Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.

Nilsson has twenty three afternoon
dresses.
An Indiana girl, aged eleven, wants q
divorce.
A Terre Haute man is credited with pos.
sessing the genuine " evil eye"
The hair of a Detroit girl years old, is
turning gray.
Maine farmers moan that their hay, fields
have not been worth moving.
The Radical rumpus in Wisconsin is
growing worse and worse rapidly.
The Goldsboro' riot was truly loyal
one, and doesn't call for investigation.
New York papers tell an offal story about
slaughter-house refuse.
Mr.. French, the cashier of the Detroit
Tribune, is mysteriously missing.
The Belgian Chamber has voted to abol.
ish gambling at the Spa.
The Mayor of Cincinnati is accused of
pitching quoits on Sunday.
An Ohio girl thinks nothing of picking
up barrel of -four and Carrying it cou-
pie of blocks.
A sunken lake, surrounded by precipices
100 feet high, has been found in Califor-
MIA.
Confirmed female inebriates in the Sy-
raouse pepitentiary get drunk on vinegar
an sugar.
Saloon patronage in New York has fall
len off fifty per cent. since the institution
of club houses.
membership in the Liberal Club of New
York.
Catackzy, the Russian Minister at Wash
ington. is to be recalled.
It is thought Wisconsin will have only
half crop of wheat
The wheat crop is total failure in Rock
bridge county, Va, and the yield will not
a, erage more than three bushels to the
acre.
It would really oblige Mr.. &kerman very
much if the North Carolinans wouldn't en-
deavor to govern themselves.
arithmetic. Like sentimental girl, he is
inclined to sigh foripg.
A Chicago six year old was arrested for
premature wife beating, the victim being
a playmate aged four.
The naughty boys of Philadelphia in
citrate organ grinders monkeys with or
aDS6S soaked Ia Dfauuy.
The Louisville Courier. Journal, speak
ing of Gen. Butler's late mishap, says he
is in no danger of being drowned. It ap-
prohends the other thing.
A Minnesota invalid farmer is blessed
with six daughters who, within five years
haoe, without assistance, cleared forty
acres Of solid hard wood timber land, and
fenced ana cultivated it.
TIE Colonial officials at ST. John, New
! foUudiaud, gave public reception to Capt.
Hall on his arrival there last week, follow
ed by q banquet which almost drained
their bank dry.
A newspaper correspondent has seen the
house, at Verona, in which jules lived,
and The Identical broad window at which
she and Romeo met and courted. It is a
high, narrow building. now used as a COM
mon tavern.
The making Of pelican oil has been fol-
lowed toa considerable extent this year
between Bay st. Louis and the m outh OF
the Mississippi. This oil sells in New Or
leans for about 81 50 per gallon. The
business is quite profitable, but not very
pleasant
A SO called white man, who, at Savan-
nah, Ga, persisted in making love to a
charcoal Venus, already provided with q
husband, was enticed into her room the
other night and treated to genteeI cow
hiding by the pair.
A cautious wife refused to permit her
husband to go on a fishing excursion be-
cause he was very apt to get crowded
when be went upon the water, and more
over, did not know how to swim any more
than Il goose.
Mr.. Farley was struck by lightning in
his house, near Richmond. Va, during
recent storm at night. His wife led him
out of doors, and the rain brought him to
Consciousness, when bis frst words were,
In torment at last T.
The number of public schools in Phila.
delphia, of all grades, is three hundred and
eighty, employing one thousand, five hun
dred and thirty mine teachers, of whom all
but eighty are women.
A venerable woman in Maine, eighty
two years old, who worked for % cents a
day and saved the money, mas Just given
$500, her wages for four years, toward
building Universalist church.
oopmanschamp, the famous importer of
heather Chlnee, has been to Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, to look after the interest of about
35O ChlUamen who were taken there to
wirk on railroad and have received no
pay. He found them living on blackber-
RES and craWhsh, and probabay deemed
the diet healthy for the Monaghan consti-
tuition, as he left them to continue the
same regimen.
The German Government have made an
engagement with Mr.. E. J. Reed, late
chief constructor of the British navy, to
construct some iron-clad ships-of war for
Germany. There has been quite a compe-
tition of late to secure the services of Mr.
Reed among several of the Great Powers
of Europe.
A new reform movement has been
started IN Ireland and named 1.-The Home
Rule Association" The Society is so far
different from the Repeal Association that
several of it's leading members are Protes-
tants. Indeed, it was first originated by
a Protestant body. The Home Associa-
ton has Just presented petition to the
Corporation of the City of Dublin 10 be
allowed to plead it's cause at the bar of
the Corporation. The Town Council
granted the request as soon as it was pre-
s0ntad Sir Tnhn Grou ia tho hoo6 of fh;e