Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-03-15
THINGS GENERALLY

They hang beggars at Hazelton, Ind.
Burned love-letier tint" is tho new
color.
The last surviving son of Robert Burns is
dead.
New York is troubled over the supply Of
CrOton.
Maggie Mitchell ia about to leave the stage
Il rever
Janauschek is meeting with great success
down South
The Police are fishing for an reporting
leaky hydrants.
One cent is TO be the price OF the New
DAILY JOURNAL,
Young PitIsburg darks play chequers for
cigar stumps and snuff
The Neapoitans are 10 have line Of,
steamers 10 New York
There is need ola million feet of seas
Oned prime lumber at Austin,
Germany has five daily and fourteen
weekly papers edited by women.
The New York gas companies have
agreed 10 reduce the price of gas.
Barnum is getting some cheap advertising
throughout our Peninsula just now.
ErTy Erenin9 is fighting the new dailes
before they make their appearance.
Every LOdy wants the new DAILY JoUR-
NAL, and 60 every body subscrbes 10 it.
A Dayton man murdered his wife aud
three little children last Saturday night.
During the last year 1000, 900 pounds Il
tea have been received al San Francisco.
Advertisers will please send in their Ia
vors nj once, for tie new Daily JOURNAL
The library once owned by VIM. Penn
was sold at auction in London on Friday.
An old Detroit man has played 30, 900
games Of draughls during his chequerei
career.
There are twenty eight orphan asylums IN
the State oil New York, shelleIing 5000
children
A genuine lion is saunlerinE around san
Jose, Cal, and the citizens ate keeping ie-
markably good hours
Two female students al Leirsic recently
had a fencing duel, in which one lost an eye
and the other part OF her nose.
In New Orleans, II is said, the ladies' arc
observing leap year by giving up their seats
in the street cars 10 gentlemen.
An enlerpiising New Yorker is in Rich
mUnd, Va, forming troupe OF genuine
negro minslrels for tour IN Europe.
The latest fashion Of trimming bonnels is
with four or five small ,humEing birds on
tine front with lace rusettes and ribbons.
A panther lately tiled to steal baby out
of a Texas house. but two men seized and
held the beast while The babes mother shot
him dead.
Large hows OF ribbons or velvet, with a
large buckle in the centre, are worn at the
back oil the neck of silk or street costumes,
with long and wide euds which reach below
the waist.
When ladies wish TO have dresses or bon
nets purchased abroad, they send full
length photograph oil themselves, by which
the modlste Judges what would be becoming
and forward it accordingly.
A venerable Georgetown iooster succumb
ed to the pressure OF a freight train last
Monday lie was fourteen years old and
retained his faculties TO a remarkable degree
up to .he time OF his deeease.
Jenny Lindls IN lorenzo, ara at re-
cent sciree she appeared robed in high neck
ed grey silk, trimmed with purple, an ladia
muslin cape, and fall OF lace over the back
hair, which is still worn in the same style
as when she charmed her audiences thirty
years ago.
In a Washington church, a few Sundays
ago, several court" BELTS, impiOus and
lond Of the "Boston," were caught by the
sexton dancing that may measure with
their equally impiOus beaux in the vestibule
10 the tune of Come, Ye DisCOnsOlaie, p"
which was being sung at the time by the
choir.