Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-27
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

-Chinamen still seek California.
Aimee has 300, 200 of carriages.
Deaths Of last week at Now York, 430.
In 1926 NJ Theirs was printers devil.
Seventy children die daily in New York.
An inch of rain weighs 1Gl tons per acre.
"A signal success-the weather predictions
Eliza Cook. the English authoress is said to
be hopelesslY i'll.
There are thirty-seven children in the larg-
est Illinois family.
Hartford finds that insurance business does
not insure prosperity
Mr. Edward A Pollard, the Southern hstor
ian, is dangerously ILL.,
Princess Beatrice is the farest OF Queen
Victoria's fair daughters.
-Coleridge's inkstand has been presented to
Professor Longfellow.
San Francisco proposes to build the biggest
hotel on the continent.
Nearly two million dollars in taxes were col
lected in New York last week.
Charles Sumner, it ia said, lost property
worth S10, 900 in the Boston fire.
A hundred dead Chinese we're shipped In a
freight invoice from San Francisco lately.
When deaf mutes are married, two members
OF the wedding party are sure to be unspeakably
happy.
-Ex-President johnson intends to establish
his residence permanently at Nashville, Tenn
nessee
Alfred Wilt, tho newly elected Mayor Of
New Orleans, is Democrat, creole and only 20
years of age.
Six first class houses and the leading hotel
of an Indiana town were lately rifed by burglars
of property valued in the aggregate at s27.
The meeting in Hyde Park, London on Sun
day in aid Of the movement TO secure an advance
OF wages for tbe policeman, was failure.
1t is considered a very polite thing when
walking with lady to pass around on the op-
posite side to avoid stepping on her shadow.
An amateur editor in Indianapolis has made
a fortune by his pen. His father died Of grief
after reading one Of his editorials, and left him
S130,000.
Mrs. James A. Oates actress, was married
to Tracy W. Titus, manager OF the Oates troupe
Sunday evening in st. Louis, and left Monday
night for Memphis.
Somebody who writes more truthfully than
POLITICALLY says: IAN angel without money Is not
thought of nowadays as much as devil with
bag full Of guineas."
Mr.. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, owns por-
trait OF Shakespeare painted by the late Thorn
as Sally, and originally intended for the top OF
the old Chestnut Street Theatre.
-Wilhelmina Wooltman has just been found
guilty, at Stade in Hanover, OF having poisoned
her first and second husbands, the father and
mother, and the son and daughter Of her third.
Arsenic was her weakness.
"A California Teuton having accomplished
the feat OF drinking forty-eight glasses of lager
in five hours. an emulou4 compRtriot is on his
way from st. Louis with the resolve to swill fifty
or bust in the endeavor.
The Dlnbury News says: The reason Mr..
Greeley s called Later Franklin is not be-
cause he existed subsequent to Benjamin, but
because electricity is ahead of its report. You
see Benjamiu caught lightning, but Horace he
caught thunder.
1t is not to be fashionable this season to
offer your guests wine when they call on New
Years day. Ii this rule eau be successfully and
continually applied it win abate two great nui-
sances-fashionabl drunkenness on New Years
day, aud New Years calls in the manner they are
now made. Good