Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-01-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

In CHINA the marriage ctttiiiohy
lasts three days.
Four hundred and sixteen buildings
were erected i'll Cincinnati during the
year 1872.
Texas journals are jubilant over the
number of cotton factories established
in that State.
Memphis has n debt of 81 ,447 200.
and is unable to raise the January IN
terest of $4,000.
Philadelphia started Washington
monument thirty-one years ago, and
has got $40 81 towards it,
Thomas Fl. Benton is the only man
who has held seat in the United
States Senate for thirty consecutive
years.
Simon Cameron has been nominated
for reelection as United States Sena-
tor by caucus of the Radicals in the
Pennsylvania Legislature. This secures
his election.
Sergeant Bates proposes to travel all
around this country with an English
flag. What an unfagging nuisance
Sergeant Bates is getting to be.
The London Fire Department costs
about 1900, 900 IA year, and that of New
York nearly 81 ,O0O,0O although the
latter city is only about one~third as
large as London.
The only instance of father and son
in the Senate at the same time is that
of Hon. Henry Dodge, Senator from
Wisconsin, and Augustus Z. Dodge,
Senator from Iowa.
Martin Van Buren, is the only man
who held the offices of President, Vice
President, Minister to England, Gov
ernor of his own State, and member of
both houses of Congress.
There was another Dent-James
Dent. No one knew it until he was
appointed postmaster in Virginia. The
people were simple enough to believe
the supply was exhausted.
A Marseilles merchant has found
some old tapestries that used to hang
in Nine de Sevigne's chateau. They
depict the loves OF Anthony and Cleo
patra and of lFneas and Dido.
Roscoe COnckling has received the
Republican caucus nomination in the
New York Legislature for reelection
TO the Senate of the United States. The
election takes place on the 18th inst.
4 literary lady of Terre Haute is i'm
mortaiizing tie campaign of - i'll
Ryronic ve~se. She has written al
ready four hundred lines and has not
vet rea cI,sd the Baltimore Convention.
An association has been organized i'll
England for thepurpose OF prosecuting
every railroad company Oh whose line
any accidents happen, and tlius ocom-
pei them to be more consider.:ttG IF hu-
man life.
The New FORK Herald publishes a list
of murders committed i'll that city for
the past three years. Adding them up
we find forty in 1870, forty-tive in 1871,
fifty-six in 1872, showing a steady i'll
crease in the records of crime.
22,534 rag-pickers prowl the streets
of Paris twice in "a hours they fill on
an average 4S, 900 or $1,000 baskets a
day the average value of each basket
is 80 cents, so that 81, 900 are dali:
found in the leayings of Paris
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks
that in a very few Years the Pacific
coast will raise more than 1D, 900, ,OU
bushels of surplus wheat per :nnum
and saws that, besides this. the golL
and silver product of the coast, esti
mated at 800, ,OOO,OOO annually, vii
sink into insignifcance.
The Richmond Enquirer camo
certainly have a very high opinion "
West Point, when it affirns that ''
third of the students there at this TIM
are appointees of a gang OF carpet-bag
gers, who are properly excluded from
respectable society in the South.
A bill has been introduced into th
Virginia House of Delegates to estab
lish free Railroad system in tina
State. The great fight of the session
it is understood, will take place owe
this bill. The Richmond Dispatcl
says: Wet groceries are placed nea
the field of combat to refresh the com
batants.
Although Speaker Blaine, of Maine
is proven to have been badly impHca
ted in the Credit MObilier frauds, it
said that he will be renOminated fo
Speaker by the Republicans. witho1
opposition. In times not long ago, Ii
stead of being elected, he would hav
been disgracefully expelled from tn
House.
John Quincy Adams held a positio
under the Government during ever
administration from that of Washing
ton to that of Polk-during which Il
died. He had been Minister
England, member of both Houses I
Congress, Secretary of State and Pre-
ident of the United States. He die
while a member of the House OF Rel
resentatives.
China has signitied its national ind
viduality by adopting an imperial flag
This means something more than
mere sign of imperial power for Gu
tinetiye flag is only required when tt
nation which uses it takes its plat
among the commercial communities
the world. The flag desicibed, hoy
ever, is not a banner with new devic
though strange one. 1t was the read
invention of the late Mr.. B'lrhngame
H., +La Emhassy Of which he W: