Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-10-27
AND SO FORTH.

| Work has begun on an eighteen mile
railroad iu New Zealand.
Slaves were shipped on a British steam
| er running from Malta to Constantinople.
The gal!ows has been introduced into
Japan, and has proved quite an attrac-
| tior.
The international Exhibition at Vienne,
| with its connections, will occupy an area
of from four to five miles.
The Chicago journal has list nearly
column long Of missing persons, mostly
women and children,
Philadelphia has one hundred and sixty
individual and undivided estates worth
from one to ten millions of dollars.
They fine poor shots in Peoria. Hi. a
man was fined $50 there lately for firing
eleven times at neighbor without effect.
Tho telegraph cable between Barbados
and Demarara has been laid. The liEe is
one of the connecting links between the
Windward Islands and the continent OF
South America.
A grocer at Lowell, Mass, has q saga
cious dog who never secs anything being
weighed on the scales without putting one
foot on the platform, and then innocently
looking out of the door.
At Springfield, Mass, tho President
actually made q speech. He said g La
dies and gentlemen, I am happy to meet
you, but as the train is now awaiting my
departure, must bid you good bye"
The revenue Of the Baltimore and Ohio
road and its branches for September, was
81, 219, 100 81, showing an in crease, COM
pared with the same month for the prece-
ding year, OF $177,905 16.
Two of the Treasury clerks. Messrs.
Morgan and Lackey, who went to Europe
with bonds for the syndicate, have re-
turned, bringing with them six millions in
elk per cent. bonds of the old loan.
Captain Houston, of the steamboat Hes
per, has sued General Forrest and others,
in the United States Court OF Memphis,
for $50 900, the value OF arms destroyed
some years ago, by party of disguised
men.
DR.. Woolsey, Professor Wheeler and
Professor Lounsberry have inauguratcd a
new tWo-years course of higher instruction
at Yale College. 1t is intended to give q
thorough knowledge of English history,
political ethics and English literature.
The annual report Of the Sixth Auditor
has been completed, and sent in to the
Postmaster General. The report of the
Bureau to the Treasury has also been COM
pleted and forwarded to Secretary Bout
well-the whole being completed ten days
earlier than any preceding year.
Life in the West and the uncertainties
attendant thereon are illustrated by the
case of young man who met his death by
pistol ball while in bed at Boulder City,
Kansas, few days since, the shot having
passed through the partition from another
room, where there was a ball and a row
going Oh.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
decides that a manufacturer of tobacco
may sell the product Of his manufacture
anywhere in the United States without
paying a special tax as a dealer in tobac-
CO, but he can sell it only in properly
stamped packages. He cannot retail it.
A pedler (employe) sent out by the manu-
faoturer may sell in the same manner as
the manufacturer (his employer,) but can.
not retail. II the pedler is not an en-
ploye of the manufacturer he is liable to
a tobacco dealers special tax, and when he
has paid that tax may retail tobacco from
wooden packages packed and stamped ac-
cording to law. But in no sense can to.
bacco manufacturer retail his own pro-
ducts.