Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-12-22
AND SO FORTH,

San Francisco has her streets SWEPT by
nand twice month.
Ofthe seventy -four United States Sena-
tors, fifty are lawyers.
Brass is a preventive of cholera. But it
IS an incentive to choler-ah!
Upward of fourteen thousand ssheathen
Chinee" are hunting for gold in Australia.
Ripe Strawberries at Fernandina, Flori-
ia.
a collection of fifteen hundred beetles is
for sale in Bloomington, Ill.
A Bridgeport, Conn, bee-culturist has
sold two tons of honey this season.
There were four alarms of fire at Boston,
Monday evening within forty-ive minutes.
The Postmaster-General objects to the
establishment of postoffice in retail
liquor shop.
Prisoners in the Indiana State prison are
sewed up in bags and compelled to board
themselves.
There are already twelve hundred miles
Of bitches and canals for mining purposes
III Nevada county, California.
The strike of the English telegraph ope-
fatOrs is failure. The men are returning
TO their work in all the principal cities.
1t is thought likely that another ministe-
rial crisis will take place in Spain soon, and
4 consequent dissolution of the COrtes.
The New England harborS are frozen
} much earlier this season than is GUS
mary.
The loss by the explosion Of the Wins
Ted, Connecticut gas works, Friday, was
$4,000.
The weather i'll Vermont last week was
the coolest experienced there for the past
lhirty-tWo years.
The working force at present employed
III t..e navy yard at Portsmouth, Va, is six
hundred and seVenty-0ne WOIkmen.
\ Missouri musician sat down upon a
keg of powder and began to smoke. They
found one button.
Twenty-eight ladies have been matricula-
ted in the University OF Edinbllrg during
the present term.
There are living i'll Woodbury., Conn,
six survivors Of the 1872 war, all said to be
over eighty years of age.
London fines conductors Of horse-cars
iOr overcroWdin9 the cars to the incon-
Fenience Of passengers.
There are seventy-eight railroads in Ger
many, owning nineteen thousand one hun
stred and forty-1ive miles Of road.
Reports from the Cuba sugar district rel
ative to the new crop are very favorable
The case is yielding well.
Edwin Foster, an inmate Of the insane
rot lt If ~,
attempting to get on a night train in mo-
ton, was run over and killed.
China and Japan will take from us So
900 tons, or III 900 pounds of butter
and cheese per annlm, whenever we shall
DC able to deliver it.
New \ orll claims him noW-tLe one hun
bred and thirtcCn-yeaIS-Old man who voted
for al the Presidents, saws wood and Ill
hat.
Two young women had q game Of bill
siards in Il public hall i'll Portsmouth, n H.,
recently, and made runs Of &c. 33 and -
points.
Two conslgnmentS Of Chinese, designed
for employment in cotton mills, are on their
way to Salem, Mass, and more are to fol-
low.
4 Southern California paper adycrtises
tor "a young frecEled-faccd man that won't
back down, with pair Of saddIe-bags, pis-
tol and bOWie-llnife, to collect for this office
y large salary will be paid"
Tie British Foreign Office has sent in
StulctiOns to all its agents abroad to inves-
tigatc the organization Of the various
branches Of the International Society in the
countries to which they are respectively
accredited, and report thereon to the gov
ernmcnt.
The corresponding secretaries Of the An
tl-Sui1rage Committee of women have had
transmitted to them for presentation to
Congress a protest against female suffrage,
containing three thousand six hundred
names, among which are the names ofsomc
OF the most prominent women Of the
country.
In the KUl-kluX trial at Columbia, 5. c.
last week, Il witness confessed that he was
a member Of a Khan, which he said, was
formed i'll 1865 ''fOr Selt-defence and to
prevent inccDdiarism. The town of York
vile was threatened with destruction bv
the negroes, and many gin houses had
already been burned The defence pro-
duced witnesses to show the need Of an or
ganization for defensive purposes.
Some of the Chicago Journals assert that
several, if not all, Of the persons appointed
TO office by the Common Council on Mon
day night were approached by certain Al
ie'men, and were required to put up
SIM Of money, and that only those persons
WHO did so got places. Several unsuccess-
tul candidates make public statement, de-
daring their willingness TO make aflidavits
hat money was demanded Of them by
and on their declining, that they
were emplatically told that they could not
nave places. An investigation is deman- |
led.