Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-02-21
Editorial NOTES.

of ban l1.uptcy. His salary as pastor is
go. .Onj; as editor of the Christian
Tnisn $4,000, and as lecturer. sc.
$4,000 more.
Out in Iowa a nights lodging costs
load of hay; the wife wears five acres
Of wheat the children each ten acres
OF corn; the price of an overcoat IS a
four year-old steer of Sunday sIlit,
twenty fat hogs.
The New York Nation sums up the
result of the Credit Mobilier investiga-
ton in these words "Total loss, one
Senator badly damaged and not ser
yiceable for f,ltme political use, two
Yice-Presidents and eight Congress
men," This is drawing It rather mild.
Forney says ''tile new Constitution
Of Pennsylvania, however excellent,
cannot be adopted by the popular vote
III opposition 20 the wishes of the poll
ticians In fact, the better if is, the
more certain it is to he defeated at
the polls, or ii lcnst counted out next
Fall
At the present time there axe i'll the
United States over one hundred and
fifty kilns engaged IN making crockery
ware exclusively, Ohio and New Jersey
having two-thirds of this number.
These kilns are capable of producing
nearly 4,50O, 900 worth of ware per
wear.
The directors of the Anglo-American
and French Atlantic cable companies
have resolved to reduce the tariff ON
messages atween Great Britain,
France and New York from one dollar
per word to seventy-fve cents per
word, on and after the first of May
next.
It is said, by usually well-informed
correspondent, that Victor Emanuel
has felt the first blow of that terrible
malady with which he has SO long been
threatened-apoplexy that Prince
Humbert is menaced with a still worse
disease that the Princess Marguerite
is i'll with a hopeless disease and that
the Young Prince, her son, is paralyzed
IN all his limbs.
John ". Young, Brigham's most en-
terprising son, has taken his pick out
of his three wives, divorced himself
from two, settled annuities upon them,
and is soon going to Philadelphia with
1. l. Il, oil io,1
to live there and attend to his fathers
railroad business, in happiness with
the young lady, who was born there,
and who is now his sole wife.
The average Of daily murders III New
York continues TO be maintained. The
papers of that city are filled with ac-
counts of the most atrocious crimes.
Jealousy was the devil that prompted
the latest attempt. These repeated
homicides imperceptibly,. but very GER
tainly, lessen the chances of the con-
victed men in the TomDs by the in
creasing public indignation.
Up - the middle of January the
"
ever known in France. At that date,
in the environs of Paris and i'll the
gardens of tie city, the trees We're
covered with leaves, and many Spring
howers had begun to bud. In the
centre of France the raspberry bushes
were commencing to bear fruit, and
early asparagus was beginning TO ap-
pear.
4 bill has been introduced and n
committee of the House of Delegates
of Virginia have reported "a bill to
protect farmers and others from en-
bezzlement by commits sion merchants
and others" Per contra, somebody
else has introduced a bill to protect
commission merchants and others who
may make advances to farmers. \
third bill introduced comprises the
objects of both the others III one bill.
Among the bills which passed the
House Of Representatives i'll Washing
ton, on Saturday last, was one which
will sound strange to the country at
this day It was the payment for a
runaway negro during the war. While
the twenty-seyenth Wisconsin, Regi-
ment, Colonel W. l.. Utley, was III
Kentucky, a young negro belonging
10 Chief Justice Robertson, OF that
State ran away and took refuge in the
ColoneIs camp. Judge Robertson de-
manded his property, but Colonel Ut
ley responded that "hc didn't enlist to
catch negroes" Robertson thereupon
brought suit and got a Judgment
against Utley. The statutes of Con-
gress step i'll and hold the officer harm
less, but only by the assumption OF the
liability. Hence, the House on Satur-
day passed bill to pay $500 for Judge
Robertson's little negro
The Los Angeles Express says that
genuine mermaid is now on exhibi'
ton in that place, having been caught
IN the Pacific waters few weeks since
and e,nbalmcd by physician of Sar
Diego. 1t is thus described The
eyes, i'll large sockets, were pricked Il
let out the water in the embalming pro
cess. The mouth is very broad, viii
twenty-eight curved and singularl.
shaped teeth. The nose is conlbina
ton of the Roman and the snub. Th'
brow is heavily indented with heav,
brain lobes long and broad ears adorl
the queer-looking head, and short
woolly hair covers the head and side
OF the face. The cerebellum ant
Adams apple are very prominent Th
arms are long, and terminate in long
claws, consisting of four fingers and
thumb, with the sharpest of nails
There are eleven ribs extending aroun'