Train. He is a benevolent man
and philanthropist, like Senator Sprague, ard
would do nothing to njure his country.
-Three-fourths of N. P. Banks have been SOLD
at auction for $15,2O0. Not the Congressman
but vessel OF that name.
Twenty-Five dollars each is the cost at which
sportsmen may, if they choose, kill insectiv.
orous birds in Pennsylvania. Let the birds have
peace.
Benjamin Story died while locked up in O
Philadelphia station house, for drunkenness, re.
Gently. The old, sad story of rum.
The Government is having the Washington
mansion, at Mount Vernon, repaired. What has
become of the Mount Vernon Association?
Senator Ross explanation is as damaging as
bis interview, and he had better shut up. These
seven will not Nc forgotten. "Old Grimes Is
dead" was prophetic, and has wider application
than to the parylitic old bunch of bile and dis
pepsia at whom 1t was directed.
The Newburyport Herald wants General But
Ter elected Governor of Massachusetts,.
General Rosccranz, the brilliant, but erratic,
genius Is spoken of as the next democratic can
didate for Governor of Ohio.
baltimore has six hundred policemen, who
are paid S1s per week each.
Kansas having been duly tlckled promises to
laugh this year with most abundant harvest.
The story that woman has been indicted
for "wi witchcratt," in Caroline County, Nd, is
not true. A person pretended TO be for
tune-ieer, whose surroundings were such that
she was presented by the county grand jury for
keeping disorderly house.
= Hon. Francis Thomas has received the ap-
pointmont of Collector of Internal Revenue for
the 4th Maryland District. He is one of the
most earnest and advanced Republicans in the
State. anda gentleman of the true stamp.
-" Kaleidoscope" has cheerful letter from
Texas, elsewhere. His adventures are amusing,
and well told.
There is an old man in Cecil County named
Gray, who never saw q locomotive until last
week.
The prize-fghters, recognize the new era,
and Barney Aaron issues his challenge 10 all,
without regard to race, color or previous condl-
tion.
Senator Cameron denies that he opposed
the confirmation of Governor Curtin for the
Russian mission; neither is it true that some six
teen or seventeen Senators voted against his con-
firmatioH.
- Bruised peach leaves, confined with band
age, and renewed twice day, are said to be an
excellent remedy to relieve man or horse from
the effects Of running a nail in the foot.
A friend has left us a copy of the Salt Lake
Weekly Reporter, spirited newspaper, devoted
to an exposition of Brigham Young and the bad
ness of his territorial and spiritual government
1t states that IL is about 10 remove its place of
publication from Salt Lake City to Corinne, a
place OF promise, In which the editor has more
faith than In the former.
"A youth of IL was before the Recorder of
Paterson, N. j., recently, accused by his mother
of having become drunk as lord. The boys
father died some time ago of drunkenness. The
young topper said that he did not get the liquor in
his mothers rum shop.
New York is to have "a public bath," which
people must pay to enter.
Tho Duke OF Montpcnsicr has just borrowed
six million francs in Paris. 1t is supposed by
some that this is the price OF the Spanish throne
-Iu making his Indian appointments the Presi-
dent prelixed the word Friend to the name OF
each of the Quakeis nominated.
-" The Woman Question now is" What
shall get for spring bonnct?"
A new weekly paper, advocating Republican
principles, and called The Loudoun Republican,
has been started at Lcesburg, Loudoan county,
Virginia. 1t is edited by W. s. McColster.
A young lady of Augusta, Ca, has become
insane under pressure of political excitement,
and her friends have been compelled to send her
to the Lunalic Asylum. Whole communities
were similarly affected in that section some years
ago.
= The New Jersey tomato growers anticipate
large crop this year, and it is estimated that six
millions baskets will be required for carrying the
crop TO New York
The New York Herald irreverenty asserts
that coats of the ''shad-belly" pattern are to be
supplied to the Indians, hereafter, "to try the
FORMS"
The sills on the Long Island Railroad, where
the terrible accident happened last Friday, were
SO rotten that you could pull out the spikes with
your fingers. The broken rail had an old frac-
ture.