Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-11-29
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PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.
-slnreru will die hard in cnha.

Slavery will die hard in Cuba.
The happy medium-Gentleman between
two ladies'
Anthony Trollope sailed for Europe in the
Cuba Wednesday.
The Republicans in Rome still threaten to
inaugurate revolution.
"A rhinoceros attached to circus died in
New York OF epizootic.
Ten flour mills in Chicago produce one
thousand barrels Of flour every day.
What Is that which makes every person sick
but those who swallow iii Flattery.
Railroads have now three gauges-a broad
gauge, anarrow gauge, and a mortgage.
The contributions to the Harvard College
fund in Boston now amount to Sl03, 600.
"A young lady of Il years died in Troy the
other day, who had never walked or spoken.
"A raid was made by the police on the gamb-
ling houses Of Baltimore last Tuesday night.
Senator Spencer is confident of re election
from Alabama. He ID more OF a manager the
statement.
Hon. Thomas H. Nelson, our Minister to
Mexico, left Washington Wednesday evening for
New York,
The indictment against William NJ Tweed
is said to be the delight of the New York law
yers. 1t contains 1,050 counts.
The prevailing chicken disease ia generally
believed to have been contracted from the Dem
ocr attic rooster siuce the election.
Within eighteen months work will be COM
menced on telegraph line to connect this Uni
ted States and Europe with South America.
"A philosopher, who married a vulgar but
amiable girl, used to call his wife brown sugar
because he said, she was sweet but unre6ned
Louis the handsome young King of Bavaria
ia said to receive on an average fifty love lett ers
per week from denloiselles anxious to marry him.
The season is fast approaching when loving
wives ask their husbands for twenty-five dollars
and upwards with which to make them Christ
mas presents.
The New York Sun has revived its Joke on
Horace Greeley-the proposed monument-and
calls for the $4,000 required to complete the
necessary amount.
An Illinois man. while drunk fell from
wagon and died The man who sold him the
whisbey compromised by paying to the dead
mans heirs 81 600.
The San Francisco Newsletter has this:
"At a popular election for editor OF the New
York Tribune, on Tuesday Horace Greeley was
chosen with great unanimity."
j ohm Hay is lecturing on Washington life,
as witnessed by him during the war, including
interesting "reminiscences of President Lincoln,
whose private secretary he was.
Mr.. Blackmore, author of Lorna Darne"
and the "Msid OF Skier, two Of the most success-
fu OF glish romances, ls m trket gardiner,
and William Morris, the poet, is an upholsterer.
"A boy who blows the organ in country
church in western Massachusetts, lately got in
toxcated on the sacramental wine stored in a
closet near his loft and could not come to time
on the closing hymn.
The friends Of famous skater, who died
in New York recently. would like to know exactly
what the minister who preached the funeral ser
| mon meant by his pathetic statement, that he
| had "gone where there is no ice"
Senator Sumner met Senator Wilson at the
Tribune Office in New YORK, Wednesday and had
| a friendly conversation with him. Mr.. Sumner
entertained Mr.. Wilson with an account OF his
travels and impressions in Europe.
"A novel substitute for the custom Of giving
| wedding presents was recently adopted by a
| youthful couple in Western town. They were
married in church, and fee oftwenty-hve cents
| was collected from persons entering to the
ceremony. The whole amount was given to the
/ newly married pair as capital to commence
housekeeping. This is good plan. If one
made q business of marrying, and adopted it, he
| could make fortune in a week.
Miss Sarah Sawyer, Quaker lady. died at
Newport Mass, in her ninety-tfth year, the old
est person in town. She left a good estate, in
the main the accumulation OF her Of own in
/ dustTy and prudence. On the inventory of her
/ own ersonal property were one hundred che
/ misses, one hundred sheets, one hundred pars
Of hose, one hundred gloves, with pillow-cases,
towels, napkins, &c, to match. all OF which she
spun, wove and made with her own hands.
Some of this immense stock has been in the
| house for seventy years