Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-02
personal AND PARTICULAR.

st. Louis has not yet had the epizootio.
The hotels at Council Bluffs use corn for
fuel.
--Hickory-nut sociables are common in the
Northwest.
Virginia has twelve cotton mills all built
since the war.
President Grant will probably attend Mr..
Greeley's funeral.
1t cost ten thousand dollars a day to play
the Versailles fountains.
"A New Jersey paper nominates General Nc
Clellan for Governer of that State.
Fourteen lives have thus far been lost in the
construction OF tile East River Bridge.
"A negro woman breaches regularly at a
church, near Goldeboro', North Carolina.
The liquor dealers are to have ball in Phil
adelphia. 1t will go OFF with much ''spirit."
Secretary Delano is very i'll with disease OF
kidneys. He was rather easier last evening.
Indiana has over 127, 900 persons above 10
years Of age who can't write their own Names
In cemetery at Newton, Kansas, 32 persons
are said to be buried, only one Of whom died a
natural death.
Bishop Coke, of New York, has gone to Hayti
the 10 organize diocese Of the Protestant Eps-
copal Church.
"A party Of twenty eight ate Thanksgiving
dinner at Delmonico's, the chief dish being q
dozen turkeys.
The cultivation Of the poppy for the produc-
| tion Of opium is said to be meeting with marked
| success in Tennessee.
Senator Sumner will take his seat in Con-
gress, but by advice Of his physicians, will prob
| ably take no active part in the business.
George W. Farman, the newly-appointed
| Postmaster OF Philadelphia, entered upon bis
duties Saturday night at twelve O'Clock.
The two master evils of the times, which
grow every year more threatening, are railway
corruption and municipal corruption.
Mrs. Woodruff and Tennie Claflin decided
not to be baied Saturday upon learning that they
would be re-arrested on fresh charge.
"A naturalist thinks that il a cat we're proper
| ly fed twice day on tortoise shell scraps, she
might ulmAtely produce litter Of catacombs.
The smallpox is increasing its ravages in
Boston, and on Friday the Board OF Alderman
agreed to the appointment of Board of He4lth
"A Miss Apple tried to commit suicide at
Mariposa, CAL, lately, because she was neglect
cd fruit. Miss Apple wanted to be one of pair.
The divorce suit OF Wentworth vs, Went
| worth, in which the plaintiff is Lord Byron's
| grandson is shortly to be brought into court in
| London.
"A woman named Anna Spear, together with
her child, which she held in her arms fell in tho
canal at Jersey City on Friday, and both were
drowned
| The name OF Thiers has been given to new
kind Of French biscuit-an exceedingly hard
cracker stamped with portrait of the French
/ President.
The English Secretary of War has concluded
to let the soldiers play cards in their recreation
rooms and see il it won't keep them out Of the
| Og-shops.
| The Gettysburg Association met at Gettys-
burg on Friday, and it was resolved to erect a
| monument to General Meade's memory on the
| site OF the battlefield. One hundred thousand
| dollars are to be raised.
| That was pretty bright pun which one of
the students up at Grocer Theological Seminary
/ got of when he asked "Why is Prof. - the
greatest revlvalist of the age ?" and on all 'giv-
| ing it up" said because at the close OF evarv
HArc1 1afS shfh hearted Irish servant girl at st. Al
/ bans who had lived a. a domestic in Boston
family, upon hearing the first exaggerated ac-
counts OF the fire and consequent suffering, wrote
| TO the family for whom she had worked. and
begged them to take from the savings bank the
| 1900 which she had earned in their service, and
appropriate the sum to their relief.