Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-06-17

Mrs. Grant is said to be strongly in fa-
vor Of giving Mrs. Lincoln pension.
Mrs. Segundi has taken for the summer
the Maintenon villa at Noisy-lc- See.
-Lamar,ine's tomb is daily s;rewn with
flowers, sent from all parts of France.
The Emperor of Austria is 10 be at the
Suez Canal opening, and also visit Constan-
tinople.
The Duke of Haisilon is six feet high,
has purple face, and an immense shock of
red hair.
The King of Holland has made COM
promise with the creditors OF his-spendthrift
son.
The Popc has Two brothers older than
himself, and nephew sixty.
Florida oranges now promise plentiful
yield.
A Chicago Clergyman calls sin ''moral
measles
The cotton worm has appeared in the
plantations of South Carolina, Florida, and
Georgia.
One of the camcls in New York Central
Park is harncssed and compelled to'draw a
path-roller.
The skeletons Of four British soldiers,
who were probably killed during the revolu-
tion, were lately dug up near Savannah.
Next month the daughter Of President
Tyler is TO be married, and already grand
preparations are making for the event.
I'm Washington Territory the Republi-
cans last week elected Mr.. Garfield as q
delegate to Congress.
1t is said that Mr.. Revert,v johnson
purposes to write big pamphlet in his own
defence.
"A boy of thirteen has been sent to prison
for week,ia France, for 4 seditiuus hurrah
in The presence of the Empress.
Three thousand ducls were fought in
the German universities last year, most of
them very harmless affairs.
Colonel Bcrdan has gone TO ST. Peters
burg, where his rifle has been adopted to
arm n part of the army.
Madame Clara Schumann, the pianist,
is making her preparations for concert tour
in the United States.
An American last year asked to be en-
nobled by the King of Prussia and is de-
servcdy ridiculed therefor By the German
papers.
"A house in Chicago has ordered an in
voice of fifty thousand Chinese laborers
from California, intending to set them at
work on southern plantations.
Nelson Walker, colorcd, ,annDunces him
self "a candidate to represent Nashville in the
Tennessee Legislature. His platform is uni
versal suffrage and universal amnesty.
The Montgomery County, Ga.,) Com
ventlon,on Thursday instructed its delegates
to the State Convention TO support General
Hartranft for Governor.
An Ohio county clerk went To Indiana,
was divorced, and had married IL yonng lady
who wrote IN his Office before his wife knew
anything about it.
The London Illustrated News comforts
its readers with the assurance that Mr.. Mot
ley, though he is an American, is "Of
English extraction.
The new church in Chicago for the
Rev. Robert Collyers congregation is to be
dedicated on the 2OLh. The sermon is to be
preached by the Rev. DIR. Bellows.
1t is estimated tl.at there arc fifty ibous-
and "drummers" in the country, of whom
onc-ifth are employed by Boston and New
England houses.
1t is reported that the Hon. Robert J.
Walker is writing one of his exhaustive ar
ticles in support of Mr.. tanners position
on the Alabama question:
"A New York par site. 1hroniclng the de-
parture for Ce,Ssrna of person whom it
does not like olcrs reward of three cents
to any on Who will steal his return ticket.
-Th1 republicans of Delaware County
have elected o. +. Bullard and Robert CAST
sidu delegates to the State Convention, with
instructions TO support Governor Geary's re-
nomination.
Governor Fairchiid of Wisconsin has
i II.
election, and the Secretary of State, State
Treasurer, Speaker of the House, and an
other gentleman, are already in the field.
After storm in Missouri, man found
his radsh he'd reversed, the tops being in
ground and the roots in the air. Instead of
ascribing it TO his mischevious boys he bruit-
ed it asa freak Of the storm.
Judge Black is likely TO recover the use
of his arm, the report that il must be ampu-
tatcd being incorrect. His family have re-
ceived letters to the effect that the fracture
is slowly but surely healing.
Sir Edwin Landscer appeared as q wit
ness in London police court recently, in a
case OF cruelty to animals, and made an in
dignant protest against the barbarous prac-
iice of cropping dogs ears.
Two mea have been fined in London for
cropping dogs ears, on the ground that it
was cruel. 1t was stated on the trial that the
her dogs cropped.
The first Of all Thackeray's novels has
never been included in any edition Of his
works. 1t was called "Catharine,a story by
key Solomons, Esq, Junior, and appeared
in Frascr's Magazine in lS39-i0.
1T is discovered that Abraham Lincoln
was of German descent. The German pa
per which starts this story says that his
grandfather's name was Lingcn, and that he
lived at Stollwcrder, near NIagdcburg.
There are only twenty-five persons in
Oregon who pay income lax on sums ex-
ceeding ten Thousand dollars. The largest
income was S255, ,333, returned by the agent
OF an estate, and the largest personal income
was SiS,0li.
When a NIilancsc audience hisscd Il
| tenor who WAS singing false he stopped and
exclaimed with some heat, :" | can tell you
sang well enough at the rehearsals, but
strange to say the audience die not appear
TO be satisfied.
When Bismark sent his young sons to
| England, he gave them an autograph letter
TO Mr.. Gladstone The latter invited them
to stay tor some time. The boys havr been
| 10 Oxford, but are not to study there as was
reported.
Strawberries are now extraordinarily
plentiful in New York. Good qualities re.
tail for ten cents a quart, and The average of
berries bring only six cents. Several car
goes of Norfolk berries have beeu dumped
into the river.
Tho Republican Convention OF Texas met
ON Monday and organized On Tuesday it
nominated Il j. Davis for Governor j. w.
Flanagan for Lieutenant Governor, Fraul,
Carter for Comptroller, and NJ. Kenchler for
Land Commissioner. On Wednesday, it
nominated Mr.. Price for State Treasurer.
The Convention adopted resolutions recon-
mending the acceptance of the State consti-
tuition aud the enfranchisement Of the whites.