Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-30
Personal AND PARTICULAR.


King Amadeus, of Spain, is getting well
Mr.. Froude, the historian, is i'll at New
York.
Gov Hoffman will start for two years trip
TO Europe next January.
-Bayard Taylor has settled with his family at
Gotha to spend several years.
Mayor CASTOR has accepted the Democratic
nomination for reelection in Boston.
Madame Nlsson-Rouzaud has determined to
make another tour through the United States.
The Cincinnati Times thinks Morton will
be the Republican candidate for the Presidency
in 1876.
pm Jones, a Pennsylvaniaan, committed
suicide in Baltimore on Thursday night by taking
norphia
w. H. Wells, an old sea captain, committed
suicide at Hopknton, Il. l., on Thursday by
hanging himself
We have seldom known any one who deser-
ted truth in trifes that could not be trusted in
matters OF Importance.
John Holmes, brother of the witty and
vice autocrat, will spend tho Winter with James
Russell Lowell in Paris.
To merohants Now Is the time to plant
advertisements il you wish to raise good crop
Of Christmas customers.
One Of the London newspapers announces
that Mr. Charles Dickens, Jr., will sail for the
United States next spring.
The reception gwen by secretary anu hrs.
Fish to the diplomatic corps at Washington, last
night, was a very brilliant affair.
The trial of Susan b. Anthony and thirteen
other women, who voted at the last election con-
trary to law, il now in progress at Syracuse, New
York
The New Orleans Times asks "May we drink
cold water = Public sentiment in the Crescent
City is understood to be on the negative side OF
the question.
John NJ Langston is slender gentleman
OF easy manners, forty-iive or fifty years old,
and strongly resembling Nj. Dumas, peIe, IN ieat-
ures, but darker in skin.
"A new product called "Deer Tongue" is en-
gAgiDg the attention of Georgians. young
mau who has not married happily, says he gets
enough Dear tongue N home.
DIR. Franklin Taylor has been elected Il Pro-
fessor OF French and German Literature, III the
West Chester Normal School, position foI
which he is admirably qualified.
A New Bedford man sat down too near a
circular saw last week He got up again az II he
was in a hurry, and the tailor tells him it viii
cost ten dollars to retail his coat.
The second trial in the great Iichborne case
will be full OF interest, aud its progress will be
watched and its result looked for with eagemes.l
On either side some OF the most eminent counsel
have been engaged.
John Hay talks OF starting new evening pa
per in 81. Louis. The Chicago Post thinks tina
unless he has two or three greeEback factories
to draw upon there is likely to be some badl!
pressed Hay in that locality.
Another survivor OF Waterloo. Name, Cor
nelius de Witt. Age %. just dead at HOLLAND
City Michigan. Said to have been in all OF Ma
poleon's battles. Bore charmed lfe--but age
and Michigan extinguished him
A New York man was detected few day
ago extracting bank bills from bank through
a small aperture by means of long wire with
bit of tar on the end Of it. He il supposed Il
have been Tammany wire-puller.
The N. Y. World states that justifiable HON
icide is now held to include ''the cases OF ever
man who kills any other man on account of an
woman and of every woman who kills any ma
ON any account whatever This is about true
The Norristown HerdM reports this. TIL
other evening Norrstown young man wen
over to Bridgeport to sec his lady love, an
knowing that her paternal parent did not ente
tain n very high opinion of him, he asked tn
daughter as soOn he got in the house wheI
that old curmudgeon Of her father was z Ju'
then he felt something strike him in the RET
Just al if barn door bad slammed back again
him-and then he knew right away where I'll
'old curmudgeon" was. Tue young man has
girl on this side Of the river now.