Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-16
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

MIR Ralph Waldo Emerson is wintering in
Egypt
Plato calls opinion medium between know
ledge and ignorance.
To make apple trees boar-Pick Off all the
leaves as soon as they appear.
"A Wisconsin paper adyertises for sale "a COW
that gives milk FIVE years old"
King Oscar OF Sweden is jovial individual
and delights in practical jokes.
The Yisoountess Beaconsfeld, wife of Hon.
Benjamin Disraeli, died at London, yesterday.
-Ex. Governor Curtin lecturede at Bellefonte
on Saturday evening, his subject being Russia.
-JohnT. Kensett the distinguished landscape
painter, died suddenly in New York, on Satur-
day.
dignifed by the added title Of the nett result Of
the tidal wave"
Three crcuses have consolidated and the
''monster aggregation proposes lug to aroundits
own hotel and stable.
Very Rev Thomas Mulvey, Vicar General
of the Roman Catholic Diocese OF Virginia. died
at Petersburg last evening, aged 63.
The projectors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, propose bearing the funeral expenses
of the victims Of the late catastrophe.
1t is stated that Commodore Vanderbilt
has Abandoned, at least temporarily, his project
for an underground railway in New York.
Rev. N. Taylor Rector OF st. Paul's Episco-
| pal Church, at Portland Ne, died OF small pox
at the hospital Of that city Saturday afternoon.
An Illinois schoolboy has been fined by
police magistrate for kissing the scboolmstress;
under what precise criminal statute is not stated
--dovernor-elect Hartranft. Of Pennsylvania
was in Washington, Saturday, and paid his re-
spects to Secretary Boutwell,, and other high Of
iicials. -. q
They marry young women at auction in China
which is simply putting into practical operation
the methodsof some fond parents who are not
Chinese
During The year, St. Louis has had 1877 fires
involving loss OF $622, 765, insurance S555, $50
The expense Of the fire department during the
same period was S166, 1850.
Miss DIR. Annie News has hung out her shin
gle as medical practitioner at Newport She was
graduated At Michigan University in the class Of
1867, and took all the honors.
Great excitement reigns in Berlin over the
prospective resignation OF Count Bismarck from
the Prussian Council His retirement,it is pre-
sumed, will produce crisis in political affairs
In Prussia.
The trial Of Stokes for the killing of Fisk,
will commence on Wednesday in the Court OF
Oyer and Terminer Of New York. It is said
some Of the principal witnesses against him have
disappeared, and nobody need now be surprised
to seS him acquitted.
Half the business portion Of ohestervile, s.
vi Man pufuou yobteluhy bOob plOvi-
600. d.
-Four hundred and seventy-one horses have
died from the epizooty in Cincinnati during the
last four weeks. .-.s.-
A ditch 80 feet deep, on the premises Of the
insane asylum at st. Louis ,caved in on Saturday,
killing five workmen
A fire at Toledo, Ohio, yesterday destroyed
4l25, 900 worth OF property. One fireman kill
cd and several others Injured.
The U. s. troops stationed'at Little Rock have
been ordered to New Orleans, and their place
will be taken by the Fourth Infantry
John ]. Nicolay, Of Illinois, who was President
Lincoln's private Secretary, has been appointed
Marshal OF the U. s. Supreme Court
The funeral OF eight OF the victims of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel disaster took place from st.
Francis Xavier's Church, in New York, on SAtur-
day
Both OF the Alabama Legislatures having ac-
cepted the compromise suggested by Attorney
General Williams, they will meet as one body to-
morrow. .---